Some of the works in the Heroines Anthologies honour the stories of unknown women.
In writing about these women, the authors ask why they were written into the margins.
And they return them to us so we can see their stories.
Other creative works examine women’s physical, cultural, spiritual and mythic ancestries.
Some question what or who we are as women.
On these pathways, we are permeable with animals, nature, our gods and goddesses, our ancestry, and our wild selves.
All of these things intermingle in our becoming as women.
They ask how we are able to make meaning of our womanhood and our lives.
These poems and stories explore everything from birthing new life to the languages that form our relationships as mothers, daughters, granddaughters, lovers, wives and siblings.
And they do not shy away from exploring the dark: sexual violence, grief and trauma.
Some follow the emotional process from confronting the dark through to the magic of transformation.
Others explore revenge.
The writing collected in the Heroines anthologies strikes a delicate balance between dark and light in charting the ways in which we are trapped, and the ways we might find freedom.
