#creative writing – Renée M. Sgroi, poet & novelist

Collaboration Inc.

“we felt that if we worked on something together, we would help to push each other through”

Thoughts on a pandemic

” how to write about something so massive, so pervasive, so threatening?”

Playing in the toolbox

But do we really play? Just have fun with the sport, the musical instrument, the piece of writing we’re working on? Do we improvise for the sake of improvising?

Loving what’s local

A behind the scenes look at running a poetry collective

It’s easy to begin the new year with a blog about new prospects, resolutions, new hopes and aspirations, especially as we all look forward to this new decade. But I want to begin this year’s blog, this new decade with the idea of winter. Real winter — the kind that brings double-digit, sub-zero temperatures. TheContinue reading “Winter, writer”

Where’s your voice?

When I was young, I used to take singing lessons. I had a romantic dream of singing in musicals, especially ones like West Side Story. In my fantasies, I would, of course, play the role of Maria, the star-crossed teenager, styled after Shakespeare’s Juliet. If I couldn’t be Maria in West Side Story, I wouldContinue reading “Where’s your voice?”