by Chris Woodside | May 6, 2025 | Get This
Greg Norris died on Monday, May 5. He was the most enthusiastic writer to attend my second independent writing workshop back in 2016. Since then, I have remained in touch with him and a writing group he started and mostly led for many years in Berlin, New Hampshire. I...
by Chris Woodside | Mar 19, 2025 | Get This
In an interview just posted on Mentors Collective, I talk about the many parallels between pushing one’s body and mind in the wilderness and challenging oneself in the workplace or at home. Carrying my gear uphill, setting up camp, feeling cold and...
by Chris Woodside | Feb 14, 2025 | Get This
How do you define courage? What does grubby rock scrambling have to do with personal growth? What obligation does a woman have to teach resiliency to daughters? I talked about all these and more on this new episode of Vision Pros.
by Chris Woodside | Nov 13, 2024 | Books, Get This
Running Wild Press’s new Short Story Anthology arrived yesterday with my story, “Pumping Station Road.” It tells the story of Lloyd, a lobbyist and trail runner whose big solo run of the length of Connecticut from east to west hits a snag. Lloyd...
by Chris Woodside | Nov 6, 2024 | Get This
Brenda Ueland, one of my favorite writing teachers, said that most writers will never reach the end of the “ever moving river of ideas.” Many writers I know don’t realize just how deep and wide that river flows inside their minds. Writers sometimes feel that time...
by Chris Woodside | Aug 20, 2024 | Get This
Save the date. I will give a talk and reading from my wilderness memoir Going Over the Mountain at the new location of Bank Square Books, 80 Stonington Road, Mystic, Connecticut, on Tuesday, October 15 at 6 p.m. Going Over the Mountain: One Woman’s Journey from...
