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I've found that magazines often try to get all rights, but if you call or email and say you want to change the contract and retain the rights yourself (or have them revert to you after, say, six months) they usually agree pretty readily.
I second that, Deirdre. One of the most compelling first sentences I've read.
Regarding joining a writing group. I recently posted a thread on the Midwest Writers group asking if anyone in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area was interested in forming a group, or knew of an existing group with space for another member.
Haven't had…
Let me throw in a recommendation for She Writes' own Sue William Silverman, whose "Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir" focuses on memoir, but makes an equally useful guide to writing the first-person essay.
I'm biased -- she uses a bu…
Not to add to your Amazon bill, Lucille, but I feel that I've also learned a lot from the annual Best American Essays of [whatever year] anthologies. Lopate's book is excellent, but I also find it helpful to see what contemporaries are writing.
Lucille, I would say that "bigger, more universal lesson" means that whatever experiences or observations the author writes about should carry some meaning about the lives of her readers, opening up their perceptions in some new way.
Hi Amy Sue,
What would you like to talk about? Feel free to post a comment about whatever you'd like to discuss..
Katy
If first person narrative non-fiction and essay are your thing, or you would like to explore them and your voice join us.
For writers who are currently living in or hail from the midwest (define it as you will)!
For all the magazine writers and newspaper reporters.
Hi Jennifer! Your and Stephanie's piece is profoundly depressing but excellent.
The fact that motherhood books aren't always taken seriously annoys me the same way I get annoyed when mothers themselves aren't taken seriously, and the same attitudes…
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- Please list any books you have written, or anthologies you have contributed to, and any scripts or plays you have authored, so that we may feature them in our bookstore and on the main page.
- My essay "Scavengers" appears in "Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir" by Sue William Silverman.
- What media outlets, if any, do you currently write for?
- I have written for Salon, More, Brain Child, Working Mother, AARP magazine, Real Simple, River Teeth, Brevity, Minnesota Monthly, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times and other publications. I'm a former newspaper reporter, most recently (early '90s) for the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
- Which of the following genres best describe your work?
- Nonfiction, Memoir, Journalism, Lit Crit
- Do you review books, television or film?
- Books
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- Moral support over beverage of choice.
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- No
Comment Wall (4 comments)
- At 3:56pm on June 21, 2010,
Kamy Wicoff said… - Hi there -- just wanted to drop by your page and invite you personally (or at least virtually) to our first-ever She Writes Chicago meetup, celebrating our first-anniversary! We are so grateful to the event's organizer, Eileen O'Halloran, for taking a risk and stepping up to host. I hope you will support her and bring yourself and other women who write (no need for them to be members) to the Chicago gathering. At the meetup writers will take part in the She Writes "Book Communion," where attendees arrive with one book, their own or another She Writers', new or gently used, and leave with another book as a meaningfully way to support one another's work. We will also be blowing out a candle and making a wish for our upcoming writing year -- along with She Writers gathering in 16 cities around the country. I hope you will be part of this historic (well, at least kind of cool) occasion, and RSVP now to Eileen here.
- At 12:21pm on June 6, 2010,
Jill Starishevsky said…
- Hi Katy,
I wanted to connect with you and ask for your feedback. I recently did my first on-camera interview for the children's book on child sexual abuse prevention that I wrote, My Body Belongs to Me. Please let me know what you think when you have some time.
Thanks in advance.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/video/talking-kids-sexual-abuse-10255396
Jill Starishevsky
Author, My Body Belongs to Me
www.MyBodyBelongstoMe.com
- At 7:11pm on September 3, 2009,
Weronika Janczuk said… - Hello Katy! I just saw a recent post of yours on the Midwest Writers group page and thought I'd stop by and say hello. I currently reside in Eagan, MN, and am glad to have found someone so geographically close.
- At 8:48pm on August 3, 2009,
Rebekah Spicuglia said… - Hi Katy!! So great to see you here -- you must be thrilled with the recent nc-mama coverage... has it been driving any traffic to the great piece you wrote? xoRebekah
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