Karelia has taught writing for fifteen years, including ten years as tenured faculty at Linn-Benton Community College in Oregon. She loves watching her students find their voices. She believes in the power of writing to transform lives. She writes every day and encourages her students to do the same. Her mantra as a teacher and a writer comes from Mary Oliver who said, “Writing is like going on a date. Nothing happens if you don’t show up.” Karelia has a BA in comparative lit

by Finn Burnett WHAT TO TRY WHEN YOU’RE BLOCKED When that happens, sometimes the best thing to do is take a short break. After the break, come back to your work ready to roll up your sleeves and get back to it. Writer’s block, like death and taxes, happens. We get wrapped up in our own lives, our self-care falls apart, or the creative ideas just don’t come. We reached out to some of our favorite writers in the women-loving-women writing world for their thoughts on writer’s bl

In 1929, Virginia Woolf published her (now famous) extended essay, A Room of One’s Own (Hogarth Press), which examined the role of money which was used (then, as now) to stifle or empower the creative lives of women (and, let’s face it, men, and, well, everyone). Nearly a hundred years on, we reflect on the endearing importance of a dedicated space where writers may go to reflect and create in a new series: A Space of One’s Own. Author and Writing Academy instructor, Karelia