Women Writers

Heroine of the Day: Deborah Copaken Kogan

Yesterday a shit bomb was dropped on the internet in the form of an essay by photographer/TV producer/novelist Deborah Copaken Kogan entitled My So-Called Post Feminist Life in Arts and Letters which was posted on the Nation's website.

Talking Shonda Rhimes' Scandal on Melissa Harris-Perry

On this last week's Melissa Harris-Perry show she devoted a whole segment to Shonda Rhimes' show Scandal.  In the segment she is joined by Andrea Plaid, Heather McGee, Joy-Ann Reid and Janet Mock. 

SXSW Interview with Hannah Fidell, Lindsay Burdge and Kim Sherman of A Teacher

Trailer Watch: Farah Goes Bang - Directed by Meera Menon, written by Meera Menon and Laura Goode

Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival later this month is Meera Menon's Farah Goes Bang.

Interview with Karen Struck and Amanda Johns - Writers on Monday Mornings

For the last couple of months I have been enjoying the new series Monday Mornings created by David E. Kelley.  It's a hospital drama that focuses on the surgeons and the meeting each week (sometimes it seems more than weekly) where the doctors are confronted with challenges and issues that have...

Katie Dippold Signs 7-Figure Deal With Chernin Entertainment

Katie Dippold's writing future just got a little brighter.  Her film The Heat, directed by Bridemaids' Paul Feig and starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy hasn't even hit theaters yet, the confidence that both Chernin Entertainment and Fox have in the film -- specifically moving the...

Weekly Update April 5: Women-Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You

Award Winning Screenwriter and Novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Dies

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, an Oscar winning screenwriter and celebrated novelist, has died at the age of 85 from complications caused from a pulmonary condition.

Playwright's Horizons Stands Up and For Women Playwrights