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This Ames author set her newest novel in Ames and Chicago.The characters are empowered and protected by a substance that makes pigs vomit.
Set in both Ames and Chicago, the characters in local author Fern Kupfer's new novel combine feminism with a little bit of sci-fi and humor. Kupfer, a retired creative writing professor at Iowa State ...
Some ways we will know we no longer need women’s book prizes: when men read as much writing by women as that by men, and when women begin to dominate prizes for prestige genres such as non-fiction.
Queen Camilla made a surprise appearance June 11, meeting with shortlisted authors and praising the impact of the Women's Prize.
Fifteen years since the NBA's Charles Barkley made his infamous San Antonio women's joke, the 'Real Women Have Curves' writer gets candid on fat shaming.
Women's empowerment coach Aliia Roza wears Tess Mann Atelier to 78th annual Cannes Film Festival's Closing Ceremony. Photo by Erlend Štaub.
Are people allowed to observe that the literary world is deliberately sidelining a certain demographic of writer — and to do something about it?
For professional women, platitudes do little to comfort us when we’re in the midst of a battle—especially one that, by some measures, we appear to be winning.
LONDON (AP) — Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Heart Lamp,” a collection of 12 short stories written over a ...
By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Heart Lamp,” a collection of ...
Jocelyn Kraemer, author of “The Metamorphosis of Becca,” will speak May 31 at La Roche University during a scholarship fundraiser for the American Association of University Women’s North ...