Sheila Bender’s Writing It Real Substack
Sheila Bender Writing It Real, Darien Gee, Brenda Miller, Sandra Hurtes, Nancy Smiler Levinson, Lizbeth Hartz, Michael Shurgot, Michelle KehoeI established Sheila Bender’s Writing It Real Substack as a community resource to facilitate those who write from personal experience in poetry, memoir, fiction, and nonfiction; join me for instructional articles on writing craft and the writing life.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 81 | Subscribers | Read | sheilabender.substack.com |
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Founder of WritingItReal.com, poet, essayist, memoirist and writing instruction author, I facilitate others writing from personal experience with articles and writing to help them grow rather than tear their writing apart via traditional critiquing.
On Substack: @Writer-ish and @Drafts, Deals & Detours. Also: Bestselling novelist, published in 11 languages. And: Micro prose author, essayist, editor, teacher. Super proud of: Poetry Society of America fellowship. Writes from: Island of Hawaiʻi.
I am the co-author of Tell it Slant, the author of six essay collections, retired professor, and dog mom to Barnaby!
English professor, writer.
Fortunate me, a long life of writing and literature; journalist, educational book editor, author of some books for young readers. Now a writer of poetry and lyric essays, with the mentorship of Sheila Bender and WIR.
In 1985, Lizbeth Hartz began writing her memoir, Angel Hero, Murder in Hawaii, A True Story. Her song Angel Hero is the music for her book trailer at https://www.kwillbooks.com/lizbeth-hartz. Her author website: https://authorlizbethhartz.com.
Retired Shakespeare scholar turned novelist. Author of Green River Trilogy: Green River Saga; Raven Mountain: A Mythic Tale; and Seotse: A Visionary Tale. Seotse won the 2025 Wyoming Historical Society Fiction Award.
Michelle Kehoe is an emerging writer living in Southern California. She is interested in creative nonfiction and memoir stories written in small, bite-sized tales.
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