Recent Publications
Dear Damsels publishes empowering collections of fiction, non-fiction and poetry by women writers.
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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Recent Posts
Our next theme: INHERITANCE
What are the things that have been given to you? Our first theme of 2022 will be INHERITANCE. Submissions close Friday 21st January. Read More
5 days ago
Ep 13: Nature Writing Special
To celebrate publication of Tools for Surviving a Storm, we discuss nature, writing and women, and chat with author of the collection Nadia Henderson. Read More
2 weeks ago
Fear and Change: Writing About the Human and Natural Worlds
By Nadia Henderson
Nadia Henderson didn’t set out to write about climate change with Tools for Surviving a Storm, but a collection about nature would feel incomplete without it. Read More
3 weeks ago
One Breath
By Jess Costello
Explore the grounding power of breath and the many tiny miracles that exist in existing. Read More
4 weeks ago