Creative Writing

Madelyn Musick is a writer, teacher, & creator living in Somerville, Massachusetts. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing with a focus in poetry from the University of North Carolina - Wilmington & a BA in English from the University of Minnesota. Her poems “Pythagoras,” “A Weaker Vessel,” and “Love Capacity” are featured on In Parentheses. Her poem “Blood Orbit” can be found in The Shore.

Jen Fries is a multi-disciplinary mixed-media artist, designer, and writer. Her methods include collage, assemblage, jewelry and wearable art, books, toys, fantastic fiction, and poetry. Her art is narrative, telling or implying stories about emotion and dreams, history, mythology and mysticism, and the interdependence of human-made and natural environments. 

From New York City via Vermont, Jen has lived and worked in Somerville since 2000.

Dawn M. Simmons, is a playwright and director living in Somerville, MA. She is an Artistic Director with New Exhibition Room. Locally Dawn has worked for: The Theatre Offensive, Holland Productions, FeverFest(Small Theatre Alliance of Boston), The Boston Theatre Marathon, Mill 6, Actors Refuge Repertory Theatre, Fort Point Theatre Channel, Actors' Shakespeare Project, Another Country Productions, Company One, Boston Theatre Works, and As Yet To Be Theatre. In New York State, she spent 3 years with Irish Classical Theatre Company as their Resident Assistant Director.

Ethan Gilsdorf is the author of the award-winning book "Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms," his travel memoir investigation into fantasy and gaming subcultures the Huffington Post called “part personal odyssey, part medieval mid-life crisis, and part wide-ranging survey of all things freaky and geeky," National Public Radio described as "Lord of the Rings meets Jack Kerouac’s On the Road" and Wired.com proclaimed, “For anyone who has ever spent time within imaginary realms, the book will speak

GGMPS, LLC located in Cambridge Massachusetts was found in February 2011 by Meaghan Q. Sinclair. GGMPS helps bands and artists with the following:

• Developing a strong, cohesive, image.
• Implementing marketing strategies to increase fan base
• Helping the artist organize and articulate goals
• Long and short term planning
• Conflict resolution
• Booking shows and create tour schedule
• Managing and create web presence via social media sites
• Basic Website layout design
• Liaison between band and other entities
• Coordinating all interviews and media requests

Doug Holder is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press of Somerville, Mass and is the arts/editor of The Somerville News. He teaches writing at Endicott College in Beverly, Mass and Bunker Hill Community College in Boston. In addition he is the Director of the Newton Free Library Poetry Series, and the co-founder of the Somerville News Writers Festival. He hosts a literary talk show on Somerville Community Acces TV "Poet to Poet: Writer to Writer." Holder's own work: books, interviews, etc...