Category: Contemporary Women Writers
I Was Writing a Book About My Hometown, Then a Wildfire Destroyed It by Julia Kelly
Darkness had long fallen over London when I climbed into the car on a cold January evening to drive back to the Midlands where my husband and I were temporarily living with my parents as we house hunted. We had been at a viewing and had decided over dinner to make an offer on the […]
On Writing by Jessica Clem
I grew up on a farm in rural Nebraska, in a family of horror and thriller readers. I spent countless hours as a child exploring the natural world and building my own stories from the landscape and found objects on the farm. All these objects found their way into my imagination. Icicles became monstrous teeth, […]
How to Use Eno and Ono While Revising Stories by Alex Behr
While revising stories for Animal Kingdom, my second collection, I turned to Brian Eno and Yoko Ono as patron saints of risk and ingenuity. I’m blessed with untreated ADHD, discovered in adulthood. That means, for me, the first burst of a story or a poem can feel like a high: anticipation and adrenaline leading to […]
November Recommended Reads
Engineering a Love Story, Kathleen Reidy At the height of the boom, ambition is easy —love is the real gamble It’s the year 2000—dot-coms, Bush v. Gore, and sky-high San Francisco rents. But while the country swoons with irrational exuberance, Chelsea Lefevre’s life is deflating faster than a tech bubble. She’d had everything she thought she […]
On Finding My Voice Through My Father’s Stories by Donna Hills Patrick
The Town I Crow About launched on September 20, 2026 in East Millstone, New Jersey. As I reflect on that long-anticipated day, my thoughts turn to Dad and the realization of just how many people he touched throughout his lifetime. It’s amazing to think about how much he meant to others and the impact he […]
Interview with Trish from NARCISSI by Babette Fraser Hale
Narcissi is a novel in linked stories about ten women who fall for a charismatic Texas novelist named Cole Burnett. Freshly split from his second wife when the story begins, Cole celebrates his freedom to write something important, significant. His life is lonely, though, and he keeps meeting women who share his need for warmth […]
Interviewing My 16-Year-Old Self: Damn, That Girl Had Nerve by Deborah Samuel
Deborah Samuel is the author of Grace Through Fire: A Memoir of Murder, Tragedy, and Resilience If I could sit across from my sixteen-year-old self today, at fifty-eight, I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t be intimidated by me. She’d probably check me out, wonder how the hell she got that old, and then start asking questions […]
Author Interviewing Character: Kathleen Fox & Evie Walters
Evie Walters Takes The Wheel In this warmhearted and witty debut, a mysterious gift spurs a widow to take a cross-country journey to find its sender—and along the way, she rediscovers herself. Evie Walters has lived most of her seventy-one years according to others’ expectations. But on the day of her husband’s funeral, she receives […]
The Journey That Inspired Camel from Kyzylkum by Lara Gelya
I was born and raised in Ukraine during the Soviet era, in a world shaped by discipline, endurance, and quiet resilience. My childhood was a complex mosaic. Life was certainly not easy, and the shadow of antisemitism was a heavy, painful reality we had to navigate. Yet, in our neighborhood, Jewish and Ukrainian families lived […]
About a Boy By Tara Badstubner
Ask me how I came to write of loss and grief. Ask me at night when I’m especially tired, when my guard is down, when my heart is heavy from the slow grind of the day. I will tell you a story, maybe, about a boy, a friend, who was goofy and kind. His gait […]
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