Women's Writing Archives - Katherine Dolan Writes

Talia Marshall on Whaea Blue

Fiction February 28, 2026

Talia Marshall's debut book Whaea Blue (2024) is a force of nature. Abandoning neutral expressions of praise, New Zealand's reviewers have spoken of it...

Writing a Life: Kay McKenzie Cooke’s Living Example

Interviews August 3, 2025

Kay McKenzie Cooke is a good friend and someone who I think of as embodying the writing life because she is constantly and carefully...

Touching Time With Anastasia Ames

Original Fiction July 4, 2025

This week, continuing my series of conversations on writers talking about their writing (see the previous conversation here), Anastasia Ames discusses her debut novel...

The Tear Bottle by Annemarie Jutel

Fiction Writing May 26, 2025

This post is the very first in a series of interviews I'm planning with talented storytellers about the creative process and also about how...

Ten Saudi Women Writers

Middle East June 5, 2023

This week, to celebrate the release of an audiobook version of Girls of the Empty Quarter (also published as Teacher, We Girls!), my memoir...

10 Portraits of Scottish Women

UK May 15, 2023

On a quick trip to Edinburgh we stopped in at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, which was a really beautiful and well curated art...

Ten Women whose New Writing will Stop You Climbing the Walls for a Little While

Women's Writing May 2, 2020

There’s a chance you may be experiencing some emotional stress right now. You need distraction, relief and mental stimulation. Luckily, reading a story offers...

Publishing with Unbound, an Interview with Emilia Leese

Heroes April 13, 2020

Finding a home for your book can be difficult, especially if you want readers to have that old-school sensory thrill of riffling through pages...

Cat on a Cold Tin Roof by Talia Marshall

Essay September 29, 2019

One night, after our kids are in bed I make Kerry, my oldest friend, watch Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid with me. I...

Eight Great Books by Wandering Women

Memoir February 24, 2021

You can’t beat a good travel story. In your mind’s eye, you may be stubbing your toe on an armadillo and getting gangrene after...

Christine de Pizan’s Books for Bucks

Heroes January 30, 2019

My niece Emily started school this week, and it’s got me thinking how much I take reading and writing for granted now. At Emily’s...

Not Even One Tiny Pogrom

Fiction February 25, 2021

Today's blog is an excerpt from a book by Marina Morpurgo, one of the funniest novelists writing in Italy today. She has written three...