Her View Friday
Yellow Arrow Publishing supports women-identifying writers from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes us stronger. Women’s voices have historically been underrepresented in literature, and we aim to elevate those voices and stories through our programs, publications, and support.
Part of our mission in supporting and uplifting women writers is to promote the Yellow Arrow community’s individual accomplishments. We’d like to further expand that support and promotion outside of our Yellow Arrow publications. Twice a month, we’d like to give a shout out to those within the Yellow Arrow community who recently published:
single-author publications
single pieces in journals, anthologies, etc., as well as prizes/awards, book reviews, and podcasts/interviews
You can support our authors by reading this blog and their work, sharing their news, and commenting below or on the blog. Congratulations to all the included authors. We are so proud of you!
Every writer has a story to tell and every story is worth telling.
Author: Katharine Weinmann
Katharine Weinmann writes poetry, walks long distances, sees beauty in life’s imperfections, and photographs its shimmer. She was the 2024 winner of Canada’s Lawrence House Centre for the Arts’ Carmen Ziolkowski Poetry Prize and has been nominated for a 2026 Best of the Net in poetry. She blogs at A Wabi Sabi Life. With her husband and their English setter, Walker, Katharine makes her home in Sherwood Park, Alberta Canada, ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Amiskwacîwâskahikan), Treaty 6 Territory.
Where are you from: Sherwood Park, Alberta Canada, ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Amiskwacîwâskahikan), Treaty 6 Territory
Tell us about your main writing space in three words: intimate, colourful, inspiring
Tell us about your publication: Bringing together the rich complexity of free verse poetry with original photography, Skyborne Insight, Homemade Love is a metaphor for my realizations about living, often brought into focus while flying. Personal experiences resonate with universal themes, inviting readers to explore their own questions about loss and grief, identity, and the nature of the world around them.
Published by Friesen Press (January 2026) and evocative and lyrical, this is a meditation on the beauty found in life’s inevitable imperfections, the wonder of travel, and the everyday moments and choices that come together to heal and make a joyful existence. Readers will be uplifted and inspired to cultivate a wise appreciation and tender fierceness to navigate their own opportunities and challenges.
Why this book? Why now? How did it happen? Six years ago with the onset of COVID-19, grieving the abrupt end of work I had known and cherished, I found my way to writing poetry. This collection is a love story amplifying the ever present beauty found in life’s imperfections. It is the tangible evidence of a vow made a decade ago when I attended my first writing retreat. Then, beset by self-doubt, surrounded by seasoned and published writers, sitting in the dark before dawn, I looked upon the storm-shadowed cedar forest and asked for a sign that I was in the right place. Within moments the power suddenly restored, and I received an email saying I’d won a writing contest for the first story I’d ever submitted. An answer to my silent prayer.
What advice do you have for new writers? Someone with a book that needs a home? Be patient with yourself. Be tender in the face of inevitable rejection and the often lonely nature of writing. Observe yourself to understand and stand comfortable in your unique creative process. Make community. And consider hybrid publishing to get your labor of love out there.
What is your writing goal? As a long distance walker, soon to have completed my fifth, walking-pilgrimage are rich metaphors which I hope to create a hybrid poetry-memoir.
Author: Annie Marhefka
Annie Marhefka is a writer in Baltimore, Maryland, whose work has been featured on The Slowdown Show, nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and received the 2024 Eunice Williams Nonfiction Prize. Annie is executive director at Yellow Arrow Publishing, a Baltimore-based nonprofit empowering women-identifying writers. Her collection, Strangers We Know By Heart, was a winner of the 2025 Garden Party Collective chapbook contest, and she is an MFA candidate at the University of Baltimore.
Where are you from: Baltimore, Maryland
Tell us about your main writing space in three words: coffee + candles + music
Tell us about your publication: Annie Marhefka spends the day in Baltimore in this forthcoming travelogue in the Writer In Sites series. Her “Baltimore,” published in March 2026, is an ode to longing and a love letter to the city she loves.
Why this book? Why now? How did it happen? After publishing a couple concepts for Writer In Sites, Andy Brown started sharing it with contributors to Scrawl Place. During a trip through Baltimore, he met Annie Marhefka for coffee. He said, “Someday I’d like other people to write one of these. If you’re interested, I’d like you to think about being one of those people.” She said, “I like this idea. Why don’t we try to do it now?” Yes and yes. So there you have it. Annie spent the day exploring places new and familiar to her. She wrote a soulful ode to longing that is also a love letter to the city she knows and loves. You can follow Annie and hopefully it will inspire you to create your own itinerary in the place you love.
What advice do you have for new writers? Someone with a book that needs a home? Find a writing buddy, or a small group to share work and focus on uplifting each other.
What is your writing goal for the year? I'm hoping to focus more on the sounds of the language as I write this year, the noise or silence a piece projects.
Yellow Arrow (past and present) board, staff, interns, authors, residents, and instructors alike! Got a publication coming out? Let us help celebrate for you in Her View Friday.
Single-author publications: here.
Single pieces as well as prizes/awards, book reviews, and podcasts/interviews: here.
Please read the instructions on each form carefully; we look forward to congratulating you!
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