” . . . most educational spaces for writers teach writers how to conform to certain conventions and norms, and that has its place. But my workshop will be a space for writers to surprise themselves and to transform all of us. ”
– Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Category: Essay
Spotlight: Sonya Huber
The financial and physical uncertainty of living in a body without access to care or cure creates a kind of daily existential crisis, and that strange ride is a kind of emergency that so many people carry with them in their skins. We don’t often talk about the all-pervasive effect that these states of being have on our lives, past, present and future.
Highlights of Festival 2014, a second great year of recognition and appreciation of the work of women authors
View a slideshow of the women and the works featured in our second year of Festival of Women Writers, held on September 5, 6 & 7th.
Hobart Festival of Women Writers 2026 