Links on Lesbian and Gay Writing

• Woman-Stirred
  An online literary salon and collective of queer women writers:
  Jan Steckel, Julie Enszer, Merry Gangemi and Nicki Hastie (oh, that's me!)

• Every book is a lesbian book
  1999 essay by Dorothy Allison on the Salon Books website

• Chroma
  International queer literary and arts journal based in the UK

• An explication of desire and anxiety: plotting a course across the sexuality of Henry James
  A thesis by Vince Constabileo submitted to the faculty of San Francisco State University, May 1997

• Just About Write
  A resource for lesbian writers and readers compiled by Nann Dunne

• Why I write gay erotica
  Essay by Lars Eighner, first appeared in The Masquerade Erotic Book Society Newsletter 1.4, September/October 1992

• Lesbian fictions: straight or narrow?
  Essay by Kerry Fried, published by the Boston Review

• Is she or isn't she? Using academic controversy and The Well of Loneliness to introduce the social construction of lesbianism
  Article by Annis H. Hopkins, drawing on her teaching experience on a Women's Studies course

• Lambda Literary Foundation
  Celebrates LGBT literature and provides resources for writers, readers, publishers, booksellers and librarians

• Hard times and heartaches: Radclyffe Hall's Well of Loneliness
  Essay by Heather Love, University of Virginia (1997)

• Lesbian Pulp Fiction Collection
  A bibliography of texts and sources compiled by Maureen McClarnon at the Sallie Bingham Centre for Women's History and Culture, Duke University

• Gay History & Literature
  A substantial collection of essays by Rictor Norton

• QueerWriters.com
  Online resources for GLBT writers and editors

• Gay and Lesbian Books to Watch Out For
  Short reviews and publishing news from Carol Seajay

• Outside looking in: representations of gay and lesbian experiences in the young adult novel
  1994 article by Nancy St. Clair, a tutor at a small midwestern college in Iowa. This article looks at the experiences of her students when reading lesbian literature, based on entries in their reading journals

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