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2025 Chanticleer Somerset Book Awards for Literary and Contemporary Fiction
Weight of a Woman , published January 2025, is a FINALIST in Chanticleer's Somerset Book Awards for Literary and Contemporary Fiction. At a time when people in the U.S. are being murdered in the streets by government agents, misinformation and disinformation flow like champagne at Jeff Bezos' wedding, and the authoritarian dictator in the White House has rebranded science and the free press as the enemy of the people, it feels (beyond) the wrong time to be sharing this sort
Judith Jackson-Pomeroy
Feb 61 min read
WEIGHT OF WOMAN
I'll be discussing my debut, Weight of a Woman. Airing on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube.
Judith Jackson-Pomeroy
Mar 22, 20251 min read
Weight of a Woman honored as Finalist in the Humor & Satire Book Award
Weight of a Woman , my latest novel, has moved forward to the 2025 HUMOR & SATIRE FINALIST List . The Humor & Satire Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Satire, Humor and Allegory Fiction. Honored that Weight has made it this far in the 2025 CIBA Book Awards! Thank you to Chanticleer for hearing this novel. Wishing all my fellow finalists the very best in the next round of voting. I am sincerely humbled to have made it this far and in t
Judith Jackson-Pomeroy
Feb 162 min read
Who's Afraid of Gender?
Judith Butler, author of Who's Afraid of Gender? warns us (again, as in her book Gender Trouble ) about gender as malleable, fickle,...
Judith Jackson-Pomeroy
Feb 22, 20251 min read
Release Date....Release Date....Release Date
After 4 (short) years and 10 (quick) months of (im)patient waiting (wringing of hands, and furrowing of brow), my debut novel, Weight of...
Judith Jackson-Pomeroy
Jan 21, 20251 min read
Read my Interview with Ashley Hasty, author of Hasty Book List
I'm so grateful to Ashley Hasty for the fun interview, which is now featured at her website, Hasty Book List , and on Twitter. Please...
Judith Jackson-Pomeroy
Apr 30, 20221 min read
Writings on Oppression & Violence
The worldwide response to the war waged on Ukraine speaks to the human impulse to empathize with people who struggle just to survive. In...
Judith Jackson-Pomeroy
Apr 10, 20222 min read
Support Ukrainian Writers
One way to support Ukraine is to buy the books of (risk-taking) Ukrainian writers. I've been immersing myself in the work of Ukrainian...
Judith Jackson-Pomeroy
Mar 20, 20222 min read
Weight of a Woman Cover Reveal
The cover choices are here for my forthcoming book, Weight of a Woman, set for release in 2024. My favorite is the featured image for the...
Judith Jackson-Pomeroy
Dec 28, 20211 min read
What do Babies, Dogs, and Chicks Have in Common?
My debut novel, Weight of A Woman, was initially titled Feminist Guru, but then a friend in publishing said to me, “really? The F word?...
Judith Jackson-Pomeroy
Dec 5, 20212 min read
How Men Have Sex
In order to reach their audience about (the problem) with how sex gets defined for young, straight men, masculinities scholars, like John...
Judith Jackson-Pomeroy
Nov 13, 20213 min read
Weight of a Woman: Updates
Any day now, I'm expecting news on the book cover design for my novel, Weight of a Woman, scheduled for release with Odyssey Books in...
Judith Jackson-Pomeroy
Oct 25, 20211 min read
Doing Gender: Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice....
What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice and everything nice, that's what little girls are made of. Little boys are made of snips,...
Judith Jackson-Pomeroy
Oct 25, 20213 min read
The Fourth Anniversary of #MeToo: You Are Not Alone
October 15th, 2017 was a day most of us were feeling alone. Then at noon, Alyssa Milano tweeted, "If you've been sexually harassed or...
Judith Jackson-Pomeroy
Oct 24, 20212 min read
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