Margaret Atwood

What Happens after the End of the World? What would happen if humanity ceased to exist? Well, assuming, of course, that earth itself has not been destroyed in this hypothetical apocalypse, the world would continue quite…

WTTE Episode 18: What Is Utopia? This is a story of three journeys, by three people, in three very different times. But each of the journeys ends in the same area in the west of Ireland. And each journey is founded on a search for a more…

‘I grabbed you by the gilded beams, That’s what tradition means.’ The Smiths, I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish. Last year, having skipped over it during my undergraduate years, I read Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. One…

Literary culture is at a point where feminist writing is recognised and celebrated. Feminist literary criticism and theory is now a college staple, and the work of feminist writers such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Caitlin Moran is…

You cannot make a list of Women's Day Poetry, without including this poem. The earth would shake, much like it did beneath this phenomenal woman’s hips. Maya Angelou's Phenomenal Woman is one of the most renowned celebrations of womanhood…