Writing Fire celebrates the power of women's words with a wide-ranging exploration into the voices and visions of women of all ages, from many walks of life. From teens to seniors, from new mothers to great-grandmothers, this collection is brimming with the kinds of stories that have always been told around kitchen tables, but have not always made their way into print and the public sphere. Drawing on the collaborative energy of the Berkshire Festival of Women Writers, which celebrates Women's History Month with an outpouring of events designed to showcase and nourish women's creative expression, Writing Fire offers an intimate window into the strengths, passions and perspectives of more than 70 inspiring and unforgettable women.

Writing Fire: An Anthology Celebrating the Power of Women's Words

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Green Fire Press

Writing Fire celebrates the power of women’s words with a wide-ranging exploration into the voices and visions of women of all ages, from many walks of life. From teens to seniors, from new mothers to great-grandmothers, this collection is brimming with the kinds of stories that have always been told around kitchen tables, but have not always made their way into print and the public sphere. Drawing on the collaborative energy of the Berkshire Festival of Women Writers, which celebrates Women’s History Month with an outpouring of events designed to showcase and nourish women’s creative expression, Writing Fire offers an intimate window into the strengths, passions and perspectives of 69 inspiring and unforgettable women.

Browdy, Jennifer

Literary

WILL YOU SETTLE FOR LEAVING HALF THE WORLD’S WEALTH ON THE TABLE? In a world where women’s capital remains underused, angel investing—providing money, human capital, and expertise for start-up or early-stage companies—offers a potent opportunity for women to impact the future. The authors—all seasoned players in the global business and investment community—share their personal stories and insiders’ insights in a clarion wake-up call intended to activate new women angel investors. Both inspirational and actionable, Impact With Wings is a unique book offering the necessary tools and information for evaluating whether angel investing is an appropriate financial asset class for you. Whether you’re a woman who wants to tap into your previously dormant financial clout or an entrepreneur—of any gender—who wants to understand the huge potential of women’s economic influence, Impact With Wings will inform, educate, and inspire you.

Impact With Wings: Stories to Inspire and Mobilize Women Angel Investors and Entrepreneurs

Business & Money

Andrews, Suzanne

Bhikha, Jagruti

Kruger, Karen Bairley

Lim, Christine Emilie

Sin, Wingee

Yang, Hana

Finance

A Short Course in Happiness After Loss brings to us a powerful intersection of the science of positive psychology and the wisdom necessary to thrive when facing life’s harshest moments. In poetic, compassionate and yet fearless language, Sirois traverses the territories we most fear—death, exile, disease—and carefully lights pathways toward a happiness that includes the scars of our suffering and the bounty and goodness present within our world. Her work offers each of us, no matter the trials of our lives, a template for rising through pain into a steady, resilient and open heart, one capable of facing sorrow and loving fully and laughing richly anyway.

A Short Course in Happiness After Loss: (and Other Dark, Difficult Times)

SIROIS, MARIA

Parenting & Relationships

Warm and informal, this book is like having an experienced writing coach at your elbow. With a year's worth of thought-provoking, carefully constructed writing prompts and essays on craft, Jennifer Browdy offers guidance and companionship for the aspiring memoirist, encouraging you to dig deep into the storehouse of your memories to share the wisdom that only life experience can bring.

The Elemental Journey of Purposeful Memoir: A Writer's Companion

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

WRITING FIRE features powerful writing by more than 75 women of all ages and from many walks of life, most of them local to the Berkshire region. Including fiction, poetry, personal narrative, essays and humor, Writing Fire offers an intimate window into the strengths, passions and perspectives inspiring and unforgettable women writers.

Writing Fire: An Anthology Celebrating the Power of Women?s Words

WISDOM LESSONS, by Ojibwe Great-grandmother Mary Lyons, is the culmination of a lifetime steeped in indigenous spiritual traditions, as well as the proverbial school of hard knocks. At once plainspoken and lyrical, Grandmother Mary offers invaluable lessons for anyone interested in living in alignment with their higher self. A spiritual advisor, storyteller and wisdom keeper, she travels and teaches internationally, with a focus on healing children, families and communities from the negative effects of alcohol and drug addiction. After her own recovery, guided by her ancestors, she has dedicated her life to helping others, fostering and adopting many children with family problems, disabilities and fetal alcohol syndrome. Praise for Mary Lyons and Wisdom Lessons “Mary Lyons carries knowledge with a genuine smile, providing healing and love.” — Paula Looking Horse, Sioux elder and co-founder of World Peace &amp; Prayer Day “Mary inspires me to remember the past and look towards the future, all while living and laughing in the moment.” — Attorney Kathryn Holt Richardson “Her wisdom has changed my life.” — Ginny Blade, Adoption Support Network, St. Paul, MN

Wisdom Lessons: Spirited Guidance from an Ojibwe Great-Grandmother

Lyons, Mary

Community & Culture

Winner of the 2018 Nautilus Gold Award (category: Women) and 2018 Nautilus Silver Award (category: Social Change &amp; Social Justice). Bioneers co-founder Nina Simons offers inspiration for anyone who aspires to grow into their own unique form of leadership with resilience and joy. Informed by her extensive experience with multicultural women’s leadership development, Simons replaces the old patriarchal leadership paradigm with a more feminine-inflected style that illustrates the interconnected nature of the issues we face today. Sharing moving stories of women around the world joining together to reconnect people, nature and the land—both practically and spiritually—Nature, Culture and the Sacred is necessary reading for anyone who wants to learn from and be inspired by women who are leading the way towards transformational change by cultivating vibrant movements for social and environmental justice. "A compelling and honest tapestry of hard-earned personal and collective wisdom, honoring the earth and igniting the revolutionary ways of women." --Eve Ensler, founder of V-Day and author of The Vagina Monologues."The world seems to be divided into two kinds of people—those who divide everything into two, and those who don’t. Reading Nature, Culture and the Sacred is a step toward melting the false division into “feminine” and “masculine,” and allowing each of us to become fully human again and at last." — GLORIA STEINEM, Co-founder of Ms. magazine"Nature, Culture and the Sacred is the perfect book for this historical moment. Nina Simons not only knows the rare gifts of leadership women can offer, she also reveals how challenge and adversity brings these gifts forth more brilliantly and powerfully."— JOANNA MACY, author of World As Lover, World As SelfNINA SIMONS, cofounder of Bioneers, is a social entrepreneur passionate about reinventing leadership, restoring the feminine, and co-creating a healthy and equitable future for all life on Earth. An advocate for social and environmental healing, she speaks and teaches internationally on leadership and transformational social change and is dedicated to the value of creating truly diverse collaborations and connections among issues, leaders and movements.

Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens For Leadership

Simons, Nina

Management & Leadership

— A forgotten box of letters in a dark attic corner, messages from women friends written decades ago — — An intimate record of a time of great transition in how women experienced their daily lives and imagined their future —During the 1970’s and 80’s, Signe Eklund Schaefer and her young family moved often, within the United States and abroad. Handwritten letters, now relics of a pre-Internet world, were vital to her ongoing connection with friends and to her evolving sense of self. From the surprising discovery of these old letters she has woven a moving account of the reflections, mutual support and multi-dimensional exchanges between women friends, which offer a record of women’s lives five decades ago, and speak powerfully to contemporary social concerns. Exploring relationships, motherhood, children, personal development, career and friendship itself, the letters touch on the emerging women’s movement, efforts for world peace, and individual spiritual striving. The Epilogue offers new letters from these articulate and impassioned women, now in their 70’s and 80’s.

I Give You My Word: Women’s Letters as Life Support, 1973–1987

Schaefer, Signe Eklund

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Writing Fire: An Anthology Celebrating the Power of Women's Words

Writing Fire: An Anthology Celebrating the Power of Women's Words

Impact With Wings: Stories to Inspire and Mobilize Women Angel Investors and Entrepreneurs

A Short Course in Happiness After Loss: (and Other Dark, Difficult Times)

The Elemental Journey of Purposeful Memoir: A Writer's Companion

The Elemental Journey of Purposeful Memoir: A Writer's Companion

Writing Fire: An Anthology Celebrating the Power of Women?s Words

Wisdom Lessons: Spirited Guidance from an Ojibwe Great-Grandmother

Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens For Leadership

I Give You My Word: Women’s Letters as Life Support, 1973–1987