by Megan Leigh | April 5, 2018 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSEvery few years I see articles pop up in my news feed debating the merits of creative writing courses. Can you teach writing, they ask. Writing is a skill just like any other – you might not be able to imbue someone...
by Megan Leigh | March 22, 2018 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIt is very rare for Charlotte and I to agree. When we do, there’s great celebration over at BtGS headquarters. David Tallerman’s trope-inverting, Dungeons and Dragons inspired series The Black River...
by Megan Leigh | March 8, 2018 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn this episode, Charlotte and Lucy talk to writer and lecturer Tiffani Angus. They discussed the estrangement of women’s bodies in apocalyptic fiction and the trends Tiffani discovered in her research on the...
by Megan Leigh | February 22, 2018 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAll stories require conflict of some kind… but does it always need to be violent conflict? There is certainly a trend in fantasy, science fiction, and horror to find narratives driving towards a massive violent...
by Megan Leigh | February 8, 2018 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSBack in 1985, Alison Bechdel had the characters of her cartoon strip, Dykes to Watch Out For, jokingly make a gender equality ‘test’ for films. 33 years later, the Bechdel (or Bechdel-Wallace, to give...
by Megan Leigh | January 25, 2018 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSCharlotte takes the lead in this episode, where we chat to Jeannette Ng about her use of Christian mythology in her debut novel, Under the Pendulum Sun. From using relatively unknown elements of Christianity to...
