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2014 Festival of Women Writers in Hobart, NY
We are so pleased -- ecstatic actually -- to announce the participating wirters for The Festival of Women Writers in Hobart, NY, the book village of the Catksills.
Mermer Blakeslee is the author of three novels, Same Blood, In Dark Water and When You Live By A River.
Remica L. Bingham-Risher, is a poet and author of Conversion and What We Ask of Flesh.
Tara Betts, poet, her work appears in Villanelles and A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry.
Ginnah Howard is the author of Doing Time Outside and Night Navigation.
Stephanie Nikolopoulos is the author, with Paul Maher Jr., of Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.”
Kat Rosenfield is the author of the novels, Amelia Anne Is Dead and Inland.
Maria Mazziotti Gillan’s most recent books are Ancestors' Song, The Place I Call Home, and Writing Poetry to Save Your Life: How to Find the Courage to Tell Your Stories.
Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa is author of the novel, Daughters of the Stone
Simona David, a communications consultant, is the author of Self-Publishing and Book Marketing, A Research Guide.
E.J. Antonio, poet, author of Rituals In The Marrow: recipe for a jam session
Tayari Jones, novelist, author of Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling, Silver Sparrow
Browse a shelf of their titles here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
The following 2013 participating writers will be returning for Festival of Women Writers 2014:
Marianela Medrano-Marra, poet, psychologist, and author of Diosas De La Yuca.
Bertha K. Rogers, poet laureate of Delaware County, N.Y. and author of Heart Turned Back
Sophfronia Scott, author of, All I Need To Get By.
Mary Johnson, author of An Unquenchable Thirst: A Memoir.
Alexis DeVeaux, author of Yabo and Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
Lynn Domina, author of Framed In Silence and Corporal Works
Cheryl Boyce Taylor, author of Night When Moon Follows, Raw Air, and Convincing The Body.
Esther Cohen, author of No Charge For Looking and Book Doctor
Dara Lurie, author of Great Space of Desire: Writing for Personal Evolution
Breena Clarke, author of Angels Make Their Hope Here, Stand The Storm and River, Cross My Heart
Take a look at the titles of our 2013 writers here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Mermer Blakeslee is the author of three novels, Same Blood, In Dark Water and When You Live By A River.
Remica L. Bingham-Risher, is a poet and author of Conversion and What We Ask of Flesh.
Tara Betts, poet, her work appears in Villanelles and A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry.
Ginnah Howard is the author of Doing Time Outside and Night Navigation.
Stephanie Nikolopoulos is the author, with Paul Maher Jr., of Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.”
Kat Rosenfield is the author of the novels, Amelia Anne Is Dead and Inland.
Maria Mazziotti Gillan’s most recent books are Ancestors' Song, The Place I Call Home, and Writing Poetry to Save Your Life: How to Find the Courage to Tell Your Stories.
Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa is author of the novel, Daughters of the Stone
Simona David, a communications consultant, is the author of Self-Publishing and Book Marketing, A Research Guide.
E.J. Antonio, poet, author of Rituals In The Marrow: recipe for a jam session
Tayari Jones, novelist, author of Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling, Silver Sparrow
Browse a shelf of their titles here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
The following 2013 participating writers will be returning for Festival of Women Writers 2014:
Marianela Medrano-Marra, poet, psychologist, and author of Diosas De La Yuca.
Bertha K. Rogers, poet laureate of Delaware County, N.Y. and author of Heart Turned Back
Sophfronia Scott, author of, All I Need To Get By.
Mary Johnson, author of An Unquenchable Thirst: A Memoir.
Alexis DeVeaux, author of Yabo and Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
Lynn Domina, author of Framed In Silence and Corporal Works
Cheryl Boyce Taylor, author of Night When Moon Follows, Raw Air, and Convincing The Body.
Esther Cohen, author of No Charge For Looking and Book Doctor
Dara Lurie, author of Great Space of Desire: Writing for Personal Evolution
Breena Clarke, author of Angels Make Their Hope Here, Stand The Storm and River, Cross My Heart
Take a look at the titles of our 2013 writers here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
2014 Festival of Women Writers in Hobart, NY
We are so pleased -- ecstatic actually -- to announce the participating wirters for The 2014 Festival of Women Writers in Hobart, NY, the book village of the Catksills. Our Festival will be held on September 5, 6, & 7, 2014.
Mermer Blakeslee is the author of three novels, Same Blood, In Dark Water and When You Live By A River.
Remica L. Bingham-Risher, is a poet and author of Conversion and What We Ask of Flesh.
Tara Betts, poet, her work appears in Villanelles and A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry.
Ginnah Howard is the author of Doing Time Outside and Night Navigation.
Stephanie Nikolopoulos is the author, with Paul Maher Jr., of Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.”
Kat Rosenfield is the author of the novels, Amelia Anne Is Dead and Inland.
Maria Mazziotti Gillan’s most recent books are Ancestors' Song, The Place I Call Home, and Writing Poetry to Save Your Life: How to Find the Courage to Tell Your Stories.
Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa is author of the novel, Daughters of the Stone
Simona David, a communications consultant, is the author of Self-Publishing and Book Marketing, A Research Guide.
E.J. Antonio, poet, author of Rituals In The Marrow: recipe for a jam session
Tayari Jones, novelist, author of Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling, Silver Sparrow
Browse a shelf of their titles here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
The following 2013 participating writers will be returning for Festival of Women Writers 2014:
Marianela Medrano-Marra, poet, psychologist, and author of Diosas De La Yuca.
Bertha K. Rogers, poet laureate of Delaware County, N.Y. and author of Heart Turned Back
Sophfronia Scott, author of, All I Need To Get By.
Mary Johnson, author of An Unquenchable Thirst: A Memoir.
Alexis DeVeaux, author of Yabo and Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
Lynn Domina, author of Framed In Silence and Corporal Works
Cheryl Boyce Taylor, author of Night When Moon Follows, Raw Air, and Convincing The Body.
Esther Cohen, author of No Charge For Looking and Book Doctor
Dara Lurie, author of Great Space of Desire: Writing for Personal Evolution
Breena Clarke, author of Angels Make Their Hope Here, Stand The Storm and River, Cross My Heart
Take a look at the titles of our 2013 writers here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Mermer Blakeslee is the author of three novels, Same Blood, In Dark Water and When You Live By A River.
Remica L. Bingham-Risher, is a poet and author of Conversion and What We Ask of Flesh.
Tara Betts, poet, her work appears in Villanelles and A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry.
Ginnah Howard is the author of Doing Time Outside and Night Navigation.
Stephanie Nikolopoulos is the author, with Paul Maher Jr., of Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.”
Kat Rosenfield is the author of the novels, Amelia Anne Is Dead and Inland.
Maria Mazziotti Gillan’s most recent books are Ancestors' Song, The Place I Call Home, and Writing Poetry to Save Your Life: How to Find the Courage to Tell Your Stories.
Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa is author of the novel, Daughters of the Stone
Simona David, a communications consultant, is the author of Self-Publishing and Book Marketing, A Research Guide.
E.J. Antonio, poet, author of Rituals In The Marrow: recipe for a jam session
Tayari Jones, novelist, author of Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling, Silver Sparrow
Browse a shelf of their titles here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
The following 2013 participating writers will be returning for Festival of Women Writers 2014:
Marianela Medrano-Marra, poet, psychologist, and author of Diosas De La Yuca.
Bertha K. Rogers, poet laureate of Delaware County, N.Y. and author of Heart Turned Back
Sophfronia Scott, author of, All I Need To Get By.
Mary Johnson, author of An Unquenchable Thirst: A Memoir.
Alexis DeVeaux, author of Yabo and Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
Lynn Domina, author of Framed In Silence and Corporal Works
Cheryl Boyce Taylor, author of Night When Moon Follows, Raw Air, and Convincing The Body.
Esther Cohen, author of No Charge For Looking and Book Doctor
Dara Lurie, author of Great Space of Desire: Writing for Personal Evolution
Breena Clarke, author of Angels Make Their Hope Here, Stand The Storm and River, Cross My Heart
Take a look at the titles of our 2013 writers here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Powder Necklace by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
In Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond's debut novel, "Powder Necklace, Lila, born and acculturated in London is uprooted to Ghana, her mother's childhood home.Uprooted suddenly from her accustomed life by her capricious mother Lila becomes a "broni", a foreigner and must learn a new culture. Brew-Hammond's scenes at Dadaba, the boarding school in Ghana that Lila's aunt bribes her way into is unsparing and revealing as is this entire novel of insights. Though the divorced single mother and the angst-ridden teenaged daughter conflict is at the heart of "Powder Necklace," the novel is not simply a "mad at mom" type of narrative. The challenges of adapting to ordinary, everyday global disparities in access to education, water, and lifestyle choices are at the center of Lila's journeys through London, Ghana and the United States. "Powder Necklace" is a lyrical exploration of the complex identities of individuals whose roots are nurtured in diverse soils. Nana Elua Brew-Hammond will read from "Powder Necklace" at the six annual Hobart Festival of Women Writers 2018 on September 7 8,&9th.
The Quarry Fox and other Critters of The Wild Catskills
Throughout this long, harsh winter I've returned to thinking about Leslie T. Sharpe's completely engaging narrative of the Western Catskills, an area that I'm acquainted with only a bit, only peripherally. Leslie T. Sharpe knows this highland very deeply, in all its complexities. And, in "The Quarry Fox" she dispels misconceptions and illumines many of the region's mysteries. This is nature writing at its best. I was transported to the beautiful Catskills. Leslie Sharpe is a keen observer and a trustworthy recorder. She shares her prodigious knowledge of the native critters and their landscape and engenders a sincere interest to learn more. A great book. It doesn't have to be read in one gulp. Savor it.
The Book Doctor: A Novel by Esther Cohen
The Book Doctor: A Novel by Esther Cohen does that most inexplicable thing that good novels do: it takes you by the shoulders and pulls you along into the world of Arlette Rosen and Harbinger Singh and you are surprised at how comfortable you feel. The author of the poetry collection, "Breakfast With Allen Ginsberg and the novel, "No Charge For Looking," as well as, "Unseen America: Photos and Stories by Workers" brings the reader into a wittily urbane, fictional though familiar New York City. Superb writing and a freshly quirky story.
Esther Cohen will present The Good Stories Intensive Workshop at Hobart Festival of Women Writers 2018, a six-hour workshop for serious students of the writing craft. Information and registration at www.hobartfestivalofwomenwriters.com
Esther Cohen will present The Good Stories Intensive Workshop at Hobart Festival of Women Writers 2018, a six-hour workshop for serious students of the writing craft. Information and registration at www.hobartfestivalofwomenwriters.com
Tomb of The Unknown Racist by Blanche McCrary Boyd
Much happens in the novel, THE TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN RACIST,
as protagonist Ellen Burns, conducts an oddysey-like search between New Mexico and South Carolina in search of her white supremacist brother, Royce. How do we live with the presence of white supremacy encroaching and poisoning our everyday lives seems to be Blanche McCrary Boyd's question. How also do we live with the surveillance of Federal Government agencies like FBI, BATF, ICE?
Ellen Burns, an old Boyd character, now a recovered alcoholic in this iteration, tries to tear to the bottom and, in the process, nearly destroys herself as the novel turns to the 21st century. Her brother is "the Unknown Racist." The plot in this searingly prescient novel, take lots of turns and twists. Don’t stop before the brilliantly conceived last chapter though or you will miss a unique perspective on life.
Blanche McCrary Boyd is a Participating Writer at Hobart Festival of Women Writers 2018. She will present the workshop, WHAT’S THE TRUTH? Writing Fiction and Non-fiction. www.hobartfestivalofwomenwriters.com
as protagonist Ellen Burns, conducts an oddysey-like search between New Mexico and South Carolina in search of her white supremacist brother, Royce. How do we live with the presence of white supremacy encroaching and poisoning our everyday lives seems to be Blanche McCrary Boyd's question. How also do we live with the surveillance of Federal Government agencies like FBI, BATF, ICE?Ellen Burns, an old Boyd character, now a recovered alcoholic in this iteration, tries to tear to the bottom and, in the process, nearly destroys herself as the novel turns to the 21st century. Her brother is "the Unknown Racist." The plot in this searingly prescient novel, take lots of turns and twists. Don’t stop before the brilliantly conceived last chapter though or you will miss a unique perspective on life.
Blanche McCrary Boyd is a Participating Writer at Hobart Festival of Women Writers 2018. She will present the workshop, WHAT’S THE TRUTH? Writing Fiction and Non-fiction. www.hobartfestivalofwomenwriters.com
A Few Whiles
I knew a boy once who thought that, if there was one while, i.e. a unit – a while of time, then surely there were two whiles and three and so on to several. So, often he would say that he’d be back in
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