We don’t know what your plans are for tonight, but Isabel and I (the two She Writes interns) have had the tickets booked for a month- we’re both going to say goodbye to Harry Potter, and more symbolically, to the period in our lives in which we can still read children’s fiction as children. Okay, so that time has probably passed for both of us; but we’re willing to extend the fantasy a little longer and savor this final glimmer of childhood.

Despite our enthusiasm, we aren’t…

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Last week on a trip to the west coast, I was lucky enough to meet with newly minted She Writes member (welcome her!) JENNIFER SIEBEL NEWSOM, creator of the documentary film…

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From Melissa Silverstein, co-founder and producer of the upcoming Athena Film Festival:

Come to the Barnard College and the Athena Film Festival - A Celebration of Women and Leadership from February 10-13. 25 shorts, docs and features will…

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A pair of amazing women film makers have been working hard to make my first novel, Leaving Atlanta into afeature film.  I have to say that watching them work has been a real education for me.  Yes, I know that writing a book is hard, but at least when you set out to write a book you need only yourself and your computer.  It takes a village to make a movie-- and a whole lot of money!

 

 

Here's a little background on LEAVING ATLANTA.  I've always thought…

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So while I would like to forget about the whole Wasserstein Prize thing, I just can't. Partly because the Director of Communications for the Theater Development Fund, David LeShay, emailed me the day after my blog post about the fund's decision not to award a prize this year because none of the 19 finalists selected by THEIR process was good enough for it. (And yes, they blamed the playwrights, not their own process, until they ran into a firestorm of protest and suddenly changed their minds.)… Continue

In case you missed yesterday's SW email (or you have opted out of it)...



November 16, 2010



Yesterday, our friends at FEMINISTING blogged about the increasing controversy surrounding the 2010 Wasserstein Prize, created to support emerging women playwrights with a potentially career-changing $25,000 prize.



The headline from Feministing says it all:…



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Mona Washington, whose play The Mason Jar was recently read at the Bleecker Street Theatre in New York City, answers five questions from her Georgetown School of Foreign Service and Harvard Law School cronie and novelist Ginger McKnight Chavers, author of Messages From Midland, about writing residencies, what it takes to produce a… Continue

Chandra Hoffman, author of Chosen, answers five questions from Kelly Simmons, author of Standing Still and… Continue

This week, Rachel Kramer Bussel--senior editor at Penthouse Variations, SexisMagazine.com columnist, and editor of over 30 erotic anthologies, most recently, Please, Sir and Please, Ma'am asks Adena Halpern--author of The Ten Best Days of My Life,… Continue

My first novel Orange Mint and Honey has been adapted for the small screen. It will air on LMN (Lifetime Movie Network) this Sunday at 8 pm EST.…



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“In a half changed world, women often feel they need to choose: mothering or working? Your children’s well-being or your own?” Sound familiar? These are the questions that drive much of Who Does She Think She?, a documentary feature released this year. It essentially explores the lives of five diverse women who refuse to choose. She Writes caught up with director/producer Pamela Tanner Boll, to ask a bit about her process. The film is now available as a… Continue

I've only been a published author since December of 2008, and over the course of this past year I have learned much. Among the most important points I have learned are the following:



1. Write for yourself as much as you are writing with publication and audience in mind. The muses go on hiatus even during the most exciting of projects; if you're not enjoying what you're writing, your productivity will suffer as a result.



2. Do not expect family to pad your fan base. I found… Continue

Last night at the New York Salon for Women Writers, Gina Bianchini founder of NING, described blogging as a 21st-century avatar of a familiar, familial practice: your grandmother sending you newspaper clippings about topics of shared interest. I was struck by the comparison since sending and receiving clippings is… Continue