Writing about Women at the Margins: An Interview with NoViolet Bulawayo
The Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet Bulawayo, a group of her friends and I are at Buka, a Nigerian restaurant in Brooklyn, and we are surrounded by fish heads…
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Women We Read This Week
Ali Smith’s “The Human Claim” at Liberty I love the way Ali Smith writes, so I was happy to find this piece amidst 80…
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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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Hopes and Fears of the Writing Life
Fear that in the end, no matter how hard I work, no matter how many doors I bang on and with what frequency and obstinacy, no matter…
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The Non-Bravery of Bearing Witness
It’s happening again: I’ve published a highly personal essay and well-intentioned readers are calling me brave.It’s meant as a compliment, I know…
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Writers Respond to Typhoon Haiyan
On ordinary days, this is a magazine of creative nonfiction, inspired by travel, written by women–by which we mean that Vela publishes writing that…
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The Princess and the Soldier: A Girl Reading
Like everyone in possession of that most impractical English degree (or three), I have read my share of the canon.
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V-Formation: Two Years of Vela
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. – Annie Dillard It is September again, and those of us…
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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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Women We Read This Week
Rafia Zakaria’s “The War, The Women, and the Vaccine” on Warscapes If you don’t know Rafia Zakaria yet, you should. She writes from Pakistan,…
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Women We Read This Week
Helen Hayward’s “My children, my life,” in Aeon Magazine In this thought-provoking personal essay, Hayward challenges the assumption that a woman can’t dedicate herself…
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Seeking Suggestions: Nonfiction by Women Writers for Upcoming “Unlisted List”
Dear Nonfiction Reader of High Taste and Open Mind: We need your help! International Women’s Day is this week, and the VIDA Count is…
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