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 2014 CWILA Count was our biggest yet. The results reveal why we must continue to raise the issue of gender equity in Canadian literary culture. A gender gap remains and our numbers talk: since 2012, CWILA has been sparking conversations that close the gap.
The CWILA Effect
By Erin Wunker
2014 CWILA Count Methods and Results
By Judith Scholes
À quoi résiste-t-on quand on résiste au féminin?
By Isabelle Boisclair
See The Numbers
Critic-In-Residence
This year’s CWILA Critic-in Residence is Lucas Crawford, a poet, performer, and occasional professor who was raised in Nova Scotia and now lives in Vancouver.
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By supporting CWILA, you are helping us to replenish our coffers in order to conduct the 2014 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.