Category Archives: Nonfiction

The Matriarch of Contemporary Women Veterans’ Literature

Posted on January 27, 2016 by readersquest

Since Cara Hoffman wrote her op-ed “The Things She Carried” for the New York Times in 2014, critics have either pointed out the “absence” of women veterans’ narratives in the canon of war literature, or wondered what female authors today’s women … Continue reading →

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Writing Life: Stitch-and-Bitch

Posted on November 19, 2015 by readersquest

Was recently reading over some of the emails home that served as my journal of our three-year tour in Moscow. My late mother-in-law, God bless her, had the foresight to print out the ones she found interesting and collect them … Continue reading →

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Writing Life – Call for Submissions, Upcoming Deadline

Posted on October 20, 2015 by readersquest

The response to our call for submissions to the Veterans Writing Project’s literary journal O-Dark-Thirty for a special themed issue, writing by women veterans, has been gratifying. We’ve received four or five times the usual number of submissions for a quarterly issue, and … Continue reading →

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Writing Life – July 4, 1994 (aboard HMS Sheffield)

Posted on July 4, 2015 by readersquest

After spending time reading some entertaining, amusing, and moving diaries of American servicewomen, I thought I’d go back and re-read my own diary from my deployment to the Barents Sea on HMS Sheffield in 1994. The Sheffield deployment was special. Only one American intelligence … Continue reading →

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Bibliography Update

Posted on May 18, 2015 by readersquest

Today I revisited the Women in Military Service for America Memorial to investigate the contents of the bookshelves in the gift shop. In addition to M. L. Doyle’s biography of General Julia Cleckley, which is already on the P&F bibliography … 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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“A Remarkable, Vigilant Soldier on Her Post”

Posted on March 20, 2015 by readersquest

In 1782, Deborah Sampson disguised herself in men’s clothing to enlist in the Continental Army. She was wounded in combat later that year. After her discovery and discharge from the Army in 1783, she petitioned for and received a Congressional … Continue reading →

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