News & Features

Celebrating Our Community

We love to celebrate good news from our community and feature teachers and students in seasonal interviews conducted by Writing Salon staff. If you’re part of our community and would like to spread your good news, you can do so here.

All Accomplishments Interviews Publications

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Sample 5

Final test, I believe

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Sample 4

One more test

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Sample 3

A third test

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Sample 2

This is another test

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This is a test

Interviews

Student Spotlight: Dana Zed

Winter 2025

The wisdom of Kathy Garlick’s guidance and the accountability inherent in Round Robin has helped me write hundreds of pages. In the past, I’ve had no other goals but to write. I do this easily.

Accomplishments

Student Diana Tokaji wins the Patricia Dobler Poetry Award

Student Diana Tokaji’s poem, “the migration of dahlia,” won the Patricia Dobler Poetry Award sponsored by Madwomen in the Attic. A public reading with the awardee and judge Jenny Johnson is on April 10,...

Interviews

Teacher Feature: Katharine Harer

Winter 2026

I started writing at about ten when my parents were out at political organizing meetings, and I was home alone with my mother’s huge manual typewriter. I loved reading and writing book reports for schoo...

Publications

Brian Tierney publishes two poems in the Adroit Journal

Instructor Brian Tierney published two poems, “Dear Nephew” and “The Year of Losses,” in issue 56 of the Adroit Journal.

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Teacher Feature: Kate Montgomery

Instructor Jennifer Lewis won the the Los Angeles Press Club’s 17th annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award for The High Desert’s Funkiest Art Gallery, published in Alta Journal.

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Jennifer Lewis Wins Journalism Award

Instructor Jennifer Lewis won the the Los Angeles Press Club’s 17th annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award for The High Desert’s Funkiest Art Gallery, published in Alta Journal.

Interviews

Teacher Feature: Kate Montgomery

Spring 2025

Do you remember a particular movie that made you want to become a filmmaker? What was it and how has it shaped you as a writer, director, and producer? That's a tough one! So many films have inspired me...

Accomplishments

Jennifer Lewis Wins Journalism Award

Instructor Jennifer Lewis won the the Los Angeles Press Club’s 17th annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award for The High Desert’s Funkiest Art Gallery, published in Alta Journal.