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Books by women | April 2023

April: Gender studies Health Dance Alphabet run S & T Books by women

Continuing, till 15 April: Folklore

2023 global initiatives: #1day1woman2023 Peace and Diplomacy

See also: Future events

Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR)! Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's representation on all language Wikipedias (biographies, women's works, women's issues, broadly construed). Did you know that, according to Humaniki, only 19.81% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women? Not impressed? Content gender gap is a form of systemic bias, and this is what WiR addresses. We invite you to participate, whenever you like, in whatever way suits you and your schedule. Editors of all genders are equally and warmly welcome at Women in Red!

Online event 1 to 30 April 2023
Julia Kröhn with Die Chronistin Use social media to promote our work! Facebook Wiki Women in Red Twitter @wikiwomeninred Instagram @wikiwomeninred Pinterest 2023 editathons Hashtag #wikiwomeninred Add to article talk pages . {{WikiProject Biography}} {{WikiProject Women}} if born after 1950; or {{WikiProject Women's History}} if born before 1950. Editathon banner: {{WIR-266}}

Welcome!

This month, in collaboration with the Every Book Its Reader campaign on Meta, for the first time Women in Red is focusing on books written by women rather than on biographies. We have managed to find a useful set of pertinent red links for guidance but contributors are of course welcome to create articles relating to any books written by women or indeed articles relating more generally to books by women authors, for example their place in different countries or over different periods. Although the emphasis is firmly on books, if you come across women authors who do not yet have biographies, you are of course welcome to create them.

If you wish your articles to be taken into account by the Every Book Its Reader campaign, you can register on this Meta page.

Those who have not yet created articles about books should make sure notability criteria are met as explained under Wikipedia:Notability (books). MOS:NOVEL, WP:NONFICTION and WP:POETRYSTANDARDS offer useful guidance.

This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to take part. There are also opportunities for contributors to add articles on any other women who deserve to be covered, for example under the other topics of the month or under our comprehensive #1day1woman priority.

The main goals of the event are:

• to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of some of the world's most prominent women
• to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
• to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media

What else?

• Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you create this month, and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
• This essay on creating women's biographies and our Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.
• If you tweet about any of the articles, or upload any of the images to Pinterest, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

Thank you!

Redlists

A wide variety of redlink lists can be found on our Redlist index. Those relating specifically to books written by women are given below:

Books (crowd-sourced list together with a list from Wikidata) Novels written by women (created automatically from Wikidata) Wikipedia:WikiProject Women writers/Missing articles#Works 365 books by women writers, a list from New York Public Library (processed by PamD and Oronsay for redlisted books and authors)

Add other red links here, if possible with a source:

Participants

If you wish to take part in the Every Book Its Reader campaign, you should register on this Meta page.

• Penny Richards (talk) 14:47, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
• CT55555(talk) 20:32, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
• PamD 20:48, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
• Oronsay (talk) 09:47, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
• Rosiestep (talk) 07:58, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
• pburka (talk) 15:52, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
• Sammielh (talk) 16:56, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
• gobonobo ^{+ c} 00:39, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
• Victuallers (talk) 16:57, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
• Darwin Naz (talk) 22:46, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
• Efc7 (talk) 00:05, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
• Citrivescence (talk) 04:04, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
• — scribblingwoman 10:10, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Outcomes (articles)

Promote our work

Key:

• Add FB after the article if you mention it on Facebook
• Add PIN after the article if you pin the image on Pinterest
• Add TW after the article if you tweet it on Twitter
• Add IG after the article if you post it on Instagram
• Add LI after the article if you post it on LinkedIn
• Add ITN after the article if it was posted on the main page via WP:In The News

New or upgraded articles

• Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new

April

1. Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
2. The Whim by Eglantine Wallace (edited)
3. The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes
4. The easy life in Kamusari by Shion Miura
5. Dominicana by Angie Cruz
6. "Seeking Fortune Elsewhere" by Sindya Bhanoo - PIN TW
7. The Killings at Kingfisher Hill by Sophie Hannah
8. "Banned Book Club" by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada - PIN TW
9. The Drugstore Cat by Ann Petry - PIN
10. Elizabethan England (Tenison)
11. The Starched Blue Sky of Spain and Other Memoirs by Josephine Herbst (also 265)
12. The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose TW
13. Wigwam stories by Mary Catherine Judd (also 259) - PIN
14. Classic Myths by Mary Catherine Judd (both new) (also 259)
15. Memoirs of a Female Vagrant by Mary Saxby (both new) - PIN TW
16. The Channings by Mrs Henry Wood reffed
17. Les malentendues by Dania Suleman (improvements to both)
18. Džuvljarke: Roma Lesbian Existence by Vera Kurtić (also WIR-262) - PIN
19. E.E. by Olga Tokarczuk
20. A Quest of Heroes by Morgan Rice
21. East Lynne by Ellen Wood new pic
22. Regards from the Dead Princess by Kenizé Mourad - PIN
23. Pursuit (Oates novel) by Joyce Carol Oates
24. The Gardens of Consolation by Parisa Reza - PIN
25. Never Caught The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar - PIN TW
26. Indigenous Albuquerque by Myla Vicenti Carpio - PIN
27. Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria - PIN TW
28. Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson - PIN

Early start

1. The Mare by Mary Gaitskill - PIN TW
2. Rock Paper Scissors (novel) by Alice Feeney - PIN TW
3. A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny - PIN TW
4. Boys Will Be Boys (book) by Myriam Miedzian - PIN TW

Did you know? articles

• ... that Džuvljarke written by Vera Kurtić includes interviews with members of the LGBT community in Serbia and concludes that Romani lesbian women are often "invisible"? (2023-05-01)

Outcomes (media)

• Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2023

Add here – most recent at the top

• 
  Holly House and Ridges Row by May Baldwin
• 
  East Lynne
• 
  Beginning Again at Ararat (1924) by Mabel Evelyn Elliott
• 
  The Youngest Girl in the Fifth by Angela Brazil new wikidata and category
• 
  An Alarum of War in 1649 by Elizabeth Poole

Event templates

• Invitation: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Outreach/2023#April 2023
• Editathon banner for talk pages: Template:WIR-266: {{WIR-266}}