Description
Fantasy writing was once a male-dominated world, but not any more thanks to a growing band of exciting female authors who are making a name for themselves and attracting a whole new audience.
Women like Samantha Shannon and Tasha Suri who are taking the genre in new directions. Female empowerment is at the heart of the latest epic in Shannon’s Roots of Chaos cycle, as well as Suri’s provocative and powerful Burning Kingdoms trilogy, which continues with The Oleander Sword.
These two friends and award-winning literary trailblazers have helped to usurp the Western male-centric narrative in dystopian and fantasy fiction. Join them as they discuss the key influences behind their work, the importance of strong female literary protagonists, the people who have championed them along the way, and what they wish they’d known before starting out.
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About the Authors
Samantha Shannon
Samantha Shannon is the New York Times and Sunday Times-bestselling author of The Bone Season series. Her work has been translated into twenty-six languages. Her fourth novel, The Priory of the Orange Tree, was her first outside of The Bone Season series and was an international bestseller, as was its prequel A Day of Fallen Night. She lives in London.
Tasha Suri
Tasha Suri is an award-winning author, a writing tutor, an occasional librarian and a cat owner. She has won the Best Newcomer (Sydney J. Bounds) Award from the British Fantasy Society, the Starburst Brave New Words Award, and has been nominated for the Astounding Award and Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. Her debut novel Empire of Sand was named one of the 100 best fantasy books of all time by TIME magazine. When she isn’t writing, Tasha likes to cry over TV shows, buy too many notebooks, and indulge her geeky passion for reading about South Asian history. She lives with her family in a mildly haunted house in London.
About the Chair
CL Clark
Cherae graduated from Indiana University’s creative writing MFA. She’s been a personal trainer, an English teacher, and an editor, and is some combination thereof as she travels the world. When she’s not writing or working, she’s learning languages, doing P90something, or reading about war and [post-]colonial history. Her short fiction has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, FIYAH, PodCastle and Uncanny.
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