“Being asked is often the first thing that gets some institutions to notice their awful lack of diversity, and the byline count is a metric of how sincere an institution’s commitment to diversity is, or at least how much has been invested in the effort.”
. In Texas, women and non-cisgender writers are better represented in magazines compared with their makeup of the Texas population, together filing 61 percent of bylines in 2022. However, that overrepresentation drops off in prestige placements such as features, essays, and named cover teases; men writers’ names appear on the covers of Texas magazines twice as often as women writers’ names do.was a gender outlier, publishing 71 percent of bylines by men writers in 2022.
And Texas magazines didn’t only publish Texas writers; writers filing stories from New York and California in 2022 outnumbered writers from Galveston, El Paso, Bryan/College Station, Marathon and Marfa—combined. Writers in Austin and Dallas–Fort Worth filed the most bylines in 2022, while Texas writers living in rural geographies, especially the Texas Plains, Panhandle, West Texas, and the Rio Grande Valley, were notably underrepresented in magazines that ostensibly serve the entire state.
The idea of progress—how it is made, measured, and messaged—was very much on my mind when I began working on the Texas Writers Byline Scan in late 2021. I had the sense that, amid uprisings against racial injustice, escalating attacks on transgender people, and the aftermath of the #MeToo movement, it would be worthwhile to examine who is tasked with the responsibility of telling stories in and about the Lone Star State.
I surveyed eleven publications in 2021 and fourteen in 2022—just under five hundred writers penning over twenty-one hundred bylines each year—and while that’s a lot of work and a lot of people to demand do better, it doesn’t seem out of the bounds of reason that a dozen magazines could, over time, make real improvements. Engagement with the TWBS results has improved year over year.
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