Aaron Pogue

As the Founder of the Consortium, Aaron dedicates his life to creating meaning through his craft and to helping his fellow artists master their own.

I want my art to uplift the human condition.

School of Focus:
Writing

Other Schools of Interest

  • Programming
  • Graphic Design/Drawing

Galleries

You can read all about Aaron below, but if you’d like to connect with him online or check out some samples of his work, you can find him at

Portrait of the Artist

When Aaron was twelve years old, he decided he wanted to be a writer. Always enthusiastic and aggressive about starting new projects, he delved into his chosen craft and resurfaced two years later with his first novel, complete at 60,000 words.

He continued building written worlds through high school, which led him to pursue a writing degree at the university level. Here, he not only shored up his existing skill set but also expanded it, while discovering the incredible value of connecting and working with fellow artists in various fields.

Following college came a day job as a Tech Writer and two fruitless years of shopping his third novel to traditional publishers. Though Aaron abandoned the dream of ever becoming a professional novelist, he never gave up on writing — or on sharpening those inborn and learned skills to the master craftsman level. Eleven novels in four series and three different genres have been his training ground as well as his field of victory.

But Aaron is never content to rest on those victories or to keep his master artistry to himself. At least one novel is always in-progress, and he has discovered a love of teaching. For the last several years, he has coached a spectrum of writers (ranging from novice to expert) through the month-long creative writing challenge NaNoWriMo. He has brought his Tech Writing experience full circle by teaching the subject at his alma mater. His popular writing advice blog, Unstressed Syllables, mentors writers of all schools and skill levels. And his most recent project for “paying it forward” has been, of course, the Consortium itself.

“Art,” Aaron says, “should belong to the public — its only real value is in its ability to reach an audience and inspire the creation of new art.” The Consortium is not only the apex of this belief, it is also a reflection of Aaron himself: his love for his fellow artist, his drive to meet his fellow artist’s needs in any way he can, and his desire to fashion a place in which he and his fellow artist both can grow into the master creatives they were meant to be.