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Women Writing on Family:Teaching and Publishing
Editors: Carol Smallwood & Suzann Holland
Foreword: Supriya Bhatnagar
Publisher: The Key Publishing House Inc. ISBN: 978-1-926780-13-9
http://www.amazon.com/Women-Writing-Family-Teaching-Publishing/dp/1926780132/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321978679&sr=1
Release: January-2012; Price: $27.99
Dimension: 6x9, Page count: 343
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Women Writing on Family: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing provides guidance and insight for women who write about family. Award winning women writers from all walks of life share their experiences in planning, composing, editing, publishing, teaching, and promoting work in a variety of writing genres. Readers will learn to tackle sensitive family issues and avoid pitfalls in memoir writing, poetry, fiction, and others. Filled with tips, exercises, and anecdotes, this anthology is appropriate for both well-seasoned writers and those just beginning.
Contributors:
Diana Amadeo, Sheila Bender, Lee Skallerup Bessette, Jenn Brisendine, Daphne Butas, Ingeborg Gubler Casey, Karen Coody Cooper, Laila Dahan, Lela Davidson, Martha Engber, Christin Geall, Cathy Gildiner, Caroline M. Grant, Carol Hawkins, Aubrey Hirsch, Kate Hopper, Anne Ipsen, Colleen Kappeler, Amber E. Kinser, Madeleine Kuderick, Diane LeBlanc, Jen Lee, Corbin Lewars, Geri Lipschultz, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Arlene L. Mandell, Ann McCauley, Judy M. Miller, Rosemary Dunn Moeller, Yelizaveta P. Renfro, Mary Rice, Lisa Romeo, Anna Saini, Cassie Premo Steele, Rebecca Tolley-Stokes, Anne Valente, Kezia Willingham, Anne Witkavitch, and Gayle Zinda.
"Women Writing on Family: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing is like a good conversation with writer-friends who share their experiences and help you think about your own approach to writing and publishing. If you want to preserve your family history for future generations, write a memoir, or just explore your own family's stories, this book is full of accessible and useful suggestions."
--Ellen Bass, poet and faculty in the Pacific University MFA program; The Human Line (Copper Canyon Press, 2007) |
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Women on Poetry: Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching edited by Carol Smallwood, Colleen S. Harris and Cynthia Brackett-Vincent (foreword by Molly Peacock) forthcoming from McFarland & Company, $45 softcover, index, (6 x 9), approx. 300 pp., ISBN 978-0-7864-6392-3 http://www.amazon.com/Women-Poetry-Revising-Publishing-Teaching/dp/0786463929/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315964483&sr=1-6
Women on Poetry: Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching is the handbook every poet and teacher of poetry should carry. This book brings awareness to not only the art of poetry but also to the voice of women. It is a tool for both the seasoned poet and for the new poet trying to make their way. Jenny Sadre-Orafai challenges the poet to enrich their writing life and consider other genres. Others guide us through family and career demands to make time for writing. We are nurtured to find our writing tribe as Kate Chadbourne suggests and given the tools to promote experimental poetry. It's about finding voice, digging into life experience, and as Tracy L. Strauss suggests knowing how to "take the truth of tragedy and turn it into an art form." Doris Lynch instructs how to cast our fishing line into the pool of ideas and begin our poems. Bonnie J. Robinson prompts us to "write a poem of protest; then, write a poem reconciliation." Women on Poetry is an invitation to introspection and creative self-actualization, inspiring us to be both practitioners and mentors.
Dr. Christine Redman-Waldeyer, founder and editor of Adanna, a journal about women's topics and issues is the author of two books of poetry, Frame by Frame and Gravel, Muse-Pie Press. |
