The fifteenth annual Women in SF&F Month continues with three new guest posts coming up this week, starting with a new one tomorrow. Thank you so much to last week’s guests for another wonderful week of essays!
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:
- “The Gods Made Me Do It: Spirituality and Autonomy in They Made Us Blood and Fury” — Cheryl S. Ntumy (They Made Us Blood and Fury, Black Friday: Stories from Africa) discussed gods and religion in her newly rereleased fantasy novel, as well as some of the questions she kept in mind when writing it.
- “Reclaiming space in the great outdoors” — E. J. Swift (When There Are Wolves Again, The Coral Bones) shared about her love of the natural world and how this relates to the ideas she explores in her two latest science fiction novels.
- “The Fate of the Eldest Daughter” — Tesia Tsai (Deathly Fates) discussed how being an eldest daughter impacts the women she writes and their growth.
There is a giveaway of two copies of Samantha Mills’s upcoming collection Rabbit Test and Other Stories: one print copy for a US reader and an ebook for someone outside the US. This closes at the end of the day on Monday, April 20, so there are only a couple of days left to enter!
And there are more guest posts coming up this week, starting tomorrow! This week’s essays are by:
April 20: Isabel J. Kim (Sublimation, “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole“)
April 22: Nghi Vo (The Singing Hills Cycle, Siren Queen)
April 24: Sonia Tagliareni (Deathbringer)
