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REVIEW: Hannah Sward’s Strip is Emotionally Naked & Asking You to Look By Courtney Kocak
By Courtney Kocak Hannah Sward’s Strip is a memoir about her tumultuous journey from a fractured childhood to her foray into sex work, addiction, and eventual recovery—and yes, there’s a commune. It begins, “My mom left when I was two.” This abandonment establishes the yearning at the heart of Strip. The story unfolds chronologically, a […]
Putting Dance On The Page
The day after Thanksgiving I had an argument with my husband. It was his first year as an attorney for a Silicon Valley law firm and I thought he didn’t have time to dance in The Nutcracker anymore. It wasn’t just the law firm hours, I insisted. It was also the fact that we had […]
Bits of String too Small to Save Character Interview
Bits of String too Small to Save character interview Ruby Peru’s Bits of String too Small to Save catalogues the adventures of ten-year-old ElizabethAnn and Grandma along with a cast of wacky characters bent on saving the forested dystopia of Bumblegreen from certain demise. This rollicking adventure-quest is a coming of age story for two […]
My UnderSlumberBumbleBeast by Zoje Stage & Interview with Pru
Though I’m known as a writer of adult psychological thrillers and psychological horror books, My UnderSlumberBumbleBeast actually predates the publication of my debut novel, Baby Teeth. I’d wanted to give the child character of that novel, Hanna, a favorite book—something her dad would read with her—and after considering copyright issues it became obvious that I […]
Author Interviewing Characters: Author Angela Jackson-Brown Interviews Katia Daniels
UNTETHERED Sometimes family is found in the most unlikely of places . . . In the small college town of Troy, Alabama, amidst the backdrop of 1967, Katia Daniels lives a life steeped in responsibility. At the Pike County Group Home for Negro Boys, she pours her heart into nurturing the young lives under her […]
The Power of Self-Acceptance: Embracing My True Identity After a Life of Suppression
“What is masturbation?” I asked my mother. I was 8 years old, sitting in the back of our car, on the way out for our regular Saturday morning session of knocking on people’s doors to tell them about Jehovah, our god. I’d been leafing through the most recent edition of The Watchtower magazine, published by […]
My Immigration Story and the Role it Played in Writing My Historical Debut Novel White Mulberry
by Rosa Kwon Easton White Mulberry is inspired by the life of my Korean grandmother, a young woman coming of age in 1930s Japan-occupied Korea. The story follows the journey of Miyoung, an eleven-year-old girl who has dreams too big for her poor, farming village outside Pyongyang – to become a teacher and avoid an […]
On Writing We Walked On by Thérèse Soukar Chehade
On April 13, 1975, the sky above Beirut erupted with bombs and machine gun fire, marking the beginning of the Lebanese civil war. Within weeks, the city divided into two warring camps, a division that would last for fifteen long years. I was twelve. My life changed forever. A year into the war, Beirut was […]
The Crafting of Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician
By Alice Rothchild In 2005, in the midst of two years of severe back pain and an arduous 18-month recovery from a spinal fusion, I received the suggestion from a friend and former editor to write a book on health and human rights in Israel/Palestine. I had been co-leading delegations to the region, providing care […]
Empowered Heroines: Strong Women that go Beyond Stereotypes in Fantasy Literature
Empowered Heroines: Strong Women that go Beyond Stereotypes in Fantasy Literature Fantasy literature has long been a realm of imagination where the impossible becomes reality, and the boundaries of the human experience are stretched beyond the mundane. Among the most captivating elements of this genre are its characters, particularly strong female protagonists who defy stereotypes, […]
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