https://www.bethwardwriting.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-06-27 https://www.bethwardwriting.com/about daily 0.75 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/a92d9626-fe91-4461-9b8f-d08e05407f45/IMG_4849.jpeg about - Beth Ward is a culture journalist, editor, and award-winning essayist writing about books and art, bodies and place, feminism and folklore. She focuses primarily on women’s histories and women’s stories. Beth’s work appears widely in publications including the Southern Review of Books, The Southeast Review, Pleiades: Literature in Context, Oxford American, Hyperallergic, The Rumpus, Iron Horse Literary Review, NPR, BUST, Bitter Southerner, and elsewhere. She is a regular contributor to UK-based magazine, Cunning Folk. Beth holds an MFA in narrative nonfiction from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. She currently serves as Reviews & Interviews Editor for Pleiades, and has work forthcoming in the American Poetry Review. You can also read No Light Thing, her newsletter on the intersection of culture and desire, over on Substack. https://www.bethwardwriting.com/home daily 1.0 2023-07-18 https://www.bethwardwriting.com/writing daily 0.75 2025-12-23 https://www.bethwardwriting.com/writing/inconversation monthly 0.5 2025-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/e9b9c57a-b2aa-4c29-8574-270ca03695c8/Vagabond+Princess+-+Ruby+Lal+-+cover.jpg writing & editorial - in conversation Princess Diaries: Feminist Historian Ruby Lal Pulls a South Asian Writer from Obscurity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/ddae2a41-2d2a-4d58-bfab-7ff7f5864800/cwhm-cover.jpg writing & editorial - in conversation Poet L.S. McKee explores tensions of love in an era of AI and technology https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/2ca5feb3-2738-46c9-b5b7-c209be3ca2ec/Denene+Millner.jpg writing & editorial - in conversation Denene Millner’s personal journey informs redemption and grace of ‘One Blood’ (ArtsATL) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/7b1dedf4-cda1-4cfe-9d55-0f35c6fbeee2/Sadre-Orafai_23.png writing & editorial - in conversation I Become More Animal When I'm Grieving: A Conversation with Jenny Sadre-Orafai (The Rumpus) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/523d5ff9-09a0-4b88-89aa-b11363f3d247/Shull%2C+The+Reader.jpg writing & editorial - in conversation The Art of Laura Shull, in Conversation with the Artist (Lover's Eye Press) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/0bb958aa-a4c1-42bc-8c21-34c61a386e9b/J.+Nicole+Jones+author+photo+-+credit+Ben+Bromley+%281%29.jpg writing & editorial - in conversation Writing Hurricanes and Conjuring Ghosts: A Conversation with J. Nicole Jones (The Rumpus) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/313cf203-df2a-4c13-99ca-ec156fdd54d3/HTDN+final.jpg writing & editorial - in conversation Interestingness is Always There: Talking with Jenny Odell (The Rumpus) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/58ff8927-445d-4e2a-ae6a-0f809c5d626a/Other+Girls+to+Burn+cover.jpg writing & editorial - in conversation Caroline Crew’s essays explore women and violence in “Other Girls To Burn” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/fdbe93ee-f700-4c9a-9e2e-876ddcd03a31/Final+TIDELANDS+cover+image.jpg writing & editorial - in conversation Bestselling author Philippa Gregory goes historical in a modern world (ArtsATL) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/71c85ddd-56ae-4e94-bc24-e80ea60af25f/Sanjena+Sathian+Credit+Tony+Tulathimutte.jpg writing & editorial - in conversation Sanjena Sathian on the magical realism of her debut novel, “Gold Diggers” (ArtsATL) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/8d5ad220-0d7d-4e0d-a4e3-70b503173dfc/Peach+State+%282%29.jpg writing & editorial - in conversation Adrienne Su takes a culinary tour of Atlanta in new poetry collection “Peach State” (ArtsATL) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/faa974cd-a51c-43fd-8d1c-369b94327423/author+Photo.new.credit+Deborah+Feingold+%281%29.jpg writing & editorial - in conversation "Practical Magical" author Alice Hoffman on the Holocaust, fairy tales and her new book (ArtsATL) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/b0057007-baa1-48de-ae98-23397c5ffd5c/Screen+Shot+2022-02-07+at+3.43.04+PM.png writing & editorial - in conversation New collection explores hidden nuances of Carson McCullers’ short stories (ArtsATL) https://www.bethwardwriting.com/writing/booksandart monthly 0.5 2025-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/25f8ef94-262c-4dbc-8b87-0662db9ad759/dark-sisters-kristi-demeester.png writing & editorial - books & art “The Dark and the Devil So Close”: Kristi DeMeester’s Historical Feminist Horror, Dark Sisters (Southern Review of Books) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/1b04cafa-d0f2-4974-b8a8-7d357f240ea1/birthdaycakeflannery03_courtesy.jpg writing & editorial - books & art Artist Blair Hobbs celebrates Flannery O’Connor’s centennial with a new show at Spalding Nix Fine Art (Atlanta Magazine) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/ab383e9b-3e85-410b-b558-353d3a64cae2/Cover-art-1-768x1152.jpg writing & editorial - books & art Choking Toward Life: Beth Ward on Didi Jackson's My Infinity (Pleiades Magazine) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/f36065ee-37ac-4252-b3e9-26c178e01876/Screenshot+2024-03-20+at+1.57.26+PM.png writing & editorial - books & art The Threads of Time and Place (Oxford American) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/89741473-0622-4c8f-ae4a-e2ebf14b737f/ACS_0382.jpeg writing & editorial - books & art Thoughts About the Work: A Critical Essay for Phyllis Alterman Franco: The Collected Works (Poem 88 EDITIONS, 2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/50786fc8-76f4-4ace-b0d5-25f854eb5729/1987.143-Bing-1082x1000.jpg writing & editorial - books & art Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection at the High Museum of Art (Burnaway) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/6eca028c-7978-4ef0-9995-82e4b7f7367e/Danielle-Dutton_cover.png writing & editorial - books & art What We're Reading: Reviewing Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other (Cunning Folk) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/23cac246-f193-4d0a-97e2-c69e62c435eb/this+ragged+grae.jpeg writing & editorial - books & art What We're Reading: Reviewing This Ragged Grace by Octavia Bright (Cunning Folk) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/78dddc8f-1960-485a-a7ac-6939b94d92a3/Julia-131.jpeg writing & editorial - books & art The Real Blanche DuBois (The Bitter Southerner) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/7e77e84c-ce1d-4e5e-930a-39e9558645bf/ShayYoungbloodat419Moreland1988.jpeg writing & editorial - books & art After 45 years, Charis Books says goodbye to Little Five Points, hello to Agnes Scott (ArtsATL) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/0bbccf95-4fa1-40a2-93d5-1c62a7cbe3e1/1170804919-1024x683.jpeg writing & editorial - books & art 29Rooms Experience Challenges Atlanta To ‘Expand Your Reality’ (WABE) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/1eb26528-158a-4085-b020-c9b880b9e746/janes-reflectin-shapiro-CROP-768x628.jpeg writing & editorial - books & art "Jane Eyre” exhibit at Poem 88 reconsiders revolutionary woman through modern eyes (ArtsATL) https://www.bethwardwriting.com/writing/folklore monthly 0.5 2025-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/217ff3de-ac98-4717-8441-2b844234f37b/IMG_5440.jpeg writing & editorial - folklore & esoterica On Ithell Colquhoun: In Conversation with Dr. Amy Hale (Cunning Folk, Sound & Vision issue, print) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/28574fd0-3877-4a46-8c97-0368b1356eae/IMG_3446+%281%29.jpg writing & editorial - folklore & esoterica Matriarch of Darkness (Suspira Magazine, Fetish Issue, print) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620157f470103a63298d1ff0/a4acddab-8700-4cf8-98c4-98e6054e5d6d/IMG_3448.jpg writing & editorial - 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