by Lucy Hounsom | April 14, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhen Madeline Miller published Circe, it heralded the start of a new wave of feminist retellings, in which writers revisited well-known classics in order to tell the stories of those excluded from the dominant...
by Lucy Hounsom | March 31, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSUrsula K Le Guin is the very definition of a legend. So many of us found our way to speculative fiction through her works, while others only realised later that the tropes we so loved – considered cliched now – were...
by Sarah Jones | March 10, 2022 | Blog, Reviews
The year is 1893, and witches have been driven out of Salem. There are few women left with the ways, words, or will to cast a spell. The city of New Salem has sprung up as a beacon of modernity and morality. So it comes as a shock to the townspeople when the three...
by Lucy Hounsom | March 3, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIt’s high fantasy. You know the drill: personalities are defined by race. Elves are pointy-eared snobs who are unbearably pretty, orcs are barely sentient lap dogs, dwarves love gold and mining… And this...
by Megan Leigh | July 29, 2021 | 5 Q's, Blog
We are loving the feminist stories that are reclaiming witchcraft as a positive force! As Cari Thomas discusses in the interview below, witchcraft has long been used to punish and control women. It is time for change! Cari Thomas’ brilliant debut novel...
by Megan Leigh | October 1, 2020 | 5 Q's, Blog
What do we want?Equal pay!When do we want it?NOW! We spoke to C. S. Malerich about her novella, The Factory Witches of Lowell, publishing with Tor next month. In summary – go pre-order this now! now! now! It is a popular trope to reclaim witchcraft for the feminist...
