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

WISDOM prompts: lessons, advice and heroes

We're thrilled to share the winner of the DD WISDOM prompts competition, Emma Boyns. Read More

Writing Tips from So Long As You Write

Did you make a resolution to write more this year? So Long As You Write, edited by Kerry Ryan, is brimming with inspiration and tips on putting pen to paper.  We share some of her advice. Read More

Introducing Tutku Barbaros – author of DD’s next collection

Meet Tutku, whose triumphant story collection we’ll be publishing next summer as DD’s second one-author book, with support using public funding from Arts Council England.  Read More

DD Book Bundle Prompt Challenge

To celebrate our new DD book bundle, we put together some writing prompts themed to tie in with our books, and asked our wonderful community to respond to them. One lucky writer wins a DD Book Bundle! Read More

Meet our books

With four collections of fiction, non-fiction and poetry out in the world, we wanted to take a moment to reintroduce you to this empowering gang – through a bit of speed dating. Read More

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

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

Damsel in Distress: I don’t know how to create a story

By Kerry Ryan

'There are no original stories and only a finite number of plots.' In her final column, our creative writing agony aunt Kerry Ryan gives advice for when you can't seem to find a storyline. Read More