by dawnshipman | May 20, 2021 | Journeys, Writing
The above list is the notification of the finalists for this year’s Oregon Christian Writers Cascade Award contest. And that’s ME, there, under Young Adult Book! “To Soar on Jeweled Wings” is the title of my latest endeavor in Young Adult...
by dawnshipman | Mar 17, 2021 | Journeys, Writing
You must understand–I don’t even listen to podcasts for the most part–so when a friend invited me to speak to her church’s writers group, and that I could also hang out afterward and be interviewed for a podcast…I hesitated. Sort of. I...
by dawnshipman | Oct 2, 2020 | Journeys
I am a writer of fantasy. If you ask any fantasy writer to list the authors who have most influenced them, the names C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien will be at the top of most of those lists. I am no exception. I was well past childhood when I was introduced to Lewis...
by dawnshipman | Sep 12, 2020 | Journeys
It’s been more than twenty years since the skinny kid with the round glasses, brilliant green eyes, and the odd, lightning-shaped scar burst onto the literary scene–and into the Muggle world–and it would be hard to find anyone anywhere who...
