Tag: Chelsea Kowalski
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A Half-Baked Cake Tastes So Good
by Chelsea Kowalski Why is writing so difficult? It should be the most natural thing; we come up with story after story as children and yet as an adult when you give yourself the label of “writer”, you start to feel like a fish on land. It can’t be that we don’t have anything to…
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Our First Public Reading!
On Sept 6, 2025, several members of Writers In Trees (WiT) took part in Ann Y.K. Choi‘s book launch for her new novel, All Things Under the Moon. Reading from their work published in Forest Floor, Volume I, were Leah Duarte, Emma Graham, Vanessa Seneriches, Lauren Redwood, Rahma Mohamed, and Chelsea Kowalski. This was the…
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A Pulitzer Prize for Your Thoughts
By Chelsea Kowalski There’s a well-known story about the origins of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee that is something of a writer’s fantasy. Lee was working customer service jobs in New York and publishing short stories on the side in 1956. She managed to get a literary agent (no small feat!) and one…
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Five Tips for Aspiring Writers (From an Aspiring Writer!)
By Chelsea Kowalski Isn’t it funny how if you add the word “aspiring” to a noun, it suddenly becomes a lot more hopeful? With the word “aspiring”, there’s still room for mistakes and growth and bad drafts; in fact, all of that is encouraged. There’s little expectations beyond that of actually writing (a task which…
