At a spate of standing-room only readings, Unmasked: Women Write about Sex and Intimacy After 50 kicked off beautiful conversations with audiences in Taos, Santa Fe, Boulder, and Oakland this fall. Questions raised by men and women ranged from, “How exactly do we find and meet and revere one another?” to “Keep the stories coming! Can we find our way to the unscripted stories for lovers over 70?” Discussion focused on ways we can foster avenues for intimacy and how we can arri

"Unmasked, Women Write About Sex and Intimacy After Fifty," made the Taos Daily News in advance of a September reading there. "Unmasked" co-editors Marcia Meier and Kathleen Barry, along with anthology contributors Lisa Rizzo, Renata Golden (a Santa Fe resident), Santa Fe poet Barbara Rockman, and San Diego poet Tania Pryputniewicz read selections from the book and discussed sex, intimacy, dating and more at the Society of the Muse of the Southwest. The group spoke and read t

Episode #2 of the podcast Girl Talk: Women, Aging and Sexuality is here! Join host Marcia Meier and her guest Eva Haller as Haller discusses sex and intimacy in her eighties, and how important it is to remember that it's always about love. Haller is a social, educational, and environmental philanthropist and social justice champion, who contributed an essay to the award-winning anthology Unmasked Women Write About Sex and Intimacy After Fifty. Listen to the captivating episod

Marcia Meier, publisher of Weeping Willow Books, has a new podcast: Girl Talk: Women, Aging, and Sexuality. The episodes will feature discussions on women, aging, relationships, health and a host of other related topics with writers, academics, physicians and other experts. In the inaugural podcast, Marcia chats with psychotherapist Kathleen A. Barry about the perils and joys of online dating when you're a single woman over fifty. Listen to it below: The inspiration for this

Unmasked: Women Write about Sex and Intimacy After Fifty has been awarded a bronze “IPPY” medal as a part of the 22nd Annual Independent Publisher Book Awards. These Awards recognize the year’s best independently published books. Unmasked won the bronze medal in the Anthology category: GOLD: Before All Memory is Lost: Women’s Voices from the Holocaust, edited by Myrna Goldenberg (The Azrieli Foundation) SILVER: Breaking Sad: What to Say After Loss, What Not to Say, and When t

They say “sex sells,” but this evening gave the phrase a deeper meaning. The premier “Unmasked LIVE” show at Center State Theater in Santa Barbara on February 15, 2018, was a sold-out success. It was a refreshing, vulnerable evening of women over fifty reading selections of work from the anthology, Unmasked, Women Write About Sex and Intimacy After Fifty. Creating a safe space in the public sphere for the diversity of these women’s experiences and emotions made this show such