Tag: women writers
AI Spams and Scams: Caveat Emptor by Jane Loeb Rubin
There is a particular, personal cruelty to scamming authors. Most of us have poured years of our lives — sometimes entire decades — into crafting stories, perfecting prose, and building the kind of literary reputation that might, just might, justify a seat at one of the country’s premier book festivals. We are not naive, but […]
Movement, Still
By Tracy Smith I don’t know the exact day I realized how much I needed to keep moving. Maybe it was the first trip to Iceland in September 2022 when I was lost in downtown Reykjavik. Or the time I was in a mosh pit in Doha, cheering with the Argentina fans during the FIFA […]
Fresh Air and Possibility: On Poetry, Verse Novels, and Writing Books Kids Love to Read by Ona Gritz
One gray afternoon when I was in 7th grade, a tall man with floppy hair loped into the room at the start of our English class with a hardcover the size of a phone book under his arm. Our sub for the day, he leaned against the teacher’s desk and announced, “I’m just going to […]
Let It Breathe: Unleashing the Power of Setting
By Kimberly Behre Kenna Can a house loom like a monster and still show up as the most tender thing in a story? In the opening scene of this middle-grade novel, thirteen-year-old Lola arrives at her uncle’s home: “…as soon as we turn into the driveway and I catch a glimpse of the stone roof […]
Writing Historical Fiction as an Homage to My Ancestors By Peggy Joque Williams
When asked about my two books, Courting the Sun: A Novel of Versailles (2024) and Braving the Dawn: A Novel of New France (January 2026), I take delight in saying they are an homage to my French-Canadian ancestors. In a 2024 piece I wrote for Women Writers, Women’s Books, “From Super Collaborator to Solo Historical […]
Being Agnostic in the South
By Victoria Dillon For fans of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Farm,” and “Red Clocks,” Victoria Dillon’s provocative new novel “Ava” (She Writes Press, March 3, 2026) asks: What if the only way to reclaim reproductive freedom was to rewrite the very nature of birth itself? Written by a pediatrician and former research scientist who studied avian […]
Why Keep Writing? Do I Want To?
Lately, the question “Do I want to keep writing?” has arisen. By Janet Constantino “What are you writing now?” Or “What will you write next?” Questions I’m asked frequently, since the publication of my novel, Becoming Mariella. What invariably comes up for me is, do I want to keep writing? Aside from short pieces, like this […]
Author Interviewing Characters: Jean Burgess
NAVIGATING HER NEXT CHAPTER: A RETRO NOVEL Jean Burgess’ second Retro Women’s fiction, Navigating Her Next Chapter (Apprentice House Press, 2026), is set primarily in New York City in the early 1980s. It tells the story of Margie Stevens, a twenty-something from a tiny town on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, who moves to the big city […]
I Almost Gave Up — Then at 83, I Got My First Publishing Deal By Brigid Carrick
I had almost given up on traditional publishing. After years of writing, redrafting and submitting my manuscript to publishers in Australia and Ireland, I was on the verge of self-publishing when an email arrived on a Sunday afternoon. It was from Ventura Press in New South Wales. “Could you send us the first chapter of […]
The Making of the Musical Memoir, Fly, My Darling By Lisa K. Richter
With rhythmic, imaginative prose, Fly, My Darling (April 21, 2026, She Writes Press) explores the resilience of love, the weight of loss, the undeniable pull toward freedom, and the transformation that occurs when a woman finally asks, What do I really want? Based on Lisa Richter’s years together with musician and visionary composer Lynda Roth, […]
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