WomenWriters.net is a magazine on female authored fiction, non-fiction & poetry

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Women Writers: A Zine

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It all started simply: I was minding my own business, keeping up with my other women's lit site Domestic Goddesses, when I received a letter from a "big business" internet company inviting me to create a guide to women writers for them. I was supposed to receive a small amount of cash per month to create and upkeep this site.... I thought, why not? I entered their training program, was very frustrated by the whole experience, and wound up not becoming a guide for them. I still use their sites (after a brief period of bitterness) and don't blame them at all-- in fact, there's now a new person doing the job I was going to do and I think her work is great (although I'm not sure why mine didn't make it cause it was quite similar in content).

When I was putting together the links, though, I realized that a site like this is really needed. There are some great collections of women writers online, but some of them were so large as to make them un-navigable for many interested searchers. And, some of those sites, in trying to be all-inclusive, make it hard to find current and exciting new writers that a searcher might be most interested in. Also, these huge collections are sometimes sporadically maintained, and their links can be frequently out-of-date. (We all know how "fly by night" some Internet Sites can be, and someone needs to make sure the links are current.) Finally, these collections sometimes forget to be diverse; women writers of color are less than completely represented on some, and the sites that specialize in women of color are very, well, specialized. I also liked the idea of putting my two cents in, editorial-wise, about some of the big issues in women's literature. I am a PhD student at Texas A&M and my specialty is women writers; so I feel pretty excited about creating an online community of other people interested in these writers. So here we have it: An E-Zine dedicated to Women Writers. We have some regularly contributing columnists and folks who drop in every now and then with some new work, which helps make this site the definitive guide to women writers on the 'Net. We're a little academic, but we also have some fun now and then. Women writers are a force to be reckoned with as the over 300 links on this site shows... but when I get complacent in thinking that women writers are never going away, I read another one of those "great books of the _______ (fill in the blank with a term denoting time, space, or some other hierarchy)" and find that there are few and far between women on the list, I get cranky and realize the work is far from over.

At first the site was mostly a collection of links, like the guide site I originally created. Now we have a large collection of original fiction and poetry by women authors, a great selection of book reviews, scholarly articles on women authors, and a few interviews with well-known (and not so well known) feminist writers. In many ways, the evolution of this site affirms my faith in the power of the Internet; with a little knowledge of HTML, anyone can have what is essentially their own "printing press." Today, the literary proles have, potentially, access to the means of production. Yippee!