Because crime fiction written by women often reflects parts of the female experience which remain taboo and are frequently neglected, both in other genres and by male writers. Women have long ...

Poet Berit Petolai conveys a distinctive experience of being a woman and a mother, and of moving through life in step with ...

In short, women writing on women didn’t fare much better in Canada than elsewhere, but Canadian male authors did. Nor is she much impressed with the male outliers on the Canadian lists.

Laura Freixas, one of Spain’s prominent contemporary novelists and short story writers, emphasises the impact of reading about other women’s experiences, dilemmas, interests, and thoughts.

When Claire Battershill took part in the printing fellowship program at Massey College in 2009, she discovered its cast iron printing presses were far more than simply relics of a bygone era. For many ...

And given that the recent global success of Irish writing has primarily been driven by contemporary female authors such as Anna Burns, Lucy Caldwell, Emma Dabiri and Sally Rooney, let us not ...

Contemporary Hindi writing is leading on many fronts, whether it is in experimenting with form or portraying the LGBTQ community with sensitivity. A look at some young women writers who are at the ...

The long list for the 2025 Ossolineum Polish Poetry Translation Prize includes books by five Ukrainian authors—Iya Kiva, ...