For those of you who attended last night’s Historical Fiction Panel, you got to see Wix Lounge – a free co-working and event space. Wix has been gracious enough to host a number of WNBA-NYC events, so this week we wanted to spread the word about this great free work…
WNBA-NYC member Lorraine Abramson has been successfully promoting her memoir, My Race: A Jewish Girl Growing Up Under Apartheid in South Africa (DBM Press, 2010), for over a year. Here are some of her thoughts on successful self-promotion. After being told how difficult it will be for a first time,…
WNBA-NYC members and their guests are invited to our first ever Indie Bookstore Crawl, which will take place on: Thursday, May 10, from 5:15 PM to 8:45 PM. This is a special, members-only event, which will be free to members and their guests. Led by WNBA member Marilyn Berkman, participants…
192 Books is a general interest bookstore located in Chelsea that houses a range of recent titles, past best-sellers, and selected rare and out of print books. They seek to “trace connections between art and literature by promoting a dialogue between readers and art lovers” and do so through various…
Carole DeSanti, a WNBA-NYC member and a panelist on the upcoming Historical Fiction Panel, is Vice President, Editor at Large at Viking Penguin. She is known for championing original voices in women’s fiction, including Dorothy Allison, Melissa Bank, Terry McMillan, Ruth Ozeki, Marisha Pessl and Deborah Harkness. Her debut novel,…
By Hannah Bennett Each year, the Pulitzer Prize is awarded to notable works in the fields of journalism, photography, literature, and musical composition. But this year, the most notable aspect of the Pulitzer Prize Board’s final decision was the announcement that two categories would have no winner – Editorial Writing…
Why is now the best time to join the NYC Chapter of the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA-NYC)? Because new memberships received over the next few months will extend through August 2013! If that’s not enough of a reason, our Membership Chairperson, Rachel Weiss-Feldman, explains all the great benefits below:…
The Moth is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to the art of storytelling, and to showcasing the nation’s finest storytellers. According to the website, The Moth, “is a celebration of both the raconteur, who breathes fire into true tales of ordinary life, and the storytelling novice, who has lived…
With the April 20th deadline fast approaching, we hope all you members have been thinking of nominations for this year’s WNBA Award. We’ve mentioned some previous winners, and now we want to tell you about them! Kathi Kamen Goldmark is an author, president of Don’t Quit Your Day Job Records,…
By Hannah Bennett Today’s digital world revolves around sharing. We have gotten hooked on passing along our favorite photos, status updates, videos, and memes. It should be no surprise, then, that the book community has found some innovative new ways to share books as well. Around the city, the country,…
