Week three of the thirteenth annual Women in SF&F Month starts tomorrow. Thank you so much to all of last week’s guests for another wonderful week of essays!
There will be new guest posts on Monday and Wednesday of this week and a book giveaway on Friday. But first, before announcing the schedule, here are last week’s pieces in case you missed any of them.
All of the guest posts from April 2024 can be found here, and last week’s guest posts were:
- “Using Fiction to Empower Girls in STEM” — Amber Chen (Of Jade and Dragons, “Hugging the Buddha’s Feet“) discussed fictional representation of girls and women in STEM, incorporating this into her upcoming young adult fantasy novel, and a few other books with girls in STEM and/or girls wreaking havoc in male-dominated worlds.
- “Fantasy Safe Spaces: Facing the Specters of the Past Now They’ve Come Back to Haunt Us” — Gabriella Buba (Saints of Storm and Sorrow, “Dying Rivers and Broken Hearts“) shared about using fantasy fiction to dig into troubling topics and grappling with things that grieve her, including colonialism and the loss of women’s rights, in her upcoming debut novel.
- “Female mentors in fantasy” — Genoveva Dimova (Foul Days, Monstrous Nights) wrote about being drawn to older women in mentorship roles, writing one in her upcoming duology, and older female representation in media.
And there is more to come, starting tomorrow! This week includes essays by the first two authors and a giveaway of two books by the third:
April 15: Amy Leow (The Scarlet Throne)
April 17: Laura R. Samotin (The Sins on Their Bones, The Way It Haunted Him)
April 19: Seanan McGuire (InCryptid, October Daye)
