Open Mic Literary Reading Women Who Write’s Give For Good Louisville Day of Giving Event Fante’s Coffee House, 2501 Grinstead Dr. September 18 6:00-8:00 with the reading at 6:15-7:15 Appetizers provided, beverages available for purchase from the coffee house. Members and their guests only. $10 suggested donation. Space is limited. The first 8 people who sign up online to read are guaranteed ...

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Photo by Liz Roach-Smith   Hello Writers!   When I came upon the shell necklace among my dead grandmother’s jewelry, I felt as if I’d walked into a fairytale. It looked straight out of The Little Mermaid. Even for a cynical teenager, the necklace stirred my imagination. Not least because it didn’t fit Grandmother’s style. Its simplicity, its plainness, its ...

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Photo by Alonso Reyes on Unsplash   Hello Writers!   My newest favorite book (because you can’t have just one favorite) is Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson. I read it two years ago at the very beginnings of my autistic journey, and it just so happened that Tress is very autistically coded: logical, with justice sensitivity and ...

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  Image by Michelle Pitzel from Pixabay   Hello Writers! Back in my very distant childhood, June was freedom from the stress of being the perfect, well-behaved student. At last, no worries about finishing homework, finding someone to sit with at lunch, or whether my best friend was talking to me that day. The summer of 1965, I was 13 ...

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Photo by Atilla Bingöl on Unsplash   Hello Writers!   Maya Angelou said, “Every storm runs out of rain.” April was not shy of rain. As a matter of fact, April exceeded her typical showers and brought us catastrophic flooding. Fortunately, I wasn’t in an area impacted by the rains, but I’ve certainly felt the emotional rise of floodwater. The ...

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  Join us for a peaceful day of writing among friends at the Valaterra Retreat Center in La Grange, Kentucky. There will be time and space for writing, conversation, walking the trails, and peer critique. Bring a work-in-progress or write something new! We’ll provide a prompt for inspiration. Registration opens on the WWW website on May 12 at 10:00 am. ...

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  Join us for our monthly meeting—beginning 6:30 PM and ending at 8:30 PM. We meet in-person at a Louisville Free Public Library. More information is sent in the monthly newsletter. We enjoy lively conversation about the writing life, including peer critiques of short manuscripts—poetry or prose. The strength-based peer critiques affirm each woman’s unique writing style while providing helpful revision suggestions.  On May 13, we’re back at the St. Matthews library branch with a special poetry ...

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Photo from Istock Hello Writers!   Teaching Old Dogs… I haven’t set foot in a college classroom for 18 years, but for some reason, I don’t feel anxious at all, even as I clock the fact that everyone except the professor is clearly in their early 20s while I am dangling here on the precipice of 60. In fact, I ...

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by Holly Hinson Photo by Young Kyung Kim on Unsplash   March 26, 2025   Beautiful leather jacket I had begged my dad to buy for me at the mall, when I was 15, at a neighborhood keg party in somebody’s garage. My dream to be a ballet dancer, when I was 11, and the dance instructor gently told me ...

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Photo by Liz Roach Smith   Hello Writers! In Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen, Laurie Colwin writes: “No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.” Cooking is alchemy, bringing together disparate ...

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