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AWP 2023: The Narrative of Desire: The Importance of Writing Horny Women

A panel discussion with Carmen Maria Machado, Alyssa Songsiridej, and Lillian Fishman. Sexual desire is a perfect narrative accelerant. It propels plot, informs character, thwarts plans. But pure sexual desire is often denied female characters, who are allowed to be desirous-but-doomed or desirous-but-it’s-self-actualization but rarely messily, humanly horny. In this panel, four writers discuss the… Continue reading AWP 2023: The Narrative of Desire: The Importance of Writing Horny Women

Horny Between the Covers: Women Writers on Lust

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Electric Literature's 2023 Spring Salon Series is presented by Mount Saint Mary's University.   All events are pay-what-you-want, and proceeds support Electric Literature, a 501c3 nonprofit with the mission to make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. -- In a time when women’s bodily autonomy is under renewed legal attack, narratives about ungovernable female desire take… Continue reading Horny Between the Covers: Women Writers on Lust