Hollye Dexter
Mom. Author. Singer. Rabble-Rouser.
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Defending The Help

by Hollye Dexter | Aug 24, 2011 | Controversy The Help, Kathryn Stockett, racism, South, The Help, writing

The Help was one of those books I literally couldn’t put down (and it’s been a long time since I felt that way about a book).  Then I saw the movie, and was so moved by it. So I am saddened to see such heated controversy surrounding it. In the book, Stockett...

If at First You Don’t Succeed…

by Hollye Dexter | Aug 8, 2011 | how to get published, Kathryn Stockett, persistence, The Help, writers and rejection, writing, writing rejection

I recently read an interview with Kathryn Stockett, author of the New York Times #1 bestselling novel The Help, which is now being made into a film. She said her book was initially rejected by 60 agents and publishers. 60!4 agents rejected my first book, and I went...

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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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