It began November 9, 2016, in a message, simple yet with an undercurrent of utter dismay: “What the f–k do we do now?”

LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, August 26, 2018 /EINPresswire.com/ -- It began November 9, 2016, in a message, simple yet with an undercurrent of utter dismay: “What the f–k do we do now?” Sara asked, her grief and rage overcoming her manners.

“Why are you asking me? I hardly know you.” K-B wasn’t ready for correspondence, having spent the previous day working a polling place giddy with Trump supporters.

“I know from our MFA program that you’re an activist. I’m not, but we have to do something. What do we do?”

“Well, we’re writers. ...”

So was born Writers Resist. The online literary journal launched at WritersResist.com on December 1, 2016.

After a year of publishing stories, poetry, essays and art from the United States and beyond, Sara and K-B asked each other, “So, what do we do now?”

So was born Writers Resist: Anthology 2018, with the works of 73 contributors, including, not-yet-known, well-known, and a few notorious writers and artists of the resistance.

Visit WritersResist.com for more information.

Kit-Bacon Gressitt, a former newspaper columnist and a Women’s and Gender Studies lecturer, is an award- winning writer, editor and teacher. Her work can be found in Not My President: The Anthology of Dissent, Ducts, Trivia: Feminist Voices, The Missing Slate, Evening Street Review, Publisher’s Weekly, San Diego Poetry Annual, and Chiron Review.

Sara Marchant’s work has been published by Full Grown People, Brilliant FlashFiction, The Coachella Review, East Jasmine Review, ROAR, and Desert Magazine. Her writing has been anthologized in All the Women in My Family Sing and the Running Wild Novella Anthology; and her novella, The Driveway Has Two Sides, was published by Fairlight Books in July 2018; and her memoir, Proof of Blood, will be published by Otis Books in its 2018-19 season.
For interviews: Contact WritersResist@gmail.com or 760-522-1064.

Writers Resist Anthology 2018
Editors: Kit-Bacon Gressitt and Sara Marchant
259 pages, 5 black-and-white illustrations, 5.5” by 8.5” Trade paperback $19.99 • $10.99 wholesale ISBN 978-1-947041-13-4 Distributor: Ingram Book Group
Publication: October 1, 2018 Running Wild Press, runningwildpress.com

Contributing Writers and Artists
Writers Resist: Anthology 2018 contributing writers and artists are based around the globe, from the United State to Nigeria, Turkey to Britain to Brazil. Many are well-published and well- known in literary, performance and other fields, many are new to writing—and new to activism, spurred on by a passion to challenge the current U.S. administration through literature and art. All are devoted to the resistance.

Maia Antoinette
Susan Arthur
Koushik Banerjea
Patrick N. Brown
Peter Brown Hoffmeister
Laura Budofsky Wisniewski
Amanda N. Butler
Tori Cárdenas
Nikia Chaney
Mbizo Chirasha
Jamie Davenport
Caralyn Davis
Arturo Desimone
Lisa DeSiro
Nancy Dunlop
MA Durand
Sarah Einstein
Sahar Fathi
Rachel Federman
Amy L. Freeman
Julie M. Friesen
Robbie Gamble
Amanda Gomez
D.A. Gray
R.W.W. Greene
Kit-Bacon Gressitt
Heather Herrman
D. R. James
Elizabeth Jewell
Liz Kellebrew
Jemshed Khan
Cassandra Lane
Courtney LeBlanc
H.L.M. Lee
Mariana Llanos
Sara Marchant
Tomaso Marcolla
David Martinez
Lawrence Matsuda
Jonathan May
Joni Mayer
Jason Metz
Lily Moody
Yazmin Navarro
Suzanne O’Connell
Chinyere Onyekwere
Bola Opaleke
Laura Orem
LJ Provost
Luke A. Powers
Karthik Purushothaman
Sima Rabinowitz
Rae Rose
Sam Sax
Celeste Schantz
Holly Schofield
Alexander Schuhr
IE Sommsin Süleyman Soydemir
Alina Stefanescu
Marydale Stewart
Katie Thomason
C. Gregory Thompson
Héctor Tobar
Tran Quoc Cong
David L. Ulin
Judy Viertel
Yun Wei
Keith Welch
Laura Grace
Weldon Conney
D. Williams
Raya Yarbrough
Carolyn Ziel

Advance Praise?
“DON’T BUY THIS BOOK! The Whacked Out Writers Resist book is BAD. Its FAKE fiction! Poetry doesn’t rhyme! Essays are TOO LONG! Writers are NOT smart! Should be in jail. It goes down as WORST ANTHOLOGY EVER by far! Don't read!
–@realDonaldTrump

“You’re asking me if it’s irresponsible for the president to try to censor a book? Let’s talk about books. Their publishers are what’s irresponsible. They kill trees. You’d think the liberal elite would be all over that. Many good people are questioning why there are so many books. If God intended Americans to read, books would be growing out in the cabbage patch.”
–Kellyanne Conway, Senior White House Advisor

“Everyone knows Marchant and Gressitt are angry lesbians who can’t edit or write. Living proof of what happens when you educate women and let them vote.”
–Milos Yiannopoulos

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