As women writers adapted to a changing post-WWII job market, so too did they adapt in their work, translating their skills into writing suspense for television and turning short stories into screenplays. In her essay on adaptation and “gendered discourses,” Shelley Cobb writes that “feminist... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-02-28 09:50:01 UTC ]
New books by women writers of faith tackle racism, abortion, mental health, and other tough subjects. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
The Rona Jaffe Foundation has discontinued its annual Writers' Award program, which awarded six women writers in the early stages of their work with $30,000 grants. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
Earlier this year, we learned of the founding of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, which is the first English-language literary award to celebrate excellence in fiction by women writers in the United States and Canada. And today, the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction announced that it has... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-15 17:54:45 UTC ]
The Carol Shields Prize is an effort to raise the visibility of women writers, in part with a sum that far exceeds many other book awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-02-07 10:00:17 UTC ]
Test your knowledge of women writers with a fun pop quiz. First Round Name the title and author of the first-ever science fiction novel. This Pulitzer-prize winner and Italian translator declared in 2015 that she is now only writing in Italian. Name this author. The 2018 Nobel laureate for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-12-27 12:00:00 UTC ]
“My Brilliant Friend” and Elena Ferrante’s other best-selling books are inspiring female novelists and shaking up the country’s male-dominated literary establishment. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-12-09 10:00:14 UTC ]
Jane Bettany has won HQ and Gransnet's writing prize for unpublished women writers aged over 40. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-06 01:51:32 UTC ]
The International Literature Showcase is a partnership between the National Centre for Writing and British Council. It aims to showcase amazing writers based in the UK to programmers, publishers and teachers of literature in English around the world. To do so, we have invited six leading writers... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-10-05 10:05:02 UTC ]
Caitlin Horrocks’s debut novel builds on a rich tradition of women writers who complicate the myth of male virtuosity until it crumbles. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2019-09-01 11:00:00 UTC ]
The International Literature Showcase is a partnership between the National Centre for Writing and British Council. It aims to showcase amazing writers based in the UK to programmers, publishers and teachers of literature in English around the world. To do so, we have invited six leading writers... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-08-10 10:05:02 UTC ]
This year's ceremony, held at New York University's Skirball Center and conferred for the first time to a sold-out house, saw debut and women writers have a particularly strong year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Women writers have excelled at the An Post Irish Book Awards, taking home the majority of awards for the first time, with authors such as Sally Rooney, Liz Nugent and Emilie Pine among the winning authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Anna Foley Simmons has scooped the inaugural Thinking Woman's Writing Award, a new prize set up by British-Nigerian author and TV presenter Kate Jegede to address "woeful" underrepresentation of women writers of philosophy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The spectrum of international publishing was on display on the first day of the fair, from the CEO Talk with John Sargent to the new audiobook conference, and women writers from the Asia Pacific region. The post Download: Thursday’s Frankfurt Book Fair 2018 Show Daily appeared first on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Kate Jegede has set up a new writing prize that aims to increase the visibility of women writers in the UK writing non-fiction works with a philosophical or critical thinking theme. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mslexia, the magazine for women writers, has appointed a three-person panel of Cathy Galvin, Leone Ross and Sunny Singh to judge its Short Story Competition to replace Lionel Shriver following her controversial comments about marginalised writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Over 25 radical and independent bookshops are taking part in a two-week long celebration of feminist books in a bid to add to the debate about diversity in publishing and showcase books by women writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin is launching a pop-up bookshop stocked solely with titles by female writers for International Women’s Day. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Waterstones branch is dedicating its ‘Staff Recommends’ bay to female writers to celebrate the 'Year of Publishing Women'. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]