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[1st Quarter 2019]
Summer Conference
Writing the Body
Voice, Art, and Craft in a Changing World
Join us July 12-19 at Muhlenberg All workshops run for 90 minutes Studies in Religion, Poet Lore, Taos
College in Allentown, PA for our each day, Saturday through Thursday, Journal, and many others. Anya’s
annual Summer Conference, an and are open to all unless otherwise essays on writing craft go beyond
exploration of the connections indicated. Expanded descriptions writing conventions, to develop
between body, mind, and spirit. We and registration are available at expansive, inclusive approaches
will celebrate the body of women www.iwwg.org/summer-conference. reflecting the profound experience/
writers The Guild has become, histories of diasporic and dislodged
sustaining a vital, ever-growing communities.
global community. We will honor Anya www.thedisobedientwriter.com
the body of work each of us creates
Achtenberg
(Fiction)
with words. We will raise our voices,
individually and collectively, and Body Stories, Lynne
cultivate the craft and art of writing Body Song, Barrett
and the (Fiction)
so that our words can meet the
Elements of Story Craft Advanced
worlds we inhabit.
Body is a container of story, a map of Seminar in
journey, the sea in which we drown Fiction Writing*
to rise with the full-bodied voice of a We will use short manuscripts that
INSIDE THESE PAGES storyteller… In this class, we’ll focus participants will submit in advance.
daily on one element of story craft— Participants need to have some
Femtors and Sheroes:
setting, voice, POV, characterization, experience in writing fiction. They
Female Mentorship.....................2
combustibility, narration, story may or may not yet have submitted
Writing Circles................................3 structure—to deepen and clarify its their work for publication, but must
Boston Retreat.................................4 use, exploring simultaneously the be open to suggestions for revision.
Donor List.......................................5 theme of body and the narrator’s Fiction submitted can be a complete
work. All levels welcome. short story, a section of a story,
Hot Off the Presses.........................6
novella, or novel, or multiple pieces
Digital Village.................................8 Anya Achtenberg is an award- of flash fiction, but in all cases must
Member News.................................9 winning writer whose publications come to no more than 3,000 words.
Literary Contest Deadlines...........9 include Blue Earth (novel); The Work can be in any genre or category
Stories of Devil-Girl (novella); poetry of fiction: realist, mystery, suspense,
Giving Voice..................................10
collections, The Stone of Language, fantasy, sci-fi, historical, romance,
Summer Conference Schedule....21 and I Know What the Small Girl western, etc., and can be for adults or
Spring Big Apple Conference......22 Knew; and poetry and prose pieces YA audiences.
Get Your Work Out There...........23 in Tupelo Quarterly, Malpaís Review, cont. on p.12
Gargoyle, Journal of FeministYoung Voices Femtors and Sheroes: On the Art,
Craft, and Value of Female Mentorship
my responsibilities as a community nourishment of one another’s
By Hannah member—how could I best serve creative, personal, and professional
Shows these women? How could I express success. Challenge conventional
gratitude for their trust, vulnerability, expressions of female competition.
Ever heard and creative work? How could I best Sheroes and femtors shepherd
of a femtor? absorb their wisdom? the next generation of female
How about a leaders—inspiring action through
shero? These terms recently entered Femtorships are uniquely predicated lived example, offering professional
the American vernacular—femtor on shared belief that mentors have support, and challenging everyday
being slang for “female mentor” and invaluable guidance, opportunities, notions of success. Inspire women to
shero being the combination of “she” and time to offer and mentees have reach higher by bravely sharing your
and “hero.” I affectionately use both great potential to incite change. This passions with the world, and you are
terms to describe women who inspire foundation grounds sometimes one of my sheroes.
success. In my life, femtorships painful growth in compassionate
offer expansive opportunities acceptance of limitations and joyful Currently a journalism student
to use creative collaboration, celebration of strengths. My mentors at Sierra College, Hannah Shows
mindful reflection, and individual and I actively explore best practices to serves on the founding board of the
development as tools to bring about overcome personal challenges, realize school’s online newspaper, where she
personal and professional clarity. goals, and define paths to success. documents individual perspectives
through interview videography, and
I didn’t fully understand the I soak up generously shared wisdom develops creative campaigns to market
innumerable benefits of femtorship to further personal and professional community-oriented programming. A
(i.e., female mentorship) until I development. Humbled by their member of the IWWG since 2017, she
immersed myself in a community trust, I refuse to selfishly monopolize credits much of her creative success to
of driven, collaborative women. the fruits of their hard-fought the storied inspiration and continual
Rushing headlong into the IWWG labor. While I cannot publicly share support from IWWG community
Summer Conference 2017 (under confidential insights, I tangibly apply members.
the guidance of one of my beloved mentors’ lessons to realize goals in
femtors), I joined a community of service of communal good.
Network is a quarterly publication
creative women united by shared
of The International Women’s Writing
reverence for writing’s power to I learned from IWWG Summer Guild. All members receive Network
create and shape shared experience. Conference attendees how to electronically, and U.S. members
practically implement idealistic receive a free print copy.
Listening to workshop presenters, notions of productivity, balance, and
I learned to question preconceived motivation to craft a more fulfilling Information for inclusion in
notions and decipher complicated life. The creative successes of my Network, notification of publication,
experiences through intentional IWWG femtors and sheroes inspire member news, and submissions
reflection and thoughtful personal action to realize a more to Giving Voice should be sent to
writing—developing skillsets to equitable, inclusive world. membernews@iwwg.org.
mindfully improve many aspects
All other correspondence should be
of my life. Serving as one of the I urge you to find a community of sent to iwwgquestions@iwwg.org.
conference interns, I questioned women dedicated to the continual
IWWG NETWORK [1st Quarter 2019] p. 2Writing Circles
ANNOUNCEMENTS & REQUESTS
Formerly called a “kitchen table,” White Plains, NY WRITERS SEEKING
an IWWG “writing circle” is a local and environs in Westchester or
gathering of women writers who Fairfield County CIRCLES
meet on a weekly, biweekly, or Mondays 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Sarasota, FL
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a mutually supportive environment. committed to writing and sharing interested in starting a writing group.
We promote local writing circles by their work with a group of like- Patricia Moore
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us, as well as requests by members meeting for years and is currently
looking to either join an existing open to new members. Two Albany/Troy, NY
group or form a new group. members submit their work by email Looking for a writing circle or other
each week, and we meet in a local virtual group.
NOTE: If you wish to find or form restaurant to critique and discuss. Annabella Roig
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information, in the below format, to Interested in joining or starting a
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Manchester, NJ critiquing. Each participant may
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share her writing. Bring 4–5 copies of pieces, and seek instructive feedback
Beginning a small writers circle at the work you’d like to have critiqued.
my home in Renaissance. Free to all. as well as to hear other writers’
Jeanne Marlowe works in progress. I am happy to
Writing together is the focus, plus
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sharing local writers info. Bring a bag
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IWWG NETWORK [1st Quarter 2019] p. 3International Women’s Writing Guild
Boston
Writing the Heroine’s Journey In Memoir, Poetry,
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, MAY 10-11, 2019 Prose & Drama
Boston & New England-area writers — please join us for our 4th annual
creative writing retreat with four outstanding IWWG instructors. Our Writing
THE MONTROSE SCHOOL the Heroine’s Journey Writing Retreat offers you professional and personal
29 North Street insights into writing memoir, myth, and monologue in crafting prose, as well as
Medfield, MA 02052 exceptional enrichment of your creative life. Experience the gifts of the Guild
community during our annual regional event in MetroWest Boston!
FEE (FRI/SAT/BOTH)
IWWG Member • $35/100/130 THE HEROINE’S JOURNEY AS A NARRATIVE STRUCTURE FOR MEMOIR & MYTH
Maureen Murdock
Non-Member • $45/120/150 In 1949, Joseph Campbell presented a model of the mythological
New Member Special • $185 journey of the hero which has since been used as a template for the
both days, includes first year psycho-spiritual development of the individual. This model, however,
IWWG membership ($205 value) did not address the task for today's woman, which is to heal the wound-
ing of the feminine that exists deep within herself and the culture.
Students • $25/75/95 Now, more than ever, women are speaking their truth as the feminine
demands healing.
SCHEDULE
Friday THE ALCHEMY OF JOURNALING: EMERGING FROM DARKNESS AS HEROINE
6:00 pm • Registration Susan Tiberghien
Why are we afraid to see ourselves as heroines? Why are we afraid of
6:30 pm • Maureen Murdock the dark? If we enter the dark, we will emerge as heroines: vibrant,
creative, compassionate. We will look first at journaling as an exercise
Saturday in self-discovery. We will see journaling as alchemy with its three
9:30 am • Registration & steps: entering the dark, nigredo; distilling the memory, albedo;
Coffee, Juice & Pastries polishing the gold, the new consciousness, rubedo.
10:00 am • Opening Remarks HOW THE POLITICAL IS PERSONAL: THE HEROINE PROBES CONTEXT IN POETRY
10:15 am • Susan Tiberghien Vanessa Jimenez Gabb
There is content. And then there is context. Explore the heroine's
11:45 am • Lunch & Book Fair journey by considering not only what our paths are but also how and
Purchase books by IWWG why we we find ourselves here, in our particular moments. We will
members in attendance. focus on thinking more intentionally about the ways we can engage with
and generate poetry based on our material selves: how can we use the
12:45 pm • Vanessa Jimenez heroine's journey to bring attention to the various systems of which we
Gabb are products, privileged, oppressed?
2:30 pm • Kelly DuMar VOICES OF UNSUNG HEROINES
WRITING PHOTO-INSPIRED MONOLOGUES FOR THE STAGE
4:15 pm • All Voices Open Mic Kelly DuMar
Attendee poetry & prose readings. You hear them, you see them, you know them – women from your
family, your history, your community – but their stories are as yet
REGISTER unwritten. Develop a draft of a short, dramatic monologue for the
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praised for doing hard work, being brave, or achieving her dreams by overcoming hardship.
Bring 1-3 photos of unsung heroines (from your life or from history) to write from.Donors
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IWWG NETWORK [1st Quarter 2019] p. 5Member Publication
HOT OFF THE PRESSES!
Sande Boritz Berger Jackie Craven Dorothy May Emerson
Split-Level a novel Secret Formulas & Techniques Sea Change: the unfinished
Ah, the 1970s. of the Masters agenda of the 1960s
Miniskirts. Through narrative Part memoir, part
Suburbia. Tie- and ekphrastic social commentary,
dye and the poems, a writer Sea Change is an
freewheeling era of searches for intimate exploration
the so-called open messages hidden of a young life
marriage. This sly, in her mother’s lived on the edge
smart second novel, paintings. “Open of radical hope,
written in prose as glorious as the anywhere, and you change, and
era’s iconic tequila sunrise, gives us won’t want to stop,” says poet Barbara possibility in the 1960s in California.
an on-the-verge-of-an-adventure Ungar. It is a call to action to succeeding
heroine who realizes that sometimes Brick Road Poetry Press, Fall 2018 generations demanding engagement
having the life you desperately www.jackiecraven.com with issues of social justice, cultural
need means giving up the life you diversity, and environmental
desperately want. responsibility.
Patricia Daly-Lipe
She Writes Press, May 2019 Horse Tales: Teddy and Just’n Matrika Press, April 2018
www.sandeboritzberger.com Come to an Understanding www.seachange1960s.net
The content of
Elizabeth Bodien Sandra Gardner
‘Horse Tales’ is both
Oblique Music: A Book of Hours Dead Shrinks Don’t Talk and
fact and fiction. The
Hearkening back fiction is because Grave Expectations
to the medieval we are not sure The series features
devotional books of the past our Marabella Vinegar,
of hours used for horses experienced almost 40, who
daily prayer, poet before coming to us. The facts: these works in a college
Elizabeth Bodien two thoroughbreds, Teddy and public relations
takes notice of Just’n, live with the author and her department. In
ordinary moments husband and the tales they tell are Dead Shrinks Don’t
throughout the true experiences, perhaps not all Talk, Marabella
day, making them into opportunities theirs, but incidences observed and becomes the prime suspect after
for extraordinary attention and experienced by the author. she finds her shrink’s body. Her
reverence. This collection of tanka recently deceased mother returns
RockIt Press, November 2018
begins with poems of early morning to help her daughter out of trouble.
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continuing until night and beyond. Grave Expectations finds Marabella’s
Shanti Arts Publishing, January 2019 mother back to hunt for Marabella’s
www.elizabethbodien.com neighbor’s killer.
Black Opal Books,
May and December 2018
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IWWG NETWORK [1st Quarter 2019] p. 6Gaetane Martin Mary Newell Ayin Weaver
100 Pennies: A Journey to TILT / HOVER / VEER Souls of Viridian
Forgive the Unforgivable Pivoting around A 15th century
A compelling the modular refrain daughter of an
memoir rooted “in the pith of,” the Italian healer,
in childhood in poetry chapbook an 18th century
rural Canada. TILT / HOVER Parisian woman
Those roots held / VEER depicts at the dawn of
childhood hunger, vivid moments revolutionary
incredible poverty, in our relations France, a 21st
generational incest, with the world around us, such as century lesbian artist and her partner
and an ever-present fear of violence the planetary tilt that “shuffles the on route to California, a religious
from an alcoholic father. Those roots seasons,” the dynamic poise of a bird middle-age Brooklyn widower,
also held the seeds of the activist hovering, the tendency to veer as we and an apparition from another
the author became, of the woman “aim for the polestar” but “wake up dimension can’t possibly have
no longer afraid to speak her truth, awry,” and the opportunity to recover something in common—or can they?
and shows how she found her way to a vital orientation in the midst of NovelWeaverPress, January, 2019
the flowering of a healthy and happy life’s fluctuations. www.novelweaverpress.com
life; how she was able to forgive the Codhill Press, January 2019 (under construction)
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herself free. tilt-hover-veer-mary-newell
GM Publishing, January 2019
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IWWG NETWORK [1st Quarter 2019] p. 7Digital Village
WHAT’S NEW IN THE DIGITAL VILLAGE?
We’ve declared for 2019 a new narrative—one that Sundays: November 3, 10, 17, 24
authentically, powerfully, thoroughly expresses the Narrative of Truth: The Power of Reality in Storytelling,
fullness of women’s voices, concerns, desires, obsessions, with Pamela Varkony
and objectives. 4:00–5:30 PM Eastern / 1:00–2:30 PM Pacific
So, let’s usher in The Year of the New Narrative by FREE DIGITAL VILLAGE PROGRAMS
learning together in these 4-week webinars! Register now Thursday, April 18
and, if you can’t attend “live,” a video recording will be Member Book Spotlight: Cynthia Manick, author
emailed to you to view at your convenience. of Black Hallelujahs, interviewed by Christine Graf
(Second Place winner in our 2018 Myra Shapiro Prize in
Sundays: March 3, 10, 17, 24 Poetry)
Narrative and Poems, with June Gould In Honor of National Poetry Month
7:00–8:30 PM Eastern / 4:00–5:30 PM Pacific FREE to members & nonmembers
Mondays: April 8, 15, 22, 29 Read more and register at www.iwwg.org/online-digital-
Are You There, God? It’s Me Again: Coming-of-Age village. All of our free-to-all webinars are uploaded to our
Stories for Every Age, with Sherri L. Smith YouTube channel at http://bit.ly/IWWGYouTube.
1:00–2:30 PM Eastern / 10:00–11:30 AM Pacific
Wednesdays: May 1, 8, 15, 22
Spiritual Narrative: Claiming It, Writing It, PRICING
Publishing It, with Jan Phillips Single webinar: $119 Members / $149 Nonmembers
3:00–4:30 PM Eastern / 12:00–1:30 PM Pacific 3-pack: $297 Members ($99/webinar)
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Thursdays: June 6, 13, 20, 27
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You don’t have to choose your 3 webinars upfront, but
Sundays: September 8, 15, 22, 29 you do need to select from the list of 2019 webinars by
The Narrative of Embodiment: Reclaiming the December 31, 2019. That is, this offer expires at the end
Feminine Self, with Dixie King of 2019, and no partial or full refunds will be given. If
you select a webinar that’s already happened “live,” we
7:00–8:30 PM Eastern / 4:00–5:30 PM Pacific
will email you the recordings (all four sessions), plus
Mondays: October 7, 14, 21, 28 the instructor’s materials. These recordings are yours to
Narratives of the Unconscious, with Susan Tiberghien keep, to view at your convenience, and do not expire.
October 7, 14, 21: 11:00 AM–12:30 PM Eastern /
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To read about the webinars and their presenters, and to
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9:00–8:30 AM Pacific / 5:00–6:30 PM Geneva
IWWG NETWORK [1st Quarter 2019] p. 8Member News
We’d love to hear about all your writerly news—readings and recognitions—and any feedback for us.
Email it to membernews@iwwg.org.
A Remarkable Journey Noon to 1:30 p.m. at JungHaus, 59 Who Got Bagpipes for Christmas”
A Matter of Chance, my debut W. Third Ave. Free for members accepted by the Schuylkill Valley
novel published eight months ago of IWWG. Share 3–5 minutes Journal. I did a reading of the latter
(She Writes Press), has taken me of your photography, art, music, two at the Manyunk Art Center
on a most remarkable journey dance, dreams, or writing, or simply launch of the winter issue. In
speaking to groups in libraries, enjoy what emerges from informal addition, my story “In the Eye of
bookstores, bookclubs (including multimedia group process when we the Great Staring Moon” was named
Skype), conferences, universities express what matters to us, enriching in the list of finalists for the New
and guesting at women’s luncheons. understanding of our diverse and Millennium Writing 46th Fiction
My greatest joy is meeting the common humanity. Contest.
most remarkable women who Jeanne Marlowe Marylou Kelly Streznewski
attend, comment, ask questions and jamarlowe@juno.com
generally add their individual glow to (614) 476-8802
every occasion. Writing About Writing
Julie Maloney “Making It Through the Loneliness
A Plethora of Publishing
on a Solo Writer’s Retreat,” was
Share Your Multimedia Creativity I have had one poem, “The Chrysler published in the Brevity blog on
in Columbus, Ohio Building” accepted by Sow’s Ear December 5, 2018.
journal, and two poems, “Christmas Linda C. Wisniewski
Most 4th Saturdays: A Time to
Week” and “For the Neighbor
Honor Our Individual Journeys,
Writing Contests
SUBMIT! IWWG Literary Contests Later This Year
In honor of three very special women, The Guild announces the submission dates for our 2019 literary competitions:
• The Pat Carr Prize for Mainstream Literary Short Story, accepting submissions August 1-31, 2019
• The Myra Shapiro Prize for Poetry, accepting submissions September 1-30, 2019
• The Susan Tiberghien Prize for Narrative Nonfiction, accepting submissions October 1-31, 2019
Winners in each competition will receive monetary awards as well as free IWWG webinar participation and publication
in our Literary Journal (first issue due out later this year). Watch future issues of Network, as well as our website and
weekly email Update for more information and specific submission guidelines.
IWWG NETWORK [1st Quarter 2019] p. 9Giving Voice
DECLUTTERING MY LIFE
After a subdural hematoma nearly killed me last fall, clutter was still overwhelming. Thankfully there’d been
decluttering rose to the top of my to-do list. I made it no home visit, but I resolved to declutter ruthlessly. My
through emergency surgery with a titanium plate and physical and mental health, indeed my very life, depend
eighteen metal staples holding my head together, spent on it.
a few days in the ICU, then transferred to an acute —Julie Lomoe
rehabilitation center.
Fairy Tale
I relished the prospect of spending a couple of weeks in
my own private room, with staff catering to my every Once upon a time,
need. A luxurious writer’s retreat, with Medicare picking I will write in years to come,
up the tab—who could ask for more? But discharge I lived in a contemporary castle,
planning began soon after I arrived. Would I be returning surrounded by a suburban moat.
to a safe environment? The social worker, occupational
and physical therapists interrogated me endlessly. My Silently screaming
husband would be my caregiver, but our little pink house from the widow’s tower,
was a fixer-upper we’d never finished fixing up. We’d I kept myself captive, locking
moved there in 2001, right after September 11th, and the drawbridge in place,
the place had accumulated far too much stuff. Tripping
hazards abounded. Especially paper—I’m a writer, and I pillars pointing to heaven,
hoard books, magazines and manuscripts. unable to bid adieu
to the blizzard of pastel petals
What if they made a home visit, we flunked and they kept covering my court yard in Spring,
me in rehab? That had happened with some patients. By
now I was eager to leave. The writing hadn’t panned out; each flowering tree a commemoration
I was too stoned on Oxycontin. Family tried cleaning and of royal proportions, nor wave the Autumn
organizing while I was gone, but when I came home, the wind away, as it rustled saffron
oak leaves outside our bridal chamber.
UPCOMING THEMES But suddenly, I awoke from magical slumber,
& DEADLINES: the spell broken by the kiss of a wandering prince.
• What Can Be Heard in a Seashell: May 15 The gentle Japanese yews, we
• Falling Up: August 15 planted as seedlings, now blocked the sun,
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: and moss had crept up the entire western wall,
Submission is open to Guild members only and can threatening to crack my foundation.
be written in prose or verse. Please keep the length to Lured by the carefree cacophony of starlings,
250 words or less, and proofread your work carefully. dismantling their formation for rest,
Email your piece, as a Word attachment (.doc or
.docx), to membernews@iwwg.org, with “Giving I decided to flee before winter.
Voice” as the subject line. Failing to follow these Raking the dead leaves
instructions will result in our not considering your accumulated at my feet,
work this time around. I cleared a path for yesterday,
IWWG NETWORK [1st Quarter 2019] p. 10who left crying after I handed her Declutter My Life?
the willows that would not bend,
all the scissors that would not cut, A memory is a beautiful thing,
and the splintered looking glass it’s almost a desire that you miss. ~Gustave Flaubert
of reflections, dropped and broken long ago. Starter spider plants green my window sill.
Clearing out the ante-rooms of the dungeon, Grandma Annie showed me that
I sorted and wrapped disparate memories, African violet leaves placed in water grew babies.
sealing them in a box labeled life.
Stones carried from Albania, Russia, Provence, Ireland,
No, I will not miss my reign in that palace, St Maarten and Montreal mingle with black lava rocks
but I will miss the innocent illusion, gathered still warm the day Eleanor and I crept
the fairy tale ending of living there, past the warning sign at Ariel volcano.
happily ever after.
—Dianalee Velie Recipes stained by cream cheese, butter, even breast milk,
one for Fabulous Cheese Cake from Aunt Joyce
who played jump rope with me in high heels and a hat.
As the old year ended, I felt an urge to finish what I
started, as if I needed a clean slate to begin 2019. And Extras of everything in the pantry.
then I laughed. As if that’s ever going to happen. Momma, hungry during the depression,
learned cabbage soup and make do.
I stopped reading a book I hated, for a book club whose
members I couldn’t relate to. It wasn’t worth my time, but Pink blown glass snail, big as a baby’s head,
I don’t like to leave anything unfinished. bought on the street in Burano
where the boat back to Venice waited for me,
I have a half-done quilt on my sewing machine, wrinkled
and the others clapped when I finally arrived.
clothes on the ironing board, and a Christmas tablecloth
with stains I haven’t managed to remove. And then there
Books in boxes, on shelves, in the basement,
are all the short stories and essays in progress on my
on my nightstand, in my car. I gave
computer. It’s hard, but somethings got to go, and it won’t
most of the novels away, but poetry
be the writing.
deserves to be revisited.
I’ve dropped so much in my life: freshman organic chem, “Give it time and space,” Stellasue said.
friends who moved away. I’ve let go of big projects: trying
to make my mother be feminist, trying to keep raising my Pictures of us young, our children swimming,
kids after they’d grown. grandchildren building sand castles,
Lake Michigan sunsets, s’mores at the beach,
It’s okay. If we hold on to everything we start, our lives pictures of the ones who are gone.
would be a spaghetti-ball mess we could never untangle.
Life is about choices. Declutter-- not today.
A turn of the calendar’s page has opened up more Or maybe I’ll start with the plastic food containers.
possibilities. What will I choose to start this year? What Discard the ones missing
will I finish? And what can I quit in the middle of, the tops that completed them.
knowing full well that “enough is enough,” that forcing —Linda Leedy Schneider
myself to complete something no longer important is just
a waste of my precious time? Time I could use for things
that matter. Time for discovery and renewal.
—Linda C. Wisniewski
IWWG NETWORK [1st Quarter 2019] p. 11Summer Conference
Pre-registration required; limited Suzi Banks Baum Linda Bergman
to ten registrants on a first-come, (Mixed Media) (Screenwriting)
first-served basis. $50 fee. To Something So You Think
reserve one of the ten spaces, about the Your Life’s a
submit a manuscript (3,000 words Body: Bold Movie?
or less) electronically by no later Writing about No experience
than June 15 to iwwgquestions@ our Bodies necessary!
iwwg.org, subject line: Submission Birthed in This six-day,
for Advanced Seminar in Fiction Mixed Media Collage cumulative class is not just for
Writing. Preference will be given This is a workshop where ritual, screenwriters. It is for novelists,
to full-week registrants. You will be multi-media collage, and writing memoirists, personal essayists, short-
notified within 48 hours if you are intermingle. We will make body- story writers, or anyone who wants to
among the first ten applicants, and related collages and respond to short learn to get to good story fast. Linda
you will be invoiced at that time writing prompts to draw forth new focuses on the importance of a vivid
for the $50 fee. Manuscripts will material to fuel our literary life. This log line and the industry standard,
be distributed to all participants in workshop is open to all for daily three-act structure of a salable script.
advance of the conference. drop-in or a full-week immersion. As an experienced buyer and seller
Please bring your journal and pen in the entertainment industry, Linda
Lynne Barrett’s third story collection, and an apron. A lush banquet of uses popular films to teach you
Magpies, received the Florida Book materials will be supplied. A modest scene-writing, sub plots, plot points,
Awards Gold Medal for Fiction, daily materials fee will be requested. and act breaks.
and her handbook, What Editors
Want, guides writers through the Suzi Banks Baum is a writer, Linda Bergman has written over 24
submission process. Her recent artist, actress, teacher, community films and produced five of them. Her
writing can be found in New Flash organizer, and mom. Suzi uses scripts have been nominated for an
Fiction Review, Necessary Fiction, The the written word, hand-bound Emmy, an Access Award, the Alpha
Miami Rail, The Southern Women’s books, mixed media collage, and Award for Excellence in Children’s
Review, and a number of other photographs to say what she means. Programming, and the prestigious
publications. A recipient of the Edgar Suzi has an ongoing artist residency Writer’s Guild Award. Linda wrote
Award for best mystery story and in Gyumri, Armenia, where she So You Think Your Life’s A Movie:
an NEA Fellowship, Barrett teaches leads an art and writing workshop Ten Steps to a Script That Sells, a
in the MFA program at Florida called New Illuminations, while 2011 Global E Award Winner in the
International University and is editor also interviewing Armenian women category of Arts and Entertainment,
of The Florida Book Review. artists about their daily lives. and also So You Think Your Life’s
www.lynnebarrett.com Suzi’s work has been published in A Movie? The Sequel, published in
https://www.facebook.com/ The Walloon Writers Review, The 2016. Her first play, Wanna Play?,
LynneBarrettauthor Collection: Flash Fiction for Flash was published by Samuel French and
https://twitter.com/lynnebarrett Memory (Anchala Studios, 2018), produced on PBS.
and Writing Fire: An Anthology lindabergmancreativewriting.com
Celebrating the Power of Women’s https://www.facebook.com/
Words (Green Fire Press, 2017). LindaBergmanScreenwriter
www.suzibanksbaum.com
IWWG NETWORK [1st Quarter 2019] p. 12Kelly DuMar poetry chapbook contest winner). Vanessa Jimenez Gabb is the author
(Playwriting) Kelly’s award-winning plays and of Images for Radical Politics, the
Play Lab: monologues are produced around the Editor’s Pick in the 2015 Rescue
Writing & U.S. and Canada. Press Black Box Poetry Contest.
Producing www.KellyDuMar.com Recent poetry has been featured in
Your Photo PEN America, The Poetry Project
Inspired Vanessa Newsletter, and The Brooklyn Rail.
Short Play Jimenez She teaches at Newark Academy and
or Monologue for the Stage – Gabb for Brooklyn Poets. She is from and
Voicing the Stories of Unsung (Poetry) lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Heroines Advanced www.vanessajimenezgabb.com
Have you always wanted to write for Poetry Seminar
the stage, but didn’t know how to In an atmo- Janice Gary
begin? In this class, you’ll develop sphere of mutual trust and confiden- (Memoir)
a draft of a ten-minute play, a tiality, we will share our poetry with Writing the
monologue, an excerpt from a one- one another and offer feedback that Goddess
woman show, or a short scene from is supportive and useful, taking into Within: Finding
a longer play. Our lab culminates in consideration aspects of your piece our Stories
a performance, Wednesday evening, that are working well, and how you through
for an enthusiastic audience of might approach revision. By design, Feminine
conference attendees, where actors the spirit of the feedback session is Archetypes
will read your play on stage. No prior positive and encouraging. The work- Through exploration of feminine
playwriting experience is required. shop will focus on the refinement archetypes such as the Maiden,
of your personal voice and help to the Mother, the Crone—and their
Pre-registration required; limited expand and nuance your awareness associated Goddesses—we will write
to ten participants on a first-come, as a reader. Open to all levels. our own tales of the mythic journey
first-served basis. No fee. Please note: of being a woman.
The Play Lab is a double session. To Pre-registration required; limit of
reserve one of the ten spaces, email twelve participants on a first-come, Janice Gary is the author of Short
Kelly your intent to participate, at first-served basis. A one-page poem Leash: a Memoir of Dog Walking
kellydumar@gmail.com, by Friday is required of each attendee in and Deliverance, winner of the Eric
June 28 at 9:00 p.m. Preference will advance of the workshop; $50 fee. Hoffer Prize, Nautilus Book Award,
be given to full-week registrants; To reserve for one of the spaces, and a Finalist for the Sarton Award
all participants will be notified submit a one-page poem of any for Memoir. Her work has been
immediately upon their request. form/content electronically by no published in River Teeth, Brevity,
later than June 15 to iwwgquestions@ The Spring Journal, Ms. Magazine,
Kelly DuMar is a playwright and poet iwwg.org, subject line: Submission and other publications and as part
from the Boston area who facilitates for Advanced Poetry Seminar. of the feminist anthology, Women
creative writing workshops around Preference will be given to full-week Speak Out. She is on the faculty
the U.S. and online. She authored a registrants. You will be notified of the Master of Liberal Studies
nonfiction book, Before You Forget: within 48 hours if you are among Program at Arizona State University
The Wisdom of Writing Diaries for the first twelve applicants, and you and conducts writing workshops
Your Children; Tree of the Apple will be invoiced at that time for the combining memoir, myth, and the
(Two of Cups Press 2016 poetry $50 fee. Poems will be distributed self as metaphor.
chapbook contest finalist); and All to all participants in advance of the www.janicegary.com
These Cures (Lit House Press 2014 conference.
cont.
IWWG NETWORK [1st Quarter 2019] p. 13June Gould and the knowingness of now. Then, each day with writing submitted
(Multi-Genre) with music and meditation, you ahead by the participants. Our work
Place as will use the priceless treasures you is both collaborative and individual;
Metaphor: find there and transform them feedback will be focused and specific.
Writing into poetry and prose, fiction and Our goal: helping each participant
Workshops fantasy, monologues and memoir. engage her readers with more
about the Please bring photos, mementos or confidence in her craft.
Meaning of other items that reflect the essence of
Place your energy, or that of a mother or a Pre-registration required; limit of
In our lives and our writing, place daughter. ten participants on a first-come,
holds meaning beyond simple first-served basis; $50 fee. To reserve
description. In this workshop we will Dorothy Randall Gray is author of a space, submit electronically no
hear about the powerful uses of place the bestseller Soul Between the Lines: more than five double-spaced pages
in fiction, memoir, and poetry, do Freeing Your Creative Spirit Through of personal narrative by no later
sensory writing exercises about our Writing (Avon/HarperCollins), than June 15 to iwwgquestions@
childhood and adult places as well as an inspirational teacher, a prize- iwwg.org, subject line: Submission
the real and imagined places where winning artist, and a global activist. for Advanced Workshop on Memoir.
things have or might happen. She is the author of Muse Blues, The Work can be taken from a single long
Passion Collection, Woman, Fierce piece or several shorter, stand-alone
June Gould, Ph.D., is the author of With Reality, Family, A Taste of pieces. Individual work and feedback
The Writer in All of Us: Improving Tamarinda, and Sharing The Same will be incorporated into the design
Your Writing through Childhood Sky. Her writings have appeared in of the workshop. Preference will be
Memories (EP Dutton), Beyond the San Gabriel Quarterly Review, Drum given to full-week registrants. You
Margins: Rethinking the Art and Voices, The New York Times, Best will be notified within 48 hours if you
Craft of Writing, and the novel In Black Women’s Erotica, SisterFire, and are among the first ten applicants,
the Shadow of Trains. She is the Personal Journaling, among others. and you will be invoiced at that time
co-author of Counting the Stones, www.DorothyRandallGray.com for the $50 fee. Manuscripts will
a book of Holocaust poetry. June be distributed to all participants in
has published poetry in numerous Judy Huge advance of the conference.
journals, including the Jewish (Memoir)
Women’s Literary Annual. From Your Judith Huge has spent over 30
Personal Past years developing innovative
Dorothy Randall Gray to the Public approaches to both learning and
(Multi-Genre) Page: An writing. As president of her own
My Mother, My Advanced national consulting firm, teacher of
Daughter, My Workshop on Memoir undergraduate and graduate-level
Writing Self This intensive workshop is designed college courses, and director of
From Mother to help those already launched writing workshops across the country,
Nature to in writing short- and long-form she has made a difference in the way
Mommy personal narratives see the writing thousands of people find, craft, and
Dearest, relationships between decisions they are making in the promote their writing voices. She is a
mothers and daughters have light of reader response and more co-author of 101 Ways You Can Help:
motivated a multitude of memoirs clear-eyed perspective. Based on How To Offer Comfort And Support to
and movies. In this workshop you the idea that close examination of Those Who Are Grieving (Sourcebook,
will dig into the creative crypts short pieces can reveal strengths 2009), as well as A Middle Aged
that hold the silences, secrets and and liabilities that have taken up Woman and the Sea.
sense memories, the furtive future residence in longer ones, we work
IWWG NETWORK [1st Quarter 2019] p. 14Marsha McGregor Maureen Murdock Jan
(Memoir) (Memoir) Phillips
Your Narrative The Heroine’s (Multi-Genre)
Fingerprint: Journey as Divining the
Finding Your a Narrative Body: How to
Nonfiction Structure for Translate the
Story’s DNA Memoir and Wisdom of
This workshop Myth Your Cells into Written Words
will explore ways to build personal In writing and telling our stories, we Your body is a satellite dish for
essays as well as longer works of come to know the deeper pattern mind-at-large. You are a receptor for
narrative nonfiction from the inside of our lives. Perhaps the popularity pure intelligence and information
out. We start with instinct and of memoirs in our culture today pours into you through every sense
intuition, seek the shape the story reflects the desire to find meaning with every experience. Whether you
wants to take, find the language to in the mystery of our lives and to tune into this or not is up to you.
bring it alive, give it the voice and understand our unconscious choices, This workshop uses writing, images,
the human face that only you can actions, and dreams. Another reason poetry, and stories to stimulate our
provide. Come prepared to spend a for the memoir’s appeal might be senses and awaken our imaginations.
good deal of time writing in class, its mythic power. In this course we From there, all heaven breaks loose.
where we’ll blend the soulful with the will use the stages of The Heroine’s Memories resurrect, details surface,
pragmatic. The workshop is designed Journey as a framework to explore and dualities are resolved as we
to serve beginners, advanced writers our own character arc progressing discover that every experience we
and anyone in between. through our life journey. lived through happened for us as well
as to us. Come join us as we write our
Marsha McGregor’s creative Maureen Murdock, Ph.D. is the way into our own body’s wisdom.
nonfiction has appeared in The author of the best-selling book, The
Kenyon Review Online, Brain Child, Heroine’s Journey, which explores the Jan Phillips is a writer, photographer
Brain Teen, Fourth Genre, Ascent, rich territory of the feminine psyche. and activist. She is the author of ten
Literary Mama, River Teeth’s Beautiful A documentary entitled Women of award-winning books including Cre-
Things, Zone 3, The Philadelphia Heart is being made about the impact ativity Unzipped, There Are Burning
Inquirer and four anthologies. Her of Maureen’s work on Australian Bushes Everywhere, No Ordinary
personal essays have appeared women. Maureen is also author of Time, Finding the On-Ramp to Your
regularly in Cleveland Magazine since Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Spiritual Path, Finding Ourselves on
2008. Marsha is a Peter Taylor Fellow Memory, Fathers’ Daughters: Breaking Sacred Ground, The Art of Original
for the Kenyon Review Writers the Ties that Bind, Spinning Inward: Thinking, Divining the Body, and
Workshop, and a fellow for the Using Guided Imagery with Children, Marry Your Muse. She has taught in
Kenyon Review Writing Workshop and The Heroine’s Journey Workbook. over 25 countries and her work has
for Teachers. She has taught memoir writing in the appeared in the New York Times, Ms.,
www.marshamcgregor.com UCLA Writers Program for 28 years. Newsday, People, Christian Science
www.maureenmurdock.com Monitor, New Age Journal, National
Catholic Reporter, Sun Magazine, and
Utne Reader. Jan is co-founder and
director of the Livingkindness Foun-
dation, a grassroots activist organiza-
tion supporting women in leadership
and art in activism.
www.livingkindness.org
www.janphillips.com
cont.
IWWG NETWORK [1st Quarter 2019] p. 15Caridad Pineiro Judith Prest Mel Ryane
(Publishing) (Mixed Media) (Movement/
Exploring the Getting Below Performance)
Intersection of the Words: Page to
Publishing and A Journey Podium:
Technology Through Soul Reading Your
With the advent Collage® Work Aloud
of the Internet, SoulCollage® is Writing is
a second publishing revolution a process for creating small collages lonely. Sometimes it feels like you
has ushered in a digital age that on matboard. Images can get to could use another voice. Fortunately,
presents writers with both great “the words below the words” and you have one—yours. In this
opportunities and challenges. Self- can help us bridge the gap when workshop, you’ll learn how to prep,
professed computer geek Caridad there are experiences for which practice, and present—revealing what
Pineiro shares her knowledge of we don’t yet have the words. You you’ve written and wish to write. The
social media, websites, blogs, search will find that working with images very act of reading your work aloud
engines, and more in a series of can be refreshing and can recharge begins the process of editing. Writers
workshops designed to help authors your creative batteries. No previous will read aloud from published
bridge the gaps between publishing, “artist experience or skill” needed. works and their own writing. One-
writing, and technology. Even though all art supplies will be on-one coaching is a component of
furnished, please feel free to bring the workshop. All writing genres are
Caridad Pineiro is a transplanted copies of photos of important people, welcome.
Long Island girl who has fallen in animals, landscapes in your lives, or
love with the Jersey Shore. When to bring any images that call to you Mel Ryane has performed on stages
Caridad isn’t taking long strolls between now and then. There will be across the U.S. and Canada. She’s
along the boardwalk, she’s also a a voluntary daily donation to help also coached actors on television
New York Times and USA Today cover the cost of art supplies. and film sets and public speakers on
bestselling author with over a million the corporate level. She has taught
romance novels sold worldwide. Judith Prest is a poet, photographer, her workshop Page to Podium for
She is a founding member of the mixed media artist, and creativity the last ten years to writers’ groups
Liberty States Fiction Writers and has coach. Her poems have been and at writers’ conferences across
presented workshops at the RT Book published in several literary journals North America. As a writer, her
Club Convention and the Romance and in seven anthologies. Recently, work has been published in the LA
Writers of America National her chapbook manuscript, After, was Times and her memoir TEACHING
Conference as well as various writing accepted by Finishing Line Press WILL: What Shakespeare and 10 Kids
organizations throughout the and is scheduled to be in print by Gave Me That Hollywood Couldn’t
country. May, 2019. A retired school social (Familius) received glowing reviews
www.caridad.com worker, she currently works part from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus
https://twitter.com/caridadpineiro time running recovery writing and Reviews.
www.facebook.com/Caridad.Author expressive art groups at New Choices www.melryane.com
Recovery center in Schenectady, NY.
www.facebook.com/judith.prest
www.soulcollage.com/judith-prest
IWWG NETWORK [1st Quarter 2019] p. 16Paula Chaffee Eunice Scarfe world and art: your senses. Come
Scardamalia (Multi-Genre) share the life-changing and healing
(Publishing) The Writer mystery of poetry. You will learn
Queries & at Work: to engage all of your senses in the
Synopses & Exercising process of writing, which is a way
Proposals, Creativity of finding and making meaning in
Oh My! Into This workshop our lives as well as creating art. This
the Woods of will introduce workshop will stimulate new work,
Pitching Your exercises designed to explore and build your confidence as a writer,
Book enhance creativity. Some writers and help you to strengthen your
One of the prevailing myths about assume that in order to make a text, unique voice. Poets, would-be poets,
being a writer is that once the writer rules must be followed and editors prose writers, and the curious are all
has typed “The End” at the end of her must be engaged. Perhaps so. Equally welcome. Much of your time will be
manuscript, her job is done. That’s a important, however, is exercising spent writing.
myth, even more today than 30 years your own creativity. As a writer,
ago. The writer has to be promoter, you’ll want to know its character Linda Leedy Schneider is a
marketer, and business person— and its hunger; you’ll want to engage psychotherapist in private practice
scary as that may be. Marketing the its wisdom and its energy. In this and poetry mentor who was awarded
book starts with well-crafted queries workshop, we’ll write every day. the Contemporary American Poetry
(also pitches), synopses (if you write Suitable for writers of both prose and Prize by Chicago Poetry. She has
fiction), and book proposals (if you poetry. written six collections of poetry,
write nonfiction). This workshop will including Through My Window:
provide you with the information, Eunice Scarfe has taken her Poetry of a Psychotherapist (Plain
tips, tricks, and resources—along distinctive Blank Page workshop View Press). Linda facilitates
with the support and feedback you across North America through her workshops nationally including The
need—to craft compelling queries, company Saga Seminars (saga is Manhattan Writing Workshop, which
synopses, and proposals. old Norse for ‘woman speaker’), she founded and has led since 2008.
teaching, for example, Life Writing Editor of two poetry anthologies,
Paula Chaffee Scardamalia is an at the Banff Center, and designing Poems From 84th Street (Pudding
author, book coach, a dream and Writing for the Health of It for use House Publications) and Mentor’s
tarot intuitive, and the former dream within Harvard Medical School. Bouquet (Finishing Line Press),
consultant for PEOPLE Country Her short stories have been widely Linda’s poetry was included in Not
Magazine. Since 1999, Paula has published since her first story was a Muse: The Inner Lives of Women, a
given workshops and retreats on taken for the annual Best Stories in World Poetry Anthology.
how to use intuitive tools like dreams Canada anthology after appearing in
and tarot for writing stories from Malahat Review. Myra Shapiro
the deepest part of the imagination. https://eunicescarfe.wordpress.com (Poetry)
Paula publishes a weekly e-newsletter Reading and
on writing, creativity, dreams, and Linda Leedy Schneider Writing Poems:
tarot, and is the award-winning (Poetry) Form is an
author of Weaving a Woman’s Life: Come To Your Embodiment
Spiritual Lessons from the Loom. Senses: The Art We can take
Paula is celebrating the launch of and Craft of inspiration
her debut novel, In the Land of The Poetry from the body of existing poems to
Vultures (Wild Rose Press, 2018). Enter the write/give birth to our own unique
www.divingthemuse.com creative flow poems. Becoming conscious of
through your only access to the cont.
IWWG NETWORK [1st Quarter 2019] p. 17gender is a focus of today’s news; misfits have appeared in Matador short story book Sweet Dreams was
how does it surface in poems? How Review, Brevity, Under the Gum Tree, published by Belladonna in April
does our heritage live in our work? Gulf Stream, Jet Fuel Review, Lilith 2018.
Joy will come through curiosity and Magazine, and others. Her music has
exploration. been licensed internationally for film Donna Baier Stein
and TV, and she’s currently at work (Fiction)
Myra Shapiro’s poems have appeared recording her fourth studio album. Turning
in many periodicals and anthologies, www.ariellesilver.com Images into
twice in The Best American Poetry. Tales: Writing
Her books include I’ll See You Pamela Sneed Ekphrastic
Thursday and 12 Floors Above the (Movement/ Short Fiction
Earth, and a memoir, Four Sublets: Performance) and Poems
Becoming a Poet in New York. She Speaking Three-day workshop, Saturday
serves on the Board of Directors Truth/Moving through Monday
of Poets House and is a long-time Words/Page to Ekphrastic writing (fiction or poetry
member of and instructor for the Stage based on visual art) is found in
IWWG. This workshop works as diverse as Girl with the
is designed for poets and writers of Pearl Earring, Moby Dick, and Ode
Arielle Silver any discipline and level of experience to a Grecian Urn. This workshop will
(Nonfiction) who are interested in performing offer participants a chance to learn
Crabs, Frags, their words. We will explore what ekphrastic writing is and see
and Crots: devised theater/performance poetic examples of it in both poetry and
Exploring the monologues, the poetic series, and prose; discover for themselves how
Lyric Essay various techniques for staging self- to find these magic, story-generating
Breaking the scribed works using contemporary artworks; write using visual prompts
boundaries of performance poets and artists as provided by the workshop presenter;
traditional narratives, the world of models. and share their work for generous
lyric essay resides in the wild lands and gentle critique. Handouts will
between prose and poems. In this Pamela Sneed is a New York-based include examples of poetry and
workshop, every day we will read poet, writer, performer, and visual prose based on visual art. Paintings,
and generate new writing in found artist. She is author of Imagine illustrations, and sculptures can be
and invented lyric essay forms, like Being More Afraid of Freedom than shared as either postcards or slides to
hermit crabs – named for the animal Slavery, KONG and Other Works, and use for prompts for writing exercises.
which fits its soft body into borrow a chaplet, Gift, by Belladonna. She
structures – listicles, crots, fragments, has been featured in the New York Donna Baier Stein is the author of
haibuns, shapes on the page, Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Silver Baron’s Wife (PEN/New
associations, multi-vocal narratives, Time Out, Bomb, VIBE, and on the England Discovery Award, bronze
and the stunning silence of white cover of New York Magazine. In 2017, winner in Foreword Reviews 2017
space’s absence. Though our reading she was a visiting critic at Yale and Book of the Year Award, and more),
selections will be from the creative Columbia University, and a visiting Sympathetic People (Iowa Fiction
nonfiction world of lyric essay, professor at Columbia University’s Award Finalist), Sometimes You Sense
writers of all prose and poetic forms School of the Arts for 2017-2018. She the Difference, Letting Rain Have Its
are welcome. is online faculty at Chicago’s School Say, and Scenes from the Heartland:
of the Art Institute, teaching Human Stories Based on Lithographs by
Arielle Silver is a literary and song Rights and Writing Art. Her work Thomas Hart Benton. She was a
writer, musician, and retreat leader. appears in Nikki Giovanni’s, The 100 Founding Editor of Bellevue Literary
Her essays, poems, and hybrid Best African American Poems. Her Review and founded and publishes
IWWG NETWORK [1st Quarter 2019] p. 18You can also read
