Women in SFF Week 2 Wrap Up
We’ve reached the end of our second week for this year’s Women In SFF, so let’s see what’s been happening in the feature this week!
We’ve been completely floored by the incredible response from the community; we can’t tell you how much we love seeing all your responses to our photo challenge prompts, or how properly excited we get to see blog posts inspired by them!
Each week, we’ll try and round up all this wonderful content into one summary-wrap-up post – if we’ve missed you, please comment and link below! We’d love to see the ways you’re taking part.
So, what have you all been up to…?
Reviews
We’re going to kick the wrap-up off with reviews, as that’s what we’re all here for really, right? Finding those books to add to our TBR!
Jonathan @ the Hive: Imago by Octavia E. Butler
Asha @ the Hive: Lord of Secrets by Breanna Teintze
Holly @ the Grimdragon: Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
Suzanne @ Spellbound_by_books: We Ride the Storm by Devin Madson
Scott @ Book Invasion: We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen
Peat @ Peat Long’s Blog: Take a Thief by Mercedes Lackey
Posts, Articles and Threads
There were plenty of ways we all celebrated Women in SFF this week –
Ginger Smith joined us with an article about the Women in SFF who inspired her to become a writer.
Heather Child explored the ways in which “time” is developed as a theme in fantasy.
We were joined by Aparna Verma in our Author Spotlight feature.
Stark Holborn returned to the Hive for our Author Spotlight feature.
M. L. Wang discussed the pitfalls of creating magic systems based on genders.
Rachel Emma Shaw popped back this week to take part in our Author Spotlight feature.
Timandra Whitecastle took us on an informative journey as she discussed story structure and the Heroine’s Journey.
Neera @neera_exlibris shared with us her favourite female POC authors with a beautiful post on IG.
Read-along
On Wednesday, we released this week’s discussion questions for our #WomenInSFFReadalong of The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty.
Nils has also created a Discord channel where we can chat about the book!
As responses come in, I’ll update this page:
Week 1
Nils & Beth @ the Hive
Ariana from The Book Nook
Week 2
Nils & Beth @ the Hive
Photo Challenge
We have absolutely loved seeing all your responses again this week: