Help close the byline gender gap. Its not going to close unless we close it. Vela has become one of my favorite reading destinations online, and they are running a Kickstarter to help enable them to pay their writers and apply for the grants that would fund Vela in future. In their words: For the past three years, Vela has taken steps to help close the byline gender gap by publishing exceptional nonfiction written by women, and by drawing attention to outstanding work by women writers at other online publications, print magazines, and publishing houses. We are not a womens magazine and our writers arent writing exclusively for a female audience on female subjects (a notion we hope to tacitly challenge). The fact that all of Velas writers are women is almost, almost incidental: it would be completely incidental if the publishing world did not create a situation in which women’s voices represent only a fraction of the conversation. Our aim is to ensure that women writers are as recognized and read as their male counterparts. Fund Vela: https://kickstarter/projects/594960667/vela-magazine-nonfiction-written-by-women
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 18:49:37 +0000
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