Mystic Writers

About Us

The Mystic Writers formed in the summer of 2017 in Mystic, CT, when an evening on a screened-in porch sparked interest in conversation, collaboration, and mutual support. We meet regularly to balance the professional necessity of working alone with the satisfaction of interacting with other writers. Eight strong, we are all on different paths – memoirists, novelists, journalists – and yet we have a common vision: to write as well as we can and to tell stories that matter.

Our Authors

Lisa Brownell

Fiction

Jane H. Percy

Non-fiction, Poetry

Maura Casey

Opinion

Bethe Dufresne

Journalism

Ginny Bitting

Memoir

The Latest from our Blog

The Handwriting off the Wall

The Handwriting off the Wall

As I filled out “Please vote!” postcards before this month’s election, the hardest part wasn’t correctly copying all the names, adhering to the...

A Writing Room of One’s Own

A Writing Room of One’s Own

I write at a desk next to windows that overlook the Mystic River. I can see the changing colors of water and sky, as well as the rock ledge that caps...

The Grandmother Effect

The Grandmother Effect

When Women’s History Month rolled around this March, stories of women’s achievements were everywhere; I even read one profile on a small, digital...

There’s Still Time

There’s Still Time

It’s easy at 62 to look backward. Most of my life is behind me. And wistfulness seems to increase with age. As a younger person, I used to be amused...

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