The first woman on the moon reached there in the 17th century – through a smash hit play

From Aphra Behn to Carol Ann Duffy, women have travelled to space, onboard imagination, for hundreds of years.

Sara Read and Catie Gill, The Conversation

· Jul 24, 2019 · 06:30 pm

Annie Ernaux: At 78, one of France’s great writers is finally wowing English language readers

Annie Ernaux’s ‘The Years’, translated into English by Alison Strayer, has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019.

Elise Hugueny-Léger, The Conversation

· Apr 12, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Imperfect and absurd, the modern literary heroine is a woman of our times

‘The 21st-century heroine may be scarred, imperfect or absurd. True love may be on the cards, but so might illicit sex.’

Sally O'Reilly, The Conversation

· Mar 22, 2019 · 08:30 am

Margaret Atwood’s ‘Alias Grace’ shows us how society used to view female criminals

Now on Netflix, the original novel mines the rich veins of a real-life incident of double murder.

Catherine Cox, The Conversation

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Hilary Marland, The Conversation

· Aug 07, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Welcome to the femoir: bestselling books that celebrate female success

These women writers already have hugely successful careers before they begin to write their femoirs.

Anne-Marie Evans, The Conversation

· May 28, 2018 · 05:30 pm

What women writers talk about when they talk to one another in the absence of men

The Women Writers’ Fest in Delhi saw fearless and candid expressions of desire, intent and a refusal to flinch under the male gaze.

Neha Bhatt

· Mar 24, 2018 · 08:30 am

Why the ‘Fifty Shades’ books have a lot in common with a story from Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’

EL James's BDSM fantasies and Chaucer's 14th-century story ‘Wife of Bath’s Tale’ raise the same age-old questions.

Marta Cobb, The Conversation

· Feb 09, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Why I write about the ‘minor’ women characters from the epics

Novelist Kavita Kané explains her interest in the Satyavatis and Urmilas over the Draupadis and Sitas.

Kavita Kané

· Dec 31, 2017 · 10:30 am

‘We have some killer voices. We have each other. All the right men are behind us’

An open statement of intent from the author of ‘Hedon’ (which could become the coming of age book of 21st-century India).

Priyanka Mookerjee

· Jun 20, 2016 · 08:30 am

How India’s women writers are storming the ‘male’ bastion of action thrillers

Conventional wisdom had it that only men could write adrenaline-pumping books.

Adite Banerjie

· Jun 04, 2016 · 08:30 am

Five graphic novels about girls who can play instead of being helpless heroines

Neither superheroes nor romantic interests, these girls are real, confused, and very much alive.

Sreejita Biswas

· Mar 14, 2016 · 08:30 am

India’s top English books publishers are women: do they do things differently from men?

Five women publishers explore how different their choices and methods are from men’s.

Scroll Staff

· Mar 09, 2015 · 07:45 am