In February 2013, I gave a TEDx talk at TEDxWindyCity about the gendering of childhood in the earliest years of life.  TEDx events, for those who may not know what the “x” stands for, are independently…

This summer I moved from Brooklyn to Chicago with my husband and toddler twins.  I thought the change in locale might help slow me down.  The opposite happened instead.  The pace of a writing life has little to do, sometimes, with the city outside one’s head.

She Writes asked me to share…

In this town of writerly goodness, every once in a while an event rolls around that I feel I just can't miss.  Still trying to line up a sitter, but damned if I won't be there.  If anywhere near NYC tonight, I strongly encourage you to hightail it to this panel too -- which features members of my awesome authors' group, and the founder of…

I wasn’t planning on spending a day and a half turning around an op-ed. But when editors from certain venues call, I jump. Some opportunities are just too good to turn down.

Colleagues—especially, often, academics, and especially, often, fellow writing mamas—sometimes ask me how it’s possible to turn something around with the speed that today’s media requires when you've got so much ELSE, er, going on. So I thought I’d break it down, blow by blow, in an effort to…

Daphne Uviller, author of Hotel No Tell, her second novel featuring Zephyr Zuckerman, talks to SW's Founding Partner …

We think that Mother's Day should last all month long.  And that women who aren't mothers need a special day too.  And that women who are writers (some of whom are mothers) should be giving themselves gifts here and there to rejuvenate themselves…

To be a writer is to weather the seasons: we stockpile ideas, we slumber long and hard, we wake up refreshed, and, hopefully, if we are lucky, if the soil has been properly nourished and the sun peeks through the clouds, we bloom. 

To celebrate spring, and blooming, here are 20 tried and true tips from…

This month I was a nominee in Babble’s Moms with Clout contest.  In the end, …

This is a disaster for which there are no words.  But process it--and help--we must.  Please use the comments on this post as a space to share links to writing, links to organizations in need of donations, and words for our fellow She Writers based in Japan.

For starters, please check out…

Deborah Siegel pauses at the entrance of the writing cave and invites She Writers inside.

I have a confession.  I’m superstitious as a baseball player.  Though I’ve published two of them already, I’m afraid to say “my next book” in public.  The reasons I’m afraid to say this,…

Yes, it's true.  We are now 13,000 strong!  Here are 2 quick, fun ways to celebrate:

1. Help us welcome our 13,000th member, Saundra Goldman by leaving a comment on her profile…

Please use this space to share links, posts, photos, poems, words in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

For starters, check out these words and images posted by fellow She Writers:

Walking in…

Looking for a taste of what your fellow She Writers have been writing about this week?  Here are highlights from the Community…

There are many posts from the She Writes Blog that seriously qualify for this list, and I'm as sick of year end "Top 10" lists as the next gal right about now.  But, well, I just couldn't resist.  (Yes, Tayari, I am VERY BAD at staycation!) Here's a list of some of our faves.…

The She Writes Blog willl be on staycation until Jan. 3 while the women behind the curtain perform various tasks behind the scenes, but She Writes' doors shall…

Cleopatra biographer Stacy Schiff shares advice for aspiring biographers.  (Anyone who knows her, encourage her to join She Writes!)

For those not yet burned out on end-of-year lists: Galleycat lists their Top 10 Publishing Stories and …

She Writer Cheryl Snell and her sister, Janet, made this video together, titled "Idea." Cheryl wrote the poem and Janet supplied the artwork. It's about the HOW of inspiration. It speaks to me. Watch it, and see if it speaks to you too.

For Cheryl's response to Prompt 7 ("What inspires you to make a book?") see…

The mind-blowingly inspired guest authors participating in our GIFT OF INSPIRATION campaign are all lined up! Keep your eyes out for prompts from the following in the coming days (drum roll please):

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