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The Women Writers' Handbook

Autor A. S. Byatt, Emma Woolf, Ida Vitale, Jackie Kay, Madeleine Thien, Philippa Gregory
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 iun 2020
Essays and interviews featuring thirty women writers, including A. S. Byatt, Clare Tomalin, Kit de Waal and Emma Woolf, offering practical advice and insightful reflections for women producing literature. Ten percent of profits go to the Virginia Woolf statue campaign.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781912430338
ISBN-10: 1912430339
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: Illustrations, unspecified
Dimensiuni: 151 x 208 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Aurora Metro Publications

Cuprins

Foreword by Cheryl Robson 9
Women's Voices
- Choices: The Writing of Possession by A.S. Byatt 15
- Becoming a Writer by Saskia Calliste 21
- Jenny - a song by April de Angelis 29
- Interview with Kit de Waal 33
- Anne Hathaway by Carol Ann Duffy 41
- Let the World Burn through you by Sian Evans 43
- Early Women Writers by Philippa Gregory 50
- The Creative Process by Mary Hamer 55
- The Writing Life by Jackie Kay 60
- Screen Diversity by Shuchi Kothari 63
- Writing Plays by Bryony Lavery 68
- The Novelist as Wanderer by Annee Lawrence 71
- Interview with Roseanne Liang 77
- Mei Kwei, I love you by Suchen Christine Lim 81
- The Badminton Court by Jaki McCarrick 98
- Interview with Laura Miles 104
- The Motherload by Raman Mundair 110
- The Feminist Library by Magda Oldziejewska 113
- Fortune Favours The Brave... by Kaite O'Reilly 116
- Interview with Jacqueline Pepall 120
- The Art of Translation by Gabi Reigh 128
- Conditions of Amefricanity by Djamila Ribeiro 132
- Inspiration: Where does it come from? by Fiona Rintoul 142
- Interview with Jasvinder Sanghera 145
- A Room of One's Own ...or Not? by Anne Sebba 152
- Being a Feminist Writer by Kalista Sy 158
- Mslexia by Debbie Taylor 161
- My Mother, Reading a Novel by Madeleine Thien 166
- Interview with Claire Tomalin 175
- Fortune by Ida Vitale, transl. Tanya Huntington 181
- Interview with Sarah Waters 183
- Virginia Woolf...100 years on by Emma Woolf 189
Writing Workshops
- How to run one 200
Workshop sessions:
- Self-Assessment 201
- Becoming a Writer 202
- A Room of One's own 204
- Developing Complex Characters 205
- Clichés, Lies and Exaggerations 206
- Mothers/Fathers 208
- Fear of Failure 209
- Self-censorship 211
- Subverting Fairytales 212
- Conflict/Violence 214
- Voice 215
- The Personal and the Political 216
- Resolutions 217
Resource Directory Compiled by Saskia Calliste 219
Quiz 224

Notă biografică

A. S. Byatt is renowned internationally for her novels and short stories. Her novels include the Booker Prize-winning Possession, The Biographer's Tale and the quartet, The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman. Her most recent novel, The Children's Book was published in 2009.
Her highly acclaimed collections of short stories include Sugar and Other Stories, The Matisse Stories, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, Elementals and Little Black Book of Stories. A distinguished critic as well as a writer of fiction, A S Byatt was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999.