Liking Mike One night, after my teenage daughter Delaney kissed me and shut her bedroom door, I paid for a toe-in-the-water membership to a heavily populated dating website. Even as I […]
“Liking Mike”–A Single Mom Dates Online
To the USF MFA Graduating Class, 2014, and Writers Everywhere
To my dear graduating writers — I am so sorry to be missing the big reading for graduating MFA students at the University of South Florida, where I would get to hear […]
AWP 2014: No Shame for Women Writers
Originally posted on BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog:
A guest post on the panel “Breaking Silences: Women’s Memoir as an Act of Rebellion” from Tabitha Blankenbiller: It feels like everyone goes to AWP looking…
Anonymity and Misogyny Online, and How It’s Pushing Us Out
by Andrea Wobel “What I once thought of as opportunity is silencing me. Is it now that only those women willing to combat misogynist, pro-rape comments will have a place online? And […]
Why Is It So Hard for Women to Write About Sex?
“But does that mean we experience desire in the same way that men do? My lust tells me we don’t. Mine, I confess, isn’t blind or monumental or animal. It comes with […]
Homme de Plume: Men in Print
About a year ago I got an email from Wag’s Revue breaking the news that I didn’t win their contest. I did what I always do when I get rejected: I forwarded the email […]
Things Women Writers are Sick of Hearing, or We Haven’t Come Far Enough, Baby
Reposted from Buzzfeed. What did women writers at AWP get tired of hearing? Here’s a quick visual check-in from Buzzfeed that might make you question exactly where we are in history. […]
In Boozo Veritas #29: Writers in the Festival Mode
Originally posted on The Drunken Odyssey:
In Boozo Veritas #29 Writers in the Festival Mode I am honored to welcome the brilliant and amazing poet Susan Lilley as guest blogger for this…
Not So Minor Characters: The Beats’ Female Voice
By Monica Wendel Last weekend – an icy one in which I was batting that energy-draining combination of hangover and new-semester cold – a friend pressed a copy of Joyce Johnson’s Minor […]
Girls, We Got the Green Light to Get Read
Let’s make the most of it. This just in from The Guardian: “Bias towards male writers – underlined in 2013 study – fuels drive to switch attention to female authors,” writes Allison […]
The Gloria Sirens 