Tag Archives: women’s writing
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On reading Mom Blogs
I started reading ‘Mom blogs’ way before I got pregnant. At first, my reading was secret and covert. Alone in the house, I browsed the 1000 or so pages of blogs ranked by readers on the Top Baby Blogs register the way other people privately peruse porn. … Read more
Guest Posts
Empowering women in developing communities: On Open Field
When I was young, I lived in a house at the top of a hill on a dead-end street. Our suburb was barely serviced by buses and had no train station. We never locked our front door, and the back door was always left ajar so the … Read more
Issue Six
Issue Six teaser: Sophie Cunningham ‘A Prize of One’s Own: Flares, Cock-forests, and Dreams of a Common Language’
Disinterest in women – the overlooking of them, the walking out of the room without noticing their exclusion, the disavowal of them, the occasional hatred of them – is a profound and deep problem. It does not only affect women in publishing; it affects women in every industry, and women who work at home. Read more
From the Editors
The Count at SWF: on the representation of women writers in reviews, prizes and genre writing
I kicked off my Sydney Writers Festival with ‘The Count’, a session on the underrepresentation of women in Australia’s literary pages – and in the literary scene in general. It was chaired by Miles Franklin longlisted author Kirsten Tranter (The Legacy) and featured both The Australian literary … Read more
From the Editors
“Here we go again”: The fiction magazine sausage-fest
‘I’m just being a bitch again’, wrote Amy King, in response to a post by Blake Butler at the HTMLGIANT blog announcing the contributors for issue #2 of We Are Champion magazine. None of the ten writers is female. King originally posted a comment at the original … Read more
From the Editors
On women’s writing 2: Miles Franklin, Orange, sausage fests and ‘grimness’
The Miles Franklin longlist for 2010 has been announced – and with only three of the 12 writers women, the signs are ominous that there may be another sausage fest (aka all-male shortlist) this year. In strictly objective alphabetical order, the longlist is: Patrick Allington, Figurehead Peter … Read more
From the Editors
On “Women’s” Writing
International Women’s Day is celebrated this month (8 March). Recently, there have been some really interesting discussions and debates about the gender divisions between male and female writers: whether they in fact exist in this ‘post-feminist’ world and if so, how they present and what those divides … Read more
