Author Archive: Women Writers Women Books
Dutch by birth and serial emigrant, Barbara currently lives with her husband and daughter in a tiny village in Galicia, Spain, as basic and simple as can be. W Barbara's website.
Why Do Some Friendships End and Others Last? By Carol Dines
Why Do Some Friendships End and Others Last? By Carol Dines I don’t remember how it began, our daily walk. Two o’clock before the kids got off their busses. Sun, rain, snow, wind, we met at the corner midway between our houses. The lake was three miles around and took forty-five minutes. Every day we […]
Reflections on Feminine Intuition in the Writing Process
by Deborah Eden Tull Just before the start of the Covid pandemic, I led a New Year’s retreat on the coast of California. On retreat we had circled at the edge of the Big Sur cliffs at sunset on New Year’s Eve, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. With no idea what 2020 would bring, we felt […]
Stealing Time By Davida G. Breier
Stealing Time By Davida G. Breier Shortly before my 45th birthday, I decided I was ready to confront one of my worst fears – fiction. I had toyed with the idea of writing a novel since I was in my 20s, but I would routinely dismiss the idea. You aren’t qualified to write a book. […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Christine Nolfi
Christine Nolfi interviews sisters Vale and Blythe from A Brighter Flame About A BRIGHTER FLAME: She’s always wanted a sense of belonging. The last place she expects to find it is home. Vale Lightner’s dreams turn to ash when the Pittsburgh bar she owns goes up in flames. Just like the past she escaped, very […]
Writing to Heal by Rebecca and Sallyann Majoya
Writing to Heal by Rebecca and Sallyann Majoya In our memoir, Uncertain Fruit: A Memoir of Infertility, Loss, and Love, we take turns describing our dream of having a baby together and the tumultuous ride to make that dream come true. After trying everything from foster care to fertility trials, and after nearly ten years […]
Objective Estrangement
Tools: The Power in Writing Where You Aren’t As an American author living in Geneva, I am often asked whether I am working on a novel set in Switzerland. White-peaked mountains, banking intrigue, anything chocolate. The potential is massive. Usually I say no. My latest novel manuscript contains one brief passage relating to the country […]
On Writing PERFECT ALL THE TIME
It’s ironic that as I am sitting here, writing this, that my book, about an unwanted teenage pregnancy, coincides with the ruling overturning Roe vs. Wade. Perfect All the Time was not written to debate anything – I wrote it to work out my feelings about women’s relationships. In my life, I’ve had several best […]
So You Want To Be A Writer…
As an author, I hear so many people say they want to be a writer. My first question is always: what are you writing at the moment? You’d be surprised how often I receive a blank look, or the answer “I haven’t written anything yet”. But every now and again, someone will tell me what […]
Peak Beyond Peak: The Unpublished Scottish Journeys of Isobel Wylie Hutchison
Box of lost essays by forgotten Scottish solo Arctic explorer, poet and botanist Isobel Wylie Hutchison published in new book A collection of lost essays by one of Scotland’s most remarkable women has been published as a book by Edinburgh publisher Taproot Press. Peak Beyond Peak: The Unpublished Scottish Journeys of Isobel Wylie Hutchison is […]
My Writing Process: Jeannée Sacken
Early on in my career as a photojournalist, I ventured into the Honduran mountains to document the life and work of a young Mayan mother. After a fruitless couple of hours, I called a break. Turning from the mother, I caught sight of her ten-year-old daughter, Suyapa, in the shadowy corner of their two-room, mud-brick […]
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