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n March 2025 five Finnish organizations became members of Women Writers Route. To develop the Women Writers Cultural route nationally, The Museum of Finnish Book Pukstaavi has started a project aiming to strengthen the cooperation of the Finnish members and increasing the visibility of women writers cultural heritage in Finland. The Finnish Heritage Agency granted funding for the project (duration of the project: October 2025 – December 2026).

Women Writers Route has received its second consecutive Good Practice Award at the Annual Advisory Forum of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe.

On Wednesday, November 26, 2025, the Lojze Bratuž Cultural Center will host the Gala Closing Concert of the cross-border Interreg SPF Italy–Slovenia project “Ljubka’s Trail”

From 28 to 30 October 2025, the Women Writers Route of the Council of Europe and Ivana’s House of Fairy Tales in Ogulin, Croatia, will host the international conference “Women’s Path through Fairy Tales.”

On September 20–21, 2025, the village of Saint-Trojan-les-Bains on the Île d’Oléron hosted the second edition of the Festival Marcelle Tinayre – Femmes en Livres,

The Women Writers Route (WWR) proudly leads the International and Interdisciplinary Summer School 2025, organized in collaboration with the CEEPUS Women Writers in History Network, the DARIAH Working Group Women Writers in History, and the University of Nova Gorica Foundation.

The FSK took part in the 12th Training Academy for Cultural Routes, which took place in and around Torres Vedras, Portugal, from 11 to 13 June. The European Institute of Cultural Routes, Luxembourg, organised the event in cooperation with Destination Napoleon, Iter Vitis and the Portuguese representatives of the Historic Café Routes.

The Women Writers Route has welcomed five new authors into its network: Minna Canth, Natalia Ginzburg, Alma M. Karlin, Marcelle Tinayre, and Adèle Weman. These pioneering women, known for their literary achievements and advocacy for social change, further enrich the WWR’s mission to celebrate women’s cultural heritage across Europe.

To celebrate Zofka Kveder’s birthday, the Women Writers Route hosted a screening of The Genes of My Children, a documentary by her great-great-granddaughter Vladimira Spindler. The event highlighted Kveder’s legacy and featured a conversation on intergenerational creativity, emancipation, and the new cross-border project Ljubka’s Trail.

The Women Writers Route celebrates the success of the International Conference on Cultural Routes, held in the twin cities of Nova Gorica and Gorizia from April 14–16, 2025. Against the stunning backdrop of the Slovenian-Italian border, scholars, artists, and cultural leaders gathered to explore how shared heritage builds bridges between communities.