"I wanted to create a space where women felt encouraged to submit their
work. Working at Dalkey, I saw that the number of submissions were
overwhelmingly from men. Right around this time, too, I was talking
about a book with a man who said to me, “I really liked it because five
pages in I didn’t know it was written by a woman. I couldn’t tell a
woman had written it.” And I thought, Are you kidding me? Are we still
talking about this nearly a hundred years after A Room of One’s Own?"
Read the full interview here.
Saturday, September 29, 2012
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