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 […]
Find of the Week: “A Beautiful Wit is a Power”
A dead serious discussion about the power of women to make others laugh from She Writes Radio. You’ll find it as timely now, (e.g. during the debate about hiring black women on SNL), as […]
“Newsflash: It’s hard to be a writer!”
by Brooke Warner via She Writes “This past Sunday’s New York Times opinion page ran another one of those sky-is-falling publishing op-eds that always raise my hackles. Writers eat this stuff up; […]
Like? Whatever: Likability and the Nonfiction Writer
by Jennifer Niesslein Until my memoir came out, I had no idea how many people did not want to be friends with me. . . . . . . Strayed puts it […]
Win-Win for Writers With Dogs!
Write more with K-9 Kannon! Improves productivity by 75%! YOUR FINGERS FLY AND SO DOES THE BALL! Watch the word count climb! No more bending over to pick up the ball! Keep […]
Invisible Women
“This Week in the War on Women” by Laura Wnderer “This morning, while taking my dog for a leisurely half-hour walk, I listened to Weekend Edition on NPR. In that half hour, […]
New York City Loses Another Young, Creative Woman
I Am Not My Job: Why I Left New York City by ALECIA LYNN EBERHARDT “It was Patti Smith who said, in a talk at Cooper Union in 2010, that “New York has closed itself […]
