''Contemporary Women's Writing'' is a triannual

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, affiliated to the Contemporary Women's Writing Association, which critically assesses writing by women authors who have published from approximately 1970 to the present. The journal is a published by

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and its

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are Suzanne Keen (

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) and Emma Parker (

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History

The journal was established in 2007, with Mary Eagleton ( Leeds Metropolitan University) and Susan Stanford Friedman (

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) as founding editors.

Awards

In 2009, the journal won The Council of Editors of Learned Journals award for best new journal at the

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's conference in Philadelphia.

Abstracting and indexing

References

External links

* Literary magazines published in the United Kingdom Oxford University Press academic journals Academic journals established in 2007 Triannual journals Women's studies journals English-language journals {{Linguistics-journal-stub