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Hannah Oliver Depp Wins 2021 WNBA Award

The Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) announces that the 2021 WNBA Award winner is Hannah Oliver Depp, owner of Loyalty Bookstores in Petworth, DC and downtown Silver Spring, MD.  “Nominations for this year’s award ran the gamut from publisher to children’s book author to biographer,” said NC Weil, WNBA Award chair. “What distinguishes Oliver Depp is her meritorious work […]

Win a Copy of Writing Wild: WNBA Bookish Giveaway

Writing Wild Book Giveaway In Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural world. These inspiring wordsmiths are scholars, spiritual seekers, conservationists, scientists, novelists, and explorers. They defy easy categorization, yet they all share a bold authenticity that makes their work both distinct and universal. […]

Win a Copy of You Don’t Have to Be Everything: WNBA Bookish Giveaway

You Don’t Have to Be Everything Book Giveaway Created and compiled just for young women, You Don’t Have to Be Everything is filled with works by a wide range of poets who are honest, unafraid, and skilled at addressing the complex feelings of coming-of-age, from loneliness to joy, longing to solace, attitude to humor. These unintimidating poems offer […]

2020 WNBA Writing Contest Creative Nonfiction Winner: “In Gettysburg” by Jess Smith

Congratulations to Jess Smith for winning first place for creative nonfiction in the 2020 WNBA Writing Contest! You can read the winning entry, “In Gettysburg,” below. In Gettysburg Mary Virginia Wade, known as Ginnie or Jennie, was the only civilian casualty of the Battle of Gettysburg. Ginnie was also, by all official records, the only […]

2020 WNBA Writing Contest Poetry Winner: “Where/There” by AKaiser

Congratulations to AKaiser for winning first place in poetry for the 2020 WNBA Writing Contest! You can read the winning entry, “Where/There,” below. Where/There Where  her body ceases                      to be the pinto bean-sized version of her being swallowed up     in an easy chair.              She unhinges    her hip […]

Congratulations to the 2020 Writing Contest Winners!

The Women’s National Book Association congratulates the winners of the 2020 WNBA Writing Contest. Every year, hundreds of writers submit their very best writing. This year’s categories were fiction, creative nonfiction, flash prose, and poetry. The contest is open to both WNBA members and non-members. WNBA members get a 25% discount off of the entry fee. […]

Win a Copy of Victory for the Vote: WNBA Bookish Giveaways

Victory for the Vote Book Giveaway Women’s history expert Doris Weatherford’s Victory for the Vote: The Fight for Women’s Suffrage and the Century that Followed offers an engaging and detailed history of the women’s suffrage movement and brings readers up to date on key achievements—and challenges—in women’s equality since then. A foreword by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi […]

Win a Copy of The Hierarchies: WNBA Bookish Giveaways

The Hierarchies Book Giveaway Sylv.ie is an AI created solely to serve her Husband, a human man who lives with his wife and their baby on the floors below Sylv.ie’s attic room. As Sylv.ie adapts to her Husband’s wants and needs, she gains consciousness, agency, and humanity, leading her to question her role in her husband’s […]

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