Women creatives crave solitude and space

Almost a century after Virginia Woolf, leading female writers articulate the same struggles for women writers.
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Pablo Picasso, The Blue Room, 1901, o.c., The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C

‘As a writer, in general you wake up with certain feelings of doubt. As a woman writer, doubly so,’ sa​ys award-winning India-based writer Rosalyn D’Mello. ‘You have so much more to prove in the world and it is not easy to get your voice heard.’ 

As part of the recent Feminist Writers Festival, D’Mello joined Melbourne author of The Strays Emily Bitto to explore how creativity in women is both nurtured and rejected in their respective cultures.

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Madeleine Dore
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Madeleine Dore is a freelance writer and founder of Extraordinary Routines, an interview project exploring the intersection between creativity and imperfection. She is the previous Deputy Editor at ArtsHub. Follow her on Twitter at @RoutineCurator