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Writers Resist: The Anthology

We’re darn delighted with Writers Resist: The Anthology, a celebration of our first year of writing the resistance, published by Running Wild Press.


Join us for two virtual readings at

BOCA DE ORO FESTIVAL 2021

Literary, Visual & Performing Arts

Writers Resist: Global Voices

Friday 05 March, 7:30 to 9:00 pm Pacific and

Saturday 06 March, 3:30 to 5:00 pm Pacific

The festival runs 05 through 07 March 2021 and features:

Keynote Speaker Pete Souza • Closing Speaker Marc Bamuthi Joseph


Writers Resist: The Anthology


It began November 9, 2016, in a message, simple yet with an undercurrent of utter dismay: “What the fuck do we do now?” Sara asked, her grief and rage overcoming her manners.

“Why are you asking me? I hardly know you.” K-B wasn’t ready for correspondence, having spent the previous day working a polling place giddy with Trump supporters.

“I know from our MFA program that you’re an activist. I’m not, but we have to do something. What do we do?”

“Well, we’re writers. …”

So was born Writers Resist. The online literary journal launched at WritersResist.com on December 1, 2016.

After a year of publishing stories, poetry, essays and art from the United States and beyond, Sara and K-B asked each other, “So, what do we do now?”

So was born Writers Resist: The Anthology 2018, with the works of 73 contributors, including, not-yet-known, well-known, and a few notorious writers and artists of the resistance.

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Jonathan May
Joni Mayer
Jason Metz
Lily Moody
Yazmin Navarro
Suzanne O’Connell
Chinyere Onyekwere
Bola Opaleke
Laura Orem
Luke A. Powers
LJ Provost
Karthik Purushothaman
Sima Rabinowitz
Rae Rose
Sam Sax
Celeste Schantz
Holly Schofield
Alexander Schuhr
IE Sommsin
Süleyman Soydemir
Alina Stefanescu
Marydale Stewart
Katie Thomason
C. Gregory Thompson
Héctor Tobar
Tran Quoc Cong
David L. Ulin
Judy Viertel
Yun Wei
Keith Welch
Laura Grace Weldon
Conney D. Williams
Raya Yarbrough
Carolyn Ziel

Contributing Artists

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Elizabeth Jewell
Tomaso Marcolla

Advance praise for the anthology …


“DON’T BUY THIS BOOK! The Whacked Out Writers Resist book is BAD. Its FAKE fiction! Poetry doesn’t rhyme! Essays are TOO LONG! Writers are NOT smart! Should be in jail. It goes down as WORST ANTHOLOGY EVER by far! Don’t read!”

–@realDonaldTrump

“You’re asking me if it’s irresponsible for the president to try to censor a book? Let’s talk about books. Their publishers are what’s irresponsible. They kill trees. You’d think the liberal elite would be all over that. Many good people are questioning why there are so many books. If God intended Americans to read, books would be growing out in the cabbage patch.”

–Kellyanne Conway, Senior White House Advisor

“Yep, I might read the book. Pretty cover. Mysterious eyes. What, honey? What did Sean Hannity say? Oops, nope, wouldn’t touch that book with a ten-foot alligator. Thing of the devil.”

–MAGAgirl, Amazon Top-10,000 reviewer

“Everyone knows Marchant and Gressitt are angry lesbians who can’t edit or write. Living proof of what happens when you educate women and let them vote.”

–Milos Yiannopoulos


  • Editors: Kit-Bacon Gressitt and Sara Marchant, founding editors of WritersResist.com
  • 259 pages, 5 black-and-white illustrations, 5.5″ by 8.5″
  • Trade paperback $19.99 • $10.99 wholesale
  • ISBN 978-1-947041-13-4
  • Distributor: Ingram Book Group
  • Publication date: October 1, 2018
  • Publisher: Running Wild Press, runningwildpress.com
  • Contact: WritersResist@gmail.com or 760-522-1064

Order the anthology at Powell’s BooksIndieboundBarnes&Noble and Amazon.