I'm writing this post from an airplane headed to one of the biggest bookfairs in the country—the beautiful spread put out yearly by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP). One of the best things about AWP is that around this time, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts releases their annual count of women in publishing, sifting through our major literary and news outlets and counting the number of women who show up with bylines, book reviews, and who have their books reviewed.

It's usually a kind of terrible, deeply necessary reminder of how far we haven't come in publishing, at all. And this year, VIDA also conducted a count of women of color within these same parameters, and the results are exactly as awful as you'd think. If such lauded publications as The Nation and the New York Review of Books are appreciably bad when it comes to publishing work by women, they're much, much worse when it comes to publishing women who aren't white.

Still, there's some good news—especially if you happen to live in Portland. The Portland/Brooklyn-based journal Tin House (who also publish some of this city's best writing, and run the Tin House Writer's Workshop at Reed every summer) has consistently done better over the past couple VIDA count cycles. From VIDA's report:

Over the last three years, the number of female authors who Tin House reviewed has remained consistent. However, the number of male authors has increased by one each year, which means that the overall share of the pie has decreased by 2 percentage points each year for women, from a high of 42 percent in 2012 to 38 percent in 2014.

In the categories of book reviewers and bylines, the pies coming out of the Tin House kitchen are delicious with women getting 60 percent and 53 percent, respectively. Since 2012, in terms of bylines, women have seen the majority of the pie. We continue to celebrate Tin House for their efforts toward gender parity.

This didn't happen by accident. In a great piece at Flavorwire about last year's count, Jason Diamond spoke with Tin House magazine editor Ron Spillman about how they actively changed their publishing practices to make gender parity a goal.

The whole piece is well worth a read, and compares Tin House with The Believer, a magazine from McSweeney's with a similar reputation. The McSweeney's numbers were abysmal at the time, and Spillman took the publication's editors to task. He also explained why achieving gender parity can be such a challenge in publishing, and mapped out steps Tin House has taken steps to work toward full parity in the face of that challenge.

"[We] made some systemic changes—soliciting more women, re-affirming our desire to see work by women, assigning more interviews and reviews of female writers, and generally paying attention throughout our organization," he said.

This year, it seems Dave Eggers' publishing juggernaut may well have followed Tin House's lead. The McSweeney's numbers as a whole were better, with 52 percent male writers and 48 percent female writers. Last time around, McSweeney's published a whopping 77 percent men. This is a huge step forward, but—broken record time—these numbers still aren't what they should be.

You can see the full breakdown by publication here. VIDA also lists contact information for each publication's editorial staff, so you can give 'em a piece of your mind—or cancel your subscription.