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How a 70-Year-Old Poet Strayed into Fiction
Diane Wald has been writing and publishing poetry since she was 15 years old. She turned 70 this year. She has published three poetry collections (most recently Wonderbender with 1913 Press), five chapbooks, and more than 250 poems in literary magazines. She has won prizes and fellowships. She has taught poetry in colleges and universities. […]
Dresses—Reinvented
When I was the Chief Brand Officer of ELLE Décor and Metropolitan Home, there was a showroom-event-a-minute and a trade show every month. It was a role that demanded that I look the part—stylish, sophisticated, and decked out in designer clothes. The first two I had reasonably down, but any funds for a high-end brand wardrobe were limited. […]
Your Books Are Not Your Babies
Your Books Are Not Your Babies – And Why Thinking They Are Can Hurt Your Chances Of Success One of the biggest challenges I have faced since becoming a published author is distancing myself emotionally from my books. Don’t get me wrong; I am extremely proud of all of my novels – five and counting! […]
Failure Is Impossible
My book, Women Who Launch: Women Who Shattered Glass Ceilings, provides a well-deserved shout-out to the intrepid women who chafed against the established paradigm that the fairer sex was only meant to be their husband’s eye candy. These fabulous femmes left their imprints on society and thereby made great strides in levelling the gender field. […]
Making The Cut
Ever wondered why you didn’t make the cut and weren’t a finalist in a contest? There could be lots of reasons. You have no control over the quality of other people’s submissions. All you can do is make yours as strong, professional, and accessible as possible. I wanted to share some things that help me […]
After the Book Launch: Afterglow or Aftermath? Part One
After the Book Launch: Afterglow or Aftermath? Are we strengthened or rendered vulnerable by putting our truth into the hands of strangers? By Cathy Park Kelly As writers, we are always being advised to show up naked on the page. This, we are told, leads to powerful writing, words that come alive on the page. […]
Collecting and Editing Our Short Works for a Book-Length Manuscript
Collecting and Editing Our Short Works for a Book-Length Manuscript When I decided to pitch and publish a book-length collection of personal essays, I thought that it would be an extended word processing project. I would go to my digital essay folder, download all my previously published essays—including the one published here in When Women Waken. Then, […]
The Hollow Bones
It’s not every day you find yourself prowling around the basement of a natural history museum, being stared at by stuffed armadillos and long-extinct Tasmanian tigers. Then again, while researching THE HOLLOW BONES, I kept falling down the most remarkable rabbit holes, never quite knowing where they might lead. The idea for my current book […]
The Importance of Writing as a Mother
I wrote in the beginning of Mama, Mama, Only Mama, Memoir is a hard beast for family to live with; just ask my mother. At the very beginning of my writing career I sat in a memoir workshop and listened to writers argue about the ethics of writing about children. Yet, raising children has been […]
The No-Process Process
Ah, the writing process. It’s one of those things shrouded in mystery, like the meaning of life or whether we’re supposed to tuck our pant legs into our boots. It’s also one of the questions I’m most frequently asked by readers at signing events, right after “Where do you get your ideas?” and “Didn’t you […]
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