Does the trend piece make the trend? When it comes to sub-genres such as women’s literature or lesbian and gay literature, the field’s development hinges...
Archive for tag: women writers
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...
Report from the Field: This Voice of Mine
Eleven years ago I sat at a table in a writing studio in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan, rented by a professor I’ll call Mr. D, and...
In and around 2016 AWP in Los Angeles!
AWP panel not to miss? Radical reading? Offsite panel too hot for AWP? Party to die for? VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts is currently...
Moms on the Market
Dear Tenured Mom, I’m currently on the academic job market and pregnant. While the pregnancy itself is exciting and great news in my personal life,...
Required Reading
This year, Girls Write Now is counting. A mentorship program that pairs established writers with teenage girls from underprivileged areas and underserved schools in New...
Her Name Literally Meant Hero
Mavis Gallant died in February of this year, at the age of 92. She is one of my favorite writers. I discovered her in graduate...
Report from the Field: Quid Pro Quo
What I remember is red wine sloshing in hotel coffee mugs. What I remember is trying to scoot out of reach of his hand, the...