Guest blogger, Mary Sharratt Recorded history is wrong. It’s wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it. These are the words of the late, great historical novelist, Mary Lee Settle, author of the classic Beulah Land Quintet, published in the 1950’s when both academic history and most historical fiction were narrowly focused on the [...]
The One World Cafe Virtual Reading Series is an online performance space for today’s female literary voices. Whether you like to sit in the front row or get cozy in the booth next to the window, you can always find the perfect table at One World Cafe. Of Space, Place, and Memory For the month [...]
Shaye Areheart Books, 2009 Review by Mayra David This is a story that spans time, cultures, continents, even worlds. But for all that, its essence lies in the story of the Leahy family tragedy: Meave Leahy has lost her twin. It’s this tragedy that has since simultaneously driven and held her back in all aspects [...]
Finishing Line Press, 2010 Reviewed by Georgia Ann Banks-Martin Cynthia Reeser is a poet, visual artist, musician, and the Founding Editor of Prick of the Spindle. Her new collection of poems, Light and Trials of Light is a chapbook published by Finishing Line Press earlier this year. The collection is comprised of twenty poems which [...]
Of Memory, Space and Place
Hollace M. Metzger is an architect, visual artist, and poet.
Lauren Sardi interviews Patricia Leavy, feminist sociology professor and author. Leavy has become known for advocating innovative and artful approaches to conducting social research as a means of getting at the complexity of lived experience and linking the “inner worlds” of women to the social contexts in which they live.
Heidi W. Durrow discusses her novel, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky—winner of the 2008 Bellwether Prize for Fiction.
It is hard not to believe we’re in a time of empowerment of those less powerful, and to be swept up in the fervor escalating the world over. In 2011, we witnessed the Arab Spring, the Occupy Wall Street protests and most recently, one of the largest protests of women in Egypt’s long history against the [...]
Caroline Palmer looks at the motivations of Minneapolis-based choreographer Ananya Chatterjea and the work of Ananya Dance Theatre (ADT).
Natsuo Kirino’s novels are not for the faint-hearted, nor are they for westerners loath to abandon the cultural stereotype of the Japanese woman as a delicate and beautiful “oriental flower”. Wendy Nakanishi explores the role of women in Japanese culture and society through Kirino’s popular works of crime and suspense.
