by inannaadmin | Aug 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
Susan McCaslin,author of “Into the Open: New and Selected” and “Into the Mystic: My Years with Olga”, writes on the subject of spiritual guidance. “I’m guided by a signal in the heavens.” (from Leonard Cohen’s “First We Take...
by inannaadmin | Aug 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
Ursula Pflug, author of “Mountain” and “Motion Sickness” writes about Weimar and pre-Wende Berlin, activism, her writing, and the rise of white supremacy. “Fires Halfway,” my short story in the 2018 Snuggly Books anthology...
by inannaadmin | Aug 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
Nasreen Pejvack, author of “Amity” writes about world politics, war, media, debunking the idealized myth of the West, and the urgent need to work together to find a a way to combat chaos and bring peace to the earth. Many people from Latin American...
by inannaadmin | Jul 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
Huey Helene Alcaro, author of dystopian novel, “In the Land of Two Legged Women”, writes about The Myth of Sisyphus, the search for a publisher, and the journey of a writer finding her voice, and a home for her book. Sisyphus and Me One day I was...
by inannaadmin | May 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
On this day, May 20, in 1932, Amelia Earhart took off on a flight that would distinguish her as the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. She left from the town of Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, a place that still honours her with a statue beside the road as you...
by inannaadmin | Jan 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
Gail Benick, author of of “The Girl Who Was Born That Way”, writes about Edna O’Brien’s work and her astounding accomplishments over more than five decades . At the heart of “The Little Red Chairs” is a resourceful and resilient...
by inannaadmin | Aug 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
Ann Birch, author of The Secret Life of Roberta Greaves, writes about gender inequity, the perils of women’s washrooms, and a call to organize!At the first intermission of the opera, I run, leaping down the stairs as fast as I can in my fancy shoes. There are...
by inannaadmin | Apr 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Susan McCaslin blogs about writing, poetry, her love of books, and a lifetime of uncovering hidden literary treasures at the library.Many writers I most love were avid readers as children or became so at some point in their lives. For me as a child, reading was my...
by inannaadmin | Jan 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
Susan McCaslin, author of “Into the Mystic: My Years with Olga”, writes about poet John Keats and his shift from explorations of the “femme fatale” portrayal of women, to a deep identification with female wisdom figures. I first discovered the poetry of...
by inannaadmin | Dec 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
Peg Tittle, author of “What Happened to Tom”, writes about words, identifiers, naming, and the limitations of polite society.I’m in this world, okay, and the people identify each other by sex. All the time. It’s like ‘Female Person...
