Writing | Sheila Collins

On Receiving a Book Award

by Sheila Collins | Oct 1, 2014 | book promotion, Writing

The email to inform me that I had won a book award last week went to my spam folder. A voice mail message on my home phone delivered the news that Warrior Mother had won a silver in the category of “Inspirational Memoir – female” for the 2014 Independent Publishers’...

Speaking My Mind

by Sheila Collins | Sep 18, 2013 | Art & Life, Meditations, Women, Girls & the Feminine, Writing

As a writer with a new book out, I’m not turning down any invitations to read my work in front of an audience. I had the privilege last Sunday of participating in an outdoor literary event sponsored by the City of Asylum/Pittsburgh....

Excerpt from “Warrior Mother”

by Sheila Collins | May 28, 2013 | Book Excerpts, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Past Events, Personal Stories, Publications, Rituals, Writing

People would often say to me, “This isn’t the way it’s supposed to be, children dying before their parents.” They said it when my thirty-one-year-old son, Kenneth, died of AIDS and again, seven years later, when my forty-two-year-old daughter, Corinne, died of breast...

Is The Story True?

by Sheila Collins | Mar 1, 2013 | Book Excerpts, Personal Stories, Writing

In a recent column, Maureen Dowd raised the question, “Why can’t filmmakers tell the story as it actually was?” Lamenting the creative license taken in Oscar nominated films, she objected to the fabricated car chase in Argo, done for dramatic effect, and the...

The Path of a Warrior Mother

by Sheila Collins | Jan 29, 2013 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, Personal Stories, Writing

In looking at images for the cover of my book, Warrior Mother, I discovered early on that pictures of a skinny woman, dressed in battle gear, brandishing a sword were totally irrelevant. I found in Native American folklore, references to the path of the spiritual...

Learning to Take Turns

by Sheila Collins | Jan 6, 2013 | Personal Stories, Writing

The holidays take us away from our daily rituals and that’s both the good and bad part of it, so this is the first chance I’ve had to get back on the horse of my writing practice. As I write, the image of one of the highlights of my holidays comes to me, my four-month...

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On Receiving a Book Award

Speaking My Mind

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Is The Story True?

The Path of a Warrior Mother

Learning to Take Turns

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