By Melissa L. Sevigny Recently, a reader asked how I got access to the archives I used to write my book, Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon. “I walked in,” I said. Often, it’s as easy as that—walking in the door of aContinueContinue reading “Hidden Stories of the West”
Category Archives: Writing and Blogging
Thirst
By Kathryn Wilder Last spring my beloved grulla mare, Savanna, gave birth to a little grulla filly, who died at three days old. My heart cracked like the dry earth around us, while like the skies I barely cried. Even watching Savanna drip milk tears onto the ground, I felt all dried up inside. AContinueContinue reading “Thirst”
The Divine Nudge
How an Unexpected Encounter Shaped My Narrative By Kate Hamberger Yakis In September of 2024, two months after my memoir Dances with Fire: Lessons in Life, Faith & Firefighting was published, I met New York Times best-selling author Jane Kirkpatrick, a founding member of WWW. Jane has written 41 books and won at least 8ContinueContinue reading “The Divine Nudge”
Writing from the Land panel
As writers telling the stories of women in the West, whether real or imagined, whether set in the past, present, or future, we are inevitably writing from the land. More than any region in the country, the West is shaped by the physical factors of topography, weather, and the plants and animals whose lives colorContinueContinue reading “Writing from the Land panel”
Writing on History’s Sex Workers: A Feminist Approach
By Janelle Molony & David Grassé Arizona native and WWW member Janelle Molony is proud to introduce David Grassé to the field of female-centric writers as a positive example of someone casting aside the gratuitous and cheap trope analysis that is often used as the lens writers look through when approaching the subject of sexContinueContinue reading “Writing on History’s Sex Workers: A Feminist Approach”
Unmentionables: Researching Topics that were Taboo
By Kimberly Burns Did your mom talk to you about “lady things” like menstruation, contraception, and sexual health? Mine didn’t tell me much. I cobbled the little bit of knowledge she offered with the information (often misinformation) provided by the older kids on the school bus and the racy novels that circulated my junior highContinueContinue reading “Unmentionables: Researching Topics that were Taboo”
