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Join us for Writers Resist Reads

14 October 2023 at 5:00 p.m.  Pacific

a virtual reading celebrating the contributing writers of the September 2023 issue of Writers Resist

Contributing writers and artists include: Janis Butler Holm, Amy Cook, Amelia Díaz Ettinger, Ariel M. Goldenthal, Christina Hennemann, Emily Hockaday, Mercedes Lawry, Kelsey D. Mahaffey, M.R. Mandell, Jeremy Nathan Marks, Janna Miller, Nancy Squires, and Mark Williams.

Email WritersResist@gmail.com to request the Zoom link.



Watch Writers Resist Reads 08 July 2023

a virtual reading celebrating the contributing writers of the June 2023 issue of Writers Resist

Readers: Arthur Altarejos, Christie M. Buchovecky, Andrea Dulanto, Amal El-Sayed, Emma Goldman-Sherman, David Icenogle, Phoenix Ning, Angelica Whitehorne, and Bänoo Zan



Watch the Writers Resist Reads 22 April 2023

a virtual reading by the contributing writers of the March 2023 issue of Writers Resist

Readers: Nikki Blakely, Wells Burgess, Irene Cooper, Joanne Durham, Rebecca K Leet, T. Dallas Saylor, Elizabeth Shack, Claudia Wair, and Renee McClellan



Watch the 28 January 2023 reading

a virtual reading by the contributing creators of the December 2022 issue of Writers Resist.

Readings by:

Christina Bagni, Jacqueline Jules, Tara Campbell, the Maenad, Yvonne Patterson, Karen Kilcup, Kathleen Kremins, Livvy Krakower, and William Palmer



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


Watch the 15 October 2022 reading

A virtual reading by the contributing writers to the September 2022 issue of Writers Resist.

Readings by:

Katie Avagliano
Dia Calhoun
Heather Dorn
Flavian Mark Lupinetti
René Marzuk
Penny Perry
Lorna Rose, from our June issue


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


Writers Resist Reads Saturday 23 July 2022


Watch a recording of the contributing writers to the June 2022 issue of Writers Resist reading their works.

Featuring:

Elizabeth Spencer Spragins

Karen Kilcup

Sue Katz

Ron Dowell

Ololade Akinlabi Ige

Linda Laderman

Some notes from the chat:

K-B Gressitt: www.elizabethspencerspragins.wordpress.com

Ron D.:          👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

Ololade:         Concise and beautiful

K-B Gressitt: https://karenkilcup.org/

Ron D.:          👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

Anne Graue (she/her):        👏👏

Tara Campbell:         Okay, that’s a great title: A Raisin in my Cleavage!

K-B Gressitt: https://suekatz.typepad.com/

linda laderman:         wonderful!!

K-B Gressitt: https://crookedoutofcompton.com/

Anne Graue (she/her):        Beautiful imagery!

linda laderman:         Wate In  The Water!

Debbie Hall:  an epidemic of muting

Barb:  Ron, wonderful!!!

Karen Kilcup: What wonderful work–so enjoying this reading!

Anne Graue (she/her):        “we counted our dead and forgot numbers…” poignant poem Ololade.

Ron D.:          👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

linda laderman:         courageous and beautiful

Melissa Higley:         Gorgeous and devastating

Karen Kilcup: Yes!

K-B Gressitt: So moving that both Ololade and Linda can write so beautifully of war.

Joy Gaines-Friedler:            Wonderful

Ron D.:          👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 “…fire fuels a madman’s war.”

Melissa Higley:         Incredible, Linda.

Anne Graue (she/her):        A “madman’s war” indeed. Thank you for that Linda.

Amy ’s iPhone:         So powerful, Linda. Thank you for articulating with such grace.

Barb:  Thought provoking Linda. No more war has been our chant for too long.

Debbie Hall:  Thank you to all of our contributors for your fine work and moving words!

Ron D.:          👏🏿

linda laderman:         Comedian-indeed!

linda laderman:         because it’s home!

Karen Kilcup: Almost forgot: https://www.holeintheheadreview.com/ukraine

Tara Campbell:         👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Ron D.:          “…strewn with steele watered with blood…”

Ron D.:          👏🏿

Anne Graue (she/her):        Another brave poem, Ololade!

Karen Kilcup: If people have links to their second work, it would be great if you could share them!

Karen Kilcup: Another powerful work!

Ron D.:          “..the circus moves to Uvalde…” “…we ignore the stench and turn…”👏🏿

Ololade:         It’s late here, I have to go. Thanks for having me.

Tara Campbell:         Wow, “our right to see the circus is safe” BAM!

Sara Marchant:         You poets are all killing me, thanks


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


Writers Resist Reads 15 April 2022


Watch a recording of the reading, featuring contributing
writers to our March 2022 issue, including:

Victoria Barnes

Erica Goss

Amelia Díaz Ettinger

Dotty LeMieux

Frederick Livingston

Kristin Lord

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



Writers Resist: Global Voices

Featured Writers Resist authors at the 2021 Boca de Oro Literary and Arts Festival


Amirah Al Wassif is a freelance writer based in Egypt. Her prolific output includes general interest articles, novels, short stories, songs, and of course, poetry. Five of her books have been written in Arabic and much of her English work has appeared in a great many cultural magazines. Her work has been translated into Spanish, Kurdish, Hindi and Arabic. Amirah also has a poetry collection, For Those Who Don’t Know Chocolate (Poetic Justice Books & Arts, 2019), and a children’s book, The Cocoa Boy and Other Stories, published in February 2020.


Kitty Anarchy is an anarchafeminist, chicana womyn poet, short story writer, and artist born and raised and currently residing in the occupied Tongva land now known as the San Gabriel Valley in Southern California. Kitty grew up as an only child with a strict Catholic immigrant mother. She discovered punk rock and started spending her weekends watching punk bands at the Hong Kong Cafe and questioning her indoctrination. Listening to kpfk.org and reading fundamental information on readdesert.org have offered comfort that she is not alone after all. Her closest comrades consist of two cats, ChiChi and Frida, and a playful pup named Nibbit. Website: kittyanarchy.com


Mileva Anastasiadou is a neurologist. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in many journals, including the Molotov CocktailJellyfish ReviewAsymmetry, the Sunlight Press (Best Small Fictions 2019 nominee), Ghost ParachuteGone LawnEllipsis ZineQueen Mob’s Tea HouseBending Genres and others.


Dini Armstrong, now Scottish, was born in Germany, with British, Dutch, and rumoured Hungarian ancestry. In 1998, she left a career in political journalism behind and moved to Britain, where she qualified and worked as a psychologist. Ruthlessly exploiting her insights into the human mind, she has recently completed an MA in Creative Writing. Dini has published flash fiction and short stories. Website: www.DiniArmstrong.com


Ron L. Dowell, born in Los Angeles and now living in San Pedro, California, holds two master’s degrees from California State University Long Beach. In June 2017, he received the UCLA Certificate in Fiction Writing. His short stories have appeared in Oyster Rivers Pages, Moon Magazine, Unlikely Stories, Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine #11, Watermelanian Magazine, The Fear of Monkeys, Writers Resist, Baby Boomers Plus 2018, The Hamilton Stone Review, Tulip Tree Review, and The Bombay Review. His poetry resides in Penumbra, Writers Resist, Oyster Rivers Pages, and The Poeming Pigeon. He’s a 2018 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow. Ron writes about a suite of sociopolitical realities in an honest, smart way that challenges stereotypes and humanizes people. He connects gritty narratives showing how people find hope and even joy in lives where basic needs are hard to meet.


D.A. Gray is the author of Contested Terrain (2017) and Overwatch (2011). His poems have appeared in The Sewanee Review, Grey Sparrow Journal, Appalachian Review, Writers Resist, Comstock Review, Still: The Journal and Wrath-Bearing Tree among others. He holds Masters Degrees from The Sewanee School of Letters and Texas A&M-Central Texas. A veteran, Gray now teaches, writes, and lives in Central Texas. Website: dagray.net


Marcy Rae Henry es una latina chingona de Los Borderlands. She’s lived in Andalucía, tucked away in the Himalayas, and now quarantines with her rescue dog by the Chicago River. Her writing  has been longlisted, shortlisted, honorably mentioned, nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and appears or is forthcoming in The Columbia Review, Epiphany, Hobart, BathHouse and The Southern Review, among others. She has received a Chicago Community Arts Assistance Grant and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship. DoubleCross Press is publishing a chapbook of  her poems. Website: marcyraehenry.com


J Khan was born overseas and now lives and works in the Kansas City area. The author’s parents were born in India, and the author has lived in the UK, Middle East, and USA. His poems have appeared in diverse journals including Writers Resist, I70 Review, Rigorous Magazine and SPRR. His chapbook, Speech in an Age of Certainty, will be released by Finishing Line Press in 2021.


Phyllis Klein’s work as a psychotherapist specializing in trauma and a Certified Poetry Therapist has informed her poetry. She weaves her own traumas into her poems as well. Her book, The Full Moon Herald is a poetic newspaper filled with real world news and personal news. She’s been widely published in journals and anthologies, won finalist prizes, and received several Pushcart nominations. She sees writing as a dialogue between author and reader, an intimate relationship-building process that fosters healing on many levels. Writing about the news is her way of taking action to counter feelings of overwhelm and loss. Website: phyllispoetry.com


Cassandra Lane is author of We Are Bridges (Feminist Press), winner of the 2020 Louise Meriwether First Book Prize, and editor-in-chief of L.A. Parent magazine. Her stories have appeared in Everything But the Burden, Ms. Aligned, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Writers Resist, Expressing Motherhood, Fury: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Trump Era,The NYT’s “Conception” series, and elsewhere. She received an M.F.A. from Antioch University Los Angeles. A Louisiana native, Cassandra has lived in Los Angeles since 2001. Website: cassandralane.net


Marcella Remund is a native of Omaha, Nebraska, and a South Dakota transplant, where she teaches English at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is the author of a chapbook of poems, The Sea is My Ugly Twin (2018 Finishing Line Press) and a full-length collection The Book of Crooked Prayer (2020 Finishing Line Press). Her latest manuscript is a collection of poems based on Ireland’s Magdalene laundries. She and her husband live in a multi-generational, multi-species household in Vermillion. Website: marcellaremund.com


Aïcha Martine Thiam is a trilingual and multicultural writer, musician and artist. She’s an editor at Reckoning Press, and EIC/producer/creative director of The Nasiona. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net, The Best Small Fictions and The Pushcart Prize, and her collection AT SEA is forthcoming from CLASH BOOKS. Follow her @Maelllstrom.

Website: www.amartine.com.


Conney D. Williams is a poet, actor, community activist, and performance artist with two collections of poetry. Leaves of Spilled Spirit from an Untamed Poet (2002) and Blues Red Soul Falsetto (2012); two critically acclaimed poetry CDs, River&Moan and Unsettled Water. His new collection “the distance of observation” will be released April 2021 by World Stage Press.


Ying Wu, a Writers Resist editor, is a poet and cognitive scientist, and host of the Gelato Poetry reading series in San Diego, California. She is also a proud member of the editorial team of Kids! San Diego Poetry Annual. Her work can be found at Poetry and Art at the San Diego Art Institute (poetryandartsd.com), in Clackamas Literary Review and the Serving House Journal, and in the material world at the San Diego Airport. Ying lives with her husband and daughter on a sailboat in the San Diego Bay.



Koushik Banerjea is a London based writer and novelist. Just too young for Crackers, and certainly too old for ‘grime,’ the bits in between suited him just fine. The other side of this nocturne, he is a purveyor of tall tales, and some shorter ones too, which have appeared in The Good Journal, Minor Literatures, Verbal, Writers Resist and Shots in the Dark, as well as Shots in the Dark II. His debut novel, Another Kind of Concrete, is out now with Jacaranda books. He is currently working on a short story collection and a number of original essays, developed under lockdown, examining the parlous cultural condition of the contemporary Anglosphere.
Website: koushikbanerjea.co.uk Instagram: @hark.athim


Tara Campbell is a writer, teacher, Kimbilio Fellow, and fiction editor at Barrelhouse. She received her MFA from American University. Previous publication credits include SmokeLong Quarterly, Masters Review, Wigleaf, Jellyfish Review, Booth, Strange Horizons, and Craft Literary. She’s the author of a novel, TreeVolution, and three collections: Circe’s Bicycle, Midnight at the Organporium, and Political AF: A Rage Collection. Her fourth collection, Cabinet of Wrath: A Doll Collection, is forthcoming from Aqueduct Press in 2021. Website: www.taracampbell.com


Tanuja Desai Hidier is an author, singer-songwriter, and innovator of the booktrack. Her pioneering debut Born Confused, considered to be the first South Asian American YA novel, was named an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults and was hailed by Entertainment WeeklyRolling Stone Magazine, and Paste as one of the greatest YA novels of all time. She wrote an award-winning sequel, Bombay Blues. Tanuja’s album, When We Were Twins, based on Born Confused, was featured in Wired, as the first booktrack. Tanuja produced the “Deep Blue She” PSA, an award-winning intersectionality project featuring musical guests Anoushka Shankar and Jon Faddis, and 100+ artist/activists, mostly women of color. Tanuja also wrote the foreword to the recently released Untold: Defining Moments of the Uprooted (Mango & Marigold Press). Her short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, and her poetry was recently featured in Scholastic’s 100 Reasons to Love Reading and in Writers Resist. Website: www.ThisIsTanuja.com


Marc Alan Di Martino is a Pushcart-nominated poet, a translator, and the author of the collection Unburial (Kelsay, 2019). His work appears in Baltimore Review, Rattle, Rust + Moth, Tinderbox, Valparaiso Poetry Review and many other journals and anthologies. His second collection, Still Life with City, will be published by Pski’s Porch in 2021. He lives in Italy.


Max Earnest is a poet and engineer living in Massachusetts. Max is Queer, Demisexual, Transmasculine and Jewish, and an overall meme. He can be found reading all of Warrior Cats or playing with his lizard Kobold. He is currently published in Writers Resist, the AZE Journal, and the Ace Audio Archive.


Patrick Effiong Ben is a philosopher, poet and MasterCard Foundation Scholar at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is from Nigeria and currently resides in South Africa where he is studying towards his postgraduate degree.
Follow him on Facebook @BenBlag and on Twitter @Benblag.


Rebecca Ruth Gould is a writer, translator and editor of The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism (2020). Based in the U.K., her poetry collection Beautiful English is forthcoming from Dreich Press in Scotland in 2021.
Website: rrgould.hcommons.org and she can be followed on Twitter and Medium at @rrgould.


Debbie Hall, a Writers Resist editor, 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.


David Martinez is a half-American, half-Brazilian writer who has lived all over the United States, Brazil, and Puerto Rico. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing from UC Riverside Palm Desert. His most recent essays can be found in Writers Resist, Charge Magazine, and Anti-Heroin Chic. David teaches English and Creative Writing at Glendale Community College in Arizona. Website: davidmmartinez.com


Abby E. Murray is the editor of Collateral, a literary journal concerned with the impact of violent conflict and military service beyond the combat zone. She teaches argumentation in military strategy for army officers on fellowship from the Army War College at the University of Washington, and she offers free creative writing workshops for immigrants, civilians, soldiers, veterans, and their loved ones around Tacoma, Washington, where she is the city’s poet laureate. Her book, Hail and Farewell, won the Perugia Press Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2020 Washington State Book Award.  Website: www.abbyemurray.com.


Alex Penland was a museum kid: a childhood of running rampant through the Smithsonian kicked off a lifelong inspiration for science fiction, poetry, and science-inspired fantasy. Their work has been internationally published in The Midwest ReviewStory Cities, and the upcoming Strange Lands anthology by Flame Tree Press. Their poetry has been awarded by Writers’ Digest and has twice been published by Writers Resist. They currently live in Scotland studying for a PhD in Creative Writing. Website: www.AlexandraPenn.com.


Sarah Sheppeck is a graduate of U.C. Riverside’s Palm Desert Low-Residency MFA program in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts, in California, USA. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Rochester and her Master’s in Secondary Education and Curriculum from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Born and raised in upstate New York with stints in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and the woods of northern Maine, she is now back in her hometown with her pit mix, Chloe. Find her on Twitter: @EpicSheppeck.


Bunkong Tuon is a Cambodian-American writer and critic. He is the author of GruelAnd So I Was Blessed (both published by NYQ Books), The Doctor Will Fix It (Shabda Press), and Dead Tongue (a chapbook with Joanna C. Valente, Yes Poetry).
He teaches at Union College, in Schenectady, New York.


Claudia Wair is from Virginia, USA. Her work has appeared in Typehouse Literary MagazineFudoki MagazineWriters Resist, and in the anthologies Dread Naught but Time and Fantasia Fairy Tales.
Website: www.claudiawair.com
Follow her on Twitter @CWTellsTales, Instagram @CWTellsTales, and Facebook.