Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today’s stories:

“It has become painfully clear over the past few months that her imagined world of gender parity, in which men and women are granted equal opportunities to do the work of a genius, is still quite far away.” On Virginia Woolf’s 136th birthday [2], Constance Grady reflects on Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own and her vision for the future of women. (Vox)

Since he was a teenager in the late 1980s, James Hyman has collected nearly 160,000 magazines [3]. Stored in a warehouse in London and largely unavailable digitally, the Hyman Archive is now the largest private magazine collection in the world. (New York Times)

A week after Canadian publisher Coach House Books announced it was suspending its poetry program to “think through our mandate,” BuzzFeed reports that a poetry editor at the press, Jeramy Dodds, has been fired due to accusations of sexual harassment [4].

“She was a crafter of fierce, focused, fertile dreams.” David Mitchell pays tribute to Ursula Le Guin [5], who died on Monday. (Guardian)

“We can’t call Ursula K. Le Guin back from the land of the unchanging stars, but happily she left us her multifaceted work, her hard-earned wisdom and her fundamental optimism.” Margaret Atwood remembers Le Guin [6] and considers what the acclaimed author would have thought about the #MeToo movement. (Washington Post)

Meanwhile, Conor Friedersdorf looks to fiction for more constructive depictions of sexual consent [7] than found in television or film. (Atlantic)

Open Culture shares the shortest and “most concise” academic paper on writer’s block [8].

The Millions explores the literary renaissance in Kansas [9], which includes recent titles from Farooq Ahmed, Sarah Smarsh, and LaShonda Katrice Barnett.

“I admit, I picked you up with unrealistic expectations…” Grant Snider offers a cartoon ode to unfinished books [10]. (New Yorker)