March is National Women's History Month if you didn't know. And on the last day of March, here again is the table of contents for the next issue of Electric Velocipede:
Issue #14
Cover
Lisa Snellings-Clark
Fiction
Novelette
Leslie Claire Walker - Your Blood
Short Stories
Elissa Malcohn - Hermit Crabs
Lisa Mantchev - Perfect Tense
Tracie McBride - The Last Tiger
Sandra McDonald - Recipe for Survival
Melissa Mead - Stepsister
Jennifer Pelland - Sashenka Redux
Sara Saab - No Bubblewrap for Little Guys
Michelle Scott - Them
D. E. Wasden - The Artificial Sunlight of Memory
Leslie What - #1
Sharon E. Woods - Bull
Erzebet YellowBoy - Waiting at the Window
Poetry
Lida Broadhurst - Asylum
Erin Hoffman - Hyldegarde Speaks to Jacqueline
Sonya Taaffe - Evighed
Nonfiction
Penelope O'Shea - Sampling the Aspic
Blindfold Taste Test (contributor to come)
It may not be apparent, but the contributor list is made up of all female authors. I'll post my reasons for doing this in a follow-up post, but for now I want to hear people's thoughts without them being adulterated by my intentions.
I've had pro and con comments about this over the past year while I've been plannig the issue. What are your thoughts about the all-female contributor list?
Monday, March 31, 2008
Women's History Month
Posted by John Klima at 3/31/2008 04:00:00 PM
Labels: table of contents, women
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3 comments:
Why would this be noteworthy?
I've seen lots of magazines with all or nearly all male contributors.
I hope the content was the best you could find and that gender wasn't a factor.
It'll be interesting to see what people's reactions are to this. Remember a year or so ago when there was a huge outcry against how male the Nebula and Hugo ballots were? Will Sanders decided to do his part to balance that out by having an all-female issue of Helix. People either ignored it or called it a stunt. Here's hoping you get a better reaction.
It's a great idea if the stories are all good. It's great publicity, I think, because it'll be noted and commented on and perhaps published.
Otherwise, it's still a great idea and I'm excited to read it (right after I buy it).
I see it as opportunity.
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