Unmapping fantasy with A. K. Larkwood

Unmapping fantasy with A. K. Larkwood

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...
Back to the 80s: Ladyhawke

Back to the 80s: Ladyhawke

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe three of us are children of the 80s and like many of our generation, we love to revel in nostalgia. For us, this has meant revisiting some of our favourite fantasy films of that decade: Labyrinth, The Dark...
BTGS @ Fantasycon

BTGS @ Fantasycon

The British Fantasy Society’s Fantasycon is almost upon us and your favourite geek feminist podcast is hitting the road to Peterborough (or the rails).  It’ll be Lucy’s fourth Fantasycon in a row – why does she like this provincial little con...
Love triangles

Love triangles

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSLove triangles are as a common as mud when it comes to fiction. Is your story lacking tension? Throw in a love triangle! Do you want to hook in a teenage audience? Throw in a love triangle? Want some audience...