Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Writing And Belonging, Daisy McNally
I came to live in a city five years ago and felt foreign and uneasy for the first twelve months and the best part of the next. Of course, cities are busy places and that was not unexpected. It just seemed that all the all the busy-ness was connected; whether those I came across were […]
Self Publishing In Perspective
Two years ago, I became a widow at the age of 45. My lovely husband Ian died at home following a year-long battle with cancer. He was only 52. As I held his hand, he took his last breaths and his heart slowly and peacefully came to a stop. And that moment altered me forever. […]
Love_Is_Love: Anthology For LGBTQIA+ teens
Love_Is_Love is a collection of poems, short stories, and visual art for LGBTQIA+ teens, edited by Emma Eden Ramos. We are delighted to share one of the collection’s poems and two of the artworks. Shapeshifter By Robin Anna Smith I exist somewhere between ` a match and a flame, a tear and the sea, a […]
My Midlife Career
I didn’t set out to become a women’s fiction author. As with most things in my life, I happened into it. I’ve always been an avid reader and often wondered whether I had at least one novel in me. My brother died of a drug overdose in 1999. Several years later, when I was still struggling […]
Writing a Novel on Ballet in Pre-Revolutionary Russia
Historical fiction allows us to time travel; we step into the past with a sense of wonder and awe, and the famous names become more than a list of people we learned about in textbooks and school history classes. They become people. The idea for my historical fiction novel was sparked by a single sentence. […]
Giving Birth To A Book
How writing a book is the same as having a baby, but without the gas and air. As a mother and a writer, I’ve often thought that the process of becoming a writer is akin to having a baby. ‘Oh lovely! Is this your first book?’ they ask, or ‘When is this one due out?’ […]
Every Story Is A Survival Story
For as long as I can recall I’ve been trying to save things. I remember clearly the baby robin that fell out of its nest. My mother and I fed him and kept him in a birdcage, so a cat couldn’t get him, right under the cherry tree he fell from in our backyard. Every […]
From War Correspondent To Fiction Writer
WENDY HOLDEN, also known as TAYLOR HOLDEN explains what it’s like to be a war correspondent and how the legacy of her experiences unwittingly provided rich material for her first novel. THE IMAGES on our television screens or in our newspapers are frighteningly familiar – Syria, Yemen, Pakistan, Iraq – carnage, misery and bloodshed everywhere […]
Creativity Studies And Tricks For (Women) Writers
Do you love the creative process, but at times find it almost unbearably difficult? I can only answer with a solemn “I do.” Being an avid reader of Virginia Woolf, including her famous A Room of One’s Own, I started to suspect that writing, while difficult for everyone, can (given the mostly men-oriented system we […]
Exophonic Writers
What do you call an author who writes in a language that isn’t their mother tongue? Believe it or not, it does actually have an official name – an exophonic writer. Exophonic writers are an eccentric bunch, for it does take a peculiar mind to choose to express yourself in a language that isn’t really […]
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