#womenWriters
12/29/1871 — b. Ellen Hørup, Danish journalist. Early female international foreign policy journalist; main focus peace work. Wrote/spoke Danish, English, Italian, German, Russian and French well; 600+ feature articles and editorials, 300+ articles #womenshistory #womenwriters #PolSky #BookSky #BOTD
December 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
#booksky for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #nonfiction #booklovers 📚💙

A Preview of 2026 books coming out from Virago, the feminist publisher.

www.virago.co.uk/virago-news/...
January 1, 2026 at 11:44 AM
On my mind…
how women perform for the spotlight at any cost.

Grieving Widow Glitter Gold

#MischiefAndRigor
#Poetry #WomenWriters #PoetryAsCritique #PoetSky #Poem
January 1, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Happy New Year! Happy Year Seventeen!!!

Come join us for our 17th year of championing women-identified authors!!!

Use code: ED8FC for 20% off your first year or month of support on Patreon
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#ShortStories #WomenWriters #Fantasy #SciFi #Reading
January 2, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Happy New Year! Happy Year Seventeen!!!

Come join us for our 17th year of championing women-identified authors!!!

Use code: ED8FC for 20% off your first year or month of support on Patreon
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#ShortStories #WomenWriters #Fantasy #SciFi #Reading
January 1, 2026 at 7:00 PM
A brilliant thread on just a handful of Scottish #WomenWriters
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To celebrate the new year A THREAD of successful female Scottish writers. Here's too us. Let's start here 👇 Hugely popular Mary Brunton's second novel, Self Discipline inspired Jane Austen's Emma. She sold TONS of books. I 💕 her /1
December 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"Interior" by Dorothy Parker, from "Dorothy Parker," The Viking Portable Library. The Viking Press, New York, 1945.

#dorothyparker #interior #poetry #poems #poets #womenwriters #desire #intimacy #fear #brokenheart #booksky
December 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
12/27/1821 — b. Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde (Lady Wilde), Irish poet, author, scholar, revolutionary, feminist. Pseudonym “Speranza”; penned anti-British writings + poetry focusing on pro-Irish independence. The mother of poet,playwright Oscar Wilde #womenshistory #womenwriters #BookSky #poetry #BOTD
December 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Come to Switzerland for Christmas!
Sunshine, fresh air, lovely scenery…
What could possibly go wrong???
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘Armchair travel at its best!’
#booksky #travel #Christmas #holidays #Switzerland #womenwriters
December 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM
My goal is to write at least one page each on one of the two articles I'm working on due in February. What's yours?
#terribaileywrites #terribaileychats #blaac2basics #accountability
#writingwithpurpose
#writingcommunity
#womenwriters
#blackwomenwriters
#creativepractice
#writinggoals
#storywork
December 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
12/22/1839 — b. Josephine Brawley Hughes, American pioneer, Western writer, social activist, temperance leader. The “Mother of Methodism”; #womensrights advocate in the U.S. West; co-founder, Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the wmn’s suffrage mvmnt in Arizona #womenshistory #womenwriters #OTD
December 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
December 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
12/18/1862 — b. Elisabeth Ekman, Swedish botanist, author. Author of plant names; a noted researcher of spermatophytes with a focus on the study of the genus Draba #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #womenwriters #PlantSky #SciSky #HistSci #BioSky #BOTD
December 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Anyone for a real Swiss Christmas?
Come and see how the festive season works when you don't have Santa...
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “the magical backdrop of Switzerland at Christmas”
#Christmas #traditions #booksky #travel #romance #bookstoread #womenwriters
December 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
#JohnFayram (active 1727-1743)
Portrait of #ElizabethCarter (1717-1806), who was #BornOnThisDay, as Minerva
ca 1735-41
National Portrait Gallery
#Eliza #Carter #WomenWriters
December 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Think your family has problems? Meet the Martins.
Ordinary people, living ordinary lives. They could be YOUR family...
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "brimming with family secrets"
#booksky #suspense #family #womenwriters #readingcommunity
December 16, 2025 at 7:42 AM
12/14/1916 — b. Shirley Jackson, American author. Novelist, short-story writer; one of the most important and influential authors of the 20th c. Known for “The Lottery” (1948) + “Haunting of Hill House” (1959), made into the HLWD movie “The Haunting” (‘63) #womenshistory #womenwriters #BookSky #BOTD
December 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
#booksky highly recommended for #womenwriters #literaryfiction #booklovers 📚💙

Obituary: Joanna Trollope, bestselling chronicler of ordinary life, dies aged 82.
Her novels drew on what bestselling novelist Fay Weldon called a ‘gift for putting her finger on the problem of the times.’

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Joanna Trollope, bestselling chronicler of ordinary life, dies aged 82
Her novels, including A Village Affair and Other People’s Children, drew on what Fay Weldon called a ‘gift for putting her finger on the problem of the times’
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Yay! BABY$ITTING MONEY is a Semifinalist! 🎉🎉🎉

Thank you @networkisa.bsky.social and @scriptpipeline.bsky.social !!! 🙏🏼

#scriptsky
#womenwriters
#dramedyrules
December 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
You’re welcome @heavenalibooks.bsky.social - Stories for Lovers publishes Jan 13th! #WomenWriters #MargaretAtwood #DorothyPatker #VirginiaWoolf
Ooh, a lovely early Christmas present this morning. Thank you @britishlibrary.bsky.social @gpwigglesworth.bsky.social these look delightful. 😍📚💙
December 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
#booksky for #SophieKinsella #womenwriters #ComicFiction #RomComs #booklovers
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Washington Post obituary: Sophie Kinsella, bestselling novelist.

wapo.st/4pTKvsS
Sophie Kinsella, author of the millions-selling ‘Shopaholic’ novels, dies at 55
Writer Sophie Kinsella, known for her rom-com “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” has died at 55
wapo.st
December 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Abusive men learn they may abuse women, and mediocre men learn that their bullying and selfishness are just normal male behaviors.

There’s no incentive to change — why change if you’re taught that you’re perfect and women are the problem?

#feminism #womenwriters
medium.com/fourth-wave/...
Healing the Pathology of a Nation
Why Zohran Mamdani’s election represents hope for women
medium.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM