Category: Contemporary Women Writers
On Finding My Voice Through My Father’s Stories by Donna Hills Patrick
The Town I Crow About launched on September 20, 2026 in East Millstone, New Jersey. As I reflect on that long-anticipated day, my thoughts turn to Dad and the realization of just how many people he touched throughout his lifetime. It’s amazing to think about how much he meant to others and the impact he […]
Interview with Trish from NARCISSI by Babette Fraser Hale
Narcissi is a novel in linked stories about ten women who fall for a charismatic Texas novelist named Cole Burnett. Freshly split from his second wife when the story begins, Cole celebrates his freedom to write something important, significant. His life is lonely, though, and he keeps meeting women who share his need for warmth […]
Interviewing My 16-Year-Old Self: Damn, That Girl Had Nerve by Deborah Samuel
Deborah Samuel is the author of Grace Through Fire: A Memoir of Murder, Tragedy, and Resilience If I could sit across from my sixteen-year-old self today, at fifty-eight, I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t be intimidated by me. She’d probably check me out, wonder how the hell she got that old, and then start asking questions […]
Author Interviewing Character: Kathleen Fox & Evie Walters
Evie Walters Takes The Wheel In this warmhearted and witty debut, a mysterious gift spurs a widow to take a cross-country journey to find its sender—and along the way, she rediscovers herself. Evie Walters has lived most of her seventy-one years according to others’ expectations. But on the day of her husband’s funeral, she receives […]
The Journey That Inspired Camel from Kyzylkum by Lara Gelya
I was born and raised in Ukraine during the Soviet era, in a world shaped by discipline, endurance, and quiet resilience. My childhood was a complex mosaic. Life was certainly not easy, and the shadow of antisemitism was a heavy, painful reality we had to navigate. Yet, in our neighborhood, Jewish and Ukrainian families lived […]
About a Boy By Tara Badstubner
Ask me how I came to write of loss and grief. Ask me at night when I’m especially tired, when my guard is down, when my heart is heavy from the slow grind of the day. I will tell you a story, maybe, about a boy, a friend, who was goofy and kind. His gait […]
October Recommended Reads
Engineering a Love Story, Kathleen Reidy At the height of the boom, ambition is easy —love is the real gamble It’s the year 2000—dot-coms, Bush v. Gore, and sky-high San Francisco rents. But while the country swoons with irrational exuberance, Chelsea Lefevre’s life is deflating faster than a tech bubble. She’d had everything she thought she […]
Write What You Know … or Don’t by Liz Flaherty
As writers, we hear it from everyone—from other writers, from people who teach writing, from readers, and from people who are tired of hearing us groan and whine about writing. (Little do they know how much fun groaning and whining is if you’re sharing it with sympathetic listeners.) Write what you know, they say. It’s […]
The Unlearning Project by M.D. Roblyer
In her memoir-how-to book The Memoir Project, author Marion Roach Smith archly observes that “the #1 thing that baby boomers want to do in retirement is write a book—about themselves.” She’s sold a lot of copies being right about that. I joined that white-haired throng after retiring from a long career in higher education and, […]
Because I Have Lived It by Joanne E. Betzler
Joanne E. Betzler – author of Nothing to Discuss – Breaking From 20 Years of Intimate Partner Violence I grew up believing that abuse means visible scars and bruises. Broken bones. There was zero physical evidence that my 20-year marriage had swallowed me whole and erased my identity. From my insider perspective, the union was […]
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