WTF! Writers Talk Feminism

09/09/2013

Don't forget to come to our first meeting, the WTF! Writers Talk Feminism Information Session!

8:00 PM in Dodge 309 TONIGHT

Come for the free cookies and wine, stay for the intelligent conversation.

08/31/2013

Anna Szymanski describes that frustration you feel when reading female characters written by male authors who don't really pay attention to what we're actually like, with this little gem: "male anxiety wrapped in a va**na."

Thanks to VIDA for sharing!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anna-szymanski/the-year-i-stopped-reading-men_b_3832519.html?utm_hp_ref=books

It was like when you turn on a TV set after spending a significant period of time streaming television online. Suddenly, you're covering your ears and asking why those Kia hamsters can't play a different song. You never used to notice the commercials, but now they're all you can hear.

08/20/2013

special shout-outs for faves Gwen Brooks, Melissa Harris-Perry, Zora Neale Hurston, Lorraine Hansberry and Audre Lorde! http://www.theroot.com/views/15-black-feminist-books-everyone-should-read

Solidarity may be for white women and black power for black men, but these books are for everybody.

07/01/2013

"I’ve recently been experimenting with answering ‘fashion’ rather than ‘politics’ when men casually ask me what I write about, and the result has been a hundred percent increase in phone numbers, business cards, and offers of drinks...you can spend your whole life being a story that happens to somebody else. You can twist and cram and shave down every aspect of your personality that doesn’t quite fit into the story boys have grown up expecting, but eventually, one day, you’ll wake up and want something else."

http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2013/06/i-was-manic-pixie-dream-girl-now-i’m-busy-casting-spells-myself

Men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story. Women grow up expecting to be the supporting actress in somebody else's.

05/29/2013

If you're in NYC on Wednesday night, check this out! http://www.centerforfiction.org/calendar/the-vida-count-amp-gender-bias-in-book-reviewing/

For the past three years, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts has been conducting a count of how many of the books reviewed by prominent publications were written by women and by men, and how many of the book reviews were assigned to female and male reviewers. The lopsided results have helped begin a conve...

05/08/2013

The Cover Experiment: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/07/coverflip-maureen-johnson_n_3231935.html?ir=Books =2421899

Yesterday, author Maureen Johnson had a great idea. She tweeted "I do wish I had a dime for every email I get that says, "Please put a non-girly cover on your book so I can read it.

04/11/2013

http://www.thenation.com/article/173743/my-so-called-post-feminist-life-arts-and-letters?page=0,1

Slut-shaming, name-calling and no respect: welcome to life in literary America for a 21st century female author.

04/07/2013

Wolitzer: The book is beautiful and inviting, but it’s also gender-neutral, with bold lettering. It's a design-based cover that I really love.

McGrath: Yes, and I also feel that it doesn't seem to warn potential male readers away by using what you described as coded images to tell them that this is a book solely for women.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/04/conversation_between_the_interestings_writer_meg_wolitzer_and_her_editor.single.html

Sarah McGrath has been editing Meg Wolitzer since The Wife, in 2003. The editor and novelist emailed recently about Wolitzer’s new novel The Interestings, out this month from Riverhead. Sarah McGrath: Meg, having known you as long as I have, and all the conversations we’ve had in that time about...

04/03/2013

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Submit-A-Thon planned for Wednesday April 3rd is being canceled. Nevertheless, we hope all of you who have worked so hard on polishing your submissions will set aside some time on your own to send them off. We wish you the best of publishing success!

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04/02/2013

Support underrepresented writing! Throw some money at our friends at Apogee Journal:

Want to see some brilliant minds in print, and get acknowledged for it? Donate here! http://t.co/pmn3TCAx16

Help us raise money to get Apogee Journal, which publishes writing on the periphery, into print for the first time!

03/31/2013

IT'S ALMOST HERE: Submit-A-Thon THIS WEDNESDAY April 3rd, 8pm Dodge 413...bring your laptop! bring a friend! live-submit or plan your submission strategy for the future. Featuring Ben Metcalf and $50 in giveaways!

03/31/2013

Thanks to VIDA for shouting us out on their Events page! http://www.vidaweb.org/events/wtf-writers-talk-feminism-submit-a-thon

For emerging writers, submitting work through the slush pile of literary magazines and journals is a common entry point. Women writers remain published in these magazines and journals at a disproportionately low rate. WTF! wants to help you make your submissions more polished and more frequent to im...