The glorious Suraya Sidhu Singh, editor of Filament Magazine, will be running a women’s erotica workshop at the Ladyfest literary festival on 13th November. Here’s a snippet from her interview at the “For Books’ Sake” website:

“…Zak Jane Keir and I are hoping to answer the question, ‘Why can’t I go to a news agent and buy a porn mag for women?’ We’ll be debunking myths by drawing on academic research about women and using our experiences of the publishing industry to demonstrate how things really work, and handing around fascinating examples of women’s erotica stretching back to the early 1970s…

…Women are simply not taken seriously by the magazine publishing and distribution industry. The virgin/whore dichotomy is alive and well, and there seems to be a real belief that all women are the same. I would not have believed that the world were still so old-fashioned had I not experienced it at first hand…”

Full interview here.