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...
Archive for tag: publishing
Report from the Field: A Catalog of Exchanges: When Men (Don’t) Read My Words
You are apparently famous, though I have never heard of you. You workshop my piece at a prestigious writing workshop in California. It is my...
The Sword
Vera Black walks the line as she empties her email, but in a death march kind of way. She finds herself rummaging through routine rejection...
Report from the Field: Nasty, Nastier, Nastiest
I get called some form of nasty every day. It is part of my identity as a rigorous female teacher at an all-male prep school....
Report from the Field: On Publishing a First Book at [almost] 50
In the summer of 2015, I opened the covers of a book and read aloud to a sizable audience inside an elegant black box theater....
Compassionate Curating: On the (Literal) Cost of a Seat at the Table
Let’s begin with the obvious, the unspoken: making books costs money. More to the point, making books costs someone’s money. And, even more to the...
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...
Report from the Field: Encounters with Misogynists or, the Lap Dances I Never Received
This isn’t a lesbian club, the bald-headed bouncer spat before tossing us onto the icy Montreal street. The details before and after are hazy. I...
Report from the Field: Struggling with Creative Nepotism
I’m sitting with my friend Ronna Lebo at a cafe. We’re talking about Boni Joi, a close friend of Ronna’s and a new friend of...
List of Women-Run Presses
This list exists because I went looking for this resource and couldn’t find it. Earlier this fall, I began planning a reading series where each...