About

Mission Statement: The Naples Writers’ Workshop seeks to cultivate the literary arts by working with writers to develop their craft and by broadening opportunities for literary culture.

Kristine Gill founded the Naples Writers’ Workshop in 2014, and we have since had a continuously running short-story workshop for local writers in Naples, Florida. We’ve begun hosting reading events for local writers, produce a podcast to discuss the craft of fiction, and offer additional workshop opportunities for writers of all skill levels.

Kristine Gill is the Founder and Executive Director of the Naples Writers’ Workshop. She is an Ohio native who majored in journalism at Kent State University. While she currently works for the Collier County Sherrif’s Office in media relations, she was a newspaper reporter with the Naples Daily for give years and also does freelance writing and editing work. She has been published in Every Day Fiction and won the Florida Weekly 2017 writing contest. She founded the Naples Writers’ Workshop in July 2014. (photo by Cesar Alsina)

J. C. Bronsted is the Associate Director of the Naples Writers’ Workshop. He earned a PhD from Florida Atlantic University in the Comparative Studies program where he studied literary cognition, an application of cognitive science to understand how literature works. He and his wife are raising twin daughters. (photo by Cesar Alsina)