All Episodes
Breaking the Glass Slipper — 179 episodes
In the halls of learning – with Danielle Knight
Theatre as portal fantasy – with Rym Kechacha
Far future food – with Lavanya Lakshminarayan
Conventions – with Katie Bruce
Writing the magic – with Juliet E. Mckenna
Alternate histories – with Sarah Brooks
Zombies are us – with Leigh Radford
Big deck energy – with Frances White
Unspinning Sleeping Beauty – with Georgia Leighton
Why choose? – with Elizabeth Helen
Pacifism and principles – with Maithree Wijesekara
Women on trial – with Grady Hendrix
Summer holidays!
Writing horror comics with Corissa Grant
The poetry of space – with Oliver K. Langmead
Secrets and killers with Kaaron Warren
Keeping it short – with Gianni Washington
Secret societies & the occult – with S.T. Gibson
The horror of space travel with SA Barnes
Religion, tradition, and history in fantasy with Andrew Knighton
Yes, we’re also authors – with Lucy and Charlotte
Obsessional love and vengeance with S.E. Porter
Ghosts have warm hands – with Katherine Arden
Beneath the skin of the earth – with Nicola Griffith
Othering and exoticism in fantasy with Eliza Chan
Community and isolation – with Jennifer Thorne
Romancing the necromancer – with Alice James
The dark half of the year – with Lili Hayward
The power of language – with Jelena Dunato and Ioanna Papadopoulou
“Something a little monstrous” – with Isabel Cañas
The poison salon – with Rose Biggin
Medical hive minds – with Hiron Ennes
Exploring Jewish folklore – with Ariel Kaplan
The singing bone – with Lucy Holland & Charlotte Bond
The AI apocalypse with Emma Mieko Candon
Politics and tropes in fantasy with Andrea Stewart
Embracing rage in speculative fiction with Kritika H. Rao
The realities of colonialism – with C.L. Clark
After the end – with Cassandra Khaw
Away with the fairies – with Heather Fawcett
The women of Arthurian legends with Juliet E. McKenna
The myth of a fair society – with Lavanya Lakshminarayan
Haunted houses – with Grady Hendrix
Exploring Xianxia – with Mia Tsai
Loving monsters – with Roshani Chokshi
A lifetime of writing – with Jane Yolen
“But what if a woman wrote this?” – with Claire North
Folk horror – with Tori Bovalino
Genre mash-ups: romance and crime with Freya Marske
Myth, magic and mothers – with Shauna Lawless
Feminism and noir with CL Polk
Rogues – with Ren Hutchings
Oppression & survival – with Sunyi Dean
No trope is an island – with Foz Meadows
Cyberpunk with Kimberly Unger
Metaphor and social commentary with Saara El-Arifi
The haunt – with Michelle Paver
Families in horror with Priya Sharma
Women write YA?
Curses and consent – with Heather Walter
Rights, retellings and the Ramayana – with Vaishnavi Patel
“Do not take me for granite” – with Amal El-Mohtar
Deconstructing Cinderella – with JJA Harwood
Unmapping fantasy with A. K. Larkwood
Slavic narratives with Gabriela Houston
Women, history & power – with Kate Heartfield
Beyond the Mafia – with Fonda Lee
Cli-fi and catastrophe
Hopeful speculative fiction with Ryka Aoki
Body horror with Ellen Datlow
“Perfect” women – with Cat Valente
Female friendships – with Alix E Harrow
Power and agency in dystopian YA with Melissa Welliver
Reconciling our love of works by problematic creators
The mash-up: science fiction and cosmic horror with Ada Hoffmann
Political fantasy with Katherine Addison
Technology and the fear of change with Sarah Pinsker
The power of love with Tasha Suri
Tackling the classics – with Nghi Vo
Revenge with Marjorie Liu
Moving the frontier – with Stark Holborn
Chosen Identities – with Charlie Jane Anders
Franchise writing with Una McCormack
Making the ordinary monstrous with Catriona Ward
Communities with Caroline Hardaker and Gabriela Houston
Exploring Ragnarok – with H.M. Long & Genevieve Gornichec
Parenthood with Julia Fine
Matriarchies – with Aliette de Bodard
Loneliness in science fiction with Aliya Whiteley
Hollywood Monsters – with Mallory O’Meara
Magical inequality with Nicole Glover
Scrooge reimagined
Language & Power – with Genevieve Cogman
Childhood Heroines
Reclaiming the vampire – with Vivian Shaw
The invisibility of women with V.E. Schwab
A magical education with Naomi Novik
Into the Wood – with Emily Tesh
The Cabin in the Woods: horror, comedy & choice
Aberrant and broken magic with Melissa Caruso
Gender in Chivalric Romance
Mermaids with Beth Cartwright
Deconstructing the Chosen One – with Veronica Roth
Addressing our biases
Horror and isolation with Melinda Salisbury
Back to the 80s: Willow
Gendering monsters
Narration and ambiguity with Camilla Bruce
Finding the magic in magical realism – with Natasha Pulley
Power through a gendered lens with Menna Van Praag
Cosmic horror with Premee Mohamed
Back to the 80s: Ladyhawke
Onscreen representation of women with Kate Madison
Rethinking the Badass with Alex Acks
Reinventing the Fairytale with Brigid Kemmerer
Bonus: RJ Barker and Micah Yongo (live)
Re-imaginings with Christina Henry
Writing and adapting Orphan Black with Madeline Ashby
Horror short stories with Marie O’Regan
FantasyCon 2019: Women vs. the world
The moment of the novella with JY Yang
Disney Princes
Alternate histories with Mary Robinette Kowal
Islands in speculative fiction: Live from WorldCon
Trinities with Jen Williams
Alien at 40: The making of a feminist icon
The importance of diversity in children’s books
Women write Science Fiction – with Lisa Yaszek
The problem with the chosen one
Representations of motherhood with Aliette de Bodard
Writing as a career with Sarah Pinborough
The enduring legacy of Shirley Jackson – with Catriona Ward
The Princess Bride
Time travel with Kameron Hurley
Cultural Traditions of Magic – with Zen Cho
Transgender representation in SFF with Cheryl Morgan
Sex! Pregnancy! Birth! Representations of reproduction
Representations of disability with Marissa Lingen
Choose your own Bandersnatch
Seasonal scares
Writing comics with Leah Moore
Layers and landscapes with Aliya Whiteley
Unravelling mysteries (Live from FantasyCon 2018)
John Gwynne on traditional fantasy tropes
Writing (female) characters
Disposable characters
Catriona Ward & ‘the liminal space between certainties’
S03, E18: Catriona Ward & ‘the liminal space between certainties’
Revisiting The Dark Crystal
S03, E17: Revisiting The Dark Crystal
Magic, Wealth and Power with Vic James
S03, E16: Magic, Wealth and Power with Vic James
Women’s jobs in fantasy
S03, E15: Women’s jobs in fantasy
Grimdark with Anna Smith Spark
S03, E14: Grimdark with Anna Smith Spark
Women’s jobs in science fiction
S03, E13: Women’s jobs in science fiction
Toxic masculinity
S03, E12: Toxic Masculinity
Women’s ghost stories with Melissa Edmundson Makala
S03, E11: Women’s ghost stories with Melissa Edmundson Makala
Idealised characters and Mary Sues
S03, E10: Idealised characters and Mary Sues
Fighting oppression with Paige L Christie
S03, E09: Fighting oppression with Paige L Christie
Describing women with Gwen C. Katz
S03, E08: Describing women with Gwen C Katz
Jeanne Cavelos on teaching genre writing
S03, E07: Jeanne Cavelos on teaching genre writing
Fantasy, nostalgia, and working for hire with David Tallerman
S03, E06: Fantasy, nostalgia, and working for hire with David Tallerman
Where are the tampons? with Tiffani Angus
S03, E05: Where are the tampons? with Tiffani Angus
Violence as climactic conflict
S03, E04: Violence as climactic conflict
The Bechdel-Wallace test
S03, E03: The Bechdel-Wallace test
Christian mythology in fantasy with Jeannette Ng