Winter is roaring and so is VIDA Reads with Writers! We have interviews with writers we love about the books they’re reading now, writers they can’t stop reading, what they can’t wait to read next, which of their own projects we can look forward to on the horizon, and more. 

•          Discover which parallels Krystal Languel found between Muriel Rukeyser’s novel,Savage Coast, and the 2015 attacks in Paris, and which book about Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes that she found “RIVETING!” Languel adds, “I’m going to write [the author] a fan letter! That’s how awesome.” CONT’D-- http://www.vidaweb.org/vida-reads-with-writers-krystal-languell/
•         Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib writes that he “learned to write at the feet of a lot of black women.” Find out whose words he returns to time and again—Josephine Baker is among them—and the “incredible trifecta of poetry books” he’s reading now. CONT’D--http://www.vidaweb.org/vida-reads-with-writers-hanif-willis-abdurraqib/
  
•         Ever wonder which book Wendy C. Ortiz keeps on her night table? Ortiz says that we can look out for her book, Bruja, and how her tumblr notebook and “its revisions and new incarnations” might feed into her next project. CONT’D--http://www.vidaweb.org/vida-reads-with-writers-wendy-c-ortiz/
  
•         Amber Atiya has a great list of books of the moment and books that remain, and she assures us that on her own horizon, “There’s definitely a full-length manuscript brewing, but, really, I’m just writing and writing and reading, trying to stay sane, taking it one day at a time.” Good advice for us all! CONT’D-- http://www.vidaweb.org/vida-reads-with-writers/
  
•          Find out which read Kima Jones calls “one of the best decisions I’ve made this year,” and which Toni Morrison novel she reads annually before her birthday, and which Edwidge Danticat book she reads before every New Year. CONT’D--http://www.vidaweb.org/vida-reads-with-writers-kima-jones/
  

In Melissa Studdard’s other new column, VIDA Voices and Views, she interviews poet and editor, Don Share, in part one of a two-part interview. “In this segment, Share reads his poem ‘Food for Thought’ from the collection Squandermania and discusses topics ranging the power of the imagination to effect change in the world to Poetry magazine’s open door policy to language’s complicity in the mania for squandering resources.” You’ll want to watch it!http://www.vidaweb.org/don-share/ 

We are delighted to have this running Women-Founded &/or Primarily Female-Run Book Presses, Organizations, & Literary Magazines, and we hope that you’ll peruse them and discover new and old loves, and we hope you will help us expand the list. Please submit further women-founded and/or female-run presses to our VIDA Resources here: http://www.vidaweb.org/submit-a-resource/. Please send additional presses, organizations, and literary magazines to include in this list to Olivia Postelli at[log in to unmask], and please remember to include the full name of the organization, contact information, and website link.

With preparations for the 2015 VIDA Count gearing up, we are working hard to raise funds.VIDA is 100% volunteer-run by committed people who believe in VIDA’s mission and give their time freely to make it happen. Through donations, you enable us to do our work. We appreciate donations of any amount, so if you would like to support women in the literary arts, you can visit our donate page (http://www.vidaweb.org/donate-now/) and become a part of the movement. Thank you so much!