Emily Midorikawa is a winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize and a recipient of an Arts Council England Grant for the Arts for her work on A Secret Sisterhood, a runner-up in the SI Leeds Literary Prize, judged by Margaret Busby and also the Yeovil Literary Prize, judged by Tracy Chevalier.
Select journalism, memoir and short fiction:
2022
- The Millions, ‘The Knotty Lives of Victorian Soothsayers’
- Pascal Theatre Company, Women For Women, ‘Georgina Weldon’
- Shepherd, ‘The Best Books that Sing the Praises of Unsung Women’
2021
- Aspects of History, ‘‘Georgina Weldon: Victorian Visionary’
- Books By Women, ‘On Writing and Early Motherhood’
- Crime Reads, ‘From Victorian Mediums to Anti-Spiritualism Activists: The legendary Fox sisters’
- Literary Hub, ‘How Do You Write a Biography Filled With Unreliable Witnesses?’ (extract from Out of the Shadows)
- Literary Hub, ‘The “Mystic Inklings” and Savvy Business Acumen of Victoria Woodhull’ (extract from Out of the Shadows)
- UEA New Writing, ‘Seen and Not Heard’ (extract from Out of the Shadows)
2018
- The Good Journal, ‘White Orchids’ (short story)
- Senate House Library blog, ‘Spiritual Awakening or Death-Blow to Spiritualism?’
2017
- BBC HistoryExtra, ‘From Austen & Brontë to Woolf: literature’s forgotten female friendships’
- Daily Telegraph, ‘How Jane Austen’s Mystery Woman was Edited Out of History’
- i newspaper, ‘The Secret Sisterhood of Women Writers, from Austen to Woolf’
- Irish Times, ‘The Female Friendships That Sustained Four Great Writers’
- Irish Independent, ‘Written Out of History – the secret literary sisterhood’
- Lapham’s Quarterly, ‘Voices in Time: Eavesdropping on the Austens’
- Literary Hub, ‘Little-Known Friendships of Iconic Female Writers’
- The Millions, ‘Behind Every Great Woman Writer is Another Great Woman’
- Paris Review, ‘Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, and the Benefits of Jealous Friends’
- TIME.com, ‘The Famous Women Writers Whose Friendships We’ve Forgotten’
- Washington Post, ‘Jane Austen: A role model for the #MeToo generation’
2014
- Independent on Sunday, ‘Feminist Writers’ Friendships: feel the fear and do it anyway’
- Tangled Roots anthology, ‘The Memory Album’ (short memoir)
2012
Between 2014 and 2020, Emily and her Secret Sisterhood co-author, Emma Claire Sweeney, wrote regular pieces about female literary friendship for their blog Something Rhymed. To read these posts, click here.
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