Women* Write the Balkans

ALT “The birch tree, the washing lines, and the way the pavements crackled with meltwater from the rooftops one day and froze over the next. This seemed to illustrate, the more I observed, that birth was not one event but a painful series of coming in and out of life.” Madeleine Corcoran: Mothers Who Eat the Good Strawberries

ALT "Being read closely—and being edited carefully and generously—is an enormous treat. I felt like my words were treated with care, not only for the writer, but also for the readers who will encounter them. Having those words sit side-by-side with those of women writers from the region I hold dear only sweetened the experience." Roxani Krystalli, the author of "Light Needs"

ALT Women* Write the Balkans Community with pomegranate logo above and wave image below "The piece had a funny after-life: I had some trouble when registering for my master's in Niš because when they were looking over my documents, they did the Serbian thing of transliterating my name and managed to do it wrong on some of the documents. One of the professors googled me to check the proper spelling of my name and came across this piece, then emailed me to compliment it." Rebecca Duras, the author of "Balkan Waters"