The Refinery Writing Studio was founded in 2017 by writer and editor Amy Paige Condon, Who wanted to create a Place for aspiring and established writers in Savannah and the surrounding community to flourish and hone their craft.
Grounded in the philosophy that all great stories are anchored by vivid characterization and rich details and underpinned by well-structured architecture, the Refinery helps writers embrace the fundamentals of storytelling while illuminating their unique voices.
Amy Paige Condon, Founder and Editor
Award-winning freelance writer Amy Paige Condon teaches creative writing courses and provides editorial services at the Refinery Writing Studio. She serves as associate editor of Beacon, a quarterly solutions journalism-style magazine produced by Savannah Morning News.
Following an 18-year career as an urban planner in Fort Worth, Texas, and Miami, Florida, Condon earned an MFA in writing in 2011 from the Savannah College of Art and Design. With Cheryl and Griffith Day, she co-wrote the New York Times-bestselling The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook (Artisan 2012). She followed it with the Wiley's Championship BBQ Cookbook (Gibbs Smith), which was named the best cookbook of 2014 by the National Barbecue News. She is now working with CheFarmer Matthew Raiford on his debut cookbook for Countryman Press.
Condon's biography of late Miami News editor Bill Baggs, A Nervous Man Shouldn't Be Here in the First Place, will be published by UGA Press in October 2020. She lives in Savannah with her husband, three pups, and a pig named Gus.
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Photo by Molly Hayden, 2019