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About allisongreenwriter

Author of The Ghosts Who Travel with Me, a memoir, and Half-Moon Scar, a novel.

Guest Post

Posted on October 6, 2012 by allisongreenwriter

Over at the Hedgebrook blog, I have a guest post this week.

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Blog Radio

Posted on September 17, 2012 by allisongreenwriter

“Película” was the one word I retained from my semester of high school Spanish. A bracelet of a word, consonants dangling from a chain of short vowels. It means “film.” I had taken French from seventh through eleventh grade. Faced … Continue reading →

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New Publication: “Ratification” in Calyx

Posted on August 6, 2012 by allisongreenwriter

Calyx has just published my essay “Ratification,” about growing up during the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment (click the link to purchase a copy). So here is the third-grader who was spooked by her anti-ERA teacher. She doesn’t look … Continue reading →

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The Urge for Going

Posted on July 23, 2012 by allisongreenwriter

Over thirty years ago I trolled the “Ave” of Seattle’s University District, about a mile from where my family moved when I started eighth grade. At Budget Records, I flipped through bins of bootlegged albums in white sleeves. I still … Continue reading →

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Partridge Family Feminism

Posted on July 10, 2012 by allisongreenwriter

I was seven years old when “The Partridge Family” broadcast the episode “My Son, the Feminist.” Keith, the heart-throb lead singer, offers to play music at a rally for Power of Women because his girlfriend Tina is a member (get … Continue reading →

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Rituals

Posted on July 3, 2012 by allisongreenwriter

Last year my partner’s best childhood friend died of cancer. Arline changed her Facebook profile picture to a photograph of herself and Alma, dancing on the sea wall in Panama in their high school uniforms. She kept that picture up … Continue reading →

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Favorite bookshelf

Posted on June 29, 2012 by allisongreenwriter

Setting up this web page, I decided to photograph my favorite bookshelf, the one with books by friends and mentors. Since you can’t see all their names, I’ll write them here: Ursula LeGuin, Tom Spanbauer, Jenefer Shute, and Rebecca Brown … Continue reading →

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Remembering the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment

Posted on June 25, 2012 by allisongreenwriter

Looking forward to the summer publication in Calyx of my essay “Ratification,” about growing up during the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment.

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