Our books
Dear Damsels publishes empowering collections of fiction, non-fiction and poetry by women writers.
So Long As You Write: Women on Writing
Fifteen women writers explore what happens when we give ourselves the space to create, as a reminder that it doesn’t matter who is reading – so long as you write. Read More
Tools for Surviving a Storm: Eleven Tales of Nature, Love and Fear
A transporting, original collection by Nadia Henderson, examining the lines between nature and the human world. Read More
What She’s Having: Stories of Women and Food
Whole stories are made across a dinner table, and in What She's Having, sixteen writers explore the complex and meaningful relationships that women have with the food we cook, eat and share. Read More
Let Me Know When You’re Home: Stories of Female Friendship
In Let Me Know When You’re Home, fifteen women writers look at female friendship in all its forms, in a collection of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Read More
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The Myth of Change
By Emily Schmidt
Emily Schmidt writes a love letter to New York City, her reflection, and the people each of us have yet to be. Read More
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Little Red
By Rebecca Lambert
Rebecca Lambert's 'Little Red' is her re-telling of a popular fairy-tale. For the little girl in her story, the threat has moved from outside to inside the home, and the ‘wolfish’ characteristics that were made palatable in a fairy-tale context become humanised in a frighteningly plausible scenario. Read More
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Look Away, Look Away
By Ann Howells
Ann Howells' moving poem explores the inherited climate crisis and it's effects on our future. Read More
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