TRAVEL — limited by epidemics, limit of funds, lack of nerve, etc. — may be most accessible for most of us through reading travel writers. Here at The Sitting Room Library, of course, the question has come up: do women travel writers take different journeys, do they see differently, say differently, than their male counterparts? Let’s test that question by doing some traveling where no passport is needed, namely doing some reading on our own, joining one of the Round Tables dedicated to this topic of women travel writers and writing/drawing/dancing/singing our individual responses to travel as experienced in our own lives.
Here are some of the names we’ve come up with so far: Dervla Murphy; Mary Kingsly; Isabella Bird; Freya Stark; Cheryl Strayed; Martha Gellhorn; Jan Morris; Frances Mayes; Alexandra David Neel; an anthology temptingly titled “Maiden Voyages”; Jan Morris, Rebecca Solnit’s wonderful anthology on the joys of getting lost*, and, of course, many others. How has gender influenced their lives and how might it have influenced your own? We hope to have the resulting anthology ready for distribution by Sitting Room Birthday time, early June.
All contributions will be accepted as long as they address the theme. Deadline: April 1, 2024. They should be no more than two pages, 12 point, Times New Roman. Word, Pages or other plain text files are fine. No headers or footers PLEASE. Image files as .jpeg.
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If you do not use a computer, please send your work to:
The Sitting Room
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MOSAIC, the 2023 Sitting Room Anthology, is now available for a suggested donation of five dollars. You may drop by and pick one up during our open hours,
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Questions: call J.J. Wilson at 707-795-9028 or email her directly at boxcar@sonic.net
The Sitting Room
P O Box 838
Penngrove, CA 94951
Cover of "Mosaic", the 2023 Sitting Room Anthology
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