Indian Country and, in particular, the Native writing community, is grieving today because of the scandal (known among many Native women writers for years) that...
Archive for category: Reports from the Field
Report from the Field: Behind the Scenes at AWP with members of The Disabled & Deaf Uprising
This Report from the Field is a post by a collective of anonymous writers regarding the developing controversy concerning noted literary convention AWP. We are...
Report from the Field: Sexual Harassment in the Children’s Book Industry
This Report from the Field is a republication of Anne Ursu’s essay originally published here at Medium.com in response to the developing controversy regarding the children’s...
Report from the Field: Holding Your Now-Defunct Publisher Accountable When They Refuse To Honor Your Contract or Return Your Emails: A Memoir
This Report from the Field is the author’s account of events regarding the developing controversy regarding a member of the poetry community. In mid-November, a...
Report from the Field: Poets on Strike, Irish Women Poets and the Canon
This Report from the Field includes a republication of Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon’s pledge in response to the ongoing conversation surrounding gender...
Report from the Field: Gender Inequality Within Literary Prize Culture
Prizes aren’t everything. But for literary writers in a world growing less literary, they just might be. Ivor Indyk states that literary prizes function ‘as...
Report from the Field: The Poet as Beginning Mother
It was October and I was thirteen. On the bright car ride home from school, my dad told me my older brother Will had died....
Report from the Field: Home is Where the Women Are
A few months ago, I spotted a video of my mother and her sisters on Facebook. The video was taken at a reunion for a...
Report from the Field: Embodied Writing Can Be Your New Activism
On Saturday, January 21, 2017, I discovered that my body is not made for protest marches. Since the election and the ensuing rhetoric coming from...
Report from the Field: “It’s okay, it’s art, keep going.”
This Report from the Field is a republication of Kolleen Carney’s personal blog post at https://kolleencarney.com/2017/08/24/82317-pt-2/amp/ regarding the developing controversy regarding a member of the...