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  • The Aesthetic "Core"

Cyberpunk and the Aesthetic Expendable

  • Arielle Amante
  • Posted on June 9, 2022August 31, 2022

My favorite emotional and sensory experience is absorbing a story or poem’s aesthetic core like…

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  • Constructing Fantasy

Worldbuilding Beyond SFF

  • Ella Syverson
  • Posted on April 20, 2022April 21, 2022

I am standing in the water and it is cool and soft against my calves.…

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  • Enclaves: A Black Femme Dreams

Review: ‘Where the Rain Cannot Reach’ by Adesina Brown

  • Liza Wemakor
  • Posted on February 3, 2022February 19, 2022

Published by Atmosphere Press in December 2021. 318 pages. My personal notes for Where The…

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  • Constructing Fantasy

Fanfiction as Reconstructive Worldbuilding

  • Ella Syverson
  • Posted on January 27, 2022January 25, 2022

Fanfiction has long been a realm in which readers can take control of source material,…

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  • The Female Frontier

Anthologies for the Holiday wish-list

  • Joanne Askew
  • Posted on December 15, 2021December 15, 2021

There will be a permanent indent of my body in one corner of the room…

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  • Ill Lit

Illness, Infantilization, and Where Fan Creators Get It Wrong

  • Amanda Lien
  • Posted on November 29, 2021November 28, 2021

While earning my MFA, and in my 10+ years in fandom spaces as a fanfiction…

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  • Enclaves: A Black Femme Dreams

Worldbuilding in Sade’s Music Videos

  • Liza Wemakor
  • Posted on May 5, 2021

Sade (woman and band) is a fantasy artist. I wouldn’t be the person or writer…

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  • The Female Frontier

2020 – My Year with Women Creators

  • Joanne Askew
  • Posted on December 14, 2020

At the start of this year I made a vow that 2020 would be the…

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  • Conversations with Speculative Poets

Conversations with Speculative Poets: Holly Lyn Walrath

  • T.D. Walker
  • Posted on August 30, 2019August 25, 2019

The Conversations with Speculative Poets Series features interviews with writers of science fiction and fantasy…

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  • Conversations with Speculative Poets

Conversations with Speculative Poets: Jeannine Hall Gailey

  • T.D. Walker
  • Posted on July 31, 2019July 27, 2019

The Conversations with Speculative Poets Series features interviews with writers of science fiction and fantasy…

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