Guest blogger, Anne Greenawalt Starting at age three, I used to sit on my mom or dad’s lap in front of the computer and dictate stories to them to type for me. A few years later, with some guidance on spelling and grammar, I learned to write my own stories. While helping my parents prepare [...]
Author and activist Susie Orbach shares some quick thoughts on the beauty debate. The Writer’s Life: Thirty one years after the publication of Fat is A Feminist Issue, you released Bodies. Whilst Fifi dealt with women’s eating problems, Bodies explores the effect that the pharmaceutical industries and the media are having on our body image. [...]
Guest blogger, Naseem Rakha “The best literature is far more than any journalism.” -William Faulkner At a few minutes after midnight on September 9th, 1996, I was standing on the grounds of the Oregon State Penitentiary recording a group of revelers celebrate the execution of condemned killer Douglas Write. He was the first man to [...]
Welcome to this week’s featured writing prompt. Enjoy! and don’t forget to post your finished work in the comments section (optional).
This summer we welcomed three wonderful ladies into our virtual offices to add some life and vitality to The Writer’s Life blog. They’ve been doing such a great job that we thought it only fitting that we share some of the rest of their fabulousness with you. Enjoy! Misty Laura Cude Laura Cude is twenty [...]
Guest blogger, Allison Winn Scotch From the author’s blog, June 14, 2010. Pop. That’s the sound that nearly every author hears once his or her book is released out into the world. It’s the sound of the bubble deflating, as he or she looks around and thinks…now what? It both seems and feels impossible to [...]
Guest blogger, Annie V. Lucey I have always been one to break the rules. My journey writing my first novel was no different, and I broke the rules from the very start, before I even knew what the concept or story of my début novel would be. I broke the first of many supposed rules [...]
Guest blogger, Michelle Hoover What is most remarkable about the fifteen pages of my great-grandmother’s journal—the same that inspired my novel, The Quickening—is the fact that she wrote them at all. The difficulty was not a “room of her own” phenomenon, but a matter of temperament and time. In early to mid-20th century rural Iowa, [...]
Welcome to this week’s featured writing prompt. Enjoy! and don’t forget to post your finished work in the comments section (optional).
Welcome to this week’s featured writing prompt. Enjoy! and don’t forget to post your finished work in the comments section (optional).
Lauren Sardi interviews Patricia Leavy, feminist sociology professor and author. Leavy has become known for advocating innovative and artful approaches to conducting social research as a means of getting at the complexity of lived experience and linking the “inner worlds” of women to the social contexts in which they live.
Heidi W. Durrow discusses her novel, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky—winner of the 2008 Bellwether Prize for Fiction.
It is hard not to believe we’re in a time of empowerment of those less powerful, and to be swept up in the fervor escalating the world over. In 2011, we witnessed the Arab Spring, the Occupy Wall Street protests and most recently, one of the largest protests of women in Egypt’s long history against the [...]
Caroline Palmer looks at the motivations of Minneapolis-based choreographer Ananya Chatterjea and the work of Ananya Dance Theatre (ADT).
Natsuo Kirino’s novels are not for the faint-hearted, nor are they for westerners loath to abandon the cultural stereotype of the Japanese woman as a delicate and beautiful “oriental flower”. Wendy Nakanishi explores the role of women in Japanese culture and society through Kirino’s popular works of crime and suspense.
