Amanda on Jun 08 2010 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Phyllis Carito lives in Claverack and has been in the Hillsdale area for over 30 years. She’s an administrator at SUNY Columbia Green Community College where she also teaches creative writing, a writer, and a frequent visitor to the Bookloft. She writes memoir, short stories, and poetry. Here’s what she had to share about the writing process:
All my [...]
Amanda on Jun 01 2010 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Another movie by women about women’s issues showing at BIFFMA (Berkshire International Film Festival) THIS WEEKEND:
Speed Grieving is about the incredibly confusing grief process and how we wish we could ‘fast-forward’ through it. Speed Grieving is excited to be part of the Berkshire International Film Festival in Great Barrington, MA and will be a part of the Film [...]
Amanda on May 25 2010 | Filed under: Uncategorized
The description Eula Biss’s book as listed on The Bookloft’s website calls it, “A frank and fascinating exploration of race and racial identity,” which it is. But really, this book goes so far beyond that–it’s an exploration of what it means to be a young woman in America, an idealist in New York City, a white [...]
Amanda on May 20 2010 | Filed under: Uncategorized
. . . some new members of the Berkshire Women Write! community. If you’d like to introduce yourself, please send me and email. And we welcome any detailed posts anyone would like to submit on the writing, publishing, teaching, etc. process. As always, feel free to comment!
Claudia M. Gold:
I have been in the Berkshires for over [...]
Amanda on May 11 2010 | Filed under: Uncategorized
“You want to write? Then write. But write for real from this moment on. Write with intent. With a goal.”
Marion Roach Smith’s recent guide to writing memoir opens with the advice that all writers know, but can never be reminded of enough: in order to write, you must write. But Smith goes beyond the old [...]
Amanda on Apr 29 2010 | Filed under: Uncategorized
This just in:
I’m a part-time writer from Germany, I work in a bookstore in Munich and in my rare private time I work on a novel which is placed in the beautiful Berkshires.
I spent several vacations there and while working on this novel I felt something is missing. The inspiring place. The Berkshires!
Booksellers don’t earn [...]
Amanda on Apr 29 2010 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Born in the early 1600’s as the daughter of the prominent painter Orazio Gentileschi in Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi is considered to be to one of the most important female painters in the history of art. Her father’s apprentice, Artemisia is credited with being one of the first painters to truly capture the likeness of the female body. Aside [...]
admin on Apr 06 2010 | Filed under: Uncategorized
It’s National Poetry Month—which always makes me feel a little ambivalent. There is a flurry of activity in April and then all will be quiet again. I have been asked to read at three different venues this month but chances are I won’t be asked to read again until next April. If I am lucky [...]
admin on Feb 25 2010 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Hello!
We know, we know, it’s been a long time. But we know you’re all still out there, so we’re resurrecting the Berkshire Women Write! online community from dormancy. I’m Amanda, the newest addition to The Bookloft team, and I will be in charge of maintaining this blog.
2009 was a good year for Berkshire women writers. [...]
admin on Apr 30 2009 | Filed under: Uncategorized
BERKSHIRE WOMEN WRITE! from Mati Kiin on Vimeo.
Event celebrating women writers, poets, publishers, bloggers and literary friends presently living and working in the Berkshires of Massachusetts; sponsored by The Bookloft and hosted at Rouge Restaurant in West Stockbridge, MA