On Thursday 6\/23 at 1-2pm ET, I’m hosting one of my favorite authors for a frank conversation about writing\/life integrity on She Writes Radio from 1-2pm ET.\u00a0 Here’s a description, and how to join in, plus a tweet — thanks for any help the word!<\/p>\n
Recalibrating Writing\/Life Balance in a Digital World: A Conversation with Dani Shapiro and Deborah Siegel (6\/23, 1-2pm ET)<\/strong><\/p>\n Bestselling author Dani Shapiro\u00a0and Girl w\/Pen’s Deborah Siegel\u00a0contemplate the precarious balance of being a writer while living this social media-filled life.\u00a0\u00a0How do you carve out time when Facebook and email beckon? Does your outer atmosphere reflect your inner writerly needs? Listen for thoughts from two wired authors, both currently between books, on the quest for quiet.<\/p>\n Dani Shapiro is the bestselling author of the memoirs\u00a0Devotion <\/em>and\u00a0Slow Motion<\/em>, and five novels including\u00a0Black & White<\/em>.\u00a0Her<\/a> work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, and more, and has been widely anthologized. She has taught at Columbia, NYU,<\/a> The New School and Wesleyan University, and is co-founder of the Sirenland Writers Conference. She is a contributing editor at Travel + Leisure.<\/p>\n Deborah Siegel, PhD, Founding Partner of\u00a0She Writes, is an expert on gender, politics, and still-evolving feminism. She is the author of\u00a0Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild<\/a>, co-editor of the anthology\u00a0Only Child: Writers on the Singular Joys and Solitary Sorrows of Growing Up Solo<\/a>, founder of the blog\u00a0Girl w\/Pen,<\/a> and co-founder of the webjournal The Scholar & Feminist Online.\u00a0Her work has appeared in venues including The Washington Post, Ms., The Huffington Post.\u00a0In The Pink and Blue Diaries<\/a>, Deborah blogs\u00a0about\u00a0gender, parenthood, writing, and life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Listen online at: http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/s_w\/2011\/06\/23\/recalibrating-writinglife-balance-in-a-digital-world<\/a><\/p>\n