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A showcase of poetry from some of the darkest and most lyrical voices of women in horror. A follow-up to the award-winning poetry showcase Under Her Skin, UNDER HER EYE features the best in never-before-published dark verse and lyrical prose from the voices of Women in Horror, themed on domestic horror and the terror women too often experience in their own homes. Edited by Lindy Ryan and Lee Murray, UNDER HER EYE celebrates women in horror from cover...
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Forgotten Voices collects examples of the most beautiful and profound poetry from writers who were born, grew up, and lived in Jefferson County in the 19th and very early 20th centuries. Topics range from the pastoral picturesqueness of the area, to the wonders of nature, to the heartache of loss.
Readers will discover poems by John Kearsley Mitchell, Philip Pendleton Cooke, Daniel Bedinger Lucas, Virginia Bedinger Lucas, Danske Dandridge, and John...
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Create Together is an anthology of poetry, short prose and art created by women supported through Inspiring You CIC's 'Create Together' project. Made in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and in partnership with the National Lottery Community Fund, 'Create Together' is a place where beneficiaries could look after and support one another and create a community of their own. We offer to all those involved and beyond a glimpse into their journey.
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From the Ashes collects solo plays by Black Canadian women and womxn that together celebrate the hope, humour, and healing that can come after devastation and loss. From lighthearted comedies to heavy dramas, this anthology contains a multitude of stories on Blackness, love, motherhood, sexuality, trauma, racism, mythology, and more.
From the Ashes collects solo plays by Black Canadian women and womxn that together celebrate the hope, humour,...
5) Yet to Love
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To those, Who haven't received the loved yet.
To those, Who don't know love very well.
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Featuring autumnal poems and prose by emerging and established writers. Read about revealing a burning secret deep inside you, a ghost rising from the ashes, falling in love in the heat of the moment. Read about trauma, heartaches, and grief and letting it all burn into ashes. In this 180-page literary magazine, you'll find the words you, need to comfort and warm you, to spark a new flame in you, during this autumn season.
Burning Up
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The Heroines Anthology is an anthology of short fiction and poetry, written by women and about women. This third volume of the anthology combines writing on the ancient and the modern, and travels alongside some of the forgotten women of history, both real and imagined. With a focus on rewriting the heroines of legend, fairytale, and mythology in ways that are both resonant and startlingly new, The Heroines Anthology presents a challenging and soulful...
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Heroines is a wide-ranging and deeply moving anthology which combines the ancient and the modern, and travels alongside some of the forgotten women of history, both real and imagined. With a focus on rewriting the heroines of legend, fairytale, and mythology in ways that are both resonant and startlingly new, The Heroines Anthology presents a challenging and soulful collection of short fiction and poetry by women writers that interrogates the traditional...
9) Love Stories
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New work from Tommy Orange, Anne Carson, Louise Erdrich, and others propels this tribute to love from Freeman's, "a powerful force in the literary world" (Los Angeles Times).
In a time of contentiousness and flagrant abuse, it often feels as if our world is run on hate. Invective. Cruelty and sadism. But is it possible the greatest and most powerful force is love? In the newest issue of this acclaimed series, Freeman's: Love asks this question,...
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The most infamous doctor of the Gothic Era once again delves into the forbidden secrets of the world, when literature's most famous creature lives again…
Frankenstein... His very name conjures up images of plundered graves, secret laboratories, electrical experiments, and reviving the dead.
Within these pages, the maddest doctor of them all and his demented disciples once again delve into the Secrets of Life, as science fiction meets horror when...
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“Songs of the Heart” is the first in a series of poetry anthologies by Chartus.
X Publishing. It is a curated collection that captures the joys and lamentations dwelling within the poet's souls.
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Hannah Olesen
Nicolina Ashby
Patricia Mercado
Freya Thorne
Rachel C. Hyde
Ezgi Gurhan
Xyvah Okoye
Heroine East
Tal Rejw
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A haunting collection of classic short stories crafted by the visionary minds of thirteen pioneering women.
Each tale in this carefully curated volume unveils the deliciously dark imaginations of classic literature's most beloved female authors. From Louisa May Alcott to Edith Nesbit to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the gothic horror fiction of thirteen literary icons is featured in this macabre anthology. Unearth hidden horrors, psychological terrors,...
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Designed to amplify the authentic voices of emerging writers, Turquoise Dreams is a short story collection depicting life experiences through the eyes of women in modern day Southern Africa. With contributing writers from Matebeleland, Midlands, Masvingo, Mashonaland and Manicaland, the stories portray post-colonial struggles amidst societal degeneration within a declining economic environment in Zimbabwe and beyond its borders.
There are 29 short...
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We live in an Islamophobic world, where Muslim people are constantly under attack, and must prove their innocence when they've not even committed a crime. We also live in a world of rigid gender roles and gender violence, where women, gender non-conforming and trans people are victims of violence, and have their gender expressions, freedoms, and desires policed. There's pressure from both Muslims and non-Muslims to fit into severe stereotypes of Muslim...
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2013 may be the best year yet for Best European Fiction. The inimitable John Banville joins the list of distinguished preface writers for Aleksandar Hemon's series, and A. S. Byatt represents England among a luminous cast of European contributors. Fans of the series will find everything they've grown to love, while new readers will discover what they've been missing!
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Through poetry, essays, and a short story, the contributing writers of Illuminations share their struggles, fears, and doubts and relay their underlying faith and hope they have in their walk with God. Compiled by LaTonja Brown, this anthology contains works by members of the Pentecostal Covenant Church in Seattle, Washington, with the youngest writer being ten years old. The works tone, mood, and emotion move up and down between despair and hope,...
17) Plainsongs 41.1
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Plainsongs' title suggests not only its location on the Great Plains but also its preference for the living language, whether in free or formal verse. Published twice a year from our home base in Hastings, Nebraska, Plainsongs presents poems that seem to be aware of modernist and postmodernist influences, not necessarily by imitation or allusion, but by using the tools provided by that rich heritage. Featuring poetry that runs the gamut from traditional...
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These stories amount to something more than a celebration of the holidays dotting our calendars from month to month. Even though holidays can occasion a return to the familiar, these stories challenge traditional associations. Each story serves to complicate how we observe the human observation of holidays and offers a nuanced understanding of related themes such as family and motherhood, travel, grief and mourning processes, and memory. More generally,...
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This unique collection is prepared for the heroines of the future:
Novels:
Little Women
Anne of Green Gables Series
Rose in Bloom
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
Jane Eyre
Heidi
Emily of New Moon
Alice in Wonderland
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Secret Garden
A Little Princess
Peter and Wendy
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
The Princess and the Goblin
At the Back of the North Wind
A Girl of the Limberlost
Rebecca of Sunnybrook...
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The fourth volume of The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology includes selections from the books shortlisted for the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prizes, chosen by the jurors Billy Collins (U.S. Poet Laureate 2001-2003); Bill Manhire (New Zealand Poet Laureate); and Phyllis Webb (recipient of the Governor General's Award for poetry), who also provide an introduction to the book.
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