By Erin Wood
Are you ready to meet fifty Arkansas women who will challenge the way you think about identity, entrepreneurialism, community, and what it takes to lead a creative life?
Women Make Arkansas: Conversations with 50 Creatives features my conversations with women of diverse and dynamic pursuits, including names that Hot Springs residents will recognize, like entrepreneur Briana Moore (Larkmartin Soaps, Red Light Roastery) and former kombucha brewer Jenny Lively, as well as a poem by Hot Springs Poetry Night Host Kai Coggin.
Beyond Garland County, interviews include those with the former Arkansas Poet Laureate, a fire performer, a film production designer, a hatter, a drag queen, an aspiring time traveler, the state’s first certified chocolatier, and a ceramicist who has made more than one hundred thousand blades of porcelain grass.
Together, these women bravely reveal how they quiet negative voices (whether from critics’ mouths or inside their own heads), channel their intuition, and work hard as hell to bear out their visions. The failures, victories, and wisdom of these bold creatives will open you to infinite possibilities on the way to your own creative freedom. The book includes advice for those aspiring to lead more creative lives, so it makes a great gift for the maker in your life as well.
Order your signed copy at etaliapress.com today and use code SPRINGMAG10 for 10% off. An 8.5 x 11 paperback with more than 250 color images, Women Make Arkansas is also available through local and national booksellers.
Hot Springs native Erin Wood is a writer, editor, and publisher in Little Rock. She owns and runs etaliapress.com. Wood is the author of “Women Make Arkansas: Conversations With 50 Creatives” (2019) and editor of and a contributor to “Scars: An Anthology” (2015). {Additional book reviews by Erin Wood can be found on our website at TheSpringsMagazine.com/ARBooks.}
