The Feminist Writers' Guild

They aimed to augment the feminist movement of the late 1970s by creating a strong network for women writers to communicate and support each other.

The FWG published three times a year through a subscription service and accommodated their prices for unemployed or low-income women.

[2] According to an interview with Dodie Bellamy, who was once involved with the Guild, many of the members were made up of both poor and rich women—much like a "Marxist community".

He includes this statement: “From 1977 to 1981, she lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she joined the Feminist Writers Guild and led a number of writing workshops.

But after serving two terms of office at both the local and national levels, Anzaldúa quit because of the racism and alienation she faced from her colleagues, who refused to talk about Third World women, class issues, or oppression (Anzaldúa, Interviews 57).” In 1985, editor Celeste West published Words in Our Pockets: The Feminist Writers’ Guild Handbook on How to Get Published and Get Paid.

For example, professor and poet Batya Weinbaum, when writing a piece on a convention of OLOC (Old Lesbians Organizing for Change) in 2015 mentions meeting Adrienne Rich through The Feminist Writers Guild as she was visiting New York City.

In her article entitled “Mexico on $15 a day,” Weisenberg mentioned that the Feminist Writers Guild was collecting books for the Cook County Jail.

Although there are few mentions of the Guild still being active, intersections with a who's who of feminist writers in the 21st century seem abundant in popular press.