The fifteenth annual Women in SF&F Month closes this week with one final guest post on Monday, which will be followed by a link list containing all this month’s articles on Wednesday. Thank you so much to last week’s guests for another excellent week of essays!
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:
- “Writing the Other” — Isabel J. Kim (Sublimation, “Wire Mother“) discussed writing the other starting with characters of different genders, provided a checklist of points she keeps in mind when writing characters outside her comfort zone, and shared examples of how she approached this in her upcoming science fiction novel.
- “No Wrong Schedules” — Nghi Vo (The Singing Hills Cycle, Siren Queen) shared about her experience with trying different writing routines and discovering it doesn’t matter where or when one writes as long as words get on the page.
- “Does a Soft Female Lead Belong in SFF?” — Sonia Tagliareni (Deathbringer) discussed the power of softer female characters and the one she wrote in her upcoming dark academia/fantasy romance novel.
The giveaway for two copies of Rabbit Test and Other Stories by Samantha Mills ended last week. I have heard back from the winners of both the print copy and the ebook, so if you haven’t heard from me: Sorry, you didn’t win this time. (And if you did hear from me: Congratulations, hope you enjoy the book!)
The final guest post of the month will be going up tomorrow, and I’ll be posting all the links on Wednesday so you can find them in one place and catch up on any you missed. This week’s essay is by:
April 27: Ai Jiang (A Palace Near the Wind, A River From the Sky, An Empire in the Clouds)
