Colleen Anderson
Colleen Anderson is a writer, songwriter, and graphic designer in Charleston, WV. Her poetry, short fiction, and essays have appeared in Redbook, Arts & Letters, Antietam Review, The Sun, and many other publications.
Her book publications include a children’s chapter book, Missing: Mrs. Cornblossom, which won a Moonbeam Children’s Book Award, and a poetry chapbook, Bound Stone. Her essays for WV Public Radio have won national awards, and she has produced three albums of original songs.
Her writing has earned two Individual Artist Fellowships from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts as well as residency fellowships from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of Taos, New Mexico and Monson Arts of Monson, Maine.
Colleen has led writing and songwriting workshops throughout the U.S. and is an enthusiastic Read Aloud volunteer at Piedmont Elementary School in Charleston, WV.
Visit her website at colleenanderson.com.
Upcoming Programs by Colleen Anderson
Making Moments into Memoir
“Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood’s learning is made up of moments. It isn’t steady. It’s a pulse.” — Eudora Welty, from One Writer’s Beginnings Eudora Welty was right. But it’s not only children whose memories are fragmentary, like snapshots. For many or most of us, the significant times of our lives appear as […]