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Alison Skirtboston

Skirt! Boston editor

Skirt! is evidence that the universe is paying attention: I spent the last six years at mach speed, whether finishing college (Emerson) while writing full time for Boston Globe West (2001-2004) or editing the Boston Parents’ Paper during the day while holding down the steady gig writing for Globe ...

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Four Stories Wed. night -- don't miss it!

Alison, editor

Prepare yourself for the May edition of skirt – which features women adventurers – by attending the Wednesday night Four Stories event (details below) with female travel writers:

Please join us this Wednesday for "Women on the Road: Stories from Best Women's Travel Writing 2008"

Jennifer Cook, assistant professor of English at Bentley College; author of Machine and Metaphor: The Ethics of Language in American Realism; and essayist with pieces in Best Women's Travel Writing 2007 and 2008
Susan Freireich, recipient of the 1998 Frances Shaw Fellowship from The Ragdale Foundation and the 2005 Mildren Sherrod Bissinger Memorial Endowed Fellowship at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program; and author with work in Poetic Voices Without Borders, The Best Women's Travel Writing 2007 and 2008
Kathleen Spivack, author of Moments of Past Happiness and five other books of prose and poetry, as well as work appearing  in over 300 magazines and anthologies, including Best Travel Writing, Best Women's Travel Writing, Atlantic Monthly, & the Harvard Review; and nominee for the Pulitzer Prize
Kate Wheeler, author of the novel When Mountains Walked and the short story collection Not Where I Started From; essayist with work in Best American Short Stories 1992 and Best Women’s Travel Writing 2008, among others; recipient of the Pushcart Prize and two O. Henry Awards

Wednesday, April 23

7-9pm; Music starts @ 6pm
The Enormous Room
567 Mass Avenue (Central Sq./Redline T-stop)
Cambridge, MA
Admittance free and open to the public

I’m hoping to be there... and to restrain myself... not sure I want to hear these authors as much as I’d like to BE one of them.