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Writing About Family: Truth and Consequences

by Hollye Dexter | Apr 5, 2016 | telling the truth, truth in memoir, writing, writing about family, writing memoir

   Storytelling has existed since the beginning of humankind. Our stories are the connective tissue that holds humanity and possibly even the universe together. Poet and activist Muriel Rukeyser famously wrote, “The Universe is made of stories, not of...

Things Just Got Real…

by Hollye Dexter | Jan 14, 2015 | Amy Ferris, being published, Fire Season, memoir, telling the truth, writing

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG.ADVANCE READER COPIES JUST ARRIVED. Troy asked me, “How do you feel?” Hmmm…How do I feel? Excited. Nervous. Relieved. And maybe just a little bit like puking.Years of soul searching, hard work, ass-in-chair 24/7 writing...

What We Can Learn From a 7 Year Old

by Hollye Dexter | May 25, 2013 | family, Integrity, life lessons, living authentically, motherhood, parenthood, telling the truth

Sophia paints Evan’s faceYesterday, my neighbor Lorie pulled me aside and asked if my son Evan had told me about the bench.“No, what bench?” I asked.“The bench in front of my house that he broke,” she replied.Uh-oh, I thought.She continued, “Evan knocked on my...

Fraud Protection

by Hollye Dexter | Feb 4, 2012 | essay writing, Johnny Mathis, life story, memoir, self acceptance, telling the truth, UCLA, writing

Last week, as I was the visiting writer for a UCLA online writing class, one student told me how difficult it was for her to let others read her work, and asked me how to get over the fear of judgment. This is what I love about doing this class- writers ask such...

Grace in Bethlehem

by Hollye Dexter | Dec 15, 2011 | Amy Ferris, Bethlehem, Dancing At the Shame Prom, Fierce Grace, Pennsylvania, telling the truth, Wilson Phillips

December brings my birthday and the holidays. As a child, it was my favorite time of year, but these last ten years, being estranged from my family, I tend to get the blues. My sweet husband hangs Christmas lights and wears a Santa hat to cheer me up, and I do my...

And the award goes to…

by Hollye Dexter | Oct 28, 2011 | family, honesty, joy of parenting, living authentically, motherhood, parenthood, telling the truth

This morning Troy and I went to Evan’s school to watch him receive an award. I assumed it was something academic, as that’s Evan’s thing. He’s the kid that asks to do “extra” homework because it’s fun.  Instead, I was happy to find that he was given the...
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About Hollye

Hollye Dexter is author of the memoir Fire Season (She Writes Press, 2015) and co-editor of Dancing at the Shame Prom (Seal Press). Called “moving” and “inspiring on so many levels” by FIRST FOR WOMEN Magazine, Fire Season was also an NIEA finalist for BEST MEMOIR. Hollye’s essays and articles about women’s issues, activism and parenting have been published in anthologies as well as in Maria Shriver’s Architects of Change, Huffington Post, The Feminist Wire, Writer’s Digest and more. In 2003, she founded the award-winning nonprofit Art and Soul, running arts workshops for teenagers in the foster care system.

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