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Wintering with WWW: Lynn Downey

By Lynn Downey Works in Progress: Finding Women’s Lives in the Archives Archives are not just collections of paper, photographs, and artifacts; not to me, at least. I’ve been an archivist and a historian for nearly forty years, and I never fail to find great stories in those files and boxes. One theme I’ve beenContinueContinue reading “Wintering with WWW: Lynn Downey”

Why I Volunteer for WWW

Women Writing the West has been around for 31 years, but I became a member just five years ago. The COVID lockdown gave me the impetus to finish my first book manuscript. I attended a Women in Publishing webinar and an agent said we should join writers’ organizations in our genre. Mine is history. IContinueContinue reading “Why I Volunteer for WWW”