Sentences with phrase «number of women writers»

They also note the number of women writers winning awards this year, with titles addressing subjects never before covered in graphic novels indicates that «the depth and breadth of what comics are — and can become — are reaching ever new heights.»

I edited a number of women writers who were not born or raised in Manhattan or Brooklyn, and I wrestled with how to build more inclusive, collaborative ways for writers to begin their careers.

The annual VIDA report, which shows the depressingly small number of women writers and reviewers featured in 20 leading publications, is only one measure of our continued marginalization.

These strategies increased sales of women's mysteries, and inspired New York to increase the number of women writers on their lists.

Not exact matches

I am indebted to a number of writers and thinkers, with particular gratitude to Bishop John Spong for rescuing the Bible from fundamentalism, to Bruce Bawer for stealing Jesus back from the fundamentalists, and to a significant number of women theologians who have rescued the Bible from a purely male interpretation.

This East Coast Girl at heart believes family is number one as she finds the perfect balance of being a daughter, wife, sister, entrepreneur, writer and woman of God.

At this year's Locarno Festival, (recently renewed) artistic director Carlos Chatrian similarly declared that he foresaw increasing numbers of women filmmakers in the competitions of major festivals and that he was especially proud to tout, in Locarno's main competition section (with 17 world premieres), eight women directors.1 And Locarno's outcome, amid an impressively deep competition pool, was unexpectedly different: although I, Daniel Blake did win the audience award of the Festival's mainstream Piazza Grande section, a female writer / director, Ralitza Petrova, took the festival's top prize for her brooding and bleak Bulgarian film Godless.

Lebanese writer - director Nadine Labaki keeps the details general in her sharp black musical comedy about women trying to keep the peace in an isolated village populated by equal numbers of Muslims and Christians.

What is kind of amazing about this year, and deserves to be pointed out, is the number of women and / or non-white writers among this year's list of WGA nominees.

So, it's not surprising that an impressive number of powerful women were also honored for their work both on the small screen, with Big Little Lies and The Handmaid's Tale, and on the big screen, with first - time writer - director Greta Gerwig winning Best Motion Picture, Comedy for her directorial debut, Lady Bird, along with leading lady, Saoirse Ronan winning Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy.

The three do inevitably form a triangle, but the visually stylish and briskly efficient manner in which Advani and writer - producer Karan Johar introduce the characters in the opening minutes foreshadows how skillfully and intelligently the standard trappings are deployed here — which becomes fully clear once the first full - blown musical number takes place, when Aman's first glimpse of Naina's sad face prompts him to break into a rousing Hindi - language, Bhangra - inflected cover of... «Pretty Woman.»

Bassett said her children, son Slater and daughter Bronwyn, visited the movie's set as well, where they saw a version of Black Panther's women warriors in the form of writer - director Ryan Coogler's crew, which had an unusual number of women in key roles.

Belle cites a number of Amazon authors who have hit that mark, including romance writer Catherine Bybee and women's - fiction author Karen McQuestion.

The artist and writer Micol Hebron, whose 2014 project Gallery Tally counted the number of women featured on Artforum's covers (18 percent) and full - page ads (around 70 percent were for shows by men), said, «To deter and prevent future sexual misconduct will require a wholesale paradigm shift in our thoughts and actions.