Category: About Women Writers, Women, Books
The #iamsubject Project with Diane DeBella
Join the #iamsubject project! Diane DeBella, our Site Sponsor through June 5, 2014, is launching the #iamsubject Project inviting girls and women to participate in increasing awareness of the need for girls and women to stay subject of their own lives. She is inviting you to write your own #iamsubject story on your blog or […]
Daunted by Book Promotion? Don’t be.
I am a dreamer. When two years ago I was told that Julian Fellowes, the writer and creator of Downton Abbey had a sister who lived in Chipping Campden, I believed it was destiny. My novel is set in Chipping Campden, I live in Chipping Campden, he was obviously meant to write the film script […]
Guardian Books’ Claire Armistead interviews Barbara Taylor Bradford and Sheila Heti
Summary: “Claire Armitstead joins the publisher Lynne Drew and the author Barbara Taylor Bradford to discuss why women are still under-represented in the world of books.” We are grateful to Helena Agustsson, Communications Assistant at the National Literacy Trust for sending us this. Here is the latest Guardian Books podcast compiled in collaboration with the […]
Featuring Women Writers on WWWB 2013
Many thanks to all of you who have contributed, read, shared and commented. A special thanks to our sponsors, Qaisra Shahraz, Elaine Neil Orr, Dr. Joan Steinau Lester, Alison Morton and our spring and summer intern Rachel Lewis. 2013 has been a marvelous year and we’re honored to have worked with so many amazing Women Writers on […]
Researching Burnt Norton
Fifteen years ago Caroline moved with her husband and seven children and stepchildren to Burnt Norton, the house made famous by TS Eliot in the first of his ʻFour Quartetsʼ. Very much influenced by Eliotʼs theme of time and redemption, she started to research the strange and tragic history of the Keyt family who owned […]
Alternative History…What if women were in charge?
A small child, curls bobbing on a head she’s forgotten to cover with the sunhat her mother insists on, crouches down on a Roman mosaic floor in north-east Spain. Mesmerised by the purity of the black and white pattern, the craftsmanship and the tiny marble squares, she almost doesn’t hear her father calling her to […]
A day in the life of… Joanne Harris
Ever since I left teaching in 1999, I’ve been waiting for a typical day to come along, so that I could describe it to all the people who kept asking. Some time ago, I realized that typical wasn’t really a word that fitted my life all that easily. When I was a teacher, I had […]
Coping with Pain through Writing
My earliest childhood memories are of being in pain. I have lived with chronic pain all of my life. No one really understood why it was so bad until a few years ago, when the genetics department at a major university took me on as a patient and determined that I have an unspecified, diffuse connective […]
The Verminous Hazards of Research
I’ve always enjoyed ‘doing research’ especially when my old darling was alive and we travelled together. Revisiting a favourite town or discovering a new one, reading contemporary newspapers, following leads not knowing where they would take us was a happy occupation. I liked the uncertainty of it. The surprises. I’ve been down a coal mine, […]
Farewell From Assistant Editor Victoria Shockley
“When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we’re capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. I’m trying for that.” – Maya Angelou Roughly five months ago, I had a conversation with Anora McGaha, founder […]
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