CWILA (Canadian Women in the Literary Arts) is an inclusive national literary organization for people who share feminist values and see the importance of gender equity in Canadian literary culture.
The 2015 CWILA Count reveals that gender equity is closer than ever in Canadian review culture, though barriers remain for women authors. The choices editors and reviewers make matter deeply, not only to the public reception of individual authors and books, but also to the quality and tone of our national conversations on the arts.
2015 CWILA Count Methods and Results
By Vesna Pajovic & Kristina Vyskocil
See The Numbers
Critic-In-Residence
This year’s CWILA Critic-in Residence is Adèle Barclay, an award-winning poet, writer and critic based in Vancouver. Adèle holds a PhD in English and Literature from the University of Victoria.
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By supporting CWILA, you are helping us to replenish our coffers in order to conduct the 2016 Count and fund our next critic-in-residence. Click here and you can also renew your membership to CWILA with a minimum of $25. We're grateful for all generous donations.
Meet The CWILA Board
We're very proud to introduce the CWILA Board.
Kirsty Bell
Libe García-Zarranz
Evelyne Ledoux-Beaugrand
Leigh Nash
Judith Scholes
Jacqueline Valencia
Shannon Webb-Campbell
Erin Wunker
CWILA strives to promote and foster equity and equality of representation in the Canadian literary community by:
- tracking statistics on gender representation in reviewing;
- bringing relevant issues of gender, race, class and sexuality into our national literary conversation;
- and creating a network supportive of the active careers of female writers, academics/critics, publishers and editors.