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Marita Golden’s E-Newsletter – November 2012
November 10th, 2012
| Sisters Under the Skin |
 The Sisters Under the Skin Healing the Wounds of the Color Complex was a groundbreaking success in so many ways. I want to thank all who attended and who by their attendance created a little more love in the world!
A group of twenty-five diverse, courageous woman gathered to break down generations-old prejudice and beliefs. They were every hue, gay, straight, Baptist, Buddhist and everything in between, and their ages ranged from 13-68. The workshop sparked the kind of interest and conversation and coverage that signals important cultural change. If you want to find out more about the workshop and the media coverage it generated click on the links below: |
Marita Golden’s E-Newsletter – July 2012
July 10th, 2012
| Bermuda/Beaches/The Writing Life! |
 My writer’s cruise to Bermuda was more fun, more satisfying and more inspiring than I expected or imagined it could be. This was my first cruise. I have traveled all over the world, from Israel to Turkey to Sengal to Spain, but had never taken a cruise. I am glad that I finally did! The entire Royal Caribbean experience was first class, from excellent cuisine, an aesthetically stunning décor throughout the ship, to evening productions that rivaled shows I had seen on Broadway, to the professional, welcoming staff.
The writers in the workshop I conducted during the cruise were a talented and diverse group of women who created a nurturing sisterhood that brought out the best in each of them and in their writing. Young adult author Debbie Rigaud, www.debbierigaud.com, who lives in Bermuda with her husband, hosted us in her lovely home for an afternoon gathering during which she discussed her work and writing life. |
Women WRITE Now! Two
June 1st, 2011|
Women WRITE Now! Two: Blogs to Books to Bestsellers |
Women WRITE Now!
March 14th, 2011| Women WRITE Now! A seminar for women writers and women who want to write |
Do you want:  ~ advice about how to find an agent? ~ to find out how to sustain/improve your writing life? ~ to connect with experts in social media and self-publishing? ~ to understand the fast paced changes happening in the book industry? |
Marita Golden’s E-Newsletter – February 2011
February 17th, 2011Finding Time to Write!
The voice on the phone was tinged with desperation and confusion. The question was sincere and very simple: how do I get back my “flow” how do I regain the ability to write regularly and with power? The writer had attended a weeklong writing workshop where her novel was praised as compelling and skillful. Buoyed by the response to her writing she returned home but found that within a few weeks she had “lost” the ability to keep writing, that the inspiration that had carried her through the uncharted waters of the first 100 pages was now gone, faded, a distant memory she could no longer conjure or even remember. Her 9-5 and the demands of her life as wife and mother now seemed to have colonized all the time she once had used to write. The story was in her heart, filled her mind, but suddenly she just wasn’t’ “feeling” the story and now couldn’t find the time to write and felt guilty and depressed.
Winner – Khadijah Ali-Coleman
February 17th, 2011Khadijah Ali-Coleman of Fort Washington, MD was a winner of the essay contest “The Book That Changed My Life.” Below is the winning essay on Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blum:
I’ve been reading since I was three years-old. Then, my hands were barely big enough to hold a hard-cover illustrated storybook, my lap too small to hold the stacks of books I loved to pull from the shelves at the library. But, my love affair with words was immediate and addictive. Inquisitive (read: nosy) from birth, it seemed, learning to read was my passage-way into constantly unfolding stories and undiscovered worlds. During pre-teen years, my reading addiction led me to create a new type of insubordination that parenting manuals hadn’t prepare my mom for; she routinely had to reprimand me for neglecting my household chores in pursuit of finishing a new book I had checked out from the Book Mobile. So, when I became a new fan of Judy Blume’s young adult books, Mom’s job as disciplinarian became all the harder. For, my voracious appetite for books seemed only heightened when Judy Blume’s books came into my life. While Deenie, Tiger’s Eyes and Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing were loved, read, and re-read, nothing was as life-changing as Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret.