Finding Writing Inspiration on Holiday: Advice from Alison Moore
Keep a diary while you’re away: you might get a novel out of it!
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The Female Gaze: Seraphina Madsen on writing Dodge and Burn
Seraphina Madsen, author of Dodge and Burn, on road trips novels and the female gaze…
Memory and Misery: Memoir Writing Advice from Crystal Jeans
“Be careful. Change names. And fictionalise it to filth…”
Girls, Girls, Girls: Rosalind Jana recommends the Best Fiction About Young Women
Girls are everywhere, but what are the best books about young women?
Historical Fiction in Translation
Celebrate #WITMonth with four fantastic historical novels written by women…
Expecting: Chitra Ramaswamy on pregnancy, metaphor, pain and joy
“It was nothing like I imagined it would be.” Chitra Ramaswamy explains why she wrote Expecting…
Basma Abdel Aziz on writing The Queue
The Egyptian author on the real-life queue that inspired her debut novel…
‘Most women still have a terror of fat, even if they are allies’: why feminists still can’t handle fat girls
What’s behind feminists’ fear of fat girls?
Extract: The Life of Elves by Muriel Barbery
The new book by the bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog…
In Praise Of: Kelly Link
Find out why we love the author of Get in Trouble, Pretty Monsters and more…
Afrikult. on Mariama Ba
A profile of Mariama Ba, the award-winning Senegalese author of So Long a Letter and Scarlet Song…
For Books’ Sake Talks to: Rachel B. Glaser
“It’s hard to be your age. There’s maybe too much…