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…
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Women We Read This Week
Michelle 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…
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Women We Read This Week
Wednesday Martin’s “Poor Little Rich Women” in The New York Times This is a brief but fascinating look into the lives of the uber…
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Women We Read This Week
Sarah 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…
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Women We Read This Week
Abigail 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….
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Women We Read This Week
If 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…
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Women We Read This Week
Ruth 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…
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Women We Read This Week
Joanna Walsh’s “In Cyberspace: a love letter” in Granta Here is a thoroughly modern love story, largely enacted online, in “the place we all…
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It’s Not Personal
This 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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