Black History Month Spotlight: Charlemae Hill Rollins
In honor of Black History Month and the WNBA Award, we’re shining the spotlight on Charlemae Hill Rollins, the first black woman to win the award.
Category: Features
What’s your favorite banned book?
WNBA-NYC members share their favorite banned books and the reasons they were banned or challenged. Some of those reasons may surprise you.
WNBA Shines at the Heart of the Brooklyn Book Festival
Members of WNBA-NYC had a great time meeting others in publishing at Brooklyn Book Festival 2016 to talk about WNBA, books, and publishing. Click to read more about BBF.
National Women’s Equality Day – How it Started
National Women’s Equality Day celebrates the passage of the 19th Amendment, on August 26, 1920, granting women full and equal voting rights. Find out how it started.
Living the Creative Life: Laughter, Knowledge, Experience, Advice
by Rachel Slaiman and Linda Rosen On October 5th, WNBA members gathered in the Willa Cather Room of the Jefferson Market Library for conversation with actor and director Estelle Parsons and authors Lynne Sharon Schwartz and Hilma Wolitzer. Our own Rosalind Reisner moderated the lively, informative and very humorous panel…
Movie, Book Signing plus Q&A with ROOM author Emma Donoghue
Ma, Room and its contents are the only people 5-year-old Jack has ever known. He and Ma spend their days in a garden shed with a skylight interacting with Sink, Wardrobe, Bed, Bathtub, and TV. Because he has never known anything else he believes that everything in the 10×10 shed…
WNBA Recap: The Fantastic Adventures of Kim Gottlieb-Walker
It wasn’t a problem for Kim Gottlieb-Walker to take pictures of Bob Marley when his band mates and friends surrounded him at home. She showed me a few casual shots of Bob laughing with the band, hanging around the house, and talking with her own young son.
Amy King: What I Do (Part III)
This week, we celebrate Amy King, our 2015 WNBA Award Winner. Today, we share the third and final video in Amy’s three-part entitled “What I Do.” Want to support Amy? You can follow her on Twitter at @amyhappens or visit her website, amyking.wordpress.com. To make sure you don’t miss any more…
Amy King: “What I Do” (Part II)
This week, we celebrate Amy King, our 2015 WNBA Award Winner. Today, we share the second video in Amy’s three-part entitled “What I Do.” Want to support Amy? You can follow her on Twitter at @amyhappens or visit her website, amyking.wordpress.com. To make sure you don’t miss the third installment in…
Amy King: “What I Do” (Part I)
This week, we celebrate poet Amy King. She is the 2015 Women’s National Book Association Award Winner. Her award will be presented at the National Meeting in New Orleans on Saturday, June 5th. We thought our readers would enjoy Amy’s three-part video series: “What I Do.” Today, we’ve posted Part…
What’s your favorite banned book?
WNBA-NYC members share their favorite banned books and the reasons they were banned or challenged. Some of those reasons may surprise you.
WNBA Shines at the Heart of the Brooklyn Book Festival
Members of WNBA-NYC had a great time meeting others in publishing at Brooklyn Book Festival 2016 to talk about WNBA, books, and publishing. Click to read more about BBF.
National Women’s Equality Day – How it Started
National Women’s Equality Day celebrates the passage of the 19th Amendment, on August 26, 1920, granting women full and equal voting rights. Find out how it started.
Living the Creative Life: Laughter, Knowledge, Experience, Advice
by Rachel Slaiman and Linda Rosen On October 5th, WNBA members gathered in the Willa Cather Room of the Jefferson Market Library for conversation with actor and director Estelle Parsons and authors Lynne Sharon Schwartz and Hilma Wolitzer. Our own Rosalind Reisner moderated the lively, informative and very humorous panel…
Movie, Book Signing plus Q&A with ROOM author Emma Donoghue
Ma, Room and its contents are the only people 5-year-old Jack has ever known. He and Ma spend their days in a garden shed with a skylight interacting with Sink, Wardrobe, Bed, Bathtub, and TV. Because he has never known anything else he believes that everything in the 10×10 shed…
WNBA Recap: The Fantastic Adventures of Kim Gottlieb-Walker
It wasn’t a problem for Kim Gottlieb-Walker to take pictures of Bob Marley when his band mates and friends surrounded him at home. She showed me a few casual shots of Bob laughing with the band, hanging around the house, and talking with her own young son.
Amy King: What I Do (Part III)
This week, we celebrate Amy King, our 2015 WNBA Award Winner. Today, we share the third and final video in Amy’s three-part entitled “What I Do.” Want to support Amy? You can follow her on Twitter at @amyhappens or visit her website, amyking.wordpress.com. To make sure you don’t miss any more…
Amy King: “What I Do” (Part II)
This week, we celebrate Amy King, our 2015 WNBA Award Winner. Today, we share the second video in Amy’s three-part entitled “What I Do.” Want to support Amy? You can follow her on Twitter at @amyhappens or visit her website, amyking.wordpress.com. To make sure you don’t miss the third installment in…
Amy King: “What I Do” (Part I)
This week, we celebrate poet Amy King. She is the 2015 Women’s National Book Association Award Winner. Her award will be presented at the National Meeting in New Orleans on Saturday, June 5th. We thought our readers would enjoy Amy’s three-part video series: “What I Do.” Today, we’ve posted Part…
