Kari O’Driscoll’s piece, “When Girls Make Noise,” at The Manifest-Station caught my attention when I was busy with something else, almost as if it interrupted. I loved the title, and the first line spoke […]
When Girls Make Noise
Sirens Go For It: Pumped Project Planning
Do you want more support in achieving your creative and professional goals–especially if those dreams meet with discouragement from the people around you and the culture at large? Are you having trouble believing […]
The Gloria Sirens on Life Improvement Radio at 11:00 AM Today
Learn the origins of the Gloria Sirens, hear our real voices, and find out why we don’t play nice with the boys at Life Improvement Radio now!
Taking Charge–the Surprise Success of the Sirens
We launched The Gloria Sirens a year ago, partly in response to the VIDA Count. We envisioned a forum for women writers to collaborate, embolden, and inspire. Month after month we watched our […]
Pura Vida, or Reflections on “The Good Life”
by Vanessa Blakeslee Since 2008, the year I originally wrote this essay as part of my application for the Gift of Freedom Award, the conversation about the challenges women writers face in […]
A Vera of One’s Own – A Different Way of Explaining the VIDA Count
From The Atlantic, this intriguing look at the proposition that perhaps what is keeping women writers from enjoying as many publication credits as men is the lack of submissions by women (seems like […]
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