By Susan Lilley The winter solstice! That magical day that most people in Christendom ignore as they scurry around in traffic getting ready for Christmas. But not me. The shortest day brings […]
You Go to CHURCH? Or, Why I Love Being an Episcopagan
VIDA 2013
Dear VIDA Supporter: Thank you for all that you have given us this year. You have stood alongside us with your letters, tweets, Facebook comments and participation at readings, panels and benefits. […]
“Daughter”
A poem by Ellen Bryant Voigt There is one grief worse than any other. When your small feverish throat clogged, and quit I knelt beside the chair on the green rug and shook […]
Affirmations for Women Writers
by Lisa Lanser Rose Fat-Talk Free Week was this past October, and this video makes an important point in a Candid Camera kind of way (can you tell how old I am?). […]
“Boob Job”
by Kim Dower Trying on clothes in the backroom of Loehmann’s, a stranger invites me to feel her breasts, a stranger trying on dresses that don’t fit and I can see her […]
Beyonce. Force of nature.
Whatever you think, read this.
The Long, Slow Crush
By Susan Lilley What famous person would you walk across the street to see? Celebrity fascination for its own sake is something I never really got. Even though I find it interesting […]
Sassy Real-World Advice for Writers
Fellow writers, I just had to share Karyna McGlynn’s blog post “My Top 5 Quick and Dirty Submission Tricks.” In addition to my own writing, I’ve been running a students’ creative writing […]
Shrinking Women
Love Lily Myers and her performance poem! Sing it, little sister siren! Looks like she’s found lots of ways to take up space. “Shrinking Women” is a spoken-word poem about growing up watching […]
