Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Authors Interviewing Characters: Holly May Cormier
A Conversation With Memphis Monroe On Trauma Bonds, Breaking Cycles, and Finding Freedom In this imagined character interview, Memphis Monroe speaks candidly about surviving a toxic, trauma-bonded relationship, the cities that shaped her resilience, and the difficult choices required to break cycles of generational abuse. Her reflections are raw, compassionate, and unflinching — offering insight […]
Writing Myself Back into the Story
By Dr. Kathryn Page, author of Good Work:Transform Your Work from the Inside Out I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember. Growing up on a farm, with two ex-police officers as parents, home life was unpredictable. Happiness wasn’t something any of us knew how to tend to. It wasn’t that we were […]
The Origin Story: How a Career’s Worth of Frustration Became a Book
By Kimberly Lee, SPHR I did not sit down one day and decide to write a book. That is not how this happened. What happened was more like a slow accumulation. Twenty years of watching the same thing play out in organization after organization, across industries, across company sizes, in good economic times and bad. […]
You Are Never Too Old to Pursue a Dream
One woman finds meaning in her senior years through writing. Dr. Susanne T. Eden Ed.D. I never set out to write this book. As it turned out, I had no choice. I was compelled. So how did I, an 80-something-year-old woman with a long career in education, come to write a book about health and aging? At […]
Whitney H. Murphy: On Creating My Graphic Novels
By Whitney H. Murphy It’s difficult to say when my writing journey began. Some might assume that it began with the little stories I drew up with crayons and misspelled words on the papers that I stapled together, in first grade. I can certainly thank my dad, who encouraged me to read the works of […]
Creating Cowboys
By Nan Reinhardt Confession? I don’t know any real cowboys. I read about them in the novels that my fellow western authors write; I’ve watched myriad TV westerns both new and old and rodeo videos galore. We had horses for fifteen years, so I’ve met lots of horsemen, some may even have thought of themselves […]
Rae Dumont Interviews Lyman, from In the Shadow of Silence, a Novel
In the Shadow of Silence, a Novel A novel that follows the pursuit of love and joy—until the descent of untreated depression ends with unbearable loss, forcing a family to deal with the shocking and immediate aftermath of suicide. Eva’s lonely childhood has given her an intuitive connection with kids and teenagers. She is a […]
The Inspiration for A Woman in Pink
Before A Woman in Pink, I wrote only in the short form. Small spaces allowed me to say what I wanted to say, and the relatively low stakes kept me comfortable. If I wrote a story or essay that no one wanted to publish, I saved it for later revision or abandoned it. Either way, […]
Small Press Pages February 2026
We’re halfway through Black History Month here in the US, and to celebrate, I’m highlighting books by Black authors whose work pulses with truth, insight, and depth. As a white reader, this month’s column isn’t about speaking for anyone; it’s about paying attention and reading widely, gratefully, and with joy. Across genres and generations, these […]
The Magpie Way to Becoming a Writer
By Nina Schuyler There’s my desk. Here is a jar of my favorite pens, Pilot, Precise, V5, black ink. I keep a thesaurus here. While it’s not a room of my own (I wish, Virginia), it is a corner of the bedroom with a view—oak trees with mossy arms, squirrels doing astonishing acrobatics. Towers of […]
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