Amanda on Aug 10 2010 | Filed under: Uncategorized
This was in the comments, but I thought I’d post it so you’d be sure to see it. I know there are plenty of good readers, editors, and feedback-givers out there.
Hello,
I am writing my first book after teaching in classroom over 30 years. Wanted to try something different and decided to use my journal entries [...]
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
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 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
admin on Mar 24 2009 | Filed under: Uncategorized
The Bookloft has long sensed the need for a place where the local writers can exchange ideas and experiences amongst themselves, as well as a vehicle for expressing themselves and updating their accomplishments to the general literary public. This website was established to become just that. Over the course of the next several months, The [...]
admin on Mar 24 2009 | Filed under: Uncategorized
The Bookloft initiated Berkshire Women Write! in conjunction with the Berkshire Festival of Women in the Arts sponsored by The Women’s Times and the Eighth Annual International Women’s Day Conference at Bard College at Simon’s Rock. This week-long event in early-March, 2009, featured the literary works of local women prominently displayed throughout the store for [...]
admin on Mar 19 2009 | Filed under: Uncategorized
The Berkshires and our surrounding area have been home to a myriad of talented and influential women writers over the years. Some of our most famous women authors include Edith Wharton, Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, to name a few. The Berkshire’s contemporary literary scene continues to enjoy hundreds [...]