List Of Organizations For Women Writers

	List Of Organizations For Women Writers This is a list of organizations, conferences, and prizes for women writers. Organizations and conferences Broad Universe Hedgebrook * International Women's Writing Guild (1976-) Kali for Women (1984-) Kentucky Women Writers Conference (1979-) * Philippine American Women Writers and Artists (1991-1998) * Sisters in Crime (1986-) Wiscon Women's Library (London) Literary awards which focus on gender * James Tiptree, Jr. Award: SFF which focuses on gender Lambda Literary Award: LGBT themes Orange Prize for Fiction: Awarded to women writers Pat Lowther Award Susan Smith Blackburn Prize: women playwrights Tagea Brandt Rejselegat: Danish award for women academics and writers Willa Literary Award: American award presented by Women Writing the West (WWW) See also Women's writing in English References {{Reflist Feminist literature Writing Organizations Organizations An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Broad Universe {{Sex in SF mini Broad Universe is a United States-based, all volunteer organization with the primary goal of promoting science fiction, fantasy, and horror written by women. Writers, editors, publishers, reviewers, artists, and fans are invited to join them. "Broad-minded" men are welcome to participate. The organization originated in a panel discussion at WisCon, the feminist science fiction convention in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2000. Broad Universe created the Rapid Fire Reading with a small group of member authors who each read an excerpt from their work no more than 5 minutes long. This has been very popular at conventions. It gives more authors an opportunity to read and it gives the audience a taste of fantastic fiction from several authors instead of just one. Broad Universe buys dealer's tables at various conventions (genre related or publishers, librarians and other conventions of use to the members.) One member benefit is the sale of their books at 0% commission by B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Orange Prize For Fiction The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously with sponsor names Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 and 2009–12), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–08) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017)) is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes. It is awarded annually to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year. History The prize was established in 1996, to recognise the literary achievement of female writers. The inspiration for the prize was the Booker Prize of 1991, when none of the six shortlisted books was by a woman, despite some 60% of novels published that year being by female authors. A group of women and men working in the industry – authors, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, journalists – therefore met to discuss the issue. Research showed that women’s literary achievements were often not acknowledged by the ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
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