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Is "Women Writers" a Meaningful Categorization? This House of Books January 29, 2019

Is "Women Writers" a Meaningful Categorization? This House of Books January 29, 2019. Getting An Agent. Catherine Nichols Sent out manuscript queries to agents under her own name, then the name of George Catherine 50 agents: requests 2 George 50 agents: requests 17

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Is "Women Writers" a Meaningful Categorization? This House of Books January 29, 2019

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  1. Is "Women Writers" a Meaningful Categorization? This House of Books January 29, 2019

  2. Getting An Agent • Catherine Nichols • Sent out manuscript queries to agents under her own name, then the name of George • Catherine 50 agents: requests 2 • George 50 agents: requests 17 • “Fully a third of the agents who saw his query wanted to see more, where my numbers never did shift from one in 25” writes Nichols

  3. Publishing, Reviews, and Recommendations The Atlantic, The London Review of Books, The New Republic, The Nation • 75 men published to 25 women(both reviewers and reviewed) “By the Book,” New York Times (books on writers’ nightstands) 100 most recent columns August 2018 • Male authors recommend books by other men four times as much as they recommend books by women • Half of the 54 male authors mentioned no women writers, • Women authors recommend books by men and women about equally

  4. “Women Write About Family, Men Write About War” Andrew Piper and Richard Jean So New Republic, April 8, 2016

  5. Prizes • Nobel Prize for Literature: 14 women out of 100 prizes •  Man Booker Prize: fewer than 40% women

  6. High Plains Book Awards2007 - 2018 -12% for women

  7. Male-Dominated Categories Woman-Dominated Categories

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