The feminist movement in the world of literature has had a past made up of struggles to be heard by the male-dominated mainstream and attempts to retrace the past to find over-looked texts that had been previously ignored. Women writers from all over the world have taken part in this struggle. It was not until ...
The word gross has long been a derogatory term for many English speakers. Often used in informal discourse to express distaste, the word might seem to be highly infused into popular culture. But as common as gross may be, its use is by no means a recent development. The word has been used for hundreds ...
When Anne Bradstreet wrote her first book in 1650, Puritan sensibilities concerning the woman’s role were stringently defined. Women were considered subordinate to men and intellectually inferior. As a result, women were largely confined to their domestic roles. This did not include writing literature, and certainly not publishing it, so when Anne Bradstreet published The ...
In a celebrity fascinated world such as ours today, the images of strong, educated, grounded and spiritual women are close to none. We have popular women rappers today, who under the guise of art and music call themselves poets. Many of the women in Hollywood are considered and attractive, but they lack the grace and ...
As a writer, what we all want is the uninterrupted time, the quiet space, and maybe even the occasional camaraderie of a like mind – another writer. What better place to get all of this than at a writer’s residency? There are a multitude of residencies offered annually. Some of them in fact are completely ...
