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 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 & Red in the Wood
· 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