The final letter

By Team DD

Ten years ago, we started up a platform to provide a space for women to share their writing. Today, we’re announcing our Dear Damsels chapter has come to an end. Read More

Meet Ash and Han – extract from All The Women She Knows

Read an extract from Ash and Han, a story included in All The Women She Knows by Tutku Barbaros. Read More

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

‘Foxglove’ by Nadia Henderson: from Tools for Surviving a Storm: Eleven Tales of Nature, Love and Fear

By Nadia Henderson

Read Foxglove from Nadia Henderson's collection Tools for Surviving the Storm. This incisive short story explores how mother's debilitating fear turns to obsession. Read More

Little Joys

By Ella Leith

Ella Leith's poem 'Little Joys' expresses pleasure at the little things in life that can make a difference. Read More

casual

By Georgina Jeronymides-Norie

'casual' is written using haiku stanzas, aside from the final 2 stanzas to explore the pleasure and sadness of a sexual relationship that will never be anything more. Read More

How Can I Help?

By Dushi Rasiah

Dushi Rasiah's short story follows a supermarket checkout worker through her shift, as she finds small (and sometimes vindictive) pleasures in customer interactions and solitary moments. Read More

Eternal Optimist

By Dilly Attygalle

Eternal Optimist is about finding joy in the outside world again after a period of being secluded written post pandemic. Read More

Instructions for Breathing

By Bonnie Radcliffe

Bonnie Radcliffe's poem focuses on the physical sensations and psychological release to be found in cold water. Read More

Aprikosen, Marillen – from What She’s Having: Stories of Women and Food

By Maria Ilona Moore

Maria Ilona Moore's non-fiction piece Aprikosen, Marillen, where she explores her family's history, nostalgia and duality of homemade apricot jam. Read More