Welcome to our first live #SpecWomenChat Podcast! In this monthly show, a panel of both indie and traditionally-published women speculative fiction authors will discuss issues about all things fantasy, science fiction, and issues of interest to women in the field. Some of us you’ll have heard of, others will be new discoveries for many, but all of us are SFF authors.
Our first panel topic was “Women in Speculative Fiction,” where we discussed what inspired the hashtag, and what issues specifically face women in the SFF field. Our first panelists were:
- Cat Rambo, current President of the SFWA, shortlisted for the Endeavour Award, the Locus Award, the World Fantasy Award and the Nebula Award
- Nancy Jane Moore, author of the science fiction novel, The Weave; the novellas Changeling and Ardent Forest; and the collections Conscientious Inconsistencies, Flashes of Illumination, and Walking Contradiction and Other Futures.
- Katie Phillips (who writes under pen name Karis Waters), developmental fiction editor and writing coach specializing in empowering women writing spec fiction, managing editor of indie publisher Crosshair Press, creator of the #SpecWomenChat hashtag.
Scheduled to appear (but didn’t make it): Laura J. Mixon writes about the impact of technology and environmental changes on personal identity and social structures. Her work has been the focus of academic studies on the intersection of technology, feminism, and gender. Under the pen name Morgan J. Locke, she is one of the writers for the group blog Eat Our Brains. (Hugo Award Winner for Best Fan Writer 2015).
Show Notes:
- From Dark to Dark: Yes, Women Have Always Written Space Opera by Judith Tarr
- Book View Cafe
- Aqueduct Press (feminist science fiction press)
- Joanna Russ – How to Suppress Women’s Writing: book link; Wikipedia article
- Dale Spender – Mothers of the Novel
- WisCon
- Cat Rambo’s List of Women in SF/F
- Speculative Literature Foundation (grants for marginalized writers in spec fic)
- Parvus Press (If This Goes On anthology submissions)
- Worlds Without End SFF Fan Site: SF Mistressworks List; Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge
- My books
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Diane Morrison 