fbpx
Notification for the Inanna Community

Notification for the Inanna Community

To the Inanna Community Inanna Publications and Education Inc. is going through a necessary restructuring of our organization. Over the last two years we have worked with consultants to determine what Inanna needs to do to remain a viable publishing house. Inanna has...

Inanna is hiring a Business Manager

Job Title:                       Business ManagerJob Type:                      3 days a week, permanent positionOrganization:              Inanna Publications and Education, Inc.Location:                      Toronto Application Deadline:   April 24, 2023...
Characters Are (Not) People by Vivian Zenari

Characters Are (Not) People by Vivian Zenari

Characters Are (Not) People by Vivian Zenari I know that Philippa and Gilda Peterborough, the protagonists of my first novel, Deuce, are not real people. If I saw either of them on the street, though, I’m sure I would recognize them. # When I distinguish between...
Iran – New Uprising by Nasreen Pejvack

Iran – New Uprising by Nasreen Pejvack

Effort, labor, sweat is mine       Seize, deceive, scheme is yoursTalent, preparation, production is mine       Pleasure, disrespect, entitlement is yoursReproduction, creating life, raising is mine       Annihilation, elimination, prerogative is yoursWe the women,...
Notification for the Inanna Community

Inanna Staff Welcome!

Inanna Publications is thrilled to introduce three new staff members: Managing Editor, Rebecca Rosenblum, Production/Administrative Assistant, Meg Bowen, and General Manager, Miles Baker. Rebecca Rosenblum holds a Master’s degree in English from University of Toronto...
The Cap of Hades by Fereshteh Molavi

The Cap of Hades by Fereshteh Molavi

My childhood was a small planet enveloped by the atmosphere of my grandmother’s stories.  All I possessed on my planet was small-scale:  home, school, a long narrow street, a couple of alleys, a few people.  But what I could have, immeasurably, was made...
My Writing Odyssey by Fereshteh Molavi

My Writing Odyssey by Fereshteh Molavi

I recall a few lines of a narrative poem by Nima Yushij, one of my favorite poets. The character of the story, a poor fisherman coming upon a mermaid one stormy night, says to himself: I must follow my own path/no one will take care of me/amidst the turmoil of...
Looking for Jane. A Novel about Abortion in Canada – Gail Benick

Meet Me in St. Louis by Gail Benick

When I began to write Memory’s Shadow, my second novel, I knew the story had to be set in St. Louis. As the old adage goes: ‘Write what you know.’ Although I have not lived in Missouri for decades, St. Louis is my birthplace and the site of my fondest childhood...
Gender and Leadership by Gail Benick

Gender and Leadership by Gail Benick

Until recently, modern western democracies have excluded women from political leadership and disparaged their ability to lead, as if there is something contradictory in being female and a leader. Women who do achieve positions of leadership face misogynist media...
Iran – New Uprising by Nasreen Pejvack

First Nations Still in Limbo by Nasreen Pejvack

I arrived in Canada as a new immigrant in the 1980s, and soon began my life by learning about the education system and planning my options. Whenever I had free time, I would look for people who might be the Native peoples of this land that I had learned about in my...
Gender and Leadership by Gail Benick

Women Environmental Warriors by Gail Benick

The election of Annamie Paul as leader of the Green Party of Canada comes as no surprise. She is the third woman to lead the Greens since the party was founded in 1983. It is worth remembering that the new Green leader stands on the shoulders of countless women who...
FINDING MEANING / The Void by Mary Rykov

FINDING MEANING / The Void by Mary Rykov

I wake from a lucid dream in which I’mwatching another COVID-19 television newscast. I, a daughter of the Holocaust, shudder at the thought of mass graves on Hart Island. Or anywhere. The sound and visual images are so vivid that I wake relieved to know I’m dreaming....
(Not So) Safe in Hell: The Working Class Heroines of Pre-Code HollywoodBy Heather Babcock

Jean Harlow: My Kind of Dame by Heather Babcock

Every Wednesday evening as a child, my mother would force me into an itchy, ugly brown polyester dress and thick woolen stockings and take me – kicking and screaming – to the local community center for my weekly Brownies meeting (for those not in the know, Brownies...
“Late” is a relative term by Lisa Braxton

“Late” is a relative term by Lisa Braxton

Television news is a young person’s game. I first heard that assertion from my broadcast journalism professors and class advisors, and then later from workshop presenters at national industry conferences. The statement was an undercurrent that gradually grew into a...
Dandelions? by Mary Rykov

Dandelions? by Mary Rykov

Thank you, City of Toronto, for banning pesticides and enabling joyful seas of yellow to dot summer lawns and fields. I love dandelions because they symbolize everything that is tough, tender, supple, resilient. And prolific. Dandelions should be Toronto mascots,...