Current Call for Submissions We’ll be publishing a special Writers Resist issue on 19 June 2021 to acknowledge Juneteenth and the first 150 days of the Biden-Harris administration. We all see things—politics, justice, history, the future, even flowers—differently. What are you seeing these days? Send us your words, in poetry or prose, and your images, but [...]
Writers Resist Readings at Boca de Oro Festival March 5 and March 6, 2021 Keynote Speaker: Pete Souza, presidential photographer Closing Speaker: Marc Bamuthi Joseph, poet and playwright The festival of literary, visual, and performing arts presents two virtual WR readings Writers Resist: Global Voices Hosted by Kit-Bacon Gressitt and Sara Marchant. Visit the Writers Resist events page for featured writers [...]
Yo-ho! Consequently, this is the final bi-weekly issue of Writers Resist. Although we have other things in the works, we want to pause to thank the hundreds of writers, artists, donors, and volunteer editors, who have lived the last four years with us, raging and weeping and laughing—and hoping. K-B, if she could, would also thank [...]
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We're delighted to announce a new addition to our editorial team, Debbie Hall, who'll be joining Ying Wu in reviewing poetry submissions. Debbie 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, [...]
Writers Resist is honored to share some of the many and diverse creative writings recently inspired by Black Lives Matter, systemic racism, police brutality, U.S. protests, and the gorgeous, global chorus demanding equity and equality for all. This issue includes works by Kitty Anarchy, Despy Boutris, Schyler Butler, Marcy Rae Henry, Dana Kinsey, Christa Miller, Aaron [...]
Unlike the statistics above, our stories help humanize the theme of abortion, and this week we are sharing five of them, in poetry and prose, by Mileva Anastasiadou, Andrea England, Vicki Cohen, Heather Mydosh, and Penny Perry. Like every piece in the issue, each abortion decision is unique and intimate, and it is owned by only one person, [...]
Track the nation's mass shootings at the Gun Violence Archive—and what a horrible shame that the site exists.
Give the gift of resistance. Writers Resist: The Anthology 2018 What readers are saying ... “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 [...]
Need holiday gifts, a distraction from battering news, a sense of camaraderie—or perhaps something with which to annoy a Trump-loving family member? Buy this book! Or, as our jacket blurbs say: “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 [...]
Having recovered from the rewarding demands of the Women’s March on Washington—and across the nation and around the world—we are just not ready to give up that fabulous feeling. To sustain it a bit longer, in this week’s issue we feature the works of four writers who marched or would have, had death not defied intent. The [...]
Writers Resist, a literary collective born of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, publishes creative expressions of resistance by diverse writers and artists. We are dedicated to challenging all things that diminish our nation’s quest for equality, freedom, justice and a healthy planet for all—while having a bit of fun, which is why we publish weekly, [...]
