The Women Writers Handbook – 2020

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• To celebrate Aurora Metro’s 30th anniversary as an independent publisher
• 20% of profits to go to the Virginia Woolf statue campaign
• Includes poems, stories, essays and interviews with 30 + women writers

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A revised edition of the publisher’s inaugural publication in 1990, which won the Pandora Award from Women-in-Publishing. Inspirational in its original format, this new edition features poems, stories, essays and interviews with 30 + women writers, both emerging authors and luminaries of contemporary literature such as:

1. – Choices: The Writing of Possession by A.S. Byatt
2. – Becoming a Writer by Saskia Calliste
3. – Jenny – a song by April de Angelis
4. – Interview with Kit de Waal
5. – Anne Hathaway by Carol Ann Duffy
6. – Let the World Burn through you by Sian Evans
7. – Early Women Writers by Philippa Gregory
8. – The Creative Process by Mary Hamer
9. – The Writing Life by Jackie Kay
10. – Screen Diversity by Shuchi Kothari
11. – Writing Plays by Bryony Lavery
12. – The Novelist as Wanderer by Annee Lawrence
13. – Interview with Roseanne Liang
14. – Mei Kwei, I love you by Suchen Christine Lim
15. – The Badminton Court by Jaki McCarrick
16. – Interview with Laura Miles
17. – The Motherload by Raman Mundair
18. – The Feminist Library by Magda Oldziejewska
19. – Fortune Favours The Brave… by Kaite O’Reilly
20. – Interview with Jacqueline Pepall
21. – The Art of Translation by Gabi Reigh
22. – Conditions of Amefricanity -Djamila Ribeiro
23.  – Inspiration: Where does it come from? by Fiona Rintoul
24. – Interview with Jasvinder Sanghera
25. – A Room of One’s Own …or Not? by Anne Sebba
26. – Being a Feminist Writer by Kalista Sy
27. – Mslexia by Debbie Taylor
28. – My Mother, Reading a Novel by Madeleine Thien
29. – Interview with Clare Tomalin
30. – Fortune by Ida Vitale, transl. Tanya Huntington
31. – Interview with Sarah Waters
32. – Virginia Woolf…100 years on by Emma Woolf

Female mentors on the original book included Carole Spedding, organizer of Feminist Book Fortnight and Ros de Lanerolle, publisher at The Women’s Press. In her foreword to the book, publisher and managing editor Cheryl Robson, credits their encouragement to building the fine list of titles provided by the publisher today.

Cheryl Robson was a recent finalist in the itv National Diversity Awards – Lifetime Achievement category and Aurora Metro Books was a finalist in the 2019 IPG Diversity in Publishing Awards.

Includes the original writing workshops plus illustrations from contemporary and vintage illustrators. Guest editor Ann Sandham has compiled the new collection. Donate to the Virginia Woolf Statue campaign here.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]