I can’t wait for the Poetry Marathon! This will be my very first year and I figured what better way to start than jumping into the 24 hour deep end. I have four children, the youngest just shy of three years who doesn’t yet have…

Greeting fellow word-wranglers. Allow me to introduce myself. I am a novelist by trade, a full-time father and grandfather, and a poet at heart. I am an award-winning contributing member of the Society of Classical Poets, and love reading poetry as well as writing it….

I used to be an old hat on WordPress, but it’s been a while. I hail from the Pacific Northwest and write fiction, creative nonfiction, and occasionally poetry. My favorite animals are road runners and snails because of their (polar opposite) charismas. My day job…

Hello marathon goers.. The name’s Khalifah, I’m a Puerto Rican woman. 37 yrs old, mother of 3 really cute kids! I’ve been writing since grade school but never pursued. I go back and forth with it. I’ll write for months and then turn to painting…

Looking Forward to this Marathon. In need of a good challenge to flush out my creativity  so I can begin working on my very first manuscript.  =)   Becca

Hello! Emily is my name! Never done a physical marathon, nor a writing marathon, but the physical is my weakest, but the writing is my strongest, but the challenge on the ladder is what I’m looking forward to.  Aspiring to be like Emily Dickinson (but…

I am a retired 7th and 8th grade English teacher–5 classes a day. In addition, I am a piano and vocal instructor in my home studio. I look forward to taking some creative time for myself now. I’m not sure whether I’ll have the required…

I grew up in New Delhi and am now studying Economics and Poltiical Science in the US. I used to write a lot in high school, and published three short stories and a novel by the time I was 17. After high school, I got…

Hi, my name is Tanya and I love to write poetry. How good it is..well… I don’t know. But, I love it, so I do it. 🙂  I like to focus on the good, true, and the beautiful, attempting with my poor words to light…

  Simply put, doing this marathon is a bad idea for me. I have a busy day planned on Saturday, I have been in a poetry slump where I hate everything I write and don’t want to show the general public my work, especially not…