Writers’ Recollections at The Women’s Press
This page is very much a work in progress. Please see our contact page if you have your own invaluable memories, experiences, thoughts to add. Also, please see our separate page, Readers’ Recollections at The Women’s Press
“I am grateful to The Women’s Press for all their support of my work”
Michele Roberts (1998)
“The earliest days of The Women’s Press were also the earliest days of my writing life when The Women’s Press published my first novel Gaining Ground. It became my first publisher outside Canada and opened, literally, much of the world to my work. The Women’s Press has unfailingly been clear, professional, attentive, loyal and – not least by any means, immensely heartening.”
Joan Barfoot (1998)
The Women’s Press did a brilliant job of publishing Pornography: Men Possessing Women in 1981. The goodwill and face and hard work at the women’s press brought many readers to my work and also gave me a feeling of community and shared goals with other feminist writers.
Andrea Dworkin (1998)
“The Women’s Press published my first novel Boy Blue in 1987 and since then five further novels. I was impressed from the first with the friendship and solidarity the Press offered its authors, a feeling that has strengthened over the years. …I congratulate and thank The Women’s Press for all that it has given to modern literature.”
– Stevie Davies (1998)
“Many thanks as ever [to Stephanie Dowrick] for starting me on the way of words.”
Dr Lucy Goodison (1996)
We are currently preparing dedicated pages for some authors, and (separately) for some categories among the broad range of publishing. Again, your contributions, words and/or images, are very welcome.