Carolyn D. Wall

A full-time freelance writer and lecturer on university campuses, in her home, and in conference centers across the country, she conducts uniquely intense workshops in Fiction, Short Story and Feature Writing, Journaling, and Writing for Children. She is best known for her six-week classes: “How To Write What You Feel" and for motivating writers everywhere. As an Artist-in-Residence for the Oklahoma Arts Council, she has taught creative writing to 4,000 children in her home state. Carolyn Wall served as the Fiction Editor for ByLine Magazine and Senior Staff Writer for Persimmon Hill, the award-winning publication of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. For three years, she was chief writer for the museum’s children’s magazine. More than 1,000 of her stories, articles, photographs, and reviews have appeared in over 100 magazines and newspapers. In 1995, she wrote for and edited the book Braced Against The Wind, the only literary history of the bombing of Oklahoma City. In the fall of 1998, she wrote, produced and recorded The Journaling Tapes: Writing From The Heart, a six-weeks’ course in daily journaling. She has done voice-over work for radio and television. The recipient of regional and national writing honors, Wall received the Creme-de-la-Creme award from the Oklahoma Writers' Federation, Inc., in 1997 for her young adult short story, With This Kiss, Wally Fishkin. In the fall of 1998, The U.S. Department of the Interior, and Wyoming’s Bearlodge Writers, presented her with a writing residency at Devils Tower. She is the only writer in a five-state region to have the distinction of receiving the OWFI Creme-de-la-Creme award twice. Her first two novels have sold in 11 countries on four continents. She is currently working on her third novel. She and her husband live in Oklahoma City.