
Women We Read This Week
Jessica Pishko’s “Unemployment Is a Full-Time Job” in Takepart Journalist Jessica Pishko does an amazing job at painting humanizing portraits of welfare recipients and…
Read MoreJessica Pishko’s “Unemployment Is a Full-Time Job” in Takepart Journalist Jessica Pishko does an amazing job at painting humanizing portraits of welfare recipients and…
Read MoreMichelle Robertson’s “Recovery Season” in Orion Magazine This essay is a quiet, sincere meditation on how the author’s eating disorder affects her relationship with…
Read MoreWednesday Martin’s “Poor Little Rich Women” in The New York Times This is a brief but fascinating look into the lives of the uber…
Read MoreSarah Stillman’s “Kidnapped at the Border” in The New Yorker Sarah Stillman has done it again. The young-enough-to-make-you-feel-really-bad-about-your-accomplishments staff writer at The New…
Read MoreAbigail Rasminsky’s “I’m Pregnant. So Why Can’t I Tell You?” in Medium When Abigail Rasminsky got pregnant she told only family and close friends….
Read MoreIf you enjoy this story, please consider supporting Vela’s quest to pay writers on Kickstarter! We thank you infinitely for your support. Carolyn Kormann’s “The…
Read MoreRuth Fowler’s “The Loneliest and Saddest Kind” on Guernica It was fitting that I should find Ruth Fowler‘s essay this week, as I was…
Read MoreJoanna Walsh’s “In Cyberspace: a love letter” in Granta Here is a thoroughly modern love story, largely enacted online, in “the place we all…
Read MoreThis past fall, I went with seven other third-year nonfiction MFA students from the University of Pittsburgh to New York to pitch editors…
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