Lesbian publishing/writing history panel at SASFEST

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Women Writes Herstory
May 14th, 2011 panel at Saints & Sinners Literary Festival

I went to this panel and tried to transcribe as much as I can, though I had to paraphrase and leave out a lot since I can’t actually type quite fast enough to keep up with every word. So here are some thoughts and stories from some of the leading lights in lesbian and feminist publishing and writing.

With panelists:
Amy Briant, Joan Timberlake, Maureen Brady, Jess Wells, moderated by Marianne K. Martin

Amy Briant — author of Shadowpoint and Romeo Falls
Joan Timberlake — literary agent and attorney
Maureen Brady — teaches at NYU, author of several books (and founder of Spinsters Ink)
Jess Wells — a writer of many novels and short stories
Marianne K Martin — Bywater Books

Marianne: Instead of me throwing out a question and having panelists answer, I’d like to have a dialogue about how we’ve been marketing and publishing and writing our stories all along. Much like this whole conference does, really. This is one of the only places where we can talk about our work and support each other. Other conferences aren’t happening anymore (Outwrite). As you’ll see when I introduce the panelists we have quite a range of people, going from those who published a long time ago and were part of the culture of the bookstores and the writers groups and so on up through the people who are having a more digital experience today, and how we can mesh or improve those experiences.

This whole thing got started when Maureen attended a conference that spurred her to suggest this panel…

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