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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
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
What do you do if someone inappropriately touches you in public, on your way to work? How do you speak up when a thousand other social rules are at play? Janelle Hardacre's short fiction asks just that. Read More
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The new DD Annual is now available to buy – featuring some of our favourite pieces from throughout the year, accompanied by beautiful photography. Read More
6 years ago
Dear Damsels, The theme for February is SECRETS. Tightly held, softly whispered, the promise-not-to-tells that tie one person to another. We’re entrusted with it. We swear… Read More
6 years ago
What does it mean to be powerful as a woman? Lou Ramsay discusses the emotional and the acceptable in a brilliant essay to open 2018 on DD. Read More
6 years ago
Dear Damsels, Your theme for December is TRACE. It’s what we leave behind. Imprints and impressions on people, places and objects, declaring that yes, I have… Read More
6 years ago
Jessica Patient is searching for a signal in her poem on connection in the digital age. Read More
6 years ago
Let the intimate and strange nature of Jess Glaisher's atmospheric short story envelope you. Read More
6 years ago
Tension slowly builds as the snow softly falls on a beautiful, eerie landscape in this wintery tale by Kate Todd, featuring a close encounter. Read More
6 years ago
Words are empowering – not only for the women who write them, but those who read them too.
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