It’s almost time for the second week of the twelfth annual Women in SF&F Month. Thank you so much to all of last week’s guests for a wonderful first week!
There will be more guest posts Monday–Thursday of this week, too. 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 2023 can be found here, and last week’s guest posts were:
- “Myth and Magic, Seen and Unseen” — Ehigbor Okosun (Forged by Blood) opened this year’s series with an essay on her writing journey and what led her to create her debut novel and its main protagonist.
- Malka Older (The Centenal Cycle, …and Other Disasters) shared how rereading Watership Down as an adult inspired thoughts on fiction and the past that went into her new science fiction novel, The Mimicking of Known Successes.
- “Breaking the Mold, or ‘What even is neurotypical anyway?’” — Elisa A. Bonnin (Dauntless, Stolen City) discussed autism and defaults, and how she often assumed she was writing neurotypical characters only to realize later that they may not be neurotypical after all.
- “The Doctoress on a Donkey: Finding Transformative Fantasy in History” — Hadeer Elsbai (The Daughters of Izdihar) wrote about researching Egyptian history and using real-life inspirations in fantasy fiction.
And there are most guest posts coming up, starting tomorrow! This week’s essays are by:
April 10: Vida Cruz-Borja (Song of the Mango and Other New Myths)
April 11: Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
April 12: Hannah Kaner (Godkiller)
April 13: L. Penelope (The Monsters We Defy, Earthsinger Chronicles)
