@karisperring.bsky.social #WomenToRead Dorothy Rowe, Rosalind Miles, Mary Beard.

Women writers have been leading literary movements in sff since the beginning. Christine de Pisan. Marie de France. Mary Shelley. Leigh Bracket. Miyuki Miyabe. Pat Cadigan. Hope Mirlees. Sylvia Townsend Warner. Anna Cavan. Patricia Geary. C. J. Cherryh. Naomi Mitchison. Tanith Lee. #womentoread

If you want to read Tanith Lee’s work: and you should, she was a groundbreaking author, her first 26 books are available in as ebooks from @dawbooks.bsky.social
#TanithLee #Womentoread

Happy to add some more excellent SFF #womentoread :
@kvjohansen.bsky.social ; @tfrohock.com ; @susiewilliamson.bsky.social !

Here are some more #womentoread whose work I didn’t know when I last did this.
@jolantru.bsky.social Joyce Chng; Gaie Sebold; Kaliane Bradley; @gillianpolack.bsky.social; Lexi Ryan; June C. L. Tan; Sophie Kim; Julie Kagawa; Jade Linwood; @rflong.bsky.social; Laure Eve.
Tell me yours.

Talking about women writers — and Tanith Lee in particular, here is my old blogpost on the #womentoread hashtag which I started on Twitter. The original tweets are long gone, but this is the list.

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