Once I wrote a story about a woman who grows a baby in a pot. Thumbelina-style. The woman throws out a dead cactus in a...
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Unsympathetic Me: Medea as Writer
I am an unsympathetic character. And I take myself way too seriously. I’m too earnest. To top it all off, I am not sure how...
Report from the Field: Of Myopia, White Supremacy and the Personal Essay
In 2017, I took my first creative nonfiction workshop with a reputed author, editor, and teacher of creative writing in the heart of Los Angeles,...
Notes on Femme and Fiction
I’m 15 and my girlfriend, my first girlfriend, is sitting before me on the floor wearing a tie. She can’t wear the tie at home....
Mary Shelley Lives Again
Mary Shelley is such a well-known cultural figure, it’s easy to forget she was ever a real person. Her best-known work, the novel Frankenstein, or...
Report from the Field: The Publishing Process Is Archaic
I’m closing Five Quarterly. We’re a small, online lit mag that has existed by word-of-mouth and by support of our amazing writers and editors. We’ve...
VIDA Editor Roundtable
Sarah Fawn: Hi everyone, Sarah Fawn Montgomery here. Thank you all for (virtually) sitting down to talk about our editing experiences and processes, and to...
Cheryl Strayed – VIDA Voices & Views
About This Episode: In this episode of VIDA Voices and Views, produced by R.J. Jeffreys, Melissa Studdard interviews writer and activist, Cheryl Strayed, who reads from her celebrated memoir...
The Unbearable (White) Maleness of US Poetry: And How We Can Enable a Structural Response to Literary Yellowface and Gender Inequity in Publishing
On Labor Day, news broke widely that White writer Michael Derrick Hudson’s poem “The Bees, the Flowers, Jesus, Ancient Tigers, Poseidon, Adam and Eve” is...
Finding Home Through Literature: A Study of Filipino Fiction
All my life, I felt ashamed because I was born in America. Growing up in Los Angeles, CA, in the nineties, an American, to me,...
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