Writing The Heroine is dedicated to promoting, celebrating, and making space for women who write women’s stories through our collection of writing anthologies, our writing prize, writing retreats, courses & literary events.
Writing The Heroine is dedicated to promoting, celebrating and making space for women who write women’s stories.
With this aim, we established the Heroines Festival, a full-day program of women writers who reclaim women’s histories, and the Heroines Anthology in 2018.
We also run author-speaking events, writing masterclasses, workshops and retreats, all focused on supporting and showcasing women writers.
We have a particulr interest in women’s history and mythology-inspired works: old texts and works poetically renewed, reimagined, adapted or recreated.
The Heroines Anthology reimagines women in myth, fairy tale, folklore or legend, and tells women's lost histories, or untold stories.
Heroines : An Anthology of Poetry and Short Fiction is written about women, by women.
The Heroines Women’s Writing Prize is awarded to a selected piece of writing in each volume.
Volumes One to Five are available from our bookshop.
Submissions for Volume Six are now open.
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I found that women, even when they were able to struggle through the restrictive conditions of womanhood, were often not recorded by history, and when they were written about they were primarily written about by men, not by other women.
So, I became interested in how we re-story women’s history, what we do where there are gaps in the record, and how different women’s stories would be, and our idea of who women are, if women’s stories are written in women’s voices.
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Dr. Sarah Nicholson, founder
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