By Julia Connolly Hooray! It’s the New Year! The Chinese New Year, that is. While I’m not Chinese and I don’t make resolutions, this is the day I choose to make my […]
Okay? Okay! Chinese New Year & Second Chances
Ever-Daring, Ever-Playful Erica
An Astute and rave Review of Erica Dawson’s two books of poetry in Oxford American In “The Evolution of Erica Dawson,” Russell Willoughby writes, “Erica Dawson writes in assertive, sometimes defiant, declaratives. […]
One Pill Makes You Smaller: Strong Wills, Women, & Drugs
by Suzannah Gilman You watch the news. You know the abuse of prescription painkillers is an epidemic.  Opioids, which bring a high (painkillers like Vicodin, Oxycontin, Percocet, methadone, codeine, and fentanyl—which comes […]
Episode 82: Susan Lilley!
Originally posted on The Drunken Odyssey:
Episode 82 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I…
Take it Off to Play it Safe–Wuh?
“Feel free to sexually harass me if you’re a  male.” Read this  young woman’s account of a conversation with her school principal in which she tries to help him think critically and […]
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 […]
Blame, Shame, and the Rape Game
By Randi Whitcomb Brave and beautiful siren voice tells it. In no uncertain terms. Daisy Coleman could be any of us, or our daughters. Randi’s searing statement on this subject is required […]
Bridget and the bridge. WTF.
Open Letter to Bridget Anne Kelly By Susan Lilley As the news spills forth about the nasty political scullduggery behind the absurd and disruptive lane closures on the busiest bridge in the […]
“Reading the Letters of the Dead”
Reading the Letters of the Dead by Jennifer Michael Hecht Why were the dead so timid while they lived? In mind, they step in groans; toes en pointe to test the sand. […]
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 […]
The Gloria Sirens 