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Anita Gail Jones
Telling life's stories as a Writer, Visual Artist, and Professional Storyteller with roots in Southwest Georgia and the San Francisco Bay area
đź“ŁPopping the cork! 🍾🥂 As of Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021, I signed with Steve Ross Agency to represent my novel project. Just so happens that day was also my late mother’s 95th birthday. Mrs. Irene Gaines Jones was always a champion for her daughters; encouraging us to nurture our artist. She did the same …
On Thursday, March 25, 2021 @ 5:30 pm PT, I will be joining other women artists in this virtual event; reading an excerpt from my in-progress debut novel manuscript, Peach Seed Monkey, which was recently selected as a Finalist in the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. An inspiring evening honoring of women who …
What do you call it when a homeschool mom talks to herself? (see answer at end) Growing up, we Baby Boomers heard a lot about the Three R’s: Reading, ’Riting and ’Rithmatic. I’m offering a new set of R’s for nouveau homeschoolers: Respect, Routine and Ritual. Frankly, I don’t know how homeschooling during COVID-19 can be done …
My good friend A.J. Verdelle—novelist, teacher, mother—introduced me to sequential dates and palindrome dates when we first met in 2012. Although nobody would ever mistake me for a “numbers person”, I am fascinated by the power, secrets and hidden qualities they hold once you know how and where to look. Lucky us: to be alive …
Word from Anita:This Wednesday, May 1, I will be joining four fellow women writers —all currently and formerly based at Headlands Center for the Arts— for an evening of reading fiction, poetry and non-fiction. JOIN US atE.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore410 13th StreetOakland, CA 94612 Wednesday, May 1, 20197PM —9PM• Amy Shon• Hazel White• …
Today is World Book Day, first celebrated on 23 April 1995. Also known as World Book and Copyright Day or International Day of the Book, this is an annual event organized by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). So glad my sisters and I grew up among books; our mother, Mrs. Irene Gaines-Jones, …
This montage is part of my studio installation bringing to life a scene from the novel: Sunday Dinner at Florida’s House. I invite you to visit and bring friends this FREE EVENT, open to the public:Headlands Center of the Arts (HCA) OPEN HOUSE this Sunday, April 14. This is a wonderful chance to visit HCA …
Today my mother, Mrs. Irene Gaines Jones would be 93. As an elementary school teacher and librarian she was a lover of the arts and nurtured my sister Betty’s passion for theater and mine for the visual and literary arts. I hold that trust close as I send out queries and submissions for my debut …
A beforehand warning came from my good friend and fellow novelist, A.J Verdelle that this conference at Oregon Convention Center (OCC) would be “huge and cavernous“. Truer words were never spoken. I wrote this post nearly three years ago—back in the days B.C. (Before Covid), a time I can scarcely remember; before masks, vaccines and …
Welcome! Excited to launch this new site as I push my Peach Seed Monkey novel manuscript into its query process. Thanks to all who followed from Peach Seed Monkey blog where we’ve enjoyed seven years of sharing and discovery. I am now six months into one-year as an Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the …
In 1991, I faced my first audience as a professional storyteller. I was hired to talk about where ideas come from. Two years before I had joined The Society of Children’s Book Writers and filled out a form saying I was willing to go to schools and talk about where ideas come from. When the …
Fact (little known): In 1984, while living on Lincoln Place in Brooklyn’s Park Slope section, I had a brief, eventful (if not fruitful) foray into the world of greeting cards by designing, illustrating and producing a line called KISS ME ~ I’M A FROG. And off I went, taking A• Jones Designs headlong into an …
