A Free Creative Writing Salon  ·  Spring & Summer 2026

The ArtofTelling

Short Story  ·  Poetry  ·  Memoir

Your story matters. Come learn to tell it.

A Free Course for Residents of 2601

Notices & Announcements

Posted Wednesday, June 10, 2026 I like to have a structured syllabus but prefer to “go with the flow” and see where the “current” of our discussion pulls us. When we meet next Sunday, I will offer to extend the course with additional sessions, as it seems we have barely started. I would like to return to parts of the syllabus we haven’t addressed. Such is the ebb and flow of writing, literature, and all creative pursuits. Looking forward to seeing you next class.
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A Brief Hello

About Me

I’m a Philadelphia writer and teacher. I’ve taught writing for many years, and these days I write and publish full time. I run a small literary press, Silver Current Press, which is where the worksheets and Reading Companion for this course are prepared.

What I care about, after all this time, is the same thing I cared about at the start: how a piece of writing earns the reader’s trust. That’s what these ten Sundays are about. I’m grateful you’re willing to spend them with me.

Contact

A Note on the Course Materials

The worksheets and Reading Companion for the course are put together under Silver Current Press, the small press I run. If you’d ever like to see what the press is up to, it lives at authorjamesmulhern.com.

A Closing Note

This course is built on a single conviction: that the work of telling — across genres, across forms — is one of the most human acts there is. Four Sundays we read fiction. Three Sundays we read poetry. Three Sundays we read memoir. And on the final Sunday, the Farewell, we take our leave and turn back toward the writing life that waits for us.

I am glad you are here.

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