Canadian Women in Literary Arts (CWILA) is a Canadian founded in 2012 that promotes equity and equality of representation in the Canadian literary community.
History
Canadian Women in Literary Arts (CWILA) is a not-for-profit association founded in 2012 by poet and essayist Gillian Jerome. CWILA is similar to the Vida: Women in Literary Arts organization, which is best known for The Count of literary journals' gender bias. In 2012, CWILA published their first count of 14 Canadian literary publication. This count measured the number of female- and male-authored books that are reviewed by Canadian publications and of the gender of the reviewers. In 2013, CWILA's count expanded to 25 publications and included a metric for gender queer authors. In 2014, the count included 31 publications.