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.
WITCHCRAFT is here.
In the Heroines Anthology women writers reimagine women in myth, fairy tale, folklore or legend, and tell women's lost histories and untold stories.
In this special edition, twenty-nine women writers write on Witchcraft, Kin & Craft, Myth & Folklore, and Historical Memorial.
We are the granddaughters of the witches you couldn't burn. Remembered. Restored.
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.
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 Six are available from our bookshop.
Submissions for Volume Seven are now closed.
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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
“A lush and gorgeous celebration of womanhood and all its mysteries”
— Lakshmi Kanchi, SoulReserve Poetry