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My College Classmate Sheryl Sandberg, the VIDA Count, and Lessons on Literary Leaning In

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Yesterday on the Virginia Quarterly Review‘s blog, as part of the current issue’s focus on “the business of literature”:

I doubt that Knopf/Random House planned it this way, but the publication of Sheryl Sandberg’s bestselling Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead coincided with the release of the latest VIDA Count. I suspect that Sandberg herself would be interested in the data that VIDA has provided regarding publication rates of women and men in what it calls “many of the writing world’s most respected literary outlets.” (Condensed findings: In most cases, women aren’t faring well in these venues.) Strikingly, some of Sandberg’s messages can be extrapolated beyond the worlds of leadership or corporate culture and applied to the world of poets, fiction writers, and essayists, perhaps especially as VIDA has described it.

You can read the rest of my essay over on VQRonline.

Friday Finds for Writers

by Erika Dreifus on
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Treasure ChestWriting-related resources, news, and reflections to read over the weekend.

  • She had me at hello. Here’s the first line from Rebecca Meacham’s recent guest post for the Ploughshares blog: “First, a confession: I’m lousy at prioritizing fiction writing.“
  • Another thoughtful post from Cathy Day, this time on the topic of “professionalization” and creative-writing programs.
  • Lots of good stuff in this Rumpus interview with author and editor Matthew Salesses.
  • Should undergraduates attend the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference? Interesting reflections (and experiences) on The Missouri Review‘s blog.
  • Courtesy of The Review Review: differing views on litmag submission fees.

    • Have a great weekend. See you back here on Monday.