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ANNE LEIGH PARRISH is an 11-time Indie Award winning author. Her most recent book – WOMEN WITHIN – has been awarded BEST FICTION for 2017 from the Maxy Awards. The Maxy Awards are dedicated to awarding excellence for indie and self-published authors.
Women Within negotiates multiple point-of-view to offer a pitch-perfect and strikingly insightful exploration of what it means to be a caregiver, and to be cared for in modern America. It touches on themes including: feminist issues, reproductive rights, social and educational inequality and friendship to name a few. Parrish can discuss her book in depth – but also give key tips in finding and developing the writer in you:
Embrace the genre.
Focus on setting.
Be a psychologist.
Check on the kids.
Nail down the key relationships.
Parrish can also answer:
In Women Within – you cover a lot of feminist issues. Why are you inspired to cover feminist issues, particularly reproductive rights?
In regards to the book, Women Within, do the characters model real people in your own life?
What was the point in your life that you remember you wanted to be a writer?
You have published over 40 short stories and 2 novels. How do you keep it fresh?
You are an 11-time Indie Award winning author. What does it mean to you to be an Indie author?
About the Maxy awards: http://www.maxyawards.com/
Parrish’s other honorable mentions:
Finalist in the short story category, 2017 International Book Awards, By the Wayside
Winner, Literary Fiction, 2015 Book of the Year Award, What Is Found, What Is Lost
Finalist in the literary fiction category, 2015 International Book Awards, What Is Found, What Is Lost
Finalist in the short story category, 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Our Love Could Light The World
Finalist in the short story category, 2013 Best Books Awards, Our Love Could Light The World
Finalist in the literary fiction category, 2013 Best Books Awards, Our Love Could Light The World
Finalist in the short story category, 2013 International Book Awards, Our Love Could Light The World
Finalist, 2013 Jack Dyer Fiction Prize, “An Act of Concealment”
Finalist, 2012 Writers @ Work Fellowship Competition, “At Home”
2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal for Best Short Story Fiction, All The Roads That Lead From Home
About the book: With themes of reproductive rights and feminism, this multi-generational novel presents three women whose paths cross at the Lindell Retirement Home. Constance Maynard, fierce, independent and proud, reflects on her long life promoting women’s rights through her career as a professor of history. Eunice Fitch, the perfect caregiver, is often unlucky in love, yet even in middle age refuses to give up searching for the perfect man. Sam Clark is a young aide with a passion for poetry and, small beautiful things, but at war with her own large, ungainly physique. All together they weave a tapestry as rich and complex as the female experience itself. For fans of: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields and Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively.
About the author: ANNE LEIGH PARRISH is the author of over forty published short stories, and numerous articles on the art and craft of writing, a list of which may be found on her website. Her most recent book, a short story collection, By The Wayside, was published in February 2017 by Unsolicited Press. Earlier titles are All The Roads That Lead From Home, stories (Press 53, 2011); Our Love Could Light The World, stories (She Writes Press, 2013); What Is Found, What Is Lost, a novel (She Writes Press, 2014). Visit her on Facebook and on Twitter.