Multicultural Writers Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/category/contemporary-women-writers/multicultural-writers/ Mon, 17 Oct 2016 05:05:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 What Do You Mean I Have to Market My Writing? https://booksbywomen.org/what-do-you-mean-i-have-to-market-my-writing-by-anora-mcgaha/ https://booksbywomen.org/what-do-you-mean-i-have-to-market-my-writing-by-anora-mcgaha/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2014 05:25:31 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=12633 We all start with different decks. Some with no cards. Some with no money. Some not even at the table. It’s not fair. There’s nothing fair about it. Maybe it will never be fair. But if you want to play, if I want to play, whatever odds I was given, them’s the odds I got. […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/what-do-you-mean-i-have-to-market-my-writing-by-anora-mcgaha/feed/ 12 12633 Clichés – drag or opportunity? https://booksbywomen.org/cliches-drag-or-opportunity-by-eva-moreda/ https://booksbywomen.org/cliches-drag-or-opportunity-by-eva-moreda/#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:40:30 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=11831 In my Twitter profile, I define myself as an ‘enemy of set phrases and cliches.’ Nothing makes me feel like putting down a novel like two, three, four, five cliches strung together without any self-awareness, any twist or turn, not even the faintest attempt at turning into something mildly interesting – what kind of original […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/cliches-drag-or-opportunity-by-eva-moreda/feed/ 13 11831 In Defense of True Stories https://booksbywomen.org/defense-true-stories-lani-cox/ https://booksbywomen.org/defense-true-stories-lani-cox/#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:16:08 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=11774 I know, I know, agents are not interested in memoir, yet they openly admit they don’t know what sells. So why do we listen to them? It’s crazy because “Based on a True Story” sells. True stories are Hollywood’s darlings, and when we settle into our seats getting ready to watch a film and the […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/defense-true-stories-lani-cox/feed/ 16 11774 Slavery, Race, Feminism and Literature https://booksbywomen.org/slavery-feminism-literature/ https://booksbywomen.org/slavery-feminism-literature/#comments Mon, 11 Nov 2013 17:01:35 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10345 WWWB’s Anora McGaha asks a few more questions of Professor Elaine Neil Orr of NC State University, author of Gods of the Noonday and A Different Sun. Although Elaine Neil Orr’s novel arises in the context of a Southern slave owning family in the 1800s, she shines a light into highly relevant dimensions of race […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/slavery-feminism-literature/feed/ 3 10345 How Can I Get My Memoir Published https://booksbywomen.org/how-can-i-get-my-memoir-published-by-sara-mansfield-taber/ https://booksbywomen.org/how-can-i-get-my-memoir-published-by-sara-mansfield-taber/#comments Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:54:45 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10194 After you have toiled and tinkered and revised for ages, and you feel you finally have a strong manuscript, you begin to wonder how on earth to get your book into print. It goes without saying that that is a tough world, and even really top literary manuscripts fail to find a New York publisher. […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/how-can-i-get-my-memoir-published-by-sara-mansfield-taber/feed/ 11 10194 Revolt by Qaisra Shahraz, Released October 7, 2013 https://booksbywomen.org/revolt-by-qaisra-shahraz-released-october-7-2013/ https://booksbywomen.org/revolt-by-qaisra-shahraz-released-october-7-2013/#respond Wed, 09 Oct 2013 03:19:34 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=9953 Revolt by Qaisra Shahraz is Launched Arcadia Press launched Revolt by the international best-selling English / Pakistani author Qaisra Shahraz. We have been following her international travels to exotic literary festivals in China, India, Indonesia, Germany just to name a few. In preparation for Qaisra stepping up as Site Sponsor for Women Writers, Women Books, […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/revolt-by-qaisra-shahraz-released-october-7-2013/feed/ 0 9953 Guests https://booksbywomen.org/guests-by-jaminska-griffin/ https://booksbywomen.org/guests-by-jaminska-griffin/#comments Sat, 08 Jun 2013 22:10:15 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=8546 The street where I grew up in Rijeka, Croatia, is called Hosti. The name is derived from an archaic Croatian word for guests. Hosti’s non-indigenous population were allowed by medieval laws to settle in that particular part of town only. Most of them would have lived there only temporarily, although those who stayed over certain […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/guests-by-jaminska-griffin/feed/ 8 8546 Losing the Artist, Saving Her Art (Part 2) https://booksbywomen.org/losing-the-artist-saving-her-art-part-2-by-victoria-andre-king/ https://booksbywomen.org/losing-the-artist-saving-her-art-part-2-by-victoria-andre-king/#comments Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:38:14 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=6849 Continued from Losing the Artist, Saving her Art Part 1. Eugenia’s physicians finally allowed her to travel with considerable misgivings, as she was 84 and had a metallic heart valve. Transatlantic travel is stressful one way or the other, but there was no holding her back. She wanted to experience the place that her daughter had loved […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/losing-the-artist-saving-her-art-part-2-by-victoria-andre-king/feed/ 3 6849 Interview with Canadian Writer Bolaji Williams https://booksbywomen.org/interview-with-canadian-writer-bolaji-williams/ https://booksbywomen.org/interview-with-canadian-writer-bolaji-williams/#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:38:17 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=7416 We met Bolaji Williams on Twitter. She responded to one of our tweets. We read a recent blog post and loved the clarity of her writing and topic, so we invited her to do something with us. Voila, an interview with writer Bolaji Williams. When did you first know you loved to write? To be completely honest, […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/interview-with-canadian-writer-bolaji-williams/feed/ 2 7416 Book Review: Chimamanda Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck https://booksbywomen.org/book-review-chimamanda-adichies-the-thing-around-your-neck-reviewed-by-reagan-k-reynolds/ https://booksbywomen.org/book-review-chimamanda-adichies-the-thing-around-your-neck-reviewed-by-reagan-k-reynolds/#respond Sun, 16 Sep 2012 14:04:32 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=6903 In The Thing Around Your Neck, a collection of short stories written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the reader is exposed to characters that are many things, including a surprise to those who have been limited to a Western literary interpretation of Nigerian culture. Adichie insists on considering the wide variety of Nigerian stories to be […]

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