Category: Contemporary Women Writers
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 […]
The Research That Brought The Good Doctor Of Warsaw To Life
Dr Janusz Korczak was a children’s doctor and educator who lived and worked in Poland between the wars, beloved for his children’s books and his advice to parents on the Polish radio. I first came across him some 15 years ago when I heard some of his quotes at a teacher’s conference. The wisdom of […]
A Fascinating New World By Allie Reynolds
By Allie Reynolds Robert McKee, in his iconic book Story writes: “We go to the movies to enter a new, fascinating world, to inhabit vicariously another human being who at first seems so unlike us and yet at heart is like us, to live in a fictional reality that illuminates our daily reality.” It’s one […]
SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO LIE: EXCERPT
We are delighted to partake in the blogtour for SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO LIE: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet The Spy (Seal Press Hardcover; December 1, 2020; $30) by LESLIE BRODY— an acclaimed biographer known for revealing the stories of delightfully complicated feminists in modern history. Harriet the Spy, […]
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