The Catalyst Sessions w/ Bill DeYoung: Maureen McDole, Keep St. Pete Lit 7-28-20

There’s a bit of a silver lining in the Covid cloud for Keep St. Pete Lit’s writing classes, as founder and director Maureen McDole explained Tuesday on The Catalyst Sessions.

“What’s great about Zoom is, you can actually show your work – you can show your desktop to the group,” she said. “And one of our students lives in Maine, so she’s sharing the Writers’ Group with her whole Maine Writer’s Group. Because she goes away for the summer.

“And a lot of our students, especially when we had classes at the Morean Arts Center in person, were snowbirds. They would go away for the summer, so our classes would drop down.”

In the current climate, awkward as it is, one does not have to physically be in St. Pete to take writing classes from Keep St. Pete Lit. “It’s opening up all these different possibilities,” McDole said.

Still, like everybody else on the planet, she’s waiting for the day the pandemic is history. 
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