Arts Ideas

03/03/2025

Islanders Write for Students! Join us for writing workshops for students at Featherstone Center for Arts on Sunday, March 16! Free to attend!

Can a Frog Bark? … Let’s Make Stuff Up … Story Ingredients … Journaling … Finding Your Unique Voice … Writing the College Essay … Saudade Creative Writing … These are the seven writing workshops that will be offered to students on Sunday, March 16, as part of the mid-winter Islanders...

09/08/2024

The schedule for this summer's Islanders Write. Thank you to all the writers and publishing professional who are taking part. It's going to be FABULOUS! www.islanderswrite.com

01/08/2024

The new issue of MV Arts & Ideas is now out. Features on the art of Jerimiah Brown, John Forté, Arthur Brooks, Tiffany Vanderhoop, Dawn Porter and sooooo much more! Free and found at the Vineyard's galleries, Cronigs and other spots around the Island!

12/07/2024

The MV Times is bringing back Islanders Write! There will be panel discussions and writing workshops and it's all free to attend. Here's a Q&A with novelist and marketing exec Elisa Speranza, who will be giving a workshop called: You finished writing your book—now what?
Planning and Executing Your Book Publicity Strategy

There was a shocking bit of publishing misinformation making the rounds a while back. It had to do with the number of books an author could expect to sell. We all know that not every book is going to be a N.Y. Times bestseller, but newly published writers are certainly angling to sell more than, …

03/07/2024

A panel discussion on publishing and the pitch panel back at this year's Islanders Write.

Last week during a book talk at the Chilmark library, someone asked me how I found a publisher for my novel. It’s a question I often get asked, as finding an agent and publisher can make scoring ferry reservations on the Fourth of July weekend look easy. Most people who have managed to get a …

25/06/2024

Congratulations to Patricia J. Williams on publication day for her extraordinary new book - The Miracle of the Black Leg. We are thrilled that Patricia will be speaking at Islanders Write this summer on Monday, August 19.

06/03/2024

The MV Times is delighted to announce the return of Islanders Write this coming August!

During the winter of 2014, Peter Oberfest, then publisher of The MV Times, called me into his office. He was interested in creating an MV Times–sponsored event for the community, and wanted to brainstorm ideas. We decided to put together a writers festival. It would be different from the M.V. Book...