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Halloween Caption Contest!

Started this discussion. Last reply by Padmavani Karkera Dec 1, 2010. 23 Replies

Hells yeah, it's Virtual Halloween at She Writes!Think: New Yorker magazine caption contest, only here you get to post the images to caption, too.STEP ONE: Post a Halloween-themed photo. (When…Continue

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SHE WRITES ON FRIDAYS: SW's Founding Partner Deborah Siegel grapples with questions of craft and process--and invites others to do the same.

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She Writes on Fridays: Words for the Littlest Victim

Posted on January 14, 2011 at 6:00am 21 Comments

It's Deborah here and I have a confession to make.  I’ve been turning away, not wanting to look in full view at the tragedy in Tucson, not willing to truly let it all in.  I’ve been preoccupied with “other things.”  But after yesterday’s funeral for the youngest victim, Christina Taylor Green, that’s no…

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More Words for Gabby

Posted on January 14, 2011 at 6:00am 0 Comments

Deborah Siegel shares more responses by women writers around the web to the shooting in Arizona.…


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Charge Your Karmic Batteries: Write a Letter to an Author You Admire

Posted on January 7, 2011 at 7:00am 16 Comments

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Five Things I Learned about Writing in 2010

Posted on December 10, 2010 at 3:01am 9 Comments

Deborah Siegel shares what she learned about being a writer this year. Now it's your turn--tag and tweet it! #shewrites2010



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Andrea Hayden commented on the blog post 'Quote Drive: What’s Your Favorite Quote by a Woman?'
My favorite quotes straight from my facebook page (each of these are referred to often for strength and guidance):   "What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer--the Future so much brighter?"-…
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Stephanie Renée dos Santos commented on the blog post 'Quote Drive: What’s Your Favorite Quote by a Woman?'
Muse use me. Conduit your words.
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Stephanie Renée dos Santos commented on the blog post 'Quote Drive: What’s Your Favorite Quote by a Woman?'
I am as weak as I am strong.
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Love the quotes! Here's a few that have helped me through darker times:   “Never bend your head.  Hold it high.  Look the world straight in the eye.”Helen Keller   "I show up. I listen. I try to…
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To loose ones-self is to weep. To love and hold yourself dear is to find ones-self and keep her. And to be woman is all the more beautiful. ~pw
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Theresa Krueger commented on the blog post 'Quote Drive: What’s Your Favorite Quote by a Woman?'
"We can not all do great things but we can do small things with great love." Mother Theresa
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Octavia McBride-Ahebee commented on the blog post 'Quote Drive: What’s Your Favorite Quote by a Woman?'
  "There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you."  Zora Neale Hurston   
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My guest column, "Forming Community" appears in this weeks' Windy City Times' AIDS@30 series. www.windycitymediagroup.com/aids.php  
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Ronna Detrick commented on the blog post 'Quote Drive: What’s Your Favorite Quote by a Woman?'
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. (Muriel Rukeyser)
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Cathy commented on the blog post 'Quote Drive: What’s Your Favorite Quote by a Woman?'
Everyone has put in some really fantastic quotes; some that are in my collection of favorites; I thought I'd add two that I just love; one more serious than the other:) "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.…
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Beth Eileen Cavalli commented on the blog post 'Quote Drive: What’s Your Favorite Quote by a Woman?'
You must do the things you think you cannot do. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the…
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"To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one." Colette  
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"God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages."Jacques Deval
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Who I am:
Girl w/Pen http://girlwpen.com
Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)

Only Child: Writers on the Singular Joys and Solitary Sorrows of Growing Up Solo (Harmony/Random House, 2007)
Media outlets that I currently write for:
She Writes!!! And elsewhere...
My writing is:
Nonfiction, Memoir, Journalism, Blog Posts
Outlets where I review books, TV, or film:
Books
I'm part of these writers' groups or salons:
New York Salon of Women Writers
My professional associations:
Alumna, Progressive Women's Voices
Fellow, Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership
Board Member, Council on Contemporary Families
Member, Authors' Guild

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At 12:38pm on February 25, 2011, Patricia Anne McGoldrickPatricia Anne McGoldrick said…

Thanks, Deborah!

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