Contact Victoria at vwaddleido@gmail.com
Victoria writes on Submittable twice per week at Be a Cactus
Her author website is at https://victoriawaddle.com/
She periodically writes book reviews for teens at her blog School Library Lady
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Books
What a powerful story of finding one’s voice and breaking free. Victoria Waddle reminds us we all have a Helper inside us, an intuitive force that can guide us toward speaking our own truth (often helping others in the process.) A compelling, necessary novel.
Gayle Brandeis, author of Delta Girls and winner of the Bellwether Prize for Literature for The Book of Dead Birds
Keep Sweet traces Elizabeth’s path of resistance as she navigates the Prophet’s terrible maze of expectations and discovers the shocking complicity of his accomplices within their religious community. Escape may be dangerous, but Waddle’s insightful novel shows how a young woman’s disruptive questions can uncover (and recover) surprising allies along the way.
Jo Scott-Coe is the author of Unheard Witness: The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman (University of Texas Press)
For more information, see the publisher’s webpage.
“Acts of Contrition is a great collection, one I read in a single sitting, the stories sly and engaging, hilariously dark and always surprising. The women of Victoria Waddle’s fiction are characters I’d spend much more time with – they are brutally honest, have excellent talents at remembering, and they soldier on with grace and humor and wine.”
—Susan Straight, author of eight novels, including Highwire Moon, and one memoir, In the Country of Women.
For more information, see the publisher’s webpage.
For more information, visit the publisher’s webpage.
Interviews
Arts Walk at Home: Book Launch for Marj Charlier and Victoria Waddle
On Writing Lossand Love: JEM with Writer Victoria Waddle (audio only version)
This interview is also available on Apple Podcasts.
Bold Journeys: Meet Victoria Waddle (June 2024)
Trailer for The Mortality of Dogs and Humans
Victoria Waddle – “The Mortality of Dogs and Humans” trailer
Author Websites
Victoria’s Substack Be a Cactus
Author website
Book Reviews of adult and teen books
Online publications
Fiction
“Painted Ladies” in Kelp Journal
“Therapy” in Inlandia: A Literary Journey
“The Wine Mistresses” in the Del Sol Review
Nonfiction
My Parents’ Obsession With Purity Nearly Ruined Us in HuffPost (reposted on BuzzFeed)
“The Loving Sacrifices of Caregiving” in Next Avenue
“Learning When to Give Up” in Oldster
“Tending the Creative Attic” in Apocrypha/Books that Made Us
“Censoring Books Means Censoring Empathy” in Southern California News Group Publications
“Telling Students to Buy Books is Not the Answer to Book Bans; Libraries are Meant to Serve Everyone.” Press Enterprise, Dec. 26, 2024.
For links to numerous Southern California News Group Literary Journeys columns click here.
Nonfiction in Online Literary Journals:
”Silt” in Newfound Journal
“A Bowl Full of Jelly” in Longridge Review
“Schooled” in Eckleburg Review (the value of school librarians)
“Borrowing Empathy: The Case for School Libraries” in Inlandia Journeys
“It’s All Relative” in the Brevity Blog (Finding the right reader)
Print Publications
Fiction in Print Journals
“Silver” in Alaska Quarterly Review, Summer and Fall 2019
“In the Cards” in TL;DR Press Carrying Fire Women’s Anthology, 2018
“Rubies Out of the Sun” In Manifest West: Transitions and Transformations, Western Press Books, 2018
“Signage” in Gold Man Review, 2016
“You Must Remember This” in Best Short Stories from The Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest, 2016
“Dry Run” in bosque (the magazine) 2012
Nonfiction in Print Journals
“Living the Three R’s—Rejection, Reconciliation, Renewal” in Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature, Spring/Summer 2018
“Marathon Fire” in Manifest West: Serenity and Severity, 2016