WNBA-Books

Connecting, Educating, Advocating & Leading since 1917

  • Join WNBA
    • Join the WNBA or Renew Your Membership
    • Network Membership
    • WNBA Membership Benefits
    • Sustaining Memberships
  • Events
    • Giveaways
  • Great Group Reads
    • Great Group Reads
      • 2024 Great Group Reads
      • 2023 Great Group Reads
      • 2022 Great Group Reads
      • 2021 Great Group Reads
      • 2020 Great Group Reads
        • 2020 Great Group Reads Selection Committee
      • 2019 Great Group Reads
      • 2018 Great Group Reads
      • 2017 Great Group Reads
      • 2016 Great Group Reads
      • 2015 Great Group Reads
      • 2014 Great Group Reads
      • 2013 Great Group Reads
      • 2012 Great Group Reads
      • 2011 Great Group Reads
      • 2010 Great Group Reads
      • 2009 Great Group Reads
    • National Reading Group Month
  • Programs
    • WNBA Award
    • WNBA Authentic Voices Fellowship
    • WNBA Eastman Grant
    • WNBA Pannell Award for Bookstores
    • Second Century Prize
  • Members
    • WNBA Volunteer Opportunities
    • Submit Your Member News
    • Member Blogs
    • Member Books
    • Member Services
  • About WNBA
    • National Board Members
      • WNBA History
        • Centennial
        • WNBA Archives
    • United Nations Affiliation
    • Literacy Partnerships
    • Privacy Policy
    • Contact Us
    • Support Us
      • Shop
  • Sign Up |WNBA Newsletter
Home » Women's National Book Assocation

WNBA Members’ Noteworthy News: May 2019

Book cover for Nancy Werkling Poling's While Earth Still Speaks

The Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) celebrates its talented membership each month by posting WNBA Members’ Noteworthy News. Check out what our members have been up to!

The Volunteer Gene

Group of people sit together with open notebooks and books on their laps.

Some of us were born with the Volunteer Gene. So, we really can’t help it — when we hear, “I want to make this happen, but I can’t do it alone,” and “this” sounds like a great idea — we’re there! Finding Your People I joined WNBA-DC in the mid-2000s. At the time I was […]

The New Kid on the Block: Gaining and Retaining New Members

Women's National Book Association logo is on a white background.

When I was growing up, we moved about every five years. That meant I was always the “new kid on the block” and the new kid in grammar school, junior high, and high school. Always entering a room, a group, an activity filled with people who had known each other for a long time and […]

Showcase Your Book

Women in the Literary Landscape

Women in the Literary Landscape

Karmafornia, by NC Weil

Karmafornia, by NC Weil

A Daughters Kaddish, by Sarah Birnbach

A Daughters Kaddish, by Sarah Birnbach

Destinys Daughter, by Frances Altman

Destinys Daughter, by Frances Altman

Museum of the Soon to Depart, by Andy Youngg

Museum of the Soon to Depart, by Andy Youngg

The Awesome Book of Queer Heroes, by Kathleen Archambeau and Eric Rosswood

The Awesome Book of Queer Heroes, by Kathleen Archambeau and Eric Rosswood

Lost Seeds -The Beginning, by Teresa Sebastian

Lost Seeds -The Beginning, by Teresa Sebastian

The Murmur of Everything Moving: A Memoir by Maureen Stanton

The Murmur of Everything Moving: A Memoir by Maureen Stanton

In This Burning World: Poems of Love and Apocalypse, by Mary Mackey

In This Burning World: Poems of Love and Apocalypse, by Mary Mackey

Of White Ashes, by Constance Hays Matsumoto

Of White Ashes, by Constance Hays Matsumoto

Crystal Lake Gifts, by Susan W. Green

Crystal Lake Gifts, by Susan W. Green

Lake Song: A Novel in Stories, by Lesley Bannatyne

Lake Song: A Novel in Stories, by Lesley Bannatyne

Outside Voices, by Joan Gelfand

Outside Voices, by Joan Gelfand

Copyright © 2025 · Women's National Book Association. | All rights reserved | Site-AskMePc |