In the 1950s, a young publishing professional named Rona Jaffe heard about a book being made into a movie. It was written by a man, and to Jaffe, it missed the mark. RACHEL SYME: Rona read it and was ...
Seattle writer Alma Garcia was surprised enough by the first call from the Rona Jaffe Foundation telling her that she had been nominated for one of its $25,000 awards for emerging women writers "of ...
The 2018 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Awards have been presented to Chelsea Bieker (fiction/nonfiction), Lisa Chen (nonfiction), Lydia Conklin (fiction), Gabriela Garcia (fiction), Karen Outen ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — A literary prize that ...
Some things never change, and the way of life of the young woman trying to make it on her own in a big city is, perhaps, one of them. In 1991, I came to London to work as a trainee on a Sunday ...