An article on the pros and cons of writing competitions by me and Rebekah Simmers has just been published in the February issue of Historical Novels Review magazine. You can read it online. We are the coordinators for the HNS 2026 First Chapters Competition, which announces its category shortlists on 1 March.
Tag: Historical Novel Society
Voicing the Voiceless – medieval female protagonists
Almodis de La Marche, countess of Toulouse and Barcelona, was, according to the monk chronicler William of Malmesbury, ‘afflicted with a godless female itch’. Ah ha, I thought, she sounds like she should be the heroine of my first novel. After that first novel on Almodis, I wrote four more novels set in early medieval…
Tracey Warr Writing 