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Dear Damsels is Changing
Dear Damsels, Today, we’re announcing a transition for DD. We’ve been running this platform for nearly a decade (if you can believe it!) and in… Read More
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Heading Home
Sometimes we need to return to where we started in order to get some perspective. Jo Fisher's poetry is on the pleasure of going back home. Read More
6 years ago
International Women’s Day | Events
Prepare your calendars for IWD 2018 with DD top picks of the many, many events happening on 8th March. Read More
6 years ago
Having Eggs with You (after O’Hara)
Bridie Wilkinson's poem portrays the love shown through the simple act of making someone breakfast. Read More
6 years ago
Seeping In
In Kate Oliver's creative non-fiction, a dip into cold waters leads to awakening. Read More
6 years ago
The April Letter
Dear Damsels, Far off, remote and out of sight – the theme for April is DISTANCE. It’s between people, between places. Compass points and miles on… Read More
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Hedgerows and Stones
A young woman finds something she shouldn't in her garden – but will she keep it, or let it go? Flutter with Lucy Powell's fiction. Read More
6 years ago
Eve, Summer ’79
Alizée Chesnoy's tender short story is a portrait of a family – of estranged mothers and filling in the gaps. Read More
6 years ago
Dead Ends (Part 2)
In the second and final part of Sara Nisha Adams' short story, tensions rise to the surface and the journey comes to an end. Read More
6 years ago
Dead Ends (Part 1)
In Part 1 of Sara Nisha Adams' short story, two friends-of-friends set off on a journey that neither want to be on. Read More
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