Updates from the Wisconsin woods
A Winter’s Rime Receives 2024 WLA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Fiction
The Literary Awards Committee of the Wisconsin Library Association annually selects outstanding books by Wisconsin-connected authors and awards them WLA Literary Awards. These are the Wisconsin authors recognized for outstanding achievement for books published in the previous year.
Reading List: The best novels about badass women living in rural wilderness
Shepherd is an online database designed to help readers by creating an experience that’s like wandering the aisles of your favorite bookstore. They asked me to put together a “BEST NOVELS” list and this is what I came up with. All their lists are fun and fantastic and designed to help you find your next great read. I hope you enjoy my list!
Book Signing: Carol Dunbar will be at The Bookstore at Fitgers
Come visit me on Saturday, February 3, 2024 at The Bookstore at Fitgers for an author signing! I’ll be present from 12 to 2 p.m.
Save the date: Carol Dunbar is coming to the Boston area for an author event!
I am so thrilled to offer an event for my East Coast family and friends in the Boston area of Massachusets. Save the date and RSVP for your seat. Wine and light snacks will be served in the historic Book Ends bookshop surrounded by brick sidewalks in downtown Winchester. Event starts at 7 pm.
A Winter’s Rime featured on WTMJ: The Morning Blend
Carol Dunbar, author, former actor, playwright and coloratura soprano joins us to talk about her recently released novel, "A Winter's Rime." A novel about looking to nature to find what it can teach us about bearing hardship and expanding our capacity to forgive—not just others, but ourselves.
How Do You Know When It’s Done?
What a tree taught me about letting go after working on a book for 12 years.
An in-depth conversation with MPR host Kerri Miller
Novelist Carol Dunbar lives in the woods of northern Wisconsin, and it shows in her new book, "A Winter's Rime." It follows 25-year-old Army veteran Mallory Moe as she struggles to come to grips with her past during a bleak Midwest winter.
— MPR NEWS with Kerri Miller
Episdoe September 15, 2023
What Writing Under the Constant Threat of Deluge Taught Me about the Creative Process
It felt like a monsoon, but we were not outside, there was no wind or sky; we were in my writing studio on the second floor of a water tower. Whenever I do creative work, I do it with two, two-hundred-and-fifty-gallon tanks of water overhead.
4 Things I Learned About Trauma While Writing My Latest Novel
Sometimes, when we hear a label or a term, and we think we know what it means, we stop paying attention. The word trauma turned out to be one of those terms I thought I understood.
A Winter’s Rime Featured on WDIO: The Lift
“I was doing a lot of research, I was reading reports, I interviewed a lot of experts,” she said. “And then my first big realization was, oh, I’m writing about PTSD. And I was surprised by that.”
