Connie Robinette

In this episode of the historic Writer's Workshop, Tom Wolf introduces us to short story writer, James Allen McPherson, who in 1978 won the Pulitzer Prize for 2 of his stories, Elbow Room and Hue and Cry. Facilitator William Price Fox asks him about his decision to leave law...

Join us as Joanna Angle, host of the SCETV magazine Palmetto Places, takes us on a tour of Allendale County. The original location of Allendale was named for its first postmaster Paul Allen in 1849. After the town's destruction during the Civil War, it was moved to its...

From the ETV tape vault comes another interview from the historic Writer's Workshop. Stephen Spender observed that "Students regard reading as a kind of inferior activity which no one who is writing has to indulge in. And that's ridiculous, I think." For young writers...

In this gift from the past, Nora Ephron encourages the new writer to take a job at a newspaper as it is there that you learn what a story is, how to determine a point and have daily deadlines as a requirement. She observed "One of the most glorious things about being trained...

A veritable literary snapshot in time! Join us at the Writer's Workshop where the student forum meets with legendary George Plimpton. In starting out, Plimpton observes “An awful lot of people who want to become writers don't really write very much. They think a lot about...

A treasure from the ETV tape vault brings us this segment of the Writer's Workshop where William Price Fox talks about the writing process and answers questions of students from the University of South Carolina's creative writing program. He notes that "You aren't working...