Female Authors – Page 12 – The Short Story Project

A curated collection of short stories from female authors. Defining titles from women pioneers such as Brontë, Woolf, Chopin alongside canons like Lessing, Le Guin, Tokarczuk and young voices of emerging writers, all charting the female experience in all its complexity.

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El Salvador

Claudia Hernández

Invitation

absurd - childhood - female authors - Freudian - surreal

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Virginia Woolf

The Mark on the Wall

classics - contemplative - female authors - philosophy

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USA

Tillie Olsen

I Stand Here Ironing

female authors - memories - mother and daughter - motherhood

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Angela Carter

The Lady of the House of Love

atmospheric - fairy-tale - Gothic - macabre - secret

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France

Irène Némirovsky

Sunday

atmospheric - female authors - love - melancholy

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Jane Rogers

Red Enters the Eye

political - realism - violence - women oppression

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Israel

Sharon Horodi

Thorns

Arab-Israeli - family - lovers - political - tragic love

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Israel

Alma Ganihar

The Enemy of the Love Story

Freudian - introspective - love - psychological - writing

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Spain

Sara Mesa

Just a Few Millimeters

coming of age - school days

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Israel

Dorit Peleg

Dune

atmospheric - femme fatale - journey - obsession - orient

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USA

Jennifer Egan

Emerald City

American culture - American literature - female authors - urban

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Agatha Christie

Philomel Cottage

classics - detective - murder - mystery - suspense

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