re:Write

10/01/2024

Fighting Lady Yellow
A Final Farewell to a Special Sailboat
https://www.getmerewrite.biz/fighting-lady-yellow/

07/31/2024

Last day to purchase a copy of NOT ON ANY MAP: One Virgin Island, Two Catastrophic Hurricanes, and the True Meaning of Paradise with 100% of the profit benefitting hurricane relief efforts in Carriacou.
Paperbacks and Kindle versions available here:
amazon.com/Not-Any-Map/dp/B0BT6R3LVK

07/26/2023

I’m always telling people that leaving my television journalism career was one of the hardest/scariest things I have ever done, beating out quitting my job and moving to the Caribbean… and even sailing across the Atlantic in a tiny boat with a bucket for a bathroom. Work had defined me for so long, I wasn’t sure who I would be if I wasn’t a reporter.
Thanks to Zibby Mag for making my story their Essay of the Week… and to Zibby Owens for all you do to amplify women’s voices.
Read the full essay here:

https://zibbymag.com/blog/hurricane-season-life-lessons-caribbean-margie-smith-holt

04/28/2023

Every so often, someone with a sharp eye and a way with words lands in a unique locale, pays attention and then nails it in print. Such is the case with Margie Smith Holt who fled to Coral Bay in 2004, and in a surge of liberation following a heartbreak, flung herself into a world that seemed to exi

03/01/2023

"We're not going to 'can good' our way out of this."

The West Side Campaign Against Hunger seeks donations and volunteers.

Read our story in the West Side Rag.

Some seniors will see their benefits go from $281 to $23 a month.

01/24/2023

We're excited to announce our first venture with re:Write Books, an imprint of Get Me Rewrite LLC. The e-book version of NOT ON ANY MAP: One Virgin Island, Two Catastrophic Hurricanes, and the True Meaning of Paradise is now available for pre-order at Amazon, B&N, Apple Books, and wherever else you get your e-books. Print versions go on sale next week. Official publication date: January 31, 2023!

Not On Any Map: One Virgin Island, Two Catastrophic Hurricanes, and the True Meaning of Paradise

11/17/2022

Congratulations to all the writers Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center whose work was selected to appear in our next anthology! Follow us for news on publication date and updates on our annual performance of works by patients. We have some wonderful stories to share!

10/19/2022

My West Side Rag story on Central Park's retiring Shakespeare Gardener Larry Boes featured by the .

10/04/2022

My latest for the West Side Rag on the Central Park gardener responsible for the beautiful Shakespeare Garden. Gorgeous images by photographer Jane Feldman. A colorful story for a dreary day.

For 15 years, he has gone to work in what might be the most beautiful office in New York City.

09/09/2022

Good luck to all the writers submitting work for Visible Ink at Memorial Sloan Kettering's next anthology!

Just a friendly reminder! Due to our production schedule we cannot accept late submissions. Good luck to all our participants!

09/06/2022

Five years ago today Category 5 Hurricane Irma, the most powerful storm ever to come barreling across the Atlantic, destroyed St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands, a beautiful place in the Caribbean that changed the course of my life. Among the horrors--and there were many--was that for days after the storm passed, there was zero communication. No way to know what happened, or even who lived or died.

The Philadelphia Inquirer published an essay I wrote describing the terrible silence and bemoaning the lack of news, after which a trusted mentor from my TV reporter days suggested maybe I was the one who should go down and write the story. I did.

What happens to a community in the wake of catastrophic loss? What is the future of "paradise" in an era of climate change? These are some of the questions I tried to answer in my book, NOT ON ANY MAP, which is in the final stages of editing and will go on sale in November. In the meantime, as hurricane season enters its most awful month, I think it's important to remember that it doesn't matter that it's been a quiet season so far, or whether or not the weather forecasters predicting an active season might have gotten it wrong. It only takes one.

For almost 48 harrowing hours after the eye of Irma passed, there was virtually no communication with Coral Bay, the more isolated of St. John's two communities.