Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Writing ‘A Biography of Níkę – ‘Bàtà Mi á Dún Ko Ko Kà’
Kofo Adeleke As an avid reader, storywriter and collector of books since childhood, I actually believe that the desire to write a book had always been within me. But because it happened rather later in life the urge was probably not quite as burning as for some, although I did for a number of years […]
Backstory of My Twin in Budapest
Backstory of My Twin in Budapest Five years ago, my cousin was looking at a stack of old photos at a friend’s house. An image of her friend’s grandmother caught her eye because she thought the lady looked like me, so she sent me a copy of the picture to see what I thought. The […]
There Will Be A Quiz
By Kate Woodworth “Remember mud football on the quad?” our Trinity College (Hartford) reunion chair, Henry Bruce wrote last fall when trying to drum up enthusiasm for our 50th. “The Sha-Na-Na concert?” Nope. In my four years of college, I attended zero sporting events. I don’t know what mud football is and have no desire […]
News From the Arctic Circle
By Claudia Hinz It is one my favorite emails in my inbox even though I can’t bring myself to read the whole letter: News from the Arctic Circle. The subject line alone sends a chill up my spine. The frozen nostril zing of a wild adventure on the top of the world. A place I […]
Three Goals of a Great Story
By Jane Kirkpatrick Some years ago, at a conference called the Festival of Faith and Writing, I heard Joyce Carol Oates speak about what makes a great story. This multi-published and award-winning author of a National Book Award Book, the Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and so many more accolades, named three things. A great […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Shirley Russak Wachtel
The Baker of Lost Memories From the author of A Castle in Brooklyn comes an epic novel spanning decades about the broken bonds of family, memories of war, and redemption and hope in the face of heartbreaking loss. Growing up in 1960s Brooklyn, Lena wants to be a baker just like her mother was back in Poland […]
On Writing Mrs. McPhealy’s American
by Claire R.McDougall “Every village has its idiot. Locharbert in Scotland had three.” This is the opening line of my novel “Mrs. McPhealy’s American,” and I think in those couple of lines the tenor of the book is set. I grew up in Scotland in a wee town like Locharbert, and then, like Steinbeck did […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Christine Stringer
Charity Trickett is Not So Glamorous Bridget Jones fans will fall hard for this based-on-a-true-story, behind-the-scenes tale of a young woman’s calamitous adventures trying to break into the movie industry in 1990s Hollywood. Hollywood, 1997. When Charity Trickett moves to LA to assist the director of the biggest blockbuster film of the year, she quickly […]
The English Masterpiece, by Katherine Reay: Excerpt
The English Masterpiece “Art . . . London . . . Seventies Glam . . . Yesss, please. The English Masterpiece by Katherine Reay has ALL the goodies–especially for historical fiction lovers and art aficionados . . . Buckle your seatbelt as all hell breaks loose.” –Lisa Barr, New York Times bestselling author of The Goddess of Warsaw Set in […]
Searching for Home Between Laughs, Deadlines, and the 1 Train
By Sara Hamdan I didn’t set out to write a novel. Not at the start. My first piece for The New York Times was about the rise of stand-up comedy in the Middle East. I was on assignment in Dubai, wearing my journalist hat—sleuthing out the funniest voices across the region, asking serious questions like, […]
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