Manna for the Writer’s Soul…

Why Writing Workshops Matter

I started writing when I was 12 years old. For those who know my story, it began with a love of reading at an early age and became a real dream when my mother bought my oldest sister an electric typewriter. There, at the kitchen table where the typewriter sat, (and I was not supposed to touch, ever) my journey started.

Over the years, I shared that I ‘wrote’ and became extremely secretive about it after experiencing too many…

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Margaret Johnson-Hodge

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is the author of 17 published works, received rave reviews from Publisher’s Weekly, & gives highly-successful writing workshops four times a year in Atlanta.

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