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About Writers Resist

Writers Resist is a feminist literary collective born of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. We publish creative expressions of resistance by diverse writers and artists from around the globe.

We’re dedicated to challenging all things that diminish our collective quest for social justice and a healthy planet for all, while having a bit of fun.

Because we originally committed to publishing until the Trump administration was no longer, our last biweekly issue launched on Thursday 21 January 2021—yippee!

However, we are now publishing Writers Resist quarterly because there’s an obvious need for ongoing resistance. And we have other things in the works, so stay tuned by subscribing to receive calls for submissions, event announcements, and other writerly news.

A peedy bit more about us:

As an intersectional feminist journal, our editors are intentionally diverse, including Asian, Black, Jewish, LGBTQ, Mexican, and white representation. The more diversity the merrier.

You’ll find the latest Writers Resist news scrolling on the homepage, and all of our previous issues are available via the Contents page.

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Meet our editors

Kit-Bacon Gressitt
Kit-Bacon GressittProse editor and publisher
Spawned by a Southern Baptist creationist and a liberal social worker, K-B inherited the requisite sense of humor to survive family dinner-table debates and the imagination to avoid them. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside/Palm Desert, and teaches Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the Cal State University system. Her website is KBGressitt.com.

K-B’s narrative nonfiction, commentary, political fiction, book reviews and author features have been published in Hard Crackers, Evening Street Review and Evening Street PressNot My President: The Anthology of Dissent (Thoughtcrime Press, 2017), Ducts magazine, Publishers WeeklyThe Missing SlateTrivia: Feminist VoicesMs. Magazine , the former Gay San Diego and North County Times, and others. She’s the publisher and a founding editor of Writers Resist.

Debbie Hall
Debbie HallPoetry and photo editor
Debbie Hall is a psychologist and writer whose poetry has appeared in a number of literary journals and anthologies, including the San Diego Poetry Annual, Serving House Journal, Sixfold, Poets Reading the News, Poetry24, Bird’s Thumb, Califragile, Gyroscope Review, and Hawaii Pacific Review. Her essays have appeared on NPR (This I Believe series), in USD Magazine, and in the San Diego Union Tribune. She completed her MFA in 2017 at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon.

Debbie received honorable mentions in the 2016 and 2021 Steve Kowit Poetry Prize competition and won second place in the 2018 Poetry Super Highway contest. She is the author of two poetry collections: In the Jaguar’s House (The Poetry Box, 2022) and What Light I Have (Main Street Rag Books, 2018), a finalist in the 2019 San Diego Book Awards, and an award-winning chapbook, Falling Into the River (The Poetry Box, 2020).

In addition to writing, Debbie’s passions include photography and world travel. She and her partner, both native Southern Californians, live in north San Diego County.

Sara Marchant
Sara MarchantProse editor
Sara Marchant received her MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts from the University of California, Riverside/Palm Desert. Her work has been published by The Manifest Station, Every Writer’s Resource, Full Grown People, Brilliant Flash Fiction, The Coachella Review, Writers Resist, and East Jasmine Review. Sara’s nonfiction was included in the women-of-color anthology All the Women in My Family Sing, her novella Let Me Go was anthologized by Running Wild Press, her novella The Driveway Has Two Sides was published by Fairlight Books in 2018, and her memoir Proof of Loss was published by Otis Books in 2019. Her website is TheSaraMarchant.com. She is working on a memoir reflecting upon her experience as a Mexican-Jew in our current political hellscape.

Her new novel, Becoming Delilah, from Fairlight Books, is available August 15, 2023. She lives in the high desert of Southern California and is a founding editor of Writers Resist.

René Marzuk
René MarzukPoetry and prose editor
René is a graduate student of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Born in Ukraine, he grew up in Cuba and has lived in the United States since 2009.

René is interested in exploring continuities across languages and cultures. He is particularly intrigued by literary articulations of marginalized identities and by literary instances of emergence, widely defined. He is also drawn to intertextual approaches that reveal the production of knowledge as a collective endeavor spanning times, cultures, and disciplines. Since 2021, he has been a contributing editor of The Envious Lobster, a collection of nineteenth-century U.S. nature writing and environmental writing for children. He runs, writes poetry, takes pictures, and dabbles in drawing and illustration.

He lives in North Carolina.


Photo credits, from the Library of Congress: 1913 Suffragettes, Yonkers; 1962 Ban the Bomb protest, NYC; 1965 March from Selma to Montgomery, AL; 1967 Anti-Vietnam War protest, D.C.; and 1976 Protesting anti-choice candidate, NYC. Via a Creative Commons license: 1997 Million Woman March Philadelphia; 2006 Anti-WTO rally, Pip Wilson; 2011 Occupy Wall Street supporter, Kat Vitulano; 2014 Black Lives Matter, Gerry Lauzon; 2016 Anti-Dakota Access Pipeline protest, Jolynne Martinez; and 2016 Anti-Trump protest, NYC, Kelly Kline. 2020 Say Their Names #BlackLivesMatter, K-B Gressitt.