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“That Damn Rope”: What Women Writers Can Learn from Women Cops
I recently attended a panel on Women in Law Enforcement at Lynchburg College, where I learned that women, once excluded from law enforcement, now make up roughly 15 percent of sworn personnel. Fifteen percent. I could not help but think of the VIDA Count with its...
A Review of A Question of Choice by Sarah Weddington
Does the name Sarah Weddington ring a bell? If not, you’re not alone. I’ve been taking an informal poll, and I’ve received a lot of blank stares. I didn’t know the name, either, until I pulled a dog-eared memoir titled A Question of Choice off the shelf of a dusty...
Calling All Female Nonfiction Writers
Here is an opportunity to get your flash nonfiction out into the world: Brevity, a journal of concise creative nonfiction, is sponsoring a special all-female issue called Ceiling or Sky: Female Nonfictions after the VDA Count. Guest editors Susanne Antonetta,...
The VIDA 2011 Count and 5 Ways to Flip Silencing the Bird
As far as the numbers go, The 2011 Count is not much different from The 2010 Count. Women writers are still wildly underrepresented in prominent literary publications. But The 2011 Count is peppered with quotes culled from the conversation sparked by The 2010 Count....
Writing Women’s Lives™: Drumroll, please!
It's official. Writing Women’s Lives™ is launched. The cork has popped. The beginning has begun. And here you are. Exactly where you should be. At a site devoted to women’s writing and women’s lives and the spark that ignites when women write their lives. So, welcome....