What I've Been Writing, Holidays 2012

[Sarah Seltzer]

Hi! 

Here are some of my favorite pieces written since the last installment of the newsletter. I had a great 2012, writing-wise, and can't wait for 2013!

 

Fiction:

 

I graduated from VCFA in June, ending a really wonderful two year-long journey.

Empty Nest, my first story from my thesis/collection-in-progress got published in Joyland magazine (hooray!). It involves “smart people falling apart” in the words of my editor there.  

I'm happy to say I just received a small grant from the Hadassah-Brandeis institute to help me carve out some time to finish my collection. 

Arts writing:

I Was a Model in a Regency Jane Austen Fashion Show at the Hairpin. Self-explanatory title. ;)

A piece on Judaism and the latest season of Mad Men at the Forward.

On TV and diversity, at NYT Room for Debate.

An epistolary review of JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy with my VCFA roommate and foil Sarah Braud at Hunger Mountain literary magazine.

At Women's eNews, I profiled the Ladydrawers, an extremely cool collective of comics creators who are taking on their own industry through art.

On Seders and Springsteen.

A considered essay on 50 Shades of Grey of which I'm quite proud.

Activism:

At the end of the year, I interviewed three international human rights superstars. In the fall, I profiled six "badass" activists to watch, with a focus on women on the margins. Last spring, I covered the first "Feminist General Assembly" for The Nation.

And I interviewed a friend whose apartment was raided by the NYPD in a pre-emptive and silly strike against Occupy.

On activism and the arts at NYT Room for Debate.

Feminism:

I summed up all my favorite feminist posts at the Sisterhood at year's end.

Some of my gender/reproductive rights roundups at AlterNet got picked up by Salon, like this one, on GOP rape comments, and this one, on the continuing state-level War on Women post 2012 election.

Sexy Halloween costumes:

A category all its own. :)

At the NYTimes Room for Debate.

Thanks for reading, everyone, and best wishes for the year ahead.

Sarah

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