Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Longing To Be Read
Kathleen M. Rodgers A young man with curly hair and a round cherub face approaches and thrust a book at me. “Why haven’t you read my book?” he demands. His voice is full of rage, his expression one of disgust and disappointment. I’ve just climbed out of a car, and I’m preparing to close the […]
Women in Comedy and Comedic Literature
By Jennifer Inglis Author of “Girls Who Wear Glasses” Women have had a rough road in comedy. Even now it’s still very much a “boys club,” as just about any female comic will attest. But it is, and always has been, critical to establish a woman’s voice in that arena. And why not? We have […]
Interview with Ann Gosslin, Author of The Double
Ann Gosslin spent the early part of her life in the US, before heeding the call of distant shores and eventually settling in Europe. The Shadow Bird is Ann’s debut novel. Her second novel, The Double, will be published by Legend Press in July 2021. With a lifelong interest in psychology and psychiatry, Ann is […]
The Show On The Road
The Beloved Children author Tina Jackson on how the women from Wide Open Writing are going to hit the road to bring writing where it’s needed In the late summer of 2018, I was wrestling with the manuscript that was to become my debut novel, The Beloved Children – a story of carny insiders in […]
Craving Solitude to Write? Try These 8 Pandemic Writing Strategies
When the car needed service several months ago, I put on a coat and mask and went to the dealership. It wasn’t until I was waiting in the blessedly quiet customer cafe that I realized how much I’d been craving solitude. Would they notice, I wondered, if I sat here every week? I’ve been a […]
Dare Boys to Embrace Healthy Masculinity and Help Achieve Real Gender Equity
By Anna Marie Johnson Teague Co-author, The Book of Dares My son was three months old when I first heard my co-author Ted Bunch speaking to a group of 300+ high school boys in New Orleans, LA. We were in a huge gymnasium and the boys were seated in long rows of folding chairs. Ted started […]
Musings For The Memoir
After writing and publishing two novels, one set during WW11, and another in the 1970’s, a tale of a lonely suburban housewife in New Jersey, Sande Boritz Berger is ready to tackle her memoir and share her own emotional journey. Baby GirlI was a war baby, the first child and only girl. In the years […]
Suzanne Redfearn, Author of Hadley & Grace, interviews Hadley…and Grace
Suzanne Redfearn, author of Hadley & Grace, interviews Hadley…and Grace Hello ladies, how does it feel to be infamous outlaws on the lam? Hadley: I prefer to think of us as misunderstood opportunists. Grace: (eyeroll) Speak for yourself. I’ve always been a fan of the great criminal masterminds of the world— Leonardo Notarbartolo, Anthony Curcio, […]
Writing The More The Merrier – Celebrating Seventy
I love a project. When I turned seventy I thought I’d take a deeper look at my life and at what aging might look like. I’ve kept journals for thirty-five years, mostly because I believe in keeping track of both family history and history in the wider sense. I like to think that my words […]
How Writing Fiction about Love and Healing Embraced Me in The Warmest Hug and Forever Changed me as a Writer
When I was ten years old, I first thought in a serious way that I wanted to be a writer. I tried writing a novel at the time—an epic love story between wounded people who help each other heal. Because I was ten, it didn’t pan out. Eventually, I became a full-time writer, but other […]
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