For centuries, the false idea spread that there were no great women writers—not due to a lack of talent, but because of the historical exclusion of women from access to knowledge, publishing, and literary circulation. Literature was structured to privilege a single voice: the white male voice.

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Women have always written, but their works were silenced by persistent sexism that erased names, trajectories, and entire traditions. Treating women’s writing as an exception only reinforces this erasure. Women who write assert their presence. This site was created to bring these voices together and to remind us that they have always existed; they were simply pushed to the margins.