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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. […]

2020–2021 WNBA Authentic Voices Fellows

We are thrilled to announce our 2020–2021 WNBA Authentic Voices Fellows! This inaugural class of fellows participated in a four-month-long program that introduced them to publishing. Fellows attended courses with industry professionals and were taught about writing, editing, marketing, and publication. Fellows were paid a stipend and had their work published in our inaugural edition […]

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 […]

Win Anna Eva Mimi Adam: WNBA Bookish Giveaways

Anna Eva Mimi Adam Book Giveaway This short, but affecting, novel tells the story of four generations. Narrated by each of the characters, the story explores family dynamics, the complexities of relationships, and how one act of violence forever echoes through and shapes a family. Anna Eva Mimi Adam is 2020 Great Group Reads selection. This giveaway […]

Win a Copy of Invented Lives: WNBA Bookish Giveaways

Invented Lives Book Giveaway When Galina Kogan’s mother dies, the young, Jewish book illustrator chooses to leave Soviet Russia for permanent exile in Australia.  A deep examination of otherness, of inhabiting different lives, of art, and of identity pervade this detailed novel of belonging. Invented Lives is 2020 Great Group Reads selection. Please use the form below […]

Win a Copy of The Beauty of Your Face: WNBA Bookish Giveaways

The Beauty of Your Face Book Giveaway One of the New York Times‘s 100 Notable Books of 2020 • Longlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize School principal Afaf Rahman crouches in a former confessional as a school shooter guns down students at the Nurideen School for Girls in Chicago.  This is a propulsive […]

Win a Copy of Wild Game: WNBA Bookish Giveaways

Wild Game Book Giveaway: March 2021 When Rennie’s glamorous mother, Malabar, entrusts Rennie with the knowledge of her affair with her husband’s best friend, Rennie is thrilled to become her mother’s confidante.  This memoir of mothers and daughters, complicity, lies, and secrets is astonishing, self-reflective, and honest. Wild Game is 2020 Great Group Reads selection. This […]