Category Archives: In the News

Between Us “Girls”: The US Naval Institute’s 2016 Naval History “Athena Conference”

Posted on September 12, 2016 by readersquest

I’m going to call out an admiral and a general in this post, with all due respect and only the kindest of intent. But first, I’d like to start with a story that I’ve told elsewhere. As a lieutenant on … Continue reading →

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Writing Life: I Want to Smack Sam Sacks

Posted on August 26, 2015 by readersquest

This post is mostly not about the writing of women veterans; please forgive the digression. In 2005, a couple of weeks into my first semester of the Writing Program at the Johns Hopkins University, my mother-in-law asked to read some of my … Continue reading →

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Call for Submissions

Posted on April 21, 2015 by readersquest

O-Dark-Thirty, the literary journal of The Veterans Writing Project, is pleased to call for submissions from women veterans who write for an upcoming (February 2016) themed issue of O-Dark-Thirty/The Review: Women Veterans’ Writing. Guidelines: The editors will consider short stories (up to 5,000 … Continue reading →

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