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For our month on on Australian Literature, Kendra and Jaclyn discuss Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman and Her Father’s Daughter by Alice Pung. Find a full version of this episode's show notes over on our website. Use code READINGWOMEN15 to get 15% off your purchase in our Reading Women Store. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Things MentionedQ&A with Claire G. ColemanTerra Nullius Shortlisted for the Reading Women AwardThe Stella Prize ShortlistWomen’s Prize for Fiction LonglistReading Women Challenge Discussion Board Books MentionedTerra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman (Small Beer Press)Her Father’s Daughter by Alice Pung (Black Inc.) CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading WomenTwi

Autumn and Kendra talk with T Kira Madden about her memoir Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, which is out now from Bloomsbury. See a full version of this episode's show notes over on our website. Many thanks to our sponsor for this week’s episode, The Great Courses Plus! We’ve arranged a special, limited time offer for our listeners: an entire month of unlimited learning—for FREE! Sign up here for your free trial and get one month of access to The Great Courses Plus. Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Books MentionedLong Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden Kira RecommendsChronology of Water by Lidia YuknavitchLinda BerryThe Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun WangOrdinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz Mostly Dead Things by Kristen ArnettEnormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley Follow T Kira Madden: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Buy the Book Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter to be sure you don’t miss the latest news, reviews, and furchild photos. Support

For March, Jaclyn and Kendra, with special guest Winnie Loo, talk about women writers from Australia and the surrounding archipelago! Find a full version of the show for this episode on our website. Use code READINGWOMEN15 to get 15% off your purchase in our Reading Women Store. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Things MentionedThe Stella Prize Books MentionedTerra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman (Small beer Press) Q&A with Claire G. Coleman Her Father’s Daughter by Alice Pung (Black Inc.) Beautiful Revolutionary by Laura Elizabeth Woollett (Scribe) Can You Tolerate This? by Ashleigh Young (Riverhead) Ali Smith’s Lecture on Katherine Mansfield and Virginia WoolfGuest PicksEat First, Talk Later by Beth Yahp (Random House Australia) The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein (St. Martin’s) Currently ReadingHow Long ‘Til

Autumn and Kendra talk with Katya Apekina about her debut novel The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish, which is out now from Two Dollar Radio. Find the full version of the show notes for this episode over on our website. Many thanks to our sponsor for this week’s episode, The Great Courses Plus! We’ve arranged a special, limited time offer for our listeners: an entire month of unlimited learning—for FREE! Sign up here for your free trial and get one month of access to The Great Courses Plus. Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Books MentionedThe Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish by Katya Apekina  Follow Katya Apekina Website | Twitter | Instagram | Buy the Book Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter to be sure you don’t miss the latest news, reviews, and furchild photos. Support us on Patreon and get insider goodies! CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading WomenTwitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn mor

For our month on love stories and romance novels, Kendra and Sachi discuss First Comes Marriage by Huda Al-Marashi and An American Marriage by Tayari Jones. Find the full version of this episode's show notes over on our website. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Things Mentioned Agata’s “9 Romance Novels for Beginners” PostLove Between the Covers Documentary7 Things I wish More People Understood about My Arranged MarriageVideo on Why Huda Wrote Her MemoirInterview with Huda: On Likeability in the MemoirBooks MentionedFirst Comes Marriage by Huda Al-MarashiAn American Marriage by Tayari Jones CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading WomenTwitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music

Autumn and Kendra talk with Soraya Chemaly about her new book Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger. A full version of the show notes for this episode can be found over on our website. Many thanks to our sponsor for this week’s episode, The Great Courses Plus! We’ve arranged a special, limited time offer for our listeners: an entire month of unlimited learning—for FREE! Sign up here for your free trial and get one month of access to The Great Courses Plus. Books MentionedRage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger by Soraya ChemalyEloquent Rage: A Black feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney CooperGood and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by Rebecca TraisterThe Power by Naomi AldermanFlorida by Lauren GroffBinti by Nnedi OkoraforCirce by Madeline MillerThe Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill LeporeThe Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaa

Kendra and Sachi discuss love stories and romance novels. You can find a full version of our show notes here. Things MentionedThe Stella PrizeThe Ensemble Playlist on SpotifyCheck out our Patreon pageTressie McMillan CottomBooks MentionedThe Wedding Date by Jasmine GuilloryThe Ensemble by Aja GabelFirst Comes Marriage by Huda Al-MarashiAn American Marriage by Tayari JonesForbidden by Beverly JenkinsIndigo by Beverly JenkinsFlow by Kennedy RyanGrip by Kennedy RyanThe Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun WangThe Mango Bride by Marivi SolivenThick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom Follow Our Guest, Bree Hill: YouTube | Instagram | Twitter Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We couldn’t be more thrilled to introduce you to our new team members: Sachi Argabright, Jaclyn Masters, and Sumaiyya Naseem! In addition to learning more about our new contributors, you’ll hear a special segment from our intern, Kyra McConnell. Find the full version of our show notes over on our website. Many thanks to our sponsor for this week’s episode, The Great Courses Plus! We’ve arranged a special, limited time offer for our listeners: an entire month of unlimited learning—for FREE! Sign up here for your free trial and get one month of access to The Great Courses Plus. Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Meet Our New ContributorsSumaiyya NaseemJaclyn MastersSachi ArgabrightBooks MentionedA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfLifting the Veil by Ismat ChugtaiWoman Kind by Dr. Kirstin Ferguson and Catherine FoxCan We All Be Feminists? by edited by June Eric-UdorieLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste NgPachinko by Min Jin LeeA Special thanks to our intern, Kyra McConnell, for her work wi

Today we have an interview with Anne Twomey and Nicole Caputo, the founders of She Designs Books, an organization that looks to promote, support and celebrate female designers in books. And happy birthday to She Designs Books, which turned 1 earlier this this month! Find the full version of this episode's show notes over on our website. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Things Mentioned Spine Magazine Designers Mentioned Kimberly Glyder Nicolette Seeback Na Kim Jaya Miceli Alison Forner ABOUT She Designs Books was launched in January 2018 as an organization with a mission of celebrating women designers in book publishing. We feature books and covers by women designers on social media and host gatherings and educational talks to connect, support, lift and create community. Twitter |

We're back, bookish friends! With our first regular episode, we chat about some of our most anticipated releases of 2019. Find a full version of our show notes over on our website. Many thanks to our sponsor for this week’s episode, The Great Courses Plus! We’ve arranged a special, limited time offer for our listeners: an entire month of unlimited learning—for FREE! Sign up here for your free trial and get one month of access to The Great Courses Plus. Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Books MentionedJan. 8th - Sugar Run by Mesha Maren (Algonquin Books) Jan. 29th - Black Is the Body by Emily Bernard (Knopf) Feb. 5th - The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang (Graywolf Press) Feb. 12th - Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli (Knopf) March 5th - A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum (Harper Books) March 5th - Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden (Bloomsbury) Check out the animated GIF of the cover! Note: Though Kendra says March 19th in the episode, the pub date i

We talk with Rebecca Traister about her latest book Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger. Rebecca Traister’s book All the Single Ladies won the 2016 Reading Women Award for nonfiction. Find the full version of the show notes for this episode on our website. Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Books Mentioned Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by Rebecca TraisterRebecca Recommends Eloquent Rage: A Black feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger by Soraya Chemaly An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Author Bio REBECCA TRAISTER is writer at large for New York magazine and a contributing editor at Elle. A National Magazine Award finalist, she has written about women in politics, media, and entertainment from a feminist perspective for The New Republic and Salon and has also contributed to The Nation, The New York Observer, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vogue, Glamour and Marie Clair

We are happy to announce the fiction and nonfiction winners of the 2018 Reading Women Award! You can find more info about the Reading Women Award here. You can find a full version of our show notes over on our website. Welcome to Our New Contributors! Jaclyn Masters | Youtube | Instagram (@sixminutesforme) Sachi Argabright | Instagram (@SachiReads) Sumaiyya Naseem | Blog | Instagram (@sumaiyya.books) A special thanks to Libro.fm for sponsoring this episode of Reading Women! Listeners of Reading Women can get a 3-month audiobook membership for the price of one month. Go to Libro.fm and enter "RW." With each listen, take pride in knowing that you’re supporting local bookstores. And be sure to check out Libro.fm’s Reading Women Award Playlist! Past Winners 2016 Shelter by Jung Yun (Interview with Jung Yun) All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister 2017 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (Interview with Min Jin Lee) Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay Winners! Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (Random House)

We are happy to announce our nonfiction shortlist for the 2018 Reading Women Award! The winners of both the fiction and nonfiction categories will be announced December 5th. You can find more info about the Reading Women Award here. Find the full version of the show notes for this episode over on out website. Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. New RW Announcements The 2019 Reading Women Challenge! New Enamel Pins Use code AWARD2018 to receive 15% our book blind dates in the Reading Women Store. Fiction Shortlist Nonfiction Shortlist All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung (Catapult) Q&A with Nicole I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf) Interview with Maggie Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot (Counterpoint) Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (Random House) Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Irvin Painter (Counterpoint) Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir by Cinelle Barnes (Little A) Music “Reading Women”

We talk with Natalia Sylvester, author of the Everyone Knows You Go, which is out now from Little A! Find the full version of this episode's show notes over on our website. Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Books Mentioned Everyone Knows You Go Home by Natalia SylvesterNatalia Recommends I’m Not Missing by Carrie Fountain The Caregiver by Samuel Park Exclusively Yours by Nadine Gonzalez  Everyday People: The Color of Life—A Short Story Anthology edited by Jennifer Baker Author Bio Born in Lima, Peru, Natalia Sylvester came to the US at age four and grew up in Florida and the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. She earned her BA in creative writing from the University of Miami, is a faculty member of the low-residency MFA program at Regis University, and works as a freelance writer in Austin. Her work has appeared in Bustle, Catapult, Electric Literature, Latina magazine, and the Austin American-Statesman. Natalia’s first novel, Chasing the Sun, was named the Best Debut Book of 2014 by L

We are happy to announce our fiction shortlist for the 2018 Reading Women Award! The nonfiction shortlist will be announced November 21st, and the winners will be announced December 4th. You can find more info about the Reading Women Award here. Use code AWARD2018 to receive 15% our book blind dates in the Reading Women Store. You can find full version of this episode's show notes on our website. Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Fiction Shortlist A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza (SJP for Hogarth) If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim (William Morrow) Interview with Crystal Everyone Knows You Go Home by Natalia Sylvester (Little A) Interview with Natalia Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman (Small Beer Press) Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Doubleday) Interview with Ingrid All the Names They Used for God by Anjali Sachdeva (Spiegel & Grau) Interview with Anjali CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Wo

We’ve teamed up with Lauren and Alicia from the Deviant Women podcast to bring you a very special Halloween episode all about the queen of horror: Shirley Jackson. Lauren and Alicia tell us a little bit about Jackson’s background, we discuss Jackson’s short story “The Lottery,” and we chat about the new The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix. Find the full show notes for this episode on our website! Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Books Mentioned “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson We Have Always Stayed in the Castle by Shirley Jackson About We are Alicia and Lauren, the hosts of Deviant Women. Every fortnight we discuss a different ‘deviant’ woman from history, fiction, mythology and the contemporary world: those who aren’t afraid to break the rules, to subvert the system, to explore, to seek and to challenge the status quo. Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | iTunes Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter to be sure you don’t mi

We talk with Leesa Cross-Smith, author of the Whiskey & Ribbons, which is out now from Hub City Press! You can find the full show notes to this episode over on our website. Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Books Mentioned Whiskey and Ribbons by Leesa Cross-Smith Author Bio Leesa Cross-Smith is a homemaker and the author of Whiskey & Ribbons (Hub City Press, 2018), Every Kiss A War (Mojave River Press, 2014), and the forthcoming So We Can Glow (Grand Central Publishing, 2020) and This Close To Okay (Grand Central Publishing, 2021). Her debut novel Whiskey & Ribbons was longlisted for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Every Kiss A War was a finalist for both the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction (2012) and the Iowa Short Fiction Award (2012). Her work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Oxford American, Best Small Fictions, and many others. Find more @ LeesaCrossSmith.com. Website | Twitter | Instagram | Buy the Book Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter to be sure yo

For our month about memoirs, we discuss A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza and Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Find the full show notes over on our website! A special thanks goes to Bombas socks for sponsoring this episode. We love these soft yet durable socks. Head to bombas.com/ReadingWomen and use the code READINGWOMEN to get 20% off your first order! Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. A special thanks to our patrons Jennifer P. and Stephanie W. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Books Mentioned A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza  Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Music “Reading Women” Composed and Recorded by Isaac and Sarah Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk with Ingrid Rojas Contreras, author of the Fruit of the Drunken Tree, which is out now from Doubleday! Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Books Mentioned Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras Ingrid Recommends Vida and Veins of the Ocean by Patricia Engel (Check our discussion episode about Veins of the Ocean here.) The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon A River of Stars by Vanessa Hua If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim (Check our Interview with Crystal Hana Kim here.) The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung Author Bio Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Guernica, and Huffington Post, among others. She has received fellowships and awards from The Missouri Review, Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, VONA, Hedgebrook, The Camargo Foundation, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and the National Association of Lati

For October, we're talking about books around theme of Fractured Fairytales! A special thanks goes to Bombas socks for sponsoring this episode. We love these soft yet durable socks. Head to bombas.com/ReadingWomen and use the code READINGWOMEN to get 20% off your first order! Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. A special thanks to our patrons Jennifer P. and Stephanie W. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices