Reading: Strongly Worded Women

Annie Bloom’s welcomes Portland writers Elizabeth Beechwood, Sydney Culpepper, Chloe Hageman, Julia Figliotti, Debby Dodds, LeeAnn McLennan, Tonya Lippert, and Lizzy Carney to read from their contributions to Strongly Worded Women, an anthology of 18 short stories by women authors from across the country.

Back in 2015, Oregon press Not a Pipe Publishing announced they were accepting author Kamila Shamsie’s challenge to the publishing industry to only publish women authors in 2018. After publishing eight novels by seven women authors in 2018, they capped off their Year of Publishing Women with an anthology of 18 short stories by women authors from across the country.