One way to become a better writer is to read good work, over and over. Read The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Courier-Journal, Today’s Woman, Leo, the Louisville Defender, material from the canon and classics, and the bizarre. Another way to improve is to bring your material to WWW meetings. Make about 20 double-spaced copies. If needed, ...

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Dear Women Who Write Members, Although this Thursday is the Pegasus Parade, Women Who Write will meet as usual at the Highlands Shelby Park Branch of the Louisville Free Public Library in Mid City Mall from 6:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. Also this month, we are having a new member luncheon for all WWW members. Please come Saturday, May 14, ...

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Long-time WWW member Jeannie Waldridge won first place in a WOW! Women on Writing Winter 2015 flash fiction contest for her piece “The Church Meeting.” The genre usually limits the word count to less than a few hundred. Unlike most writers who need a quiet environment, Jeannie craves chaos. She said, “I like to have noise and activity. If things ...

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Dear Fellow Writers, The previous board deserves a grand thank you for sustaining a viable organization that supports women’s voices. Those wonderful women include Jessica Luetzow as director; Paula Dillman as associate director; Susan E. Lindsey as communication, public relations, and newsletter editor; Charlet Johnson as secretary; and Holly Hinson as treasurer. Thank you, ladies, for helping the new board ...

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Selene Phillips, Director: Selene is a member of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe nation in Wisconsin. She is a professor at the University of Louisville in the Communication Department, where she teaches writing and Native American Studies. Her “i miss lac du flambeau” piece won the 2013 WWW International Poetry Contest. Besides writing, she enjoys her ...

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Here we are at the end of the year and the end of my two-year term! I can hardly believe how quickly the past two years have flown by. I would be remiss if I didn’t wholeheartedly thank the incredible women who served on the board with me. It seems like only yesterday I was stepping into the high-heeled lace-up ...

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It was another great year for the Kentucky Book Fair, the state’s premier literary event. This year’s book fair was on Saturday, Nov. 14, in Frankfort. Nearly 200 authors attended the fair, including David Bell, Wendell Berry, Sallie Bingham, George Ella Lyon, Bobby Ann Mason, Sharyn McCrumb, Kim Michele Richardson, Virginia Smith, James Alexander Thom, and many others.

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Many regional writers and readers were crushed when Crystal Wilkinson and Ronald Davis closed their Lexington bookstore, Wild Fig, last February. We’re thrilled to learn that the couple is reopening the store. Wild Fig Books & Coffee, now at 726 N. Limestone in Lexington, features about 4,000 new and used titles, and clothing, bags, and other items with literary themes. ...

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Our Women Who Write members have been very busy writing this past month! From poetry to short stories, essay to memoir, many of our members have been exploring the craft of writing. We have been presented with a unique opportunity to showcase and celebrate the work of some of our members at a “Mostly Memoir” reading at the Bard’s Town ...

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After a long hot summer—much of it spent like Tennessee Williams’s cat on a hot tin roof—we welcome shorter days, dropping temperatures, and changing leaves. All of us heave a sigh of relief anticipating the pleasures of autumn, a transitional season. “Change is good,” we all say. And so it will be for the board of Women Who Write. Every ...

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