Speak out: you might make a difference
A blog post I wrote led to the creation of a $50,000 prize to support stories about women.
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The Women You Didn’t See: A Letter to Alice Sheldon
“You were brilliant, I think, but consumed by the inevitability of the abattoir. In your fiction all the gates are closed; characters are funnelled down a chute to flashing knives.” Epistolatory criticism first published 2015.
Read moreBook bias gets magnified between shortlists and winners—some data
The data suggest that the step from literary prize shortlist to winner might be an important inflection point in the operation of unconscious bias against women in literary prizes. Or: this is where women’s voices are throttled.
Read moreNew post, more data
I wrote a guest post for Charlie Stross’s blog that has a wee bit more data about the Hugos. More to come…
Read moreMan Booker 2015 longlist: gender of the protagonists
A more granular look at prize-worthy fiction shows an even greater bias regarding the protagonists’ gender. This is why we count…
Read moreWhere to sign up to count literary prize data
A number of people have expressed interest in helping to count literary prize data. The data so far show a consistent, persistent,…
Read moreTweaking the Russ Pledge
The single most important thing we (readers, writers, journalists, critics, publishers, editors, etc.) can do to improve the visibility, on the shelves and in the media, of women writing about women, is talk about them whenever we talk about books.
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Nicola Griffith 