“Use Your Voice to Inspire Community Action” Feminist Activism Workshop
WOMEN’S CONFERENCE 5th Annual Women’s Conference: “Visionary Voices” Thursday, March 1st, 2018 10AM – 7PM Loker Student Union & Welch Hall Register now! Free and open to the public. Campus Map … Continue reading
Anisfield-Wolf Fellowship Accepting Applications Through 2/1!
Introducing Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s new Anisfield-Wolf Fellowship in Writing & Publishing! The Cleveland State University Poetry Center is accepting applications for the Anisfield-Wolf Fellowship in Writing & Publishing, a … Continue reading
ICYMI: The 2015 VIDA Count is Here and with New Intersectional Stats
In addition to VIDA’s yearly Count surveying the “Main VIDA Count” and “Larger Literary Landscape” literary journals and magazines, March 30th we released our newly-expanded Intersectional Survey, (to see the … Continue reading
VIDA: Women in Literary Arts New “Voices & Views” Video Interview Series!
About This Episode: This inaugural episode features poet and writer, Rita Dove, who reads her poems “Parsley” and “Claudette Colvin Goes to Work” and discusses topics ranging from literary bias masquerading … Continue reading
Spotlight On! Poem-a-Day | VIDA: Women in Literary Arts
We can change the online community to be a safer and more inclusive and empathetic space. The Academy of American Poets is working toward this goal through poetry and publishing … Continue reading
DC Higher Achievement Looking for Volunteers to Mentor Middle School Scholars
59% of DC students graduate high school. 9% graduate college. Significantly lower than the national average, Higher Achievement, an after-school academy, seeks to change these numbers by supporting the district’s … Continue reading
VIDAweb.org Seeks Your Content!
VIDAweb.org, the online home of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, in addition to the annual Count has many new feminist resources for you including a lively member-sponsored forum, an events … Continue reading
Welcome The Fem: A Feminist Literary Magazine!
The Fem has arrived! With new content rolling in every Thursday, The Fem is a feminist online literary magazine “created in Summer 2014 by writer/feminist duo Autumn Jaye Spriggs and Rachel C. Lewis. They … Continue reading
VIDA: Women in Literary Arts | Spotlight On! Weave Magazine
A particularly fun spotlight to write, I spoke with Editor-in-Chief Laura E. Davis from Weave Magazine about Weave‘s commitment to feminism and representing a diverse span of writers. To read the article in full, … Continue reading
Need You More Than Ever
In Sarah Vap’s newest, The End of the Sentimental Journey, a vivisection of language, gender, and poetics, she writes at one point about the severing of a dog’s vocal cords during scientific … Continue reading
VIDA: Women in Literary Arts Roundtable and Call for Interns
VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, our temple of sharing female experience in the literary world and creating resources to engage the necessary need for gender parity in publishing, is bursting … Continue reading
VIDA: Women in Literary Arts New “Spotlight On!” Feature
Today marks the release of a new VIDA column I’m writing titled Spotlight On! Each month we’ll celebrate a different creative writing publication that has made concerted effort to showcase a diverse writers, writing styles, … Continue reading
Book Review Round-Up for National Poetry Month
Collected in celebration of National Poetry Month are book reviews and interviews I’ve written and conducted over the past couple of years. For more books written by women use the … Continue reading
Articles on Participating Online & Cultivating Community
How do you ever really know how to do something until you do it? We learn our most valuable lessons through trail and error. So if you’re pumped and ready … Continue reading
