"Scriva" is Italian for "I would write" (subjunctive) or "Write!" (imperative).
So, to our critique group of children’s book authors, "viva scriva" means
"Long live the writing!" or "Long live the writers!"

Seated from left to right, we are:
Melissa Dalton
Ruth Tenzer Feldman
Mary Rehmann
Amber Keyser
Addie Boswell
Sabina I. Rascol
  
Missing from the picture (but contributing to our mojo) are:
Elizabeth Rusch
Nicole Marie Schreiber
     
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