by Connie Connally | Jun 4, 2022 | Events
This June 20-24 in Grand Rapids, MI, I’ll be attending a wonderful new writing workshop. Scriptoria is a joint effort of three universities: Calvin, Cornerstone and Aquinas. It follows the format of an MFA residency, with critiquing workshops in the morning,... by Connie Connally | Feb 9, 2022 | Life
Ollantaytambo, in the Andes between Cusco and Macchu Pichu My son Brendan and his wife, Erin, have lived in the Peruvian Andes for twelve years, working as missionaries among the Quechua people. (For their website, see https://sites.google.com/site/peruconnallys/. To... by Connie Connally | Nov 29, 2021 | Blog, Faith, Family
Earlier this year I wrote in this blog about Peru (https://conniehamptonconnally.com/a-trip-to-the-peruvian-amazon-part-1/https://conniehamptonconnally.com/a-trip-to-the-peruvian-amazon-part-ii/ https://conniehamptonconnally.com/peru-and-its-children/), where my son... by Connie Connally | Oct 21, 2021 | Life
It’s marvelous what a good literary friendship can do. A few years back, when I was fiction editor for a small literary magazine, I accepted an excellent short story submission titled “The Man Who Wore Violets.” The piece was closely based on the extradition of Nazi... by Connie Connally | Sep 14, 2021 | Books, Faith, Writing
One of the things I love about being a writer is interacting with other writers and supporting their work. (See my previous post about Mary VanderGoot.) In the last year or so I’ve enjoyed getting to know Alisa Weis. She has written two historically based novels set...