Carol Anne Douglas is a writer who is now working on novels and plays. Her latest novel is Choosing Yellowstone, the story of long-time lovers who spend a summer apart. One chooses to teach in Yellowstone while the other volunteers at a canp for Syrian refugees. Will the decision to choose Yellowstone be a terrible mistake? Douglas' 2021 novel, Sister Matthew and Sister Rose: Novices in Love, draws on her background going to convent schools. Though she never entered the convent herself, she got background information from friends wo did. Both books are also available from Bella Books, and in eBook from Barnes and Noble, iBookstore, and Kobo. The first volume of her two-part Arthurian novel, Lancelot: Her Story , in which Lancelot is a woman in disguise, was published in November, 2015, and the second, Lancelot and Guinevere, came out in November 2016. Both are available in print and e-editions on Amazon. Her first young adult fantasy novel, Merlin's Shakespeare, came out in November 2018. Merlin sends a teenage girl to Shakespeare's world and the worlds of Shakespeare's characters in search of a missing play. It's available on Amazon in print and ebook, and in ebook on Barnes and Noble, Ibook Store, and Kobo. It is also available in audio from Amazon, Audible, and ITunes.The Mercutio Problem, the sequel to Merlin's Shakespeare, was publishes in 2019. It is available on Amazon in print and ebook, and in ebook on Barnes and Noble, Ibook Store, and Kobo. In The Mercutio Problem, Beth, the hero goes back to Shakespeare's world disguised as Mercutio to save that uninhibited young man -- and to save Shakespeare's plays from Richard III's plot to change them.
Carol Anne Douglas worked on the editorial collective of the feminist news journal off our backs from 1973 to 2008, when it ceased publishing. She wrote many essays and more than 200 book reviews (see samples of both on this website) and interviewed a number of feminist writers.
Her theory book, Love and Politics: Radical and Lesbian Feminist Theory, was published in 1990, and she wrote the following articles: "I'll Take the Low Road: A Look at Contemporary Feminist Theory" published in Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed, edited by Diane Bell and Renate Klein (Spinifex Press, 1996) and "A World Where Justice Brings Peace" published in September 2001: Feminist Perspectives, edited by Susan Hawthorne and Bronwyn Winter (Spinifex Press, 2002).
Carol Anne belongs to the Playwrights' Collaborative. Through that group, her short play A Midsummer's Macbeth was read at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD on February 8, 2014, and another of her short plays, A Rare Bird, was read at the Writer's Center on June 14, 2014. Several other of her short plays have been read at the Writer's Center since then. A Midsummer's Macbeth was also read on the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage as part of the Page-to-Stage Festival during Labor Day Weekend, 2014. Two more short plays, Thirst and Exile, were read at the Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage in September 2016. Another two short plays, Proxy and Playing the Parts, were read at Page-to-Stage on Labor Day, 2017. On Labor Day, 2018, her plays The Nosy Neighbor and The Librarian were read at the Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage program. Her play Thirteenth Night, a sequel to Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, was read at the 2019 Page to Stage. She is working on a longer play.
Carol Anne belongs to Old Lesbians Organizing for Change (OLOC). She is a founding member of the Washington Metropolitan Area chapter of OLOC. National OLOC awarded her its 2017 Del Martin award for lifetime service to lesbians.
Here's a video about Choosing Yellowstone:
https://vimeo.com/747438341
Here's a video about Sister Matthew and Sister Rose: Novices in Love:
https://vimeo.com/622426476/8ec667dc3e
Her are some interviews with her.
This is the podcast of an interview with Unreliable Narrators done in the summer of 2016. It focuses on her novel Lancelot: Her Story.
http://unreliablenarrators.net/2016/10/04/42-0-author-spotlight-carol-anne-douglas/
This is a link to an interview with Melanie Tomlin, also in 2016, also about Carol Anne's fiction.
https://melanietomlin.com/author-interview-carol-anne-douglas/
This is a link to an interview with Betty Jean Steinshouer in Trivia: Voices of Feminism about Carol Anne's work on the feminist news journal off our backs.
http://www.triviavoices.com/an-interview-with-carol-anne-douglas.html#.WP-iC00kvyc
Carol Anne Douglas worked on the editorial collective of the feminist news journal off our backs from 1973 to 2008, when it ceased publishing. She wrote many essays and more than 200 book reviews (see samples of both on this website) and interviewed a number of feminist writers.
Her theory book, Love and Politics: Radical and Lesbian Feminist Theory, was published in 1990, and she wrote the following articles: "I'll Take the Low Road: A Look at Contemporary Feminist Theory" published in Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed, edited by Diane Bell and Renate Klein (Spinifex Press, 1996) and "A World Where Justice Brings Peace" published in September 2001: Feminist Perspectives, edited by Susan Hawthorne and Bronwyn Winter (Spinifex Press, 2002).
Carol Anne belongs to the Playwrights' Collaborative. Through that group, her short play A Midsummer's Macbeth was read at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD on February 8, 2014, and another of her short plays, A Rare Bird, was read at the Writer's Center on June 14, 2014. Several other of her short plays have been read at the Writer's Center since then. A Midsummer's Macbeth was also read on the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage as part of the Page-to-Stage Festival during Labor Day Weekend, 2014. Two more short plays, Thirst and Exile, were read at the Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage in September 2016. Another two short plays, Proxy and Playing the Parts, were read at Page-to-Stage on Labor Day, 2017. On Labor Day, 2018, her plays The Nosy Neighbor and The Librarian were read at the Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage program. Her play Thirteenth Night, a sequel to Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, was read at the 2019 Page to Stage. She is working on a longer play.
Carol Anne belongs to Old Lesbians Organizing for Change (OLOC). She is a founding member of the Washington Metropolitan Area chapter of OLOC. National OLOC awarded her its 2017 Del Martin award for lifetime service to lesbians.
Here's a video about Choosing Yellowstone:
https://vimeo.com/747438341
Here's a video about Sister Matthew and Sister Rose: Novices in Love:
https://vimeo.com/622426476/8ec667dc3e
Her are some interviews with her.
This is the podcast of an interview with Unreliable Narrators done in the summer of 2016. It focuses on her novel Lancelot: Her Story.
http://unreliablenarrators.net/2016/10/04/42-0-author-spotlight-carol-anne-douglas/
This is a link to an interview with Melanie Tomlin, also in 2016, also about Carol Anne's fiction.
https://melanietomlin.com/author-interview-carol-anne-douglas/
This is a link to an interview with Betty Jean Steinshouer in Trivia: Voices of Feminism about Carol Anne's work on the feminist news journal off our backs.
http://www.triviavoices.com/an-interview-with-carol-anne-douglas.html#.WP-iC00kvyc