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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
Ann Howells edited Illya’s Honey for eighteen years. She has been named a Distinguished Poet of Dallas. Recent books: So Long As We Speak Their Names (Kelsay Books, 2019) and Painting the Pinwheel Sky (Assure Press, 2020). Chapbooks Black Crow in Flight and Softly Beating Wings were published through contests. Read More
Ellen Perry is a writer and editor based in south-west England. Her writing has appeared in Creative Countryside magazine, and she blogs at thesespindriftpages.co.uk… Read More
Alexandra Burton currently lives in Leeds, where she works for the NHS. She writes a range of creative non-fiction, short stories and poetry, with a short story featuring in Dear Damsels’ collection on female friendship, Let Me Know When You’re Home. She’s also a big fan of a lengthy Instagram caption. Read More
Zena grew up in Southend-on-Sea and relocated to Scotland in 2018 where she now lives with her partner, and their pug, Snape. Zena’s work draws on her own experiences of loss; that of her father and stepmother who both passed away in their 40s. Zena has had her poetry published… Read More
Gerry Stewart is a poet, creative writing tutor and editor based in Finland. Her poetry collection Post-Holiday Blues was published by Flambard Press, UK. Totems is to be published by Hedgehog Poetry Press in 2022. Read More
Rebecca has a 9-5 desk job but often wishes that she were a full time writer with a shed at the bottom of her (imagined) garden where she could write all day. She is a born, raised and currently-residing north Londoner, who remains fiercely loyal to that side of the… Read More
Rebecca Cooney is a journalist and performance poet living in south east London. She has performed at open mic nights and slams across London, and was longlisted for the Outspoken Poetry Prize 2020. She is also the producer and co-host of the Dead Darlings podcast, a monthly podcast dedicated to… Read More
Farzana lives in Leeds with husband and two daughters. She is currently studying an MA in Creative Writing and Critical Life and spends her time between her laptop and her knitting needles. She recently bought a cat thinking it was correct writerly behaviour. Read More
Alice Whiting has three poems in the forthcoming Sunday Mornings At The River Anthology. Her poetry appears in the latest issue of Soft Quarterly Magazine and has been previously published by Versification Zine, The New River Press, Dear Damsels and She is Fierce Magazine. She lives in Berlin where she… Read More
Jemma Marie is a Bristol-born writer, happily settled in Cardiff. She likes quintessential writerly things, such as cats and curling up with a good book, and has been published in Shorts Magazine, Ellipsis Zine and Roath Writers Anthology. She has been working on her first novel for the past few… Read More
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