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Autorin der Woche #6: Christine de Pizan ✍🏾

Christine de Pizan gilt als eine der bedeutendsten Schriftstellerinnen des Mittelalters.

#autorinderwoche #christinedepizan #stadtderfrauen #feminismus #feministischeliteratur #igfem #literature #womeninliterature

October 7, 2026 at 12:00 PM

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Autorin der Woche #5: Audre Lorde ✍🏾

Audre Lordes’ Werk ist bis heute ein wichtiger Bezugspunkt für intersektionale feministische Debatten. 🖤

#autorinderwoche #audrelorde #sisteroutsider #feminismus #blackfeminism #feministischeliteratur #igfem #literature #WomenInLiterature See less

September 30, 2026 at 5:58 PM

K.M. 🛋️📚✍️

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This work is #A #Upmarket #SpeculativeFiction with #MR elements, and is written by a debut author who is also #WomeninLiterature #LGBT #ND #CI & #DIS 😊

September 30, 2026 at 1:30 PM

Metamorphosis Literary Agency

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🌟 Exciting news in the literary world! 🌟 Welcome Lara Reed, a queer author and feminist political theorist! 📚✨
Join us in celebrating Lara's journey!
#QueerAuthor #FeministFantasy #BookCommunity #LiteraryDebut #HistoricalFantasy #WomenInLiterature

August 12, 2026 at 3:30 PM

Sarah Berke

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A moving story about ambition, sacrifice, motherhood, and the people who help us become who we're meant to be.

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#SpectacularThings #BookSky #BookReview #FamilySaga #Sisterhood #LiteraryFiction #ReadingCommunity
#WomenInLiterature #BookRecommendation

Spectacular Things by Beck Dorey-Stein

Spectacular Things is a moving, character-driven story about ambition, sacrifice, motherhood, and the people who help us become who we're meant to be. As a mom of daughters, Mia and Cricket's relation...

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June 7, 2026 at 8:43 PM

Pablo Lara H.

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🟡🔵 "What flower worth the pain?"
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Christie George on "fan nonfiction" & collective approaches to creativity; Toyo Suyemoto & Arundhati Roy.
#ArundhatiRoy #ToyoSuyemoto #ChristieGeorge #Literature
#WomenInLiterature

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"What flower worth the pain?"
Christie George
Toyo Suyemoto
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Arundhati Roy.

May 30, 2026 at 6:18 PM

Wayanad Literature Festival

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Excerpt from the session at #WLF2024 titled എഴുത്തും അധികാരവും: സേഫ് സോണിലെ സാഹിത്യ ജീവിതം S. Hareesh, Vinod Krishna, C. S. Chandrika, Shyam Sudhakar Moderator: Sunil C. E.

#WLF #wayanadtourism #keralatourism #malayalee #literature #malayalamliterature #society #malayalamwriters #malayalam #women #WomenInLiterature

April 11, 2026 at 5:01 AM

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Click the links below! ⬇️✨

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#lmmontgomery #lucymaudmontgomery #literature #authors #bookshelfwednesday #jlmms #reading #womeninliterature

My Home in the Field of Honour | KindredSpaces

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April 1, 2026 at 4:38 PM

Democratic Majority, Albany County Legislature

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Women’s History Month Answer 🔎

Today’s quote was from Mary Oliver, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet known for her reflections on nature and life.

#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInLiterature #PoetryTok #HistoryTok

March 26, 2026 at 12:31 PM

University Press of Mississippi

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Happy International Women’s Day! Today, we celebrate the incredible women who inspire, challenge, and empower us. 📚💖 Let’s continue to uplift and amplify women’s narratives every day!

#InternationalWomensDay #WomenInLiterature #EmpowerHer #WomensHistoryMonth

March 8, 2026 at 4:02 PM

Great Plains Press

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Happy International Women's Day!

Great Plains Press is proud to work with many amazing and talented women 📚 ➡️

#InternationalWomensDay
#WomenWriters
#ReadWomen
#WomenInLiterature
#BooksByWomen

March 8, 2026 at 3:02 PM

Casa Carlini

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This International Women's Day, we return to one of literature's most enduring heroines.

In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen gave us Elizabeth Bennet - a woman who valued intellect, independence, and the courage to challenge expectations.

#casacarlinibooks #janeausten #womeninliterature

March 8, 2026 at 2:03 PM

Blue Crystal Literary Magazine

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𝔥𝔞𝔭𝔭𝔶 𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔫𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔞𝔩 𝔴𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔫’𝔰 𝔡𝔞𝔶
𝔖𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔯𝔠𝔥 2026

On this special day, Blue Crystal Literary Magazine proudly celebrates the courage & creativity.
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#WomensDs026
#WomenEmpowerment
#WomenWriters
#WomenInLiterature
#StrongWomen
#EmpoweredWomen
#WomenSupportingWomen
#FeministVoices
#CelebrateWomen

March 8, 2026 at 6:05 AM

Shine My Crown

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Remembering Zora Neale Hurston: A Voice That Refused to Be Silenced: As Black History Month draws to a close, scholars and cultural institutions across the United States are spotlighting the enduring… #BlackHistoryMonth #ZoraNealeHurston #CulturalLegacy #WomenInLiterature #AfricanAmericanHistory

Remembering Zora Neale Hurston: A Voice That Refused to Be Silenced

As Black History Month draws to a close, scholars and cultural institutions across the United States are spotlighting the enduring legacy of… The post Remembering Zora Neale Hurston: A Voice That Refused to Be Silenced appeared first on Shine My Crown.

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February 28, 2026 at 3:05 PM

Amphorae Publishing Group

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From #Myanmar and #WestBengal to #Tulsa, #BharatiSen draws on her life in #India to illuminate the hidden lives of women in #OnTheBanksOfRiverSarayu.
A powerful, bittersweet short story collection.

Get it here: tinyurl.com/mrx2hzt9

#IndianFiction #ShortStories #WomenInLiterature

February 27, 2026 at 2:01 PM

Raisinghistory

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#OnThisDay in 1831, Mary Mapes Dodge was born. She was an American children's author, best known for her novel, "Hans Brinker", as well as the first editor of St. Nicholas, a successful monthly children's magazine.

#womenwriters #WomenInLiterature #womenshistory #literature #womenauthors #writing

January 27, 2026 at 12:51 AM

Codie 🏳️‍⚧️

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i reread the yellow wallpaper recently and felt moved to write a few thoughts of my own. #theyellowwallpaper #booksky #classiclit #womeninliterature

the room, the body, and the voice: reading the yellow wallpaper as a trans woman

charlotte perkins gilman’s the yellow wallpaper is a monumental feminist story, and an important one at that.

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January 11, 2026 at 3:37 AM

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Some stories are whispered.
This one refuses to be quiet.
A fearless exploration of womanhood, autonomy, and women rights in restrictive spaces.

🔗 www.amazon.com/dp/B0GDGQ8CB8
#WomenEmpowerment #MuslimWomenStories #SpeakYourTruth #WomenInLiterature #ZenaFarfosha

ZENA

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January 5, 2026 at 5:16 PM

Obsidian Voices

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Projects like this remind us how much incredible work by women writers is out there and worth revisiting or discovering for the first time. Starting with Octavia Butler feels exactly right.

#Booksky #BooksByWomen #ReadingWomen #WomenInLiterature

Danya Henninger @danyahenninger.bsky.social · Nov 29

30-day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women

Octavia Butler, WILD SEED (Patternist Series)

#booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen

1/30

December 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM

Hiddenherstory

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📅Dec 3rd 1926, Acclaimed author Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared for 11 days, leading to a widespread search & media attention. Her disappearance remains the subject of intrigue & speculation to this day. #WomenInHistory #WomenInLiterature
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The Curious Disappearance of Agatha Christie

Read about the curious disappearance of the world’s most famous mystery writer; Agatha Christie.

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December 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM

Pablo Lara H.

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🟠 "I may not all your meaning understand, / But I have touched your soul in shadow-land."
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Indigenous poetry in North America today; E. Pauline Johnson and Jane Johnstone Schoolcraft, Mary Sully.
#Literature #WomenInLiterature
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