Female Authors - A Collection Of Short Stories

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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Naomi Nightingale

Nocturnal Yearnings

dark - existentialism - family - female authors

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USA

Julia May Jonas

Are You Enjoying Your Forgiveness?

coming of age - generation gap

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Spain

Almudena Sánchez

Eclipse

aging - traveling

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Israel

Lea Goldberg

A Duty Call

holocaust - love - tragedy

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Spain

Almudena Sánchez

Señora Smaig

animals - mind-body

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USA

Kirie Pedersen

Summer of Fun

addiction - coming of age - friendship

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Israel

Zohar Elmakias

Perpetuum Mobile

contemporary - female authors - loneliness - mystery - psychological - relationships

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USA

Mariam Rahmani

The Translator I Never Wanted to Be

female authors - realism - relationships

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Japan

Sayaka Murata

A Clean Marriage

family - female authors - love - marriage - relationships - writing

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Spain

Andrea Abreu

Dogs of Summer

female authors - philosophy - realism - unrequited love - writing

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Tove Ditlevsen

Two Women

female authors - loneliness - realism - writing

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USA

KILEY REID

She’s not quite woman’s best friend

American culture - family - female authors - journey - realism

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