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Writing Menopause

Writing Menopause

Writing Menopause: An Anthology of Fiction, Poetry and Creative Nonfiction is a diverse and robust collection about menopause: a highly charged and often undervalued transformation.  It includes over fifty works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, interviews and cross-genre pieces from contributors across Canada and the United States that break new ground in portraying menopause. The […]

May 15, 2017 | By | 2 Replies More
Minding the Gap: American Women Writers and World War I

Minding the Gap: American Women Writers and World War I

Travel the roads from the scenes of battle; search the trains; wounded, frozen, starved thousands are dying in agonizing torture—not hundreds, but thousands. —Nellie Bly, “Hospital in Budapest Is Arena of Horror,” Washington Herald, 20 Jan 1915 As famed reporter Nellie Bly makes clear, women witnessed and wrote about the horrors of World War I, […]

December 12, 2015 | By | 1 Reply More
DESI GIRLS, Stories by Indian Women Writers Abroad

DESI GIRLS, Stories by Indian Women Writers Abroad

I am often asked why my anthologies include solely stories by women. One reason is that women’s achievements are never purely personal. Also, we continue to work phenomenally harder than men to qualify for equal recognition in many walks of life. In this day and age, women are still subjected to prejudice, violence, poorer resources […]

July 16, 2015 | By | 3 Replies More