Women Writers, Women Books

10/09/2026

Remembering 9/11 By Caroline Bock, Author of The Other Beautiful People Caroline Bock

This year, tomorrow, 9/11, falls on a Friday. For me, 9/11 will always be a Tuesday. Twenty-five years ago, I woke up early after a sleepless night. I had a big day. Bravo cable network was holding a press conference at a swanky hotel downtown for our first reality series – The It Factor, and […...

09/09/2026

Wonderful review for Lee Upton's TABITHA, STAY UP! https://www.birchbarkediting.com/microlit-almanac-reviews/tabitha-stay-up-lee-upton-allison-renner

09/09/2026

Alicia Duncan's new book The Other Side of the Straitjacket was inspired by the tragedy of her mother, Donna Duncan, who chose medical assistance in dying (MAiD) despite struggling with mental health issues.

Looking for answers on how a woman who was struggling with mental health issues was allowed to end her life in this way, Alicia succeeded in launching a police investigation, the first of its kind in Canada. Alicia’s private heartbreak quickly became a matter of national controversy as she uncovered troubling gaps in medical safeguards.

The Other Side of the Straitjacket lays bare the human cost of end-of-life legislation and the devastating consequences of unrecognized mental health struggles.

We're featuring Alicia on the site today, link in comments.

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08/09/2026

Believe Your Story Matters: Seven Lessons from Writing a Memoir by Ebony Walden Ebony Walden

A few days ago, I was sitting on my couch, typing away on my laptop, when I heard four heavy thumps. I looked out the window and saw the UPS man leaving. On my porch sat four boxes of my new book. I lifted one of the thirty-pound boxes, carried it inside, and opened it […]

08/09/2026

Building with Memories: How Writing Down My Father’s Stories Became a Bridge to History by Donna Hills Patrick https://booksbywomen.org/building-with-memories-how-writing-down-my-fathers-stories-became-a-bridge-to-history-by-donna-hills-patrick/ Rootstock Publishing

For much of my professional life I worked in construction and space management. My work was about understanding how pieces fit together—to how take an idea, develop a plan, solve problems, and bring it all together into something that could stand on its own. I learned that building anything worthw...

08/09/2026

Happy Pub Day, Melissa Payne! IN THIS LIFE OR ANOTHER is out today, and Melissa interviewed her main characters for us! Check it out :-)

IN THIS LIFE OR ANOTHER On the brink of death, a man comes to terms with the life he lived versus the one he never pursued in an emotionally rich novel of parallel lives, redemption, and finding purpose. On the eve of his sixtieth birthday, mechanic Rusty Wilson takes a bullet to save the patrons [....

08/09/2026

"Launching my debut memoir, All Gifts defied every muscle memory I’d developed over the years."
Happy Pub Day Pandora Villasenor !!

The spreadsheet headers were crisp. The follow-up formulas were locked. The list of contacts was promising. I selected the elevator pitch for my memoir in the Notes app and copied it. Yet my thumb hovered over the DM. I couldn’t make myself paste. I closed the social app. Twenty-seven years of sal...

07/09/2026

"Someone happened to mention that thousands of women had worked in Britain’s forests during the Second World War and were known as Lumberjills. Thousands? I couldn’t understand how I had never heard of them."

At seventeen, Eileen Worsell left her job in a glass bottle factory in the hustle and bustle of Hackney, London, and volunteered for war work. She was sent to a Women’s Timber Corps training camp in a quiet, rural village in Suffolk. She began learning a job that few people in the 1940s believed a...

06/09/2026

From Family Silence to Storytelling: Huey Choi on Loss, Identity, Food, and Who Stole My Pork Belly?

Every family has a story, and sometimes, telling that story means confronting the parts of the past that have remained unspoken. In Who Stole My Pork Belly?, author Huey Choi opens the door to a deeply personal journey shaped by family, loss, identity, resilience, and healing. Rooted in Choi’s Kor...

06/09/2026

How I Learned to Write the Story Only I Could Tell https://booksbywomen.org/how-i-learned-to-write-the-story-only-i-could-tell/ by Tami Lou Castillo Hembury Books

When I committed myself ten years ago to write my memoir, The Mould Maker, about my relationship with my transgender father. I had to figure out how to set up a sustainable practice for, what was to me, a mammoth task. For most accomplished writers I know and have read about, the common advice is [....