And Other Stories publisher Stefan Tobler and editorial production manager Saba Ahmed
BBC: The publishing company that's only publishing female authors in 2018
When author Kamila Shamsie challenged the book industry to publish only women in 2018 to help address a gender imbalance in literature, just one publisher took up the challenge - the Sheffield-based company And Other Stories.
It was almost three years ago that Shamsie suggested "a concerted campaign to redress the inequality" in publishing.
Arguing that there was a gender bias in book awards, reviews, top publishing jobs and prestige afforded to authors, she suggested that 2018, the centenary of women over 30 in Britain getting the vote, would make a good Year of Publishing Women.
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