Resources & Links
The mission of the Kentucky Foundation for Women is to promote positive social change through varied feminist expression in the arts.
The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture is an integral part of Duke's Special Collections Library which houses a broad range of rare and unique primary source material. In 1988, the Women's Studies Archivist position was created in order to coordinate the acquisition, cataloguing, reference, and outreach activities related to the Special Collections Library's holdings on women and gender.
Sarabande Books, a nonprofit literary press located in Louisville, Kentucky, publishes quality poetry, essays, and short fiction.
My novel, "Cory's Feast", is set in Taos, New Mexico, a mountain town that has long drawn outsiders. This particular outsider, Cory Mason, leaves a life of many complications to buy and run a B&B in an historic Taos house that once belonged to Mabel Dodge Luhan. Escaping her past, or hoping to, Cory sets out to use the dining room of her B&B as a sort of school, teaching her more or less unwilling guests the art of "As If". Untoward accidents, a murder, and the arrival of her sister, a very different kind of woman, speed this story toward its surprising conclusion.
The MacDowell Colony, founded in 1907, is the oldest artists' colony in the United States. It was awarded the National Medal of Arts from President Clinton in 1997 for "nurturing some of the century's finest artists. Colony awards residencies to composers, filmmakers, visual artists, interdisciplinary writers, and architects., MacDowell nurtures arts by offering creative individuals highest talent an inpsiring environment in which they can produce enduring works imagination.
Women Writing Women's Lives is an ongoing seminar of about sixty women engaged in writing book-length biographies and memoirs. The group first began meeting in 1990 and represents a wide range of feminist perspectives and a variety of professional backgrounds, including academics, independent scholars, and journalists.
The Women's Project provides a home for women playwrights and offers a world of entertaining and provocative stories written by women, and enjoyed by anyone willing to experience exciting new theatre.
