It’s the last week of the twelfth annual Women in SF&F Month. Thank you so much to all of last week’s guests for the wonderful essays!

There will be more guest posts this week, but before announcing the schedule, here are last week’s pieces in case you missed any of them.

All of the guest posts from April 2023 can be found here, and last week’s guest posts were:

• “A World You Don’t Belong” — Sienna Frost (Obsidian: Awakening, “Sirens“) wrote about why she writes and publishes and the amazing superpower that authors have with their ability to create a fictional world.
• “Coming Home to Magic” — Gemma Weekes (Love Me, Glimpse: An Anthology of Black British Speculative Fiction) discussed her love of fantasy and the power that lies within books and stories.
• “Finding Fantasy, My Postpartum Power” — Lauren J. A. Bear (Medusa’s Sisters) shared how she left fantasy behind when studying literature, then rediscovered it during a time she needed hope and the unique catharsis the genre offers.
• “Deconstructing Epics” — Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, City of Bones) discussed her novel Witch King and writing science fiction and fantasy epics using different structures, as well as a few examples of other books that do this.

And there are most guest posts coming up, starting tomorrow! This week’s essays are by:

April 24: A. Y. Chao (Shanghai Immortal)
April 25: Nia / N. E. Davenport (The Blood Trials, The Blood Gift)
April 26: Kemi Ashing-Giwa (The Splinter in the Sky)
April 27: Moniquill Blackgoose (To Shape a Dragon’s Breath)