F194. Women Writing War

D133-134, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1
Friday, March 29, 2019
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm

 

Catch-22, For Whom the Bell Tolls, All Quiet on the Western Front: the war novel is often considered the exclusive province of men, though women’s lives are not immune from the effects of war. What happens when women tackle subjects traditionally thought of as male? How are women’s war stories different from men’s? Through roundtable discussion, five female novelists discuss approaches to writing stories set in wartime, addressing questions of experience, gender, and narrative authority.


Participants

Moderator:

Rebecca Johns is the author of the award-winning novel Icebergs and The Countess. Her work has appeared in StoryQuarterly, The Mississippi Review, and Ploughshares, among others. She is the director of the MA in Writing and Publishing program at DePaul University in Chicago.

J. Kasper Kramer is the author of The Story That Cannot Be Told. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Coachella Review, and Catalpa. She teaches at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Lisa Sanchez is an Author's Guild Ambassador and House of Puerto Rico, San Diego representative. She is a 2018 Pushcart Prize nominee and Virginia Woolf fiction finalist. She has taught and published widely (PhD, University of California, Irvine). Her first novel about a controversial wartime research group is on submission.

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