Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror

Megan Leigh, Charlotte Bond, and Lucy Hounsom
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Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror Podcast

Celebrating writers, creators, and characters in speculative fiction, with a focus on intersectional feminism. We love genre fiction and want to see everyone well represented!

  1. 18 JUL

    Summer holidays!

    We're on holiday! But don't worry, we will be back before you know it!

    1 min

  2. 4 JUL

    Writing horror comics with Corissa Grant

    We have a lot of authors on our podcast, talking about their books, what inspired them, how they’ve written them etc. Quite often they’ll get drawn into the TV series or films that inspired them [*coughs* Star Trek]. But a medium we don’t often touch upon is comics & graphic novels, even though some of […]

    30 min

  3. 20 JUN

    The poetry of space – with Oliver K. Langmead

    When we say the word “novel,” most of us think of a book written in prose, split into chapters and possibly parts. But every now and again, we come across novels that defy our expectations. Pratchett’s early work not only eschewed chapters – instead presenting the reader with continuous prose divided by section breaks – […]

    39 min

  4. 6 JUN

    Secrets and killers with Kaaron Warren

    A few decades ago, if you said the word “Gothic haunted house novel,” the phrase would very definitely have brought to mind something with a rambling Victorian mansion, tortured heroines, mad women in the attic, sombre men, and wailing ghosts. It probably wouldn’t have brought to mind a little old lady baking scones and conducting […]

    40 min

  5. 23 MAY

    Keeping it short – with Gianni Washington

    A short story isn’t just a novel in miniature form. It isn’t even a shortened novella. It is a creature of its own devising. There’s only time for a snapshot of reality, and in the space of a few thousand words, you have to be able to draw in a reader, make them feel for […]

    29 min

  6. 9 MAY

    Secret societies & the occult – with S.T. Gibson

    The literature of our past is littered with casual gender biases. You describe someone as a “witch” and the natural assumption is that they are female. But according to Diane Purkiss, while mostly women were accused in the English witch trials, in some of the Scandinavian countries, men were in the slight majority. In fact, […]

    39 min

  7. 25 APR

    The horror of space travel with SA Barnes

    “In space, no one can hear you scream.” It’s an iconic tagline that can be applied to so many modern stories about space travel and exploration (except, perhaps, our beloved Star Trek). Obviously, space travel in real life can be incredibly perilous, but the perils of space in fiction have moved beyond the worry about […]

    40 min

  8. 11 APR

    Religion, tradition, and history in fantasy with Andrew Knighton

    Religion has been part of our society for centuries. Is it any wonder then that it can make up a large part of our fiction – from CS Lewis’s allegorical Chronicles of Narnia series to Anna Smith Spark’s Empires of Dust trilogy and the Loki books by Joanne Harris. But with so many religions the […]

    36 min
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Celebrating writers, creators, and characters in speculative fiction, with a focus on intersectional feminism. We love genre fiction and want to see everyone well represented!

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