Just wanted to bring this awesome feature this month at Fantasy Cafe to people’s attention. From their website:
The entire month of April will be dedicated to highlighting the contributions of women to speculative fiction. There will be guest posts by women who write speculative fiction and women who share their love for the genre with others on their blogs throughout the month.
Check out what Jacqueline Carey, author of the Kushiel’s Legacy series, has to say about women in epic fantasy on today’s Women in SF&F post.
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The fanzine Khatru published a “Women in Science Fiction” symposium in 1975 (one of the “males” who participated was James Tiptree, Jr. ). In 1976, Susan Wood set up a panel on “women and science fiction” at MidAmericon , the 1976 Worldcon; this ultimately led to the founding of A Women’s APA, the first women’s amateur press association . Also in 1976, WisCon , the world’s leading—and for many years, only—feminist science fiction convention and conference was founded: an annual conference in Madison , Wisconsin . In turn, as a result of discussions at WisCon, institutions such as the Tiptree Awards and Broad Universe arose to address questions of gender in speculative fiction and issues peculiar to women writers of speculative fiction.