Women & Literature

‘Across all its sectors, book culture remains a game that is stacked against women.’

‘Are notions of literary value – of excellence – of prize winning and canons – so deeply associated with masculinity that we should try not to use them at all?’ 

‘Consider the progressive loss of the liberties of pseudonymity and anonymity so valuable, historically, to women writing literary fiction…’

‘Nothing I had written seemed progressive or ‘Feminist’ enough. Was I meant to open with a sexist incident from a male superior (the whiter the better)?’