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Unreliable Mothers: The New Face of the Domestic Thriller

When it comes to parenting, there has been this growing shift in the cultural expectations of motherhood. It isn’t always easy dealing with the pressures of society putting a spotlight on how we parent. There then develops this level of imposture syndrome, where you constantly feel like you are failing…
Courtney Psak
August 22, 2025
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Spinning That Mixtape Magic

For listeners of a certain age, just the word "mixtape" may invoke a certain emotional response. The structure is simple: a series of songs, related by theme, artist, or feeling, selected and sequenced. A mixtape could be produced by a DJ for an audience, but there's a more intimate version:…
AudioFile
August 18, 2025
FictionListicles

Shining Through the Struggle

This month, WFWA is excited to celebrate the diamonds in the rough. We are spotlighting characters who encounter challenges and emerge stronger because of them. Sometimes the challenge is external — war, political upheaval, family dynamics. Sometimes it is internal — vengeance, fears, regrets. Sometimes it is a combination of…
Women's Fiction Writers Association
June 25, 2025
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Can A Book Become a Main Character?

You walk to your gate at the airport, pick a chair, stash your suitcase, and see, sitting next to you, a person reading the same book you are. You could talk to that person instantly, right? Because the book gives you common ground. It’s the reason you’re reading this article…
Hank Phillippi Ryan
July 29, 2025
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8 Books that Prove History Is Never Neutral

Some scars don’t fade and some threats don’t disappear. They evolve, adapt and burrow into the cracks of modern life, waiting … These thrillers don’t just tell stories, but rather dig up what we thought was buried — ideologies dressed in new skin, Cold War ghosts whispering through modern politics,…
Monique Snyman
July 22, 2025
Miscellany

How Modern Research and Fiction Illuminate Family Legacy

Family legacy has long captivated our imagination, whether in the form of domestic thrillers like The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell; classic stage plays like Shakespeare’s Hamlet; sweeping historical epics like Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex; or intimate personal narratives like Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. From hidden betrayals to whispered curses,…
Daco S Auffenorde
July 1, 2025
Miscellany

Where the Writer Ends and the Story Begins

It’s the most paradoxical idea of all. Somehow, it’s both the most tempting and the most potentially disastrous. Because if we’re supposed to “write what you love” and “write what you fear,” all of us have those same passions and apprehensions about the same thing: writing! So what could be…
Hank Phillippi Ryan
May 23, 2025