US photographer Diane Arbus,Two Ladies at the Automat, NYC,1966 #womensart

In case you ever wondered what a mid-molt Eastern Screech-owl looked like:

That's the end of the HWA Debut Crown Award longlist for 2021. Congratulations! Thank you to all the judges for the #HWA Debut Crown Award: Ayo Onatade 🇬🇧🇯🇲🇳🇬, Dan-📚Bookseller/BookBlogger📚 and TheBookTrail 📚👣. A short breather and we’ll be back with the HWA Non-fiction Crown Awards longlist #HWACrowns21

Congratulations to all! The judges for the HWA Non-fiction Crown Award are: clare mulley (chair), Jessie Childs, Dan Jones, @JagjeetLally and Luke Pepera. Thank you all very much. Coming shortly: the HWA Gold Crown Award 2021 longlist #HWACrowns21

Thank you to all the HWA Gold Crown Award 2021 judges: @JeanFullerton_, WDW Kate, Robin Carter, Toby Clements, Nicola Cornick, Lizzie Lane, Sara O' Keeffe, hercules mulligan, ARebelHand has moved and Elizabeth Hawksley #HWACrowns21

#WritingCommunity Incredible opportunity! Winning a CBC #NovelWriting #Scholarship last year was the best thing that’s ever happened to me. I learnt so much on the course and formed an amazing writing group with my talented coursemates. Can’t recommend enough. Apply today:

In 1916, Lady Florence Norman, a suffragette in London, used a motorised scooter known as a Autoped #WomensArt

2019, group of Bolivian indigenous women, the “Climbing Cholitas” summited Mount Aconcagua, Argentina, the highest point in the Southern Hemisphere. The women had worked for years as cooks for mostly rich male mountaineers. They climbed in traditional dress #WomensArt

THE RETURN OF MADAME DEFARGE* victoriablakewriter.wordpress.com/2022/08/01/the…

TIGRESS KNITTER: THE STORY OF MADAME DEFARGE victoriablakewriter.wordpress.com/2022/08/16/tig…

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Many congratulations to the winners of the Non-Fiction #HWACrowns22 for Metaphysical Animals - an enlightening, enjoyable and occasionally eye-opening read about four women philosophers. And to all the brilliant shortlist - it’s been a joy to be one of the judges.

JOHN WAYNE’S SISTER victoriablakewriter.wordpress.com/2022/12/01/joh…

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