My Google Search Story: Womens Memoirs Contest
Check out the Womens Memoirs May contest: YouTube-Google Search Story Memoir Perfect for Practicing Story Building Here’s my story “Yet Lost for Other Causes” in search strings only.
Free Premiere Screening: Against All Odds: A Story of Courage, Community and Spirit in East St Louis, Illinois
RED CARPET PREMIERE SCREENING of the documentary film: Against All Odds: A Story of Courage, Community and Spirit in East St Louis, Illinois The film tells the important story of East St Louis – past and present. It brings new hope and a new kind of image to a misunderstood city. Two important screening dates…
“Meet Me: Writers in St. Louis,” by Catherine Rankovic
CATHERINE RANKOVIC’S fourth book, Meet Me: Writers in St. Louis (Penultimate Press) was published April 9. Meet Me collects 13 in-depth interviews with prominent St. Louis creative writers including HARPER BARNES, CARL PHILLIPS, NTOZAKE SHANGE, GERALD EARLY, KATHLEEN FINNERAN, and QIU XIAOLONG. This marvelous book features excerpts from the writers’ work and includes author photos.
Empower Congo Women
My friend Victoria Bentley is back in Bukavu, Congo (DRC) and has been blogging up a storm. Empower Congo Women is rebuilding the fabric of society in Eastern Congo from the ground up by empowering community-based agencies and disadvantaged women and children through microfinance, education and charitable donations. Empower Congo Women is a 501(c)3 non-profit…
“Come Back Wolves: Western Writers Welcome the Wolf Home.”
Laurie Wagner Buyer is one of the Western writers who contributed essays to the anthology “Come Back Wolves: Western Writers Welcome the Wolf Home.” One of the reviewers of Comeback Wolves worded it this way: “If you believe that literature has the power to change the world, then you will love Comeback Wolves. It’s beautiful,…
“The Power of Memoir: How to Write Your Healing Story,” by Linda Joy Myers’ (reviewed by Janet Riehl)
On Matilda Butler’s and Kendra Bonnett’s Women’s Memoirs “Book Raves” I’ve reviewed Linda Joy Myers’ The Power of Memoir: How to Write Your Healing Story Linda’s book combines a manual of writing craft with a companion to guide the writer’s psyche towards health and wholeness. As a family therapist Myers understandably focuses on family-based memoir,…
Writing Prompt: Part 1 Who Owns the Story?
Womens Memoir is running a 2-part series Stephanie Farrow and I have written on the topic “Who Owns the Story?” We’re exploring issues of family story and memoir. There are several fun writing prompts at the end of each post.
Collaboration: Check your ego at the door! by Riehl & Farrow
Read our third post in our Collaboration Cycle on Story Circle Network’s blog Telling Her Stories: The Broad View. Collaboration: Check your ego at the door! by Janet Riehl & Stephanie Farrow in our Creative Catalyst column.
Talenthouse Art Competition: Vote for “The Readymade,” by Eden Maxwell
Eden Maxwell needs your votes to reach finalist in the Talenthouse Art Competition! Vote for Eden’s witty figurative painting “The Readymade.” What’s a Readymade? These burst upon the art world through Marcel Duchamp. André Breton and Paul Éluard’s in their Dictionnaire abrégé du Surréalisme defines a Readymade as “an ordinary object elevated to the dignity…
Twitter Haiku by Susan Tweit–coming soon to Riehlife
Susan Tweit will be with us in the Riehlife poem of the day series this Monday, April 5th. She was kind enough to announce the poem of the day series on her blog Walking Nature Home: Now, some news: It’s National Poetry Month, and author and blogger Janet Riehl of the village wisdom magazine Riehlife,…