Resources for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Literary Programming & Publishing

A brief resource guide, by no means comprehensive, that I developed for a presentation. Please feel free to add more in the comments — or send me a note at sarahbrowningwriter@yahoo.com.

• How to Make Your Virtual Meetings and Events Accessible to the Disability Community
  from Rooted in Rights
  https://rootedinrights.org/how-to-make-your-virtual-meetings-and-events-accessible-to-the-disability-community/
  
  
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Resources
  from the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses – includes links to resources for arts leaders, editors, and publishers; people of color in the literary arts; educators and librarians; and guides to accessibility in literary publishing.
  https://www.clmp.org/diversity-equity-inclusion-resources/
  
  
• Literary Organizations & Magazines interested in socially engaged work
  from Split This Rock
  https://www.splitthisrock.org/resources
  
  
• The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database
  Over 600 contemporary poems searchable by social justice theme, author’s identity, state, and geographic region, published by Split This Rock.
  https://www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-database

• We Need Diverse Books
  An organization dedicated to “putting more books featuring diverse characters into the hands of all children.” Includes a “Resources for Writers” page applicable to all genres.
  https://diversebooks.org/

• Lambda Literary
  Organization serving LGBTQ readers and writers – in all genres.
  https://www.lambdaliterary.org/

Author: Sarah Browning

Sarah Browning is the author of Killing Summer (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017) and Whiskey in the Garden of Eden (The Word Works, 2007). She is co-founder and for 10 years was Executive Director of Split This Rock: Poems of Provocation & Witness. She is an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies and recipient of the Lillian E. Smith Writer-in-Service Award as well as of fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, Mesa Refuge, Yaddo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been guest editor or co-edited special issues of Beltway Poetry Quarterly, The Delaware Poetry Review, and three issues of POETRY magazine. From 2006 to 2019 Browning co-hosted the Sunday Kind of Love poetry series at Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC. She has been nominated numerous times for the Pushcart Prize. She received an MFA in poetry and creative nonfiction from Rutgers University Camden in 2021 and lives in Philadelphia, PA. View all posts by Sarah Browning