Image of clouds and branching lightning with a shadow image of a clock face reading 10:10. Text: Sally Port Magazine April 2026 / Issue 06 Three-Second Rewind by MM Schreier Only three seconds...

Have you ever wondered what could you do if you were able to reverse three seconds at a time and do them over?

Find out in my newest story "Three-Second Rewind" in Sally Port Magazine's April Issue!

#amwriting #magicalrealism #shortstories #readmorewomen

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Toni Morrison in the 1980s. She is a black woman with greying locs that have been tied back.

#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1988, Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.

#ReadMoreWomen #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

✨🌸✨Happy International Women’s Day! ✨🌸✨

Here’s a spread of phenomenal forthcoming books by Canadian and Indigenous women authors. Why not add a few to your TBR?

#iwd2026 #internationalwomensday #readmorewomen #bookstagram #feministliterature

#WomensHistoryMonth

Listen to @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social on Madang Podcast and read her numerous important books.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk1T...

#amreading #kateatkinson #bigsky #novel #readmorewomen #jacksonbrodie "And he hardly needed reminding of his mortality, he saw it in his own boy growing older every day."

3rd #sentenceoftheday #amreading #mrspalfreyattheclaremont #booksky: ". . . it was the stale time of the year, between Christmas and spring, and nothing new about it that he could ever find: it was an end, not a beginning."
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English writer Virginia Woolf was born #OnThisDay in 1882. For Christmas 1933, society hostess Ottoline Morrell gifted her friend Woolf an embroidered black silk shawl, now believed to be the only surviving piece of Woolf's clothing. Monks House collection. #readmorewomen #fashionhistory

cover of the book with the name 'Victoria Lucas' at the top. It's illustrated with a silhouette of a woman in a chair, within a bell jar.

#OnThisDay, 14 Jan 1963, Sylvia Plath's only novel, 'The Bell Jar' is published in the UK under the name Victoria Lucas. It’s republished in her own name in 1967.

#LiteraryWomen #ReadMoreWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

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painting of Mary Shelley by Rothwell. It shows a white woman with sloping shoulders, dark hair and gold glasses.

Frontispiece of Frankenstein’s first edition without any author’s name on it.

It's ALIVE!

#OnThisDay, 1 Jan 1818, Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' was published anonymously. Her gothic novel was also one of the first science-fiction novels.

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#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

Toni Morrison in profile. She is a Black woman with greying locs.

"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."

#ReadMoreWomen #NobelWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #WomensHistory 🗃️

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Simone de Beauvoir sat in a cafe, working. She is a white woman with dark hair.

“To make something good of the future, you have to look the present in the face.”

#OnThisDay, 6 Dec 1954, Simone de Beauvoir wins the Prix Goncourt with her novel ‘The Mandarins’.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #ReadMoreWomen #FrenchHistory 🗃️
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I am loving Belinda Bauer's The Impossible Thing. It's the one thing that can stop me from doom-scrolling, every day. #amreading #readmorewomen #womenwriters #amreadingmystery #bookrecommendation #booksky

English novelist, poet and journalist, Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was born #OnThisDay in 1819. This black lace shawl or mantilla was owned and worn by George Eliot in the 1850s. It is part of the Exploring Eliot collection. #fashionhistory #readmorewomen

Margaret Atwood holding a copy of The Blind Assassin after winning the Booker in 2000.

Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo congratulate each other on jointly winning the prize in 2019. Atwood is a white woman with white hair, and Evaristo is a Black woman with natural hair.

#OnThisDay, 7 Nov 2000, Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood wins the Booker Prize for fiction for the first time, having previously been nominated 3 times (including for the Handmaid's Tale in 1986).

She wins again in 2019, jointly sharing the prize with Bernardine Evaristo.

#ReadMoreWomen

photo of Hilary Mantel holding a copy of Bring Up the Bodies after winning the prize. She is a white woman with light hair.

#OnThisDay, 16 Oct 2012, Hilary Mantel becomes the first person to win the Booker prize twice when 'Bring Up the Bodies' wins.

#ReadMoreWomen #LiteraryWomen

Image: a background of fall leaves. Text: September Submissions: 14 new (108 YTD) 18 rejections (15 form, 3 personal) 2 acceptances (yay!) 25 pending Contests: Twisted Teams - 3rd, NYCm Flash R2 - @nd Drafting: 3 new stories (50 YTD) 2,380 new words (54,649 YTD) Interview: Writers Workout Next to an image of the book cover of Bruised, Resilient by MM Schreier: ...and of course a book birthday - Bruised, Resilient turned 1 yr old!

September was busy, though I didn't get much new writing done.

#accountability #amwriting #submissions #shortfiction #writingcontests #readmorewomen

Image: A person in grey sweat suit holding an ereader showing the cover of "Bruised, Resilient" by MM Schreier. Cover is a purple hued landscape - lake and mountains, with lightening in the background. The silhouette stands with her head skyward and her arms thrown backward. Text: FREE EBOOK! On 9/27, get a free ebook at Smashwords using the code: 8WQQ9 *limited to the first 50 orders. At the bottom is the Smashwords logo: A drawing of a blue book held in a hand and the words: Smashwords your ebook, your way

Bruised, Resilient is turning one year old!

For tomorrow only, you can get a FREE ebook at Smashwords as my book birthday gift to you! (Use the coupon code at checkout.)

Happy reading!

#shortstories #feministfiction #amwriting #litfic #speculative #collections #readmorewomen #freebooks

What Lies Beneath: Marianne Villanueva’s Residents of the Deep — Unsolicited Press Some stories demand to be read not for comfort, but for confrontation—for the way they ask us to look closer at the edges of human experience. Marianne Villanueva’s Residents of the Deep (out August...

My latest collection, Residents of the Deep (Unsolicited Press), launched this week! www.unsolicitedpress.com/news/what-li... #readmorewomen #womenwriters #shortstorycollections #justpublished #speculativefiction

Add something new to your reading list this Women in Translation Month.

#WomenInTranslation #TranslatedBooks #ReadMoreWomen #WorldLiterature

'Convenience Store Woman' was dark and sharp but now I'm in need of something a bit historical and maybe a bit less bleak so I am going to read Euripides' 'Medea' 🤣🤣🤣 #books #drama #readmorewomen #womenintranslation

Novelist Dame Barbara Cartland was born #OnThisDay in 1901. The ‘Crusader in pink’ owned this fabulous 1980s Norman Hartnell pleated pink chiffon ballgown with a train and diamante and crystal embellishment on the bodice. Sold by Sothebys. #readmorewomen #thinkpink #fashionhistory

Madeline Miller at the award ceremony, holding up a copy of her book. She is a white woman with dark hair.

#OnThisDay, 30 May 2012, Madeline Miller wins the Orange Prize (now the Baileys Prize) with her debut novel The Song of Achilles. It is a retelling of the Iliad from the perspective of Patroclus.

#ReadMoreWomen #LiteraryWomen #ClassicsRetold

Dame Daphne du Maurier was born #OnThis Day in 1907. Her novel Frenchman's Creek was adapted for the screen in 1944, in which Joan Fontaine wore this Raoul Pene Du Bois designed black velvet and gold lamé gown as Dona St. Columb. Sold by Heritage Auctions. #readmorewomen #film #costume

I will vanish in the morning light; I was only an invention of darkness.

- Angela Carter, The Lady of the House of Love
born on this day, 1940

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#AngelaCarter
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I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

- Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
Born on this day, 1896

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photo of Edna Ferber looking over a balcony. She is a white woman in a cloche hat with a grim fur on her shoulders.

#OnThisDay, 27 April 1925, Edna Ferber wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel 'So Big'.

She donates the prize money to the Authors League to support sick and elderly authors.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #ReadMoreWomen #AmericanHistory 🗃️

Miałam w Afryce farmę u stóp gór Ngong.

17.04.1885 ur. się Karen Blixen, duńska pisarka i malarka, choć jej obrazy i szkice pozostają w cieniu pisarskiego dorobku: Pożegnanie z Afryką, Siedem niesamowitych opowieści, Uczta Babette in.
#BornOnThisDay #KarenBlixen
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It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.

- Muriel Spark (d. 13.04.2006)
Memento Mori

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Do you believe, she went on, that the past dies?

Yes, said Margaret. Yes, if the present cuts its throat.

- Leonora Carrington
The Seventh Horse and Other Tales
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible…We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

- Maya Angelou
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