In keeping with the literary legacy of Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author, Pearl S. Buck, the PSB Writing Center is organized by the Pearl S. Buck Volunteer Association. It offers Zoom writing classes, book discussions, a literary book discussion and the Writers Critique Guild.
The Writing Center has produced 17 books, including novels, autobiographies, short story collections, essays, poetry, memoirs, and children’s books that are now available in the Gift Shop and online on Amazon.
2025 Zoom Writing Classes and Workshops
Memoirs Writing
Wednesday evenings, 7-9 pm
October 15
October 22
October 29
November 5
November 12
November 19
Instructor: Linda C. Wisniewski
Linda will again offer her very popular weekly Zoom Memoirs Writing Classes. Each class includes a short lecture, time to practice writing and gentle, constructive feedback. Linda writes about life and the connections we make by giving others time and space to be heard. She is a former feature writer and columnist for the Bucks County Herald and The Bucks County Women’s Journal. Her work has been published widely in literary magazines, newspapers, anthologies and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her publications include Off Kilter, a memoir, Where the Stork Flies, a time-travel novel, and Old Women and Other Strangers, an essay collection. Linda also writes a Substack Newsletter called Writing and Walking: https://lindacwisniewski46.substack.com/ Her website is http://www.lindawis.com.
Registration Fee: $250
Call 215-249-0100 to register.
Writers Guild
3rd Sundays, 1-3 pm
September 21
October 19
Registration Fee: $80
Call 215-249-0100 to register
Pearl S. Buck Literary Discussion: The Good Earth
Tuesday mornings, 10-11:30 am
October 14
Class is complimentary
Call 215-249-0100 to register.
2026 Zoom Writing Classes and Workshops
Memoirs Writing
Wednesday evenings, 7-9 pm
January 14
January 21
January 28
February 4
February 11
February 18
Instructor: Linda C. Wisniewski
Linda will again offer her very popular weekly Zoom Memoirs Writing Classes. Each class includes a short lecture, time to practice writing and gentle, constructive feedback. Linda writes about life and the connections we make by giving others time and space to be heard. She is a former feature writer and columnist for the Bucks County Herald and The Bucks County Women’s Journal. Her work has been published widely in literary magazines, newspapers, anthologies and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her publications include Off Kilter, a memoir, Where the Stork Flies, a time-travel novel, and Old Women and Other Strangers, an essay collection. Linda also writes a Substack Newsletter called Writing and Walking: https://lindacwisniewski46.substack.com/ Her website is http://www.lindawis.com.
Registration Fee: $250
Call 215-249-0100 to register.
Writers Guild
3rd Sundays, 1-3 pm
March 15
April 19
May 17
June 21
July 19
August 16
September 20
October 18
Editor: Cindy Louden
Cindy was a founder of the PSB Writing Center in 2009 and has served as its Editor and critic of hundreds of manuscripts. Retired from North Penn HS Theatre and an Adjunct Professor from Penn State University, Cindy is a published poet, a PSB academic scholar and conference presenter.
Registration Fee: $80
Call 215-249-0100 to register
Pearl S. Buck Literary Discussion: Dragon Seed
2nd Tuesday mornings, 10-11:30 am
March 10
April 14
May 12
June 9
July 14
August 11
September 8
October 13
Leader: Carol Breslin
Carol Breslin is professor emerita of English at Gwynedd-Mercy University. She earned her Ph.D. in English from Temple University with a specialty in medieval literature. Her research interests focus on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, especially those that reflect on issues of justice and law; women in medieval literature; and the life and work of the twentieth-century author and humanitarian Pearl S. Buck. For the past several years, Carol has led a series of discussions on several volumes of Pearl Buck’s short stories and is now engaged in discussions of selected novels by the author. Carol lives with her husband in an old farmhouse in Bucks County that once served as Welcome House, a foster care center established by Pearl S. Buck in 1949 to house and nurture unadoptable, racially mixed children.
Class is complimentary
Call 215-249-0100 to register.
Pearl S. Buck Novels Discussion
3rd Monday evenings, 7-8:30 pm
January 19
Come my Beloved is set in India and is the story of an American multi-millionaire’s desire to establish a great theological school in India to train young men to become Christian missionaries. A love story which spans three generations, filled with Pearl’s vivid descriptions of Indian homes, rich and poor, landscapes, monsoons, warm-hearted Indian people, the Prince of Wales’ visit – will God and love win out?
February 16
The Townsman is the 1st of five novels set in America written under Pearl’s pen name of John Sedges to prove that she could win critical acclaim and not just be that woman author who only writes about China. Set in her publisher- husband’s native state of Kansas shortly after the Civil War, it’s the story of an English rebellious teenager and his family who immigrate and settle America’s wild west frontier.
March 16
Death in the Castle, written as John Sedges and Pearl’s only mystery novel returns to the “ancient English castle of a cash-strapped and unstable aristocratic couple, Sir Richard Sedgeley and Lady Mary who are broke and without an heir” or enough tourists to save their lifestyle. What is the remedy? Will rumors of ghosts or buried treasure revive tourism? Enjoy a suspenseful story which includes timid Mary, her possibly mad husband, Wells the Butler and his mysterious daughter Kate. Pearl will keep you guessing!