orange you glad i'm blogging today?
well, now, happy international women's day and all that. ack, i am a baaaad blogger. i get bogged down by all the blogs. i try...i do...i play my hand at the elventh hour. so probably you already know about the Orange Prize longlist? well, hot dog! print this out and staple it to something because this is your new reading list.
Why is the Orange Prize for Fiction only open to women?
Because, at the time it was set up, statistically the considerable achievements of women novelists were often passed over by the major literary prizes. The founders of the Orange Prize for Fiction wanted to do something about that. Which they did, very successfully. Now in its ninth year - as well as making a massive, practical difference to the winners - the Orange Prize for Fiction has made a major impact on the literary landscape.
let's support this, bad bloggers, good bloggers, those who don't blog t'all. let's do make life "practical" for these writers; let's give these women some of our time and money and attention.