Introduction

The essays gathered together here, in the first Special Issue of Contemporary Women's Writing, emerge from the second biennial conference of the Contemporary Women's Writing Network (CWWN), “Unsettling Women: Contemporary Women's Writing and Diaspora,” held at the University of Leicester, UK, 11–13 July, 2008.1 The event, which was attended by delegates from more than fifteen countries, included papers on over seventy writers plus plenary lectures by Carole Boyce Davies, Sneja Gunew, Deborah Madsen, and Susheila Nasta, and featured discussions with the multi-award-winning writers Jackie Kay and Linda Grant, as well as readings by Jacqueline Roy and the performance poet Shamshad Khan. By celebrating the international range of contemporary women's writing, exploring issues of critical, theoretical and pedagogical concern relating to writing by women published since 1970, and enabling connections between authors and academics, the event reflected the key aims of the network.2 As part of CWWN's broader remit to encourage and support research in this relatively recent and rapidly expanding area of intellectual enquiry (particularly amongst a new generation of scholars), the conference also offered an occasion to launch the Contemporary Women's Writing Network Prize for the best paper delivered by a postgraduate student.3

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