The fifteenth annual Women in SF&F Month continues with three new guest posts this week, starting with a new essay tomorrow. Thank you so much to last week’s guests for another fantastic week!
The new guest posts will be going up on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday this week, but before announcing the upcoming schedule, here are last week’s essays in case you missed any of them.
All guest posts from April 2026 can be found here, and last week’s guest posts were:
- “Epic Worldbuilding in Short Fiction” — Samantha Mills (Rabbit Test and Other Stories, The Wings Upon Her Back) shared what she learned about writing short fiction when she went from creating novel-length works to short stories. (This includes a giveaway of two copies of her upcoming collection Rabbit Test and Other Stories: one print copy for a US reader and an ebook for someone outside the US.)
- “The Kuleana of Being an Eldest Daughter” — Shay Kauwe (The Killing Spell) discussed what being an eldest daughter means to her and writing the heroine in her upcoming urban fantasy debut novel as an eldest child.
- “The Birthplace of Consciousness” — Veronica G. Henry (The People’s Library, The Canopy Keepers) wrote about one of the main themes from her latest novel, The People’s Library, and the importance of the number zero in shaping her concept.
And there are more guest posts coming up this week, starting tomorrow! This week’s essays are by:
April 13: Cheryl S. Ntumy (They Made Us Blood and Fury, Black Friday)
April 15: E. J. Swift (When There Are Wolves Again, The Coral Bones)
April 17: Tesia Tsai (Deathly Fates)
