The announcement from the Publishing Triangle that Sinister Wisdom is the winner of the 2014 Leadership Award thrilled all of us at Sinister Wisdom. The prize will be presented on April 24, 2014 in New York City. Here is what the Publishing Triangle had to say about the award:
Created in 2002, this award recognizes contributions to lesbian and gay literature by those who are not primarily writers-editors, agents, librarians, and institutions.
Sinister Wisdom is a multicultural lesbian literary and art journal that publishes four issues each year. Publishing since 1976, Sinister Wisdom works to create a multicultural, multi-class lesbian space. Sinister Wisdom seeks to open, consider and advance the exploration of lesbian community issues. It recognizes the power of language to reflect the diverse experiences in the lesbian community and to enhance the ability of lesbians to develop critical judgment as they evaluate their community and their world. Julie R. Enszer, PhD, is the current editor and publisher of Sinister Wisdom.
In 2013, Sinister Wisdom moved into book publishing as well, in partnership with A Midsummer Night's Press. Its Sapphic Classics are reprint editions of iconic works of lesbian poetry. The first such title, Minnie Bruce Pratt's Crime Against Nature, was published in April 2013; the second Sapphic Classic, Cheryl Clarke's Living as a Lesbian, came out in January 2014.
For its decades of publishing to a queer audience, Sinister Wisdom, the oldest surviving lesbian literary journal, is being honored with the Publishing Triangle's Leadership Award.
Celebrate the Leadership Award by Subscribing to Sinister Wisdom
The greatest way to pay tribute to Sinister Wisdom is by subscribing to the journal. We have a special spring subscription drive. We hope to add 38 new subscribers by May 1st--one for every year that Sinister Wisdom has published. Will you join us as a subscriber today? Full information about subscriptions is available here: http://www.sinisterwisdom.org/subscribe. We will be counting until we reach 38 and announce that milestone at www.SinisterWisdom.org.
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Copies of Sinister Wisdom 87 and 81 are hot this month
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Lesbian Healthcare Workers
Elizabeth Hansen, Guest Editor
Sinister Wisdom 92: Lesbian Healthcare Workers is a special issue that focuses on lesbian healthcare workers, and particularly nurses. Workers and recipients of lesbian healthcare come together to share their personal experiences through essays, poems, and other imagery that highlight systemic issues, and express gratitude to the healers within the lesbian community.
Essays by:
• Peggy L. Chinn & Elizabeth R. Berrey
• Maria V. Ciletti
• Sharon Deevey
• Kelli Dunham
• Alma Garcia
• Sarah Lipkin-Lamay
• Karen Starr
• Maida Tilchen
• Jean Taylor
Creative Work By
Judith Beckett
Cassandra Christenson
Joan Cofrancesco
Michelle Duford
Diane Solis
Samn Stockwell
And More!
(Sinister Wisdom 92:Lesbian Healthcare Workers published Spring 2014.)
On occasion, we receive donated copies of Sinister Wisdom back issues and sell them when they are available. You can inquire about availability of this issue by emailing julie@sinisterwisdom.org.
One of the most requested issues of Sinister Wisdom is Sinister Wisdom 61: Women Loving Women in Prison. So we are excited to announce that we have a reprint in house of the issue, so copies are back in stock. Many of the requests for this issue come from women who are incarcerated, so we send out copies for free to incarcerated women. If you would like to support this work, do consider making a contribution to Sinister Wisdom. You can give online here: http://www.sinisterwisdom.org/donate
or mail a check to:
Sinister Wisdom
2333 McIntosh Road
Dover, FL 33527
Interested in other back issues of Sinister Wisdom? Order them here: http://www.sinisterwisdom.org/issues
Thanks for supporting the journal!
Suzanne Sunshower has a new chapbook ready for sale. The name is: "It's Where You Find It." To purchase go to: http://www.suzannesunshower.com/Purchase_IWYFI.html The price is $7.00 per copy.
Well worth the price.
Sad to say that QME is no longer publishing online. It has closed down. Sorry to see that another place that published essays, book reviews, poetry and photograph ended this month.
QME is still on Facebook and you can get in touch with Suzanne Sunshower on her site.
Judith K. Witherow
We had a great brunch on Sunday. I'm sorry that some of you had to miss it. The lucky 13 who were there decided to meet monthly in a place that's quieter than a restaurant.
We will meet on the first Sunday of the month at 2 pm. The Methodist Home at 4901 Connecticut Ave NW, just a block from Politics & Prose bookstore, will allow us to use their space.
Please tell your lesbian friends age 60 and over about our group.
Our first event will be getting together at the Nikki Giovanni reading at Busboys and Poets in DC on November 29th (5th and K St, NW, 6 pm). Look for Deb Morris, Deb Friedman, Sue Lenaerts and Judith K. Witherow. (Carol Anne Douglas can't be with us for this great event).
The reading of Nikki's new book "Chasing Utopia" is great. Do yourself a favor and buy a copy.
If anyone wants to join the chapter or attend events get in touch with Carol Anne Douglas or Deb Friedman. Both are on Facebook.
Judith K. Witherow
Marie Davis and Margaret Hultz are two down-home, hard-working lesbian app builders spreading the word about their app Spoon and the Moon.
No! Wait! Please don’t stop reading; it’s a word worth spreading! Spoon and the Moon has won many awards, including runner-up for Best App Ever and the eLit award for Illuminating Digital Excellence! Most recently we popped up to New York City during the BEA and received our 2013 Discovery Award from IndieReader. IndieReader also picked Spoon and the Moon as one of their six books to fall for this season! Just think of it? Cozy flannel pajamas, nippy cool air, fireplaces roaring and Spoon and the Moon helping you laugh your way through the season! YAY! Fall!
Want a tinge more? Just imagine their plight, two mouse-wielding lesbians working in a predominately straight male technological world and we really, really need the support of the LGBTIQ family.
Plus, and here is the freebie, Marie and Margaret will send Sinister Wisdom readers a free app if they will contact Marie and Margaret at spoonandthemoon@yahoo.com with the words Free App in the subject line.
Thanks buckets for reading their note. Here’s to all of us, and marriage equality sooner than later!
THE CALLALOO CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP, sponsored annually by the literary quarterly Callaloo, will be hosted June 1-14, 2014 by The Department of Africana Studies at Brown University
Open and free to the general public, the Workshop is designed to assist new and developing writers by providing intensive and individual instruction in the writing of fiction and poetry. Participants in the Workshop and its leaders will live and work together for the duration of the two-week session, as well as meet in groups for three
hours each day and in individual conferences when necessary.
Each of the two poetry sessions will admit no more than ten applicants, and those devoted to fiction writing will admit only six each. The Workshop leaders will give readings for the general public, and Workshop participants will celebrate the last evening with selective readings.
Admission to and participation in the different sessions of the Workshops are free. However, participants will be responsible for their travel, lodging, and board.
TO APPLY: Applications must be submitted online at
no later than January 31, 2014.
Each applicant must submit a brief cover letter and writing sample (no more than five pages of poetry or twelve pages of prose fiction), to file under the THE CALLALOO CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP category.
An applicant may apply in only one area: poetry or fiction. Otherwise the applicant will not be considered for admission.
For additional information or explanations, please email callaloo@tamu.edu or telephone the CALLALOO office (979-458-3108).
Stephanie Wasson,
CALLALOO Journal of African Diaspora editor
As/Us: A Space for Women of The World is currently open for submissions.
DEADLINE for Issue 3 is NOVEMBER 30, 2013
Submission Guidelines
As Us accepts original and previously unpublished works by Indigenous women and women of color. Simultaneous submissions are allowed but please inform us immediately if your piece is accepted elsewhere for publication. As Us accepts poetry, spokenword, creative nonfiction, fiction, academic essays, and more.
“And the metaphorical lenses we choose are crucial, having the power to magnify, create better focus, and correct our vision.”
― Charlene Carruthers
"Your silence will not protect you."
Audre Lorde
“It’s revolutionary to connect with love”
— Tourmaline
"Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught."
― Leslie Feinberg
“The problem with the use of language of Revolution without praxis is that it promises to change everything while keeping everything the same. “
— Leila Raven
Sinister Wisdom is a multicultural lesbian literary and art journal that publishes four issues each year. Publishing since 1976, Sinister Wisdom works to create a multicultural, multi-class lesbian space. Sinister Wisdom seeks to open, consider and advance the exploration of lesbian community issues. It recognizes the power of language to reflect the diverse experiences in the lesbian community and to enhance the ability of lesbians to develop critical judgment as they evaluate their community and their world. Julie R. Enszer, PhD, is the current editor and publisher of Sinister Wisdom.
