Blog Editor, Author at Women's National Book Association

The Women’s National Book Association was founded in 1917 by female booksellers who weren’t allowed in the men’s organizations. Nearly 100 years later, the WNBA is still supporting women in the book industry through literary events, networking, literacy projects, workshops, open mic nights, book clubs, and many other entertaining programs throughout the season!

Members Write Now: J.L. Regen

“I don’t know how much longer I can live at home. Mama is working twice as hard since Jerry was laid off from his job at the newspaper.” – J.L. Regen shares an excerpt of her novel Secret Desires.

Bookish Events: March Edition

Literary events throughout March include a Time’s Up Panel hosted by the WNBA, an autobiographical play about growing up in a library, and a panel about how feminists changed New York.

Ladies Who Brunch Discuss Salt Houses and A Long Time Gone

When the Ladies Who Brunch discussed Salt Houses and A Long Time Gone, generational struggles and social pressure on women were two of the topics the groups focused on.

Bookish Events: February Edition

If you’re not too busy working on your submission for the WNBA Writing Contest (don’t forget, entries are due March 1st), break up the tedium of February with bookish events around the city!

Members Write Now: Diana Altman

“You are in the wrong skin, at the wrong time, in the wrong place.” – This month’s Members Write Now features an excerpt from Diana Altman’s story “In the Wrong Skin,” which will publish in The Notre Dame Review this spring.

Lady Jane’s Salon Ninth Anniversary Celebration

Join Lady Jane’s Salon for the ninth anniversary celebration on Monday, February 5! Not sure what Lady Jane’s Salon is? It’s romance + books + charity: a romance reading series launched by WNBA members that donates net procedes to charity.

2018 WNBA Writing Contest

Hey writers! You only have a bit more than a month left to get your fiction, poetry, nonfiction, or YA submission in for the 2018 WNBA Writing Contest, which includes a cash prize, publication in The Bookwoman, and publication in an anthology of winners!

WNBA Award Presentation to Dr. Carla Hayden

Last month, the WNBA presented Dr. Carla Hayden, the fourteenth Librarian of Congress, with one of the two centennial WNBA Awards!

Members Write Now: Sherring Dartiguenave

In this month’s Members Write Now, Sherring Dartiguenave’s personal essay expresses the path to finding expression through the color of her wardrobe.

WNBA Centennial: Looking Back, Forward, and Out

First; books of 1917; historical fiction

As cake was cut, awards were presented, and champagne bottles were popped, a sense of community and a shared love of reading pervaded the WNBA Centennial Celebration on Saturday, October 29th, as did the sense that looking back at 100 years is only the beginning. For all our shared history,…

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