The Wild Detectives bookshop and cafe is throwing another monthlong party for feminism with its Women Galore festival — and bringing several nationally known authors to town to help.

The festival was created last year as a way to combat gender inequity in the publishing industry. This year, the festival will spread out to venues throughout the Bishop Arts area.

Jessa Crispin (Chuck Kuan)

"With Women Galore we're trying to bring to the public space conversations about who is given a voice in our dominant culture," festival co-founder Lauren Smart said as the lineup was released Monday. "We're questioning that. In some small way, the month is our challenge to the city of Dallas to pay attention to what, or who, they're reading and why that matters."

The authors are:

Chris Kraus, author of the 1997 cult classic I Love Dick. She'll be interviewed by Ann Friedman, host of the Call Your Girlfriend podcast (May 2).

Sady Doyle (Sady Doyle)

Sady Doyle, author of Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why, which Publishers Weekly called "a ruthlessly funny, smart, and relentlessly on-point takedown of modern misogyny." (May 6)

Jessa Crispin, author of Why I'm Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto. Crispin is the editor and founder of the pioneering literary website Bookslut and the journal Spolia (May 9).

Elizabeth L. Silver, author of the novel The Execution of Noa P. Singleton, who will read from her forthcoming The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty. She'll be in conversation with Sarah Hepola, author of Blackout (May 18).

Deb Olin Unferth, who will read from Wait Till You See Me Dance, of which NPR wrote: "Her absurd and tender story collection is full of sentences like clear glass doors, and you, reader, are the bird." She'll be in conversation with Ben Fountain (May 22).

Carmen Goldthwaite, author of Texas Ranch Women: Three Centuries of Mettle and Moxie and Texas Dames: Sassy and Savvy Women Throughout Lone Star History (May 28).

The festival also will include theatrical presentations, music, trivia nights, slam poetry, art exhibitions and more.

A complete schedule, with updated times and locations, will be available at thewilddetectives.com.