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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Bookmarked: Elissa Bassist’s Five Female Humor Writers
Editor’s Note: Even in our hyper-connected age, it can be pretty easy to fall into the habit of reading the same writers in the…
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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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Crafting Memoir and “Doing Grief”: An Interview with Melanie Bishop
This week’s guest writer, Melanie Bishop, was one of my first writing teachers at Prescott College, a small liberal arts and environmental school in…
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Freedom to Speak: An Interview with Sampsonia Way’s Silvia Duarte
In her essay “Forbidden,” this week’s guest writer, Katie Booth, writes about her experience teaching writing at a university in Guangzhou, China. As an…
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This Is How It Happens
Try this: Click on our masthead. Look at the photos. Skim the bios. What do you notice?
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Women We Read This Year: Best of 2012
The month of December had barely begun when the Best Of lists began to pop up in my Twitter feed. Best Albums, Best Films,…
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Making What?
It would have opened like this: the year 2000, June, weekday, mid-afternoon. Standing along the brick of 16th and Mission, a clump of dirty-haired kids…
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A Year of Vela
Today, September 6, 2012, we at Vela celebrate the first anniversary of the magazine.There is much to come, but before we get to all of…
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Women Writers 101
This weekend, I sat down to write a syllabus with the goal of featuring more female writers than male ones.
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Written by Women
On the eve of Vela’s launch in September 2011, Sarah Menkedick sat down and wrote out her vision for the magazine. Vela has grown…
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