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I am very often called a “chick-lit writer.” If I write chick-lit, it’s terrible chick-lit because it’s not light and fluffy. Or I’ve been called a women’s fiction writer.
Gina Chick's sheer love of life is inspiring. Now she wants to use the profile she's gained from winning SBS's Alone Australia to help others appreciate the "wild adventure of life".
It has been over a decade since the term “chick-lit” fell out of favour—and thank God, given the infantilising connotations. With this, however, a specific sort of fiction about largely ...
Tove Danovich’s Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them is decidedly not a sugary love letter to ...
If state libraries reflect their communities, why are their historic collections still so stacked towards male writers? Armed with a love of women and literature, two Melbourne philanthropists are ...
"How to Murder Your Life" author Cat Marnell is writing a "sexy, sleazy" chick-lit novel, she tells Page Six exclusively.
Yes, trashy ‘chick-lit’ novels exist, but the danger lies in all female-centric fiction being advertised as such. Women writers should not have to fight against the ‘chick-lit’ cover tropes that will ...
The commentary on Sally Rooney’s “sensuous lips” demonstrates that women writers still struggle to be taken seriously.
Book review Sophie Kinsella’s new novel shows all that is right (and all that is wrong) with modern chick lit The bestselling romance writer’s new book arrived without the customary fanfare.