Women We Read This Week
Rachel Riederer’s “The Teaching Class” in Guernica I read Riederer’s piece about a month ago, and though at first it didn’t stand out to…
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Bookmarked: Brittany Shoot’s Seven Science Writers
When I joined The Magazine as managing editor a year ago, the publication’s editor-publisher (and my boss) Glenn Fleishman and I had a number…
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Vela’s First Nonfiction Contest: Results
Vela’s first Nonfiction Contest received over 500 submissions. We were humbled to read the stories women writers shared with us and impressed by their breadth…
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Inversion
My father carved for my mother. He turned blocks of wood into mini-carousel horses. These horses were the most delicate things I’d ever seen a man make…
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Vela Writers On: Storytelling
Where do fictional characters come from; what does it mean to bear witness; is information the death of story? In three short essays, Vela…
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Announcing: Vela’s First Nonfiction Contest
You know what there’s not enough of? Money for writers. Especially women writers. So we’ve got a little something to help counter that. We’re…
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On Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby
For almost two years now, I’ve been making a dress. I bought the pattern and a roll of fabric on holiday in Wales, but I didn’t have a sewing machine…
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