Postwar Women’s Writing Now Symposium

Saturday, May 2 2026 from 9:30 am to 6 pm
309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW

A one-day symposium on the ‘rediscovery’ of postwar women writers, such as Brigid Brophy, Ann Quin and Anna Kavan. Organised by Leigh Wilson, Carole Sweeney, and Victoria Walker.

Over the last fifteen years or so, postwar women novelists, particularly those who wrote innovative fiction, have been rediscovered. Writers such as Ann Quin, Anna Kavan, Brigid Brophy and Christine Brooke-Rose have been the subject of conferences, journal articles and monographs and have also gathered attention in broader literary culture. Postwar Women’s Writing Now will examine our interest in these writers now. Underlying the day will be two broad questions: Why these writers? And why now? In framing the discussion with these questions, the symposium addresses questions of academic fashion, the history of publishing, literary cultures, and feminist theory and practice.

For the full programme and to register for the symposium, please follow this link to Eventbrite.