Melissa Hart

Article Writing—It Benefits You in Ways You’ve Never Dreamed Need to sell more books?  Need to gain credibility and move to “published” status more quickly? Want to improve your overall writing skills for both fiction and non-fiction?Writing articles will help you reach all these goals.  It even pays, maybe not a lot, but the compensationContinue reading "Melissa Hart"

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,Continue 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 andContinue 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 whoContinue reading "2021 Summer Workshop Round-Up"

Bringing Portland to You

Water Kathy Sechrist - 2021 Conference Chair Portland, Oregon—water, water, everywhere. The city sits in a valley between two of earth’s natural treasures and lifelines. Their waters carved the land and affected both man and earth’s history.  Travel east, and you pass through the gorge cleaved by the mighty Columbia River. The Gorge began forming as farContinue reading "Bringing Portland to You"

2021 DOWNING Journalism Award Finalists

Exciting News! The finalists for the 2021 DOWNING Journalism Award are as follows in alphabetical order:  Wild Women of the West: Jenny Murphy by Chris Enss,  Ripple Effect: Will the West Figure Out How to Share Water? by Sophia Jeremias Living Space by Susan Tweit.  Congratulations to all! The winner will be announced at theContinue reading "2021 DOWNING Journalism Award Finalists"