Category: Contemporary Women Writers
On Silence, Space, and the Healing Power of Poetry
The value of loss is relative, like the difference between one, a million, and a billion. Do you know the folktale of the hand, full of cookies, in the cookie jar? Unable to free itself or enjoy the plunder until it drops its catch? A cookie or two, ok. Sharable. More becomes a trap. And […]
Quotes That Might Save You—or At Least Comfort You While You Write By Maddie Dawson
Maddie Dawson is the bestselling author of eight novels about love, crazy families, secrets, parenthood, and–yes, they have reasonably happy endings. Kind of like life. Her newest, A Happy Catastrophe, was released on May 25, 2020. We’re delighted to feature her today! Quotes That Might Save You—or At Least Comfort You While You Write By […]
Essay by Brooke Warner, Publisher of She Writes Press
Brooke Warner is publisher of She Writes Press, president of Warner Coaching Inc., and author of Write On, Sisters!, Green-light Your Book, What’s Your Book?, and three books on memoir. We are delighted to feature this wonderful essay by her about her time as a Tumbleweed at Shakespeare & Co. and how that led to her book publishing career. Tumbling There’s a […]
How A book Launch Became A Performance Piece
by Joyce Yarrow It’s interesting how we tend to compartmentalize our lives without thinking about it — professional vs. personal, friendships vs. business relationships, hobbies vs. work life— the list goes on. When I began writing novels it seemed natural enough to separate my literary activities from my music career as a singer/songwriter. After all, […]
It Takes a Writing Village
It Takes a Writing Village Densie Webb “It takes a village to raise a child” is an African proverb that quite literally means it takes an entire community of people to get the job done and to get it done with loving care. In today’s world, I think that’s more aspirational than actionable, but when it […]
My Writing Process Is Like Building a House, I Think
By: Jordyn Taylor New York City was in lockdown, and I needed to write something. It was the spring of 2020, and I suddenly had a lot more time on my hands than usual—not to mention anxiety. I decided that throwing myself into a new project—an idea I’d been kicking around for months— would be […]
Writing The Women and Girls of Sybelia Drive
The Women and Girls of Sybelia Drive by Karin Cecile Davidson There is the beginning, the occasion for writing the first words, the passages in which two young girls awake to “the sound of wreckage, of breaking glass. The sharp, close shattering of glass on a hard surface.” Let’s start with those girls. Florida girls […]
For The Love Of The Land by Jenny Jefferies
For The Love Of The Land by Jenny Jefferies For The Love Of The Land is a cook book to celebrate British farmers and their food. Forty fantastic farmers from all over the British Isles contribute both a recipe and a story about what British farming means to them and Minette Batters, the President of […]
Metaphors, Analogies, and Similes, Oh My!
Metaphors, Analogies, and Similes, Oh My! We all have our personal reading preferences, whether we acknowledge them or not. Things that make us click “buy” on Amazon after checking out the “Look Inside” feature or buying a book from the local bookstore after reading the first few pages. Sometimes it’s simply a specific genre, sometimes […]
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