The Chelsea Writer's Workshop has been helping
authors grow for over twenty years. In that time many of our members
have gone from "I'd like to write" to selling stories and winning
awards.
Here's a selection of our member's works.
Here's a selection of our member's works.
Intersections is her debut novel.
Marsi Parker Darwin grew up in the American southwest and is a retired Michigan librarian. She has had many lives, loves, and jobs, but her claim to fame was hatching and then raising the chicken that earned the Guinness record for world's oldest at age 20.
Her story My Girl Peanut and Me circled the globe in 2023, and the memorial edition is available now at DarwinsEden.com
Lakota grew up in South Dakota, and spent most of her adult life in Arizona. Nature is where her stories start: the seasons, the birds, and the wildflowers are carved indelibly in her psyche.
When not writing, she reads voraciously, gardens sporadically, drinks lots of coffee, and ponders what would drive an ordinary person to commit murder and mayhem.
Bob summarizes fifty years of work in counseling, teaching and community organizing in one statement: Learning to see clearly with an open heart.
His continuing interest in identifying the core, essential components of a healthy and fulfilling life grew from taking a course that emphasized core principles from Dr. Ralph Lewis in 1969.
He finds messages of love in every passage of the Christian Gospels and
Meg Gower is the author of Breakfast Moon, Michigan Moon, and Milky Way (coming 2025).
A landscape architect by training, Meg has worked with the Michigan State Parks as naturalist and informal educator since 2006. She enjoys leading hikes in the woods and hosting star parties. She lives with her husband and daughter at the edge of the largest state park in Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
Laura K. Cowan writes fantasy and romantasy under the pseudonym Lorelai for Cronicle Press. Her work has appeared in anthologies including Faery Tale Therapy, Darkly Never After, Sins of the Past, and Cosmology of Pants. Her articles have appeared in Inhabitat, The Ann Arbor Observer, Crazy Wisdom Journal, Automobile Quarterly, and Reiki News Magazine.
She is a former sustainable transportation editor and staff writer for
Ellen Keigh discovered the San Francisco Bay Area in her teens and called it home for many years.
She loves weaving its natural beauty and rich cultural heritage - past and present - into all of her works.
Her first novel, Streets of Silver, debuted in July 2019.
Clif has written hundreds of computer programs and taught computer science on four continents. His Tcl textbook is considered one of the top in the field.
Clif and his wife Carol wrote fiction together as C. Flynt. Their fiction has appeared in anthologies from Atthis Arts, Unidentified Funny
