Memoir

Scriptless: A Memoir

“This spirited memoir chronicles a young woman’s hearty appetite for adventure…Scriptless is a memorable tapestry, uniquely personal and vividly political…a tapestry woven by a lively writer.”

Laura Kalpakian
author of The Great Pretenders

“Great writing, a grand story.”

Jes Hart Stone
author of Turbulent Waters

“McMillan leads her readers on a journey from convention to personal power and choice. Her open-hearted curiosity about the world and the people in it will open up possibilities for the readers of Scriptless. This book is a beautiful and much needed coming of age story for anyone who wants to embrace their own unique life purpose.”

Cami Ostman
author of Second Wind: One Woman’s Quest to Run Seven Marathons on Seven Continents

“ENJOYED, ENJOYED. A well-written, inspiringly informative, jarringly, evocative chronicle…McMillan weaves together a tapestry that links us together as the necessity of ONENESS becomes more apparent…I was unable to put the book down.”

Gwyn Gorg, author of I Am Bigger than Nigger

Poetry

White Water, Red Walls

“Carol McMillan’s Grand Canyon poems take us on a journey of gentle reflection and precipitous adventure, filling each moment with wonder.”

Jim Milstead, the Bard of Bellingham

“Carol McMillan may … invite levity into the lives of friends and acquaintances, but it is the grit of her words; deep, warm, hard, strong, riveting words; that will take you inward. Hold her book in your palms and breathe the Grand Canyon as experienced by a poet adventuress. If you don’t have the courage (like me) to take such a journey, know that McMillan has done it for you. Her book is full of the raw experience of raging white water, towering red walls and rarely seen sunsets. McMillan includes her photographs and paintings. I am in awe of the writer as well as the scenery.”

CJ Prince, author of Mother, May I?”

Carol A. McMillan

Original Publication Date: 2015

Anthologies

This Uncommon Solitide

This Uncommon Solitude captures the myriad and diverse experiences of Red Wheelbarrow Writers during these times of quarantine and the COVID-19 pandemic. We reach out to connect but we can’t physically touch each other. We are shaken by news of widespread suffering and death caused by a novel virus that inexorably spirals out of control. We feel powerless and isolated. Ongoing catastrophes of racism and environmental decline trouble our hearts. For many of us, poetry has helped to connect us, one to another, as we share experiences and insights, express our grief and sadness, fears and pain, gratitude and hope. In joining together, we feel our way forward as best we can toward making sense of our transformed world.

So Much Depends Upon…

Behold the egg! Smooth, rounded, perfectly formed, fragile, its glowing center suspended in a malleable, translucent penumbra. The same might be said of these thirty-five memoirs in which the past–formed at the fragile nexus, the malleable boundary of memory and imagination–is suspended in prose, contained in an essay. You have but to crack open this book.

Red Wheelbarrow Writers are a loose affiliation of lively artists based in Bellingham, Washington. As a community, we host a monthly Happy Hour and a monthly Writerly Book Club. We are co-founders of Washington Memoir Month. We offer classes, contests, novel writing events, bookstore readings, poetry projects, and parties. Red Wheelbarrow Writers are individually productive, and as a group, we support, encourage, and learn from one another.

Memory into Memoir: An Anthology

Red Wheelbarrow Writers are a loose affiliation of lively artists based in Bellingham, Washington.  As a community, we host a monthly Happy Hour and a monthly Writerly Book Club.  We are co-founders of Washington memoir Month.  We offer classes, contests, novel writing events, bookstore readings, poetry projects, and parties.  Red Wheelbarrow Writers are individually productive, and as a group, we support, encourage and learn from one another.  Memory into Memoir is our first anthology.

Memory into Memoir: An Anthology

Noisy Water is an anthology of work by 101 poets whose creativity animates the community of Whatcom County, Washington and beyond.

Scientific Articles

Carol A. McMillan

Original Publication Date: 1986

Interlineage genetic differentiation among rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago

An analysis was done of the patterning of genetic distances between female lineages of rhesus macaques…

First published: November 1981

Male age, dominance, and mating success among rhesus macaques

Some previous primate studies have found a positive correlation between male dominance and mating success when data from subadult males were included in the analyses…

Carol A. McMillan

First published: September 1988

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