It seems like only a breath ago that we were at the 2020 WWW Conference, attending sessions, visiting in chat rooms, and congratulating the finalist and winners of the WILLA Literary Award, the LAURA Short Fiction Award, and DOWNING Journalism Award. And now, through the Women Writing the West Blog, we look forward to showcasingContinueContinue reading “Team Winning Writer”
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Sara Dahmen is Hitting the Trail
In August 2017, Women Writing the West member, award-winning novelist, and coppersmith Sara Dahmen, accepted the invitation to volunteer as the WWW Blog Coordinator. During her tenure, she switched the hosting platform from Blogger to WordPress, which offers more customization features. However, for members who contributed to the Blogger platform, and for anyone who wantsContinueContinue reading “Sara Dahmen is Hitting the Trail”
NEW RELEASE: Lillian’s Legacy by WWW Member Carmen Peone
Lillian Gardner, a healer in the making using natural medicines, is certain she is the black sheep of the family. In an attempt to prove she is of value, she sets off into the wilds of Eastern Washington and Indian Territory with Doctor Mali Maddox, an elderly Welsh female physician whose husband has recently passedContinueContinue reading “NEW RELEASE: Lillian’s Legacy by WWW Member Carmen Peone”
New Release: ANSWER CREEK by WWW member Ashley Sweeney
Nineteen-year-old Ada Weeks confronts danger and calamity along the hazard-filled journey to California. After a fateful decision that delays the overlanders more than a month, she—along with eighty-one other members of the Donner Party—finds herself stranded at Truckee Lake on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, stuck there for the entirety of aContinueContinue reading “New Release: ANSWER CREEK by WWW member Ashley Sweeney”
New Release: SLOW ARROW: UNEARTHING THE FRAIL CHILDREN by Kathryn Winograd
In a new collection of essays titled Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children, WWW member Kathryn Winograd braids together the pressing environmental issues of today with the sacred and profane intersections of the human and the natural world. She explores in the microcosm of a forty-acre high mountain meadow and its surrounding lands vast worldsContinueContinue reading “New Release: SLOW ARROW: UNEARTHING THE FRAIL CHILDREN by Kathryn Winograd”
NEW RELEASE: Mortal Music by WWW Member Ann Parker
San Francisco music-store owner Inez Stannert has a past that doesn’t bear close inspection, including running a saloon in the wide-open silver boomtown of Leadville, Colorado. But those times are gone, it’s now winter 1881, and her music store is struggling. Inez also lacks capital for her other enterprise: staking the business efforts of localContinueContinue reading “NEW RELEASE: Mortal Music by WWW Member Ann Parker”
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