Why Are So Many Women Rewriting Fairy Tales?

Peg Alford Pursell’s second book, A Girl Goes Into the Forest, contains a collection of 67 short stories exploring moments in the lives of women. Pursell’s first book, Show Her a Flower, a Bird, a Shadow, was recognized as a 2017 Indies finalist and a finalist and honorable mention in fiction for the First Horizon Award. […] The post Why Are So Many Women Rewriting Fairy Tales? appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

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Margaret Atwood announces The Handmaid's Tale sequel, The Testaments

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