Content note: this piece discusses the trauma and minimization of sexual misconduct In the introduction of Not That Bad, Roxane Gay begins, “When I was...
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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,...
Report from the Field: Justice
This Report from the Field is a post authored by Jody Hobbs Hesler regarding her account of her personal experiences with the Title IX process...
A Dossier of Red Flags: Literary Encounters with (White, Straight, Cis) Men
I was eleven years old the first time I submitted my writing for literary consideration: a state-wide short fiction contest open to all middle and...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Natalie Eilbert
What have you been reading, watching, or listening to lately? What new or emerging writer do you want the world to know about? I only...
VIDA Reads with Writers–Sayantani Dasgupta!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I am rereading Sonali Deraniyagala’s searing memoir Wave, about the Indian Ocean...
VIDA Reads with Writers — Monica Drake!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland Tales, edited by Gigi Little. Surreal,...
VIDA Reads with Writers: Naomi Jackson!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I’m taking a break from my beloved Brooklyn at the moment, living...
VIDA Reads with Writers — Ocean Vuong!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Christopher Soto’s Sad Girl Poems and Garth Greenwell’s What Belongs To You....
Report from the Field: Racial Invisibility and Erasure in the Writing Workshop
In a novel excerpt I turned into workshop, my narrator uses the word “chinky.” My narrator is a Korean American woman speaking to a successful...
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