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NaNoWriMo Prep 101

Whether this is your first time tackling a novel or your fifteenth, the NaNo Prep 101 Workshop is ready to help you prepare to reach your goal. During September and October, NaNoWriMo Prep 101 provides activities for you to use. Visit NaNoWriMo Prep 101 for more information. Are you planning to participate in NaNoWriMo 2021? Are youContinueContinue reading “NaNoWriMo Prep 101”

New Release ~ Mercy and Madness by Beverly Lionberger Hodgins

Mercy and Madness: Dr. Mary Archard Latham’s Tragic Fall from Female Physicia Born among the rolling green hills of New Richmond, Ohio, Mary Archard was a thinker and achiever from the beginning. This can-do attitude must have run through her blood, for several branches of her family living in the villages of New Richmond, Batavia,ContinueContinue reading “New Release ~ Mercy and Madness by Beverly Lionberger Hodgins”

2021 WILLA Literary Award Winners and Finalists

Women Writing the West® (WWW) is proud to announce the 2021 WILLA Literary Award competition Winners and Finalists, representing the best of 2020 published literature for women’s or girls’ stories set in the North American West. WWW, a nonprofit association of writers and other writing professionals writing and promoting the Women’s West, is the underwriter andContinueContinue reading “2021 WILLA Literary Award Winners and Finalists”

2021 Summer Workshop Round-Up

Julie Zander and I thought we had prepared for everything that might rear its ugly head and come between us and success. We had a workshop leader that was proven to know her stuff when it came to pitches, Julie had 16 agents agree to review the pitches, and we had 28 WWW members whoContinueContinue reading “2021 Summer Workshop Round-Up”

Literature For All

Why adjust The WILLA Literary Award categories? Romantic fiction has been around since the 18th century, but it was Jane Austen who set the world on fire with a new form of fiction focusing on the lives and everyday struggles of female protagonists–particularly their romantic lives. Pride and Prejudice, published in 1811, did not identifyContinueContinue reading “Literature For All”