The Heroines Anthology reimagines women in myth, fairy tale, folklore or legend, and tell women's lost histories, or untold stories.
The Heroines Anthology is written about women, by women.
Volume 5 of Heroines Anthology is a GLOBAL POETRY EDITION.
Zinaida Jevgenjevna Serebrjakova - At the Dressing Table, self portrait. 1909.
VOLUME 5 SHORTLIST
Kell Woods Said The Woman
Jennifer Harrison Her Own Dragon
Kathryn Reese A Note for My Daughter As She Prepares to Leave
Kathryn Reese Ninshubur
Heather Blakey Dead and living and in between girls
Melanie Ehler Collopy Eve’s Womb
Alisha Brown A Thousand Bells
Suzi Mezei Little Medusa
Nicole Rain Sellers She who unbraids time
Rebekah Sachno Sometimes, the Dryad prefers
Kimi Sugioka Ceremony
Niamh Hollis-Locke Fairytale No. 1
Wes Lee Prism
Natalie Thomas Dusk-walking ancient paths in the autumn of ’22
Andrea Ciocoi Devana
Melissa Coffey Bloody Wedlock
Melissa Coffey GirlHood
Michelle Richards Even Jane Eyre Went Feral
Frances Olivia What Perspehone Knew
Vicky Morris Cord
Eleanore Arnold-Moore I, Mnemosyne
Apeksha Harsh Many a Manasa
Claire Hampson Stolen Skin
Aoife Mannix The Queen
Elena Traina Giubiana
Bruna Gushurst-Moore I, Margaret
Lemma Dore Girl Gang
Denise O’Hagan The hemline of lost memories
Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya Havvah
Rebecca Douglas Bedhead
Samantha Bews portrait of an artist as a 21st Century woman
Felicia McCarthy The Gypsy Shaman’s Daughter
Brittany Riley Gaea (She)
Judith Rawnsley Hunger
Sarah Drury Pandora at the Bus Stop
Elia Elton Mary Magdalene
Rosie Copeland Athena in space
Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya Ophelia
Menna Siwan Williams Branwen & The Bird
Jaya Penelope west o’the moon
Jaya Penelope The Yaga Posts an Insta Story
Indrani Perera pathikah
Jay Wilson No Sense of Life’s End
JV Birch what midnight said
Lakshmi Kanchi Mirch
VOLUME 5 LONGLIST
· Tracee Findlater Eyelets & Berlinerin Passages
· Kimberley Williams Pamelia Fergus & Miss Isabella
· Vinita Agrawal Yashodhara
· Carmina Masoliver Self-portrait as a mermaid
· Anna Blasiak Embroidery Haft
· Andrea Ciocoi Devana
· Laura Potts The Never-Mother
· Jennifer Daniels The Morrigan
· Kristina Diprose Pomegranate
· Victoria Moul Seta and Sporophyte
· Melissa Coffey Bloody Wedlock & GirlHood
· Michelle Richards Even Jane Eyre Went Feral
· Elia Elton Aphrodite Aretalogy & Mary Magdalene
· Irina Frolova The Firebird’s Feather & Polunochnitsa
· Kell Woods Said The Woman
· Angela King God of Quietness
· Laura Seymour Sharps
· Rita Tognini Learning The Language
· Jay Wilson Noah’s Daughter & No Sense
· Stephanie Feeney Richilde
· Sarwa Azeez Mythos
· Jennifer Harrison Door and Here Own Dragon
· Bex Hainsworth Mother Shipton, Bridget & Anne Neville
· Frances Olivia What Perspehone Knew
· Kathryn Reese A Note for My Daughter & Ninshubur
· Alyssa Curtayne Je sui prête
· Melanie Ehler Collopy Eve’s Womb
· Angel Cassidy Night Shift
· Menna Siwan Williams. Branwen & The Bird
· Heather Blakey Dead and living & in between girls
· Alisha Brown A Thousand Bells
· Kelly Paul The Min Min Lights
· Suzi Mezei Little Medusa
· Josie Kirkwood Will you come back to me
· Vicky Morris Cord
· Nicole Rain Sellers She who unbraids time
· Jane Kingsford Philomela
· Marian Griffin Mrs Noah’s Rainbow
· Indrani Perera pathikah
· Ellen Kazimer The Ballad of Nellie Byrnes
· Sujatha Menon The Water Whisperer; Matrihelical ; Snow White & the Seven Devis
· Rebekah Sachno Sometimes, the Dryad prefers
· Eleanore Arnold-Moore. I, Mnemosyne
· Madi Wheeler Mother Medea
· Jaya Penelope west o’the moon; unbecoming & The Yaga Posts
· Natalie Thomas Dusk-walking
· Hazel Hall At the casement
· JV Birch Siren & what midnight said
· Rosie Copeland Athena in space
· Sarah Meehan Women’s Work; Housekeeping & Roots
· Apeksha Harsh Many a Manasa
· Iona Grant Gaia
· Elena Traina Giubiana
· Beverley Casebow Six Brothers
· Kimi Sugioka Ceremony
· Lauren Emmy Bowman. Virago
· Jill Taylor Neal The Siren
· Sarah Moore Fitzgerald. For Eileen Gray
· Niamh Hollis-Locke Fairytale No. 1
· Claire Hampson Stolen Skin
· Aoife Mannix The Queen
· Julie Farrell Without Embarrassment & Alice B. Toklas
· Sarah Ziman Daphne
· Kate O’Neil Persephone’s Wedding Diary
· Alice Eaves Dragon Child
· Yve Gray Phyllus Latour Doyle
· Bruna Gushurst-Moore. I, Margaret & Not Angry Like Medusa
· Lakshmi Kanchi Mirch
· Wes Lee Prism
· Jude Aquilina Grandmother I Never Met & Isabel Allende
· Lemma Dore Girl Gang
· Catherine Pegg Slow Curing
· Jessica Sheather-Neumann. Wishes for a Wild Girl
· Denise O’Hagan The hemline of lost memories
· Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya. Havvah & The last Alexandrian mathematician
· Rebecca Douglas Bedhead
· Samantha Bews portrait of an artist
· Maia Loeffler Arterial Sleep & My Mother, The Moon
· Jena Woodhouse Cassandra contemplates Mycenae
· Linda Neal Reising Persephone’s Seduction
· Felicia McCarthy The Gypsy Shaman’s Daughter & Pomegranate – A revision
· Brittany Riley Gaea (She)
· Judith Rawnsley Hunger
· Kerry Ryan Thetis Speaks to Her Sisters
· Sarah Drury Pandora at the Bus Stop
Dates & Process:
Shortlist will be announced by 30 May 2023.
All shortlisted works will be published in Heroines Anthology Volume 5.
Writing Prize announcement & launch schedule will be announced with short-list.
Heroines Anthology Volume 5 editor is Dr. Sarah Nicholson
Volume 6 is now open for submission
If you have questions, contact : heroinesfest@gmail.com