I’ve never been enthusiastic about writing prompts, but these were of a higher imaginative quality than anything I’ve encountered before.
Blog Posts on Writing and Authors
White Privilege
As I begin to re-read piles of research, looking for details I may have missed and will want to include in this final revision of Little Brother, I find myself face to face with this issue.
An Index of First Lines
We all need comfort, especially now with the pandemic raging across the nation. I was reminded of my all-time comfort sources: an open log fire, a line of poetry, and a beautiful overblown pink rose.
Little Brother
For the past four years, I’ve been chipping away at this complicated and difficult subject…
Nevertheless She Persisted: 30 Years of Women Writing Women’s Lives
The conference reminded me that we women offer each other extraordinary support and encouragement in all walks of life, essential to our achievement and even to our survival.
Sallie Bingham Reads
A wise interviewer asked me yesterday what I hoped to achieve through the presentation of my two current books…
Starting Something
I attended some of those early meetings, since my then-husband was one of the founding group, but I don’t remember venturing an opinion. In those days, the opinions of young women weren’t usually regarded.
Intemperate
We are riven, today, not only by righteous concerns for justice on all levels but by the need to express those concerns in very loud voices
Rage
Whether it’s black rage or white rage—justified or not—rage makes me uncomfortable.
Starting Again
The rest of us have to find a way to write bold and glittering and daring fiction without their form of fairy gold.