Mentors

Our mentors are people who share both their wisdom and their experience because they understand all the twists and turns creative people take on the way to publication and completion of their endeavors, whether on stage, canvas, or in digital or print books.

Novelist, Actor, New Smyrna Beach, Florida

Economist, Novelist, Knoxville, Tennessee

Novelist, Screenwriter, Dallas, Texas

Actor, Artist, Writer, Brooklyn, New York

David Carl in a scene with Ben Afleck in George Clooney’s movie, The Tender Bar

R. Drew Smith

Author, Professor, Pittsburgh Seminary, Pittsburgh, PA

Katharine Rhodes Henderson

Leader, Writer, New Paltz, New York

Gordon Lindsey

Writer, Poet, Charlottesville, Virginia

Raymond R. Rose

Engineer, Editor, Mancos, Colorado

Donald K. McKim

Editor, Writer, Germantown, Tennessee

Elizabeth Lawless

Writer, Publisher, Dallas, Texas

L.A. Starks

Novelist, Leader, Dallas, Texas

https://lastarksbooks.com/

Cathy Criss Adams

Novelist, Editor, Birmingham, Alabama

Jay Clark

Songwriter, Singer, Professor at Maryville College in Maryville, TN

Vera Stasny

Poet, Writer, Muse Killington, Vermont, and New York City

Thomas C. Hayes

Book Collaborator, Editorial Coach, Former Award-winning New York Times Journalist, Berkeley, California

Audrey D. Thompson

Writer & Rhetoric/Composition Professor at Syracuse University, New York

Click on Wisdom and Advice to read their essays on that page or each essay by clicking on their names in About at the top of the Home Page

Michael Shields

Writer, Editor, Host of Across the Margin, Brooklyn, New York

https://acrossthemargin.com/