Dangerous Old Woman Female: Like

1 member likes this; Share on Facebook

Share Twitter

Blog Posts (14)
Discussions (2)
Events
Groups (5)
Videos

Dangerous Old Woman's Friends

View All

Dangerous Old Woman's Groups

Literary Fiction Writers

215 members
162 Comments 4 Likes
Publishing Industry News

670 members
356 Comments 22 Likes

Small Publishers and Ind…

527 members
636 Comments 17 Likes
Surreal Fiction, Magic R…

82 members
59 Comments 0 Likes

Baby Boomers

165 members
488 Comments 5 Likes

View All

Dangerous Old Woman's Page

Latest Activity

Dangerous Old Woman posted a blog post

Beware Carpe Articulum contests

Last year I entered a photography contest sponsored by Carpe Articulum (http://www.carpearticulum.com/). I'm posting this warning here because their major focus is on fiction contests so my experience is of relevance to writers as well as photographers.The deadline for the contest was August 30, 2010. When I didn't hear anything or see winners for photography posted on the Website by January of 2011 but did see…See More

Aug 23, 2011

0 Comments 0 Likes

Totsymae liked Dangerous Old Woman's profile

Jun 18, 2011

Dangerous Old Woman commented on the blog post 'The Daring Writers Guide, #1: Thirteen Things I've Learned in Thirteen Years'

"I wrote an autobiographical novel, Sing Soft, Sing Loud, about my life on the street and as a prisoner in jails and prison. My objective was to write a book that was above all else true to the lives of women like myself, which had not been…"

Apr 11, 2011

Dangerous Old Woman posted a blog post

Never Never Never Give Up - Elle Newmark

Publishing news on the Web is mainly a copycat, me-too proposition, fertilized with very little original news-gathering. Thus, though newsletters and websites about publishing and the ebook phenomenon abound, the stories tend to merely repeat what another site or newsletter has already said (change a few words and publish it as your own story). That's why the names of self-published novelists Amanda Hocking and JA Konrath are currently popping up all over the Web as examples of extraordinary…See More

Mar 27, 2011

1 Comment 1 Like

Dangerous Old Woman posted a blog post

An important book for Black History Month

Black History Month is a time to remind ourselves that despite the end of legal segregation in the 1950s and existing anti-discrimination laws, racism still pervades our culture. It has simply gone underground. This fact is nowhere more blatant than in prison populations. According to a press release from the Bureau of Justice dated Jun 30 2010, "Black males ... were incarcerated at a rate more than six times higher than white males..." Some small part of this difference may be accounted for by…See More

Feb 9, 2011

0 Comments 0 Likes

Dangerous Old Woman posted a blog post

The Authors Guild on Amazon.com vs. just about everybody

The following report was sent out to Authors Guild members today:It was one year ago last Saturday that Amazon turned out the lights on nearly all of Macmillan's books, removing the "buy buttons" from the print and electronic editions of thousands of titles. Macmillan authors, many of whom had linked their websites to Amazon pages that were suddenly disabled and useless, found themselves cut off from readers who frequented the dominant online bookstore. Amazon's stunning move was a preemptive…See More

Feb 2, 2011

0 Comments 0 Likes

Dangerous Old Woman commented on the blog post 'The Wasserstein fire and the right to refuse to choose'

"Footnote 12/7/2010 - In his book of essays Vanishing Point, Ander Monson (he is editor of the lit mag Diagram) mentions that a few years ago he judged about 100 entries in a nonfiction contest and they were so uniformly bad that he had a hard time…"

Dec 7, 2010

Dangerous Old Woman posted a blog post

The Wasserstein fire and the right to refuse to choose

I keep wondering how anyone, without themselves having seen the entries, can declare with certainty that the Wasserstein judges erred in not picking one winner (the question of what the contest did to attract entrants, wotsizname's communication skills, and other peripheral issues aside).I once judged a novel contest in which every single entry was so bad that I told the director of the project that I couldn't choose a winner. Mind you, this was a state arts council contest, widely and well…See More

Nov 19, 2010

1 Comment 0 Likes

Penelope L Mace replied to the discussion 'Hey, Gals! I need your help!' in the group Literary Fiction Writers

"Kathleen - I think it is so important for women to frame the quetions of what is feminism and what is the art they find meaningful. INDEED I have no desire to be a guy in a skirt or to be just the opposite of whatever it was my mom was or women of…"

Nov 5, 2010

Penelope L Mace replied to the discussion 'Hey, Gals! I need your help!' in the group Literary Fiction Writers

"Hi - also try some of the short stories of Jean Thompson. Very hard hitting. Collection called Who Do you Love and now I am mid way in another collec called Throw Like a Girl. My other novel, not the nanowrimo that I am neck deep into now, but the…"

Nov 5, 2010

Judith van Praag replied to the discussion 'Hey, Gals! I need your help!' in the group Literary Fiction Writers

"Jean Rhys is an all time fave. Esther Freud's childhood modeled for Hideous Kinky and Peerless Flats. Depending on where a reader is coming from #1 may be considered on the edge. The second comes close. In your face edgy is Kathy Acker and I…"

Oct 23, 2010

Dangerous Old Woman replied to the discussion 'Hey, Gals! I need your help!' in the group Literary Fiction Writers

"I had forgotten about Ntozake Shange! That play came out at precisely the right time for it to make quite a splash, around the mid-70s. I never saw it though, altho later I read it. She definitely goes on my list, Zetta. I just looked her up and…"

Sep 18, 2010

Celine Keating replied to the discussion 'Hey, Gals! I need your help!' in the group Literary Fiction Writers

"I second the suggestion to add Colette - one of the early rebels."

Sep 15, 2010

Beth Conway Shervey replied to the discussion 'Hey, Gals! I need your help!' in the group Literary Fiction Writers

"Does one need to be physically on the edge to be so stylistically or literarilly? In very different ways Elizabeth Bowen, Louise Erdrich,Marilyn Robinson have all put me as a hyperlexic reader I'll very uncomfortable positions whether or not…"

Sep 14, 2010

Profile Information

Who I am:: http://www.tonimcconnel.com
http://www.oldwomanwalking.com
http://www.singsoftsingloud.com
http://www.creativityheldcaptive.com

Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:: Sing Soft, Sing Loud - novel
California Song - French edition of Sing Soft, Sing Loud
Creativity Held Captive: Guidelines for Artists Teaching in Prisons
The Woman's Work-At-Home Handbook - Bantam (out of print)
Great and Peculiar Beauty - anthology
Passages North Anthology
PEN/Available Press Short Fiction Anthology
Touching Fire - anthology

My writing is:: Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir, Journalism, Blog Posts

My professional associations:: The Authors Guild
Story Circle Network
Women Writing the West

Dangerous Old Woman's Blog

Beware Carpe Articulum contests

Posted on August 23, 2011 at 10:10am 0 Comments 0 Likes

The deadline for the contest was August 30, 2010. When I didn't hear anything or see winners for photography posted on the Website by January of 2011 but did…

Continue

Never Never Never Give Up - Elle Newmark

Posted on March 27, 2011 at 2:48pm 1 Comment 1 Like

Continue

An important book for Black History Month

Posted on February 9, 2011 at 12:37pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

Continue

The Authors Guild on Amazon.com vs. just about everybody

Posted on February 2, 2011 at 2:44pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

The following report was sent out to Authors Guild members today:

It was one year ago last Saturday that Amazon turned out the lights on nearly all of Macmillan's books, removing the "buy buttons" from the print and electronic editions of thousands of titles. Macmillan authors, many of whom had linked their websites to Amazon pages that were suddenly disabled and useless, found themselves cut off from readers who frequented the dominant online…

Continue

Comment Wall (2 comments)

You need to be a member of She Writes to add comments!

Join She Writes

At 3:46pm on July 6, 2010, Cyndi Briggs said…: Thanks so much for your feedback! Yah, buddy, I'm into the idea of working for the corporation of ME. I'm so grateful for your encouragement!

At 8:29am on March 1, 2010, Rebecca Rasmussen said…: I definitely feel all you say about the need to find roots, home, especially growing up in two places. If you blog more on the topic, let me know. I would love to hear more of your thoughts! :)