Thank you so much to all of last week’s guests for another great week of Women in SF&F Month 2022!
The third week of guest posts starts tomorrow and runs through Friday. But before announcing the schedule, here are last week’s essays in case you missed any of them.
All of the guest posts from April 2022 can be found here, and last week’s guest posts were:
- Mary McMyne (The Book of Gothel) discussed her love of fairy tales and feminist retellings—and shared about exploring the Rapunzel folktale from the witch’s perspective in her upcoming debut novel.
- “A Girl and Her Maristag” — Tanvi Berwah (Monsters Born and Made) shared about her love of monster companions and the trope of “a boy and his x” in fantasy—and discussed how that had an influence on her upcoming debut novel.
- “Maidens, Monsters, and the Lines that Blur Between Them” — Rachel Gillig (One Dark Window) discussed the monster/maiden dynamic and exploring it through a different type of maiden in her upcoming gothic fantasy novel.
- “Routes to my roots” — Saara El-Arifi (The Final Strife) dedicated her guest post to the Black women who preceded her, with a particular focus on Phillis Wheatley as the first writer of the Black diaspora.
- Kimberly Unger (The Extractionist, Nucleation) shared some thoughts on research and including explanation when crafting stories, featuring an example from the science fiction TV series The Expanse.
And there will be more guest posts throughout the week, starting tomorrow morning! This week’s guest posts are by:
April 18: Chelsea Abdullah (The Stardust Thief)
April 19: Jenn Lyons (The Discord of Gods and the rest of A Chorus of Dragons)
April 20: Ruthanna Emrys (A Half-Built Garden, The Innsmouth Legacy)
April 21: Vaishnavi Patel (Kaikeyi, “Logic Puzzles“)
April 22: Davinia Evans (Notorious Sorcerer)
