Works

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Books in Print by Michael Wright

All available on Amazon; the novels are in hard copy and Kindle

In the Air


Will Danny Grooms navigate through the heady weirdness of the 60s? Can an abundance of willing women and the euphoria of his secret hippie life liberate him from the humdrum of military duty?


The times are definitely a-changin’ and Danny is willing to fly with them to the limits.


In the Air is the final novel in The Baltimore Trilogy.


The Chessmen

Sonny Wakefield is riding a rocket in the summer of '62, before his senior year of high school. Playing trumpet for The Chessmen brings him face to face with the adult world of bars, violence, and his first chaotic excursions into sex. Is he a pawn among the broken lives he encounters, or the knight he hopes to be? Set in Dundalk and Baltimore City, Maryland, The Chessmen is Michael Wright’s second novel after Down the Ocean: Summer of ’64, also on Amazon.



Down the Ocean: Summer of '64

Three months can be a life-time of experiences. Baltimore boy Roy Newson is at loose ends: his girlfriend has dumped him, he's quit college to work in a steel mill and the only escape from reality is spending weekends in Ocean City where he longs to find true love--and a good wave to ride. When he meets free-spirit Dina on the beach, Roy begins to believe that his dreams might just come true.




Sensory Writing for Stage and Screen

An Etude-Based Process of Exploration
Through a series of systematic explorations across a wide range of scenarios, Sensory Writing for Stage and Screen offers script writers exercises for attending to their own sensory experiences as a means to exploring the sensory experiences—and worlds—of the characters they create.

Available at Hackett Publishing in e-book and paperback with exams 



Playwriting Master Class

The Personality of Process and the Art of Rewriting
Playwrighting Master Class is a book for the active playwright. It explores the process of playwrighting, the evolution of the play as the playwright engages with it, and the choices the playwright makes in creating the play. Through the use of a number of case studies of playwrights engaged in writing and rewriting plays, Wright focuses on different individual approaches to their work, fostering their own unique visions and voices as a means of helping the working playwright find her or his own voice. 

Available at Hackett Publishing in paperback with exams

Playwriting in Process

Thinking and Working Theatrically 
The resource for new and experienced playwrights. Now in its second edition with more creative exercises and updated segments for encouraging writers to get to work.

Available at Hackett Publishing in paperback

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