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The top five best BASS markets for women writers (and five not-so-great)

Monday, July 18, 2011

This one’s for the ladies! We’ve already covered how over half of all BASS stories came from the same 12 sources from 2005 through 2010, so let’s move to my pet peeve about the literary community: the potential for bias against writers who are women. I posted this graph in a previous entry, but since […]

Filed in Awards and Stuff Like That | Also tagged Best American Short Stories, Denis LeHane, Edward P. Jones, gender bias, Glimmer Train, Houghton Mifflin, Joyce Carol Oates, Matt Bell, Michael Chabon, Ploughshares, Susan Gibb, TC Boyle, The New Yorker, The Sun, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, Women Writers, Zoetrope | Comments (3)

The Best American Short Stories exposed!

Saturday, July 9, 2011

This is Part One of a series analyzing the Best American Short Stories anthologies from 2005-2010. For part two, read “The top five best BASS markets for women writers (and five not-so-great)” I’m one of those creepy writers who are less right brained and more perfectly balanced brained. It’s possible that I have a […]

Filed in Awards and Stuff Like That, Writers are weird | Also tagged A Public Space, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, Antioch Review, Artifice, Best American Short Stories, Best American Short Stories Anthology, Conjunctions, Female writers, Five Points, Glimmer Train, Granta, Harper-Collins, Harper's Magazine, Heidi Pitlor, Hobart, HTML Giant, McSweeney's, Missouri Review, Narrative Magazine, New England Review, Ninth Letter, One Story, Oxford American, Ploughshares, Post Road, Prairie Schooner, Submissions, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, The Southern Review, The Sun, Tin House, Word Riot, Zoetrope | Comments (23)