Below are some of Stella’s favorites, including story collections, novels, and a memoir or two that read like novels, as well as some poetry.
If you are a ripe woman who writes erotica, or if you would like to try it, these books are wonderful sources for prompts. Open a favorite volume, copy a sentence to start you off, and keep writing your own thoughts for ten or twenty minutes.
There are more publications in recent years than in prior times, as erotic writing by older women becomes more prevalent. As a reader and as a creator, you are playing a part in this developing process. Keep it up!
Here you will find books about:
May you enjoy them all!
This is an anthology of works performed at the (now sadly defunct) Octopus Literary Salon in Oakland, California, at readings of erotica by women over fifty.
In this poignant tale, Jong interweaves the narrator’s sexual experience in her sixties with tales of her formerly glamorous parents as their health fails. As
When we write about sex, we often focus on the emotion it evokes – which is important and entirely understandable. Writing about sex itself, as
You may remember Jean Shinoda Bolen‘s classic book, Goddesses in Everywoman, from back when we were young. This 1984 classic included goddesses for every occasion,
Our spiritual foremothers are the proper ladies of this California writing circle of the 1980s. The formal tone of these stories contrast beautifully with the
In this book, Joan Price continues to explore late life sexuality. Joan’s grief over the death of her husband, and her creative ways to address
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