The Scent of Sumac

In the old part of Izmir, where the shutters were painted turquoise, however, they never quite closed, Aunt Somaia’s kitchen was always warm. Not warm like the afternoon sun that fell from the red tiles onto the streets, but warm in the way a secret is warm when held too long in the mouth.

FIXATIONS: Girlhood in Childhood scholars’ creative writing and art

Writers who express the theme of girlhood in their work usually explore the transitive aspect of being a girl child. For this post of FIXATIONS creative writing series, I have had the pleasure of interviewing Becky Muralles about the shift between girlhood and...

FIXATIONS: Girlhood in Childhood scholars’ creative writing and art

This is the third entry in the creative writing series FIXATIONS, which is dedicated to the scholars’ writing. It is engaging to me to see how the same authors came to study girlhood(s) from two positions: as academics and poets. Today I talked to Stephanie...

Submission Deadline Tomorrow

Attention creative writers! Tomorrow is the deadline for participating in our open call for Girlhood Is a Spectrum. If you have not submitted your work yet, you have until midnight 1 December (US EST time zone). We welcome short texts (max word count: 750) of...

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