Tag: women writers
What Is Poetry? Review of TO THE MAN IN THE RED SUIT by Christina Fulton
To the Man in the Red Suit by Christina Fulton Review by Dr. Maureen Goldstein What is poetry? This age-old question spans from the Ancients to the millennium, and in most cases, the answers will vary according to the literary period. Poetry may convey emotions/attitudes on any given subject ranging from philosophy, social consciousness, to […]
Jane Austen and the Zombie Apocalypse
At one point in Jane Austen’s Persuasion, the heroine Anne Elliot takes it on herself to recommend some prose reading to an acquaintance who, recently bereaved, is exacerbating his depression with too much poetry. On her list are ‘such works of our best moralists, such collections of the finest letters, such memoirs of characters of […]
On Writing, by Janet Todd
I always wanted to write fiction. Over the years I started several novels—occasionally I even finished them. In subject they ranged from expatriate life in post-independence Ghana to a fictionalised biography of Mary Wollstonecraft’s unhappy sister. (Most attempts have gone out in black bin bags.) I had a family to support and it’s a lot easier […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Susie Orman Schnall
By Susie Orman Schnall, author of We Came Here to Shine We Came Here to Shine is uplifting historical fiction featuring two bold and ambitious women who navigate a world of possibility and find out what they’re truly made of during a glorious summer of spectacle and potential… Gorgeous Vivi is the star of the […]
One True Sentence: How My Book Came to Be
By Marianne Ingheim I’d been trying to write a book for 10 years. First it was a novel, loosely based on stories I’d heard from my mother and grandmother. Then I decided I needed to tell the truth, so I started writing a memoir. I took classes, I read how-to books. I was going to […]
The Gap Between Intention and Execution
The book I intended to write was not the book I ended up writing. Oh, there are some similarities: I wanted to write a book about how we cannot truly process the environmental catastrophe that we are currently experiencing. I knew that I wanted the earth to send signals about this environmental catastrophe to my […]
Writing Into The White Heat
Dare you see a soul at the white heat? Is Emily Dickinson’s first line and title of her 1862 poem. The soul; a passion so intense it burns white, hotter than the fire itself. The passion, for me, is writing. My words when I get them on the page are unfinished, they are imperfect, they […]
Creating a New Home for Readers—and Myself
Many years ago, while writing my first novel, Each Vagabond by Name, I obsessed over every detail of character and story, making sure I got everything exactly right. I spent weeks researching a backstory for bartender Ramsy, ensuring that the way he was injured in the Vietnam War was realistic, moving, and thematically significant. I […]
Resistance Is Life: On Writing and Resiliency
Resistance Is Life: On Writing and Resiliency Ava Homa on What Statelessness, Trauma, and Political Exile Have Taught Her as a Writer By Ava Homa Coming of age as a Kurdish girl in Iran, I learned early on that my being alive was an act of subversion. I belong to a people who have been subject to […]
Inspiration for A Taste of Sage By Yaffa S. Santos
We are living in times where many of us could use the perfect distraction. Times where many of us are returning to the kitchen to experiment, or possibly doing it for the first time. Times when there are many days when all we could use is a fun, romantic story and a laugh. None of […]
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