Tag Archives: Emma Donoghue
Ladies of the Fright: Witches!!
Art by Kathleen Jennings as always, from Flight.
Over Halloween I had a chat with the delightful and delovely Lisa Quigley and Mackenzie Kiera, the Ladies of the Fright! About witches (or my “witch work”). Me, sounding very Australian
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Post at Tor.com: Five Books Containing Traces of Witches
Over at Tor.com I talk about five books containing traces of witches, specifically some magnificent works by Margo Lanagan, Juliet Marillier, Tanith Lee, Diana L. Paxson, and Emma Donoghue. Note: Seahearts was published as The Brides of Rollrock Island
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Exegesis, Part the Third: Mosaic
Kay Nielsen
Continuing the posts of the exegetical component of my PhD – no criticism intended, merely analysis. This section looks at mosaic novels and other forms of fragmented storytelling.
Part Three: Mosaic
‘My lies and the fragments
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New Wine in Old Bottles: A Meditation on Writing
Arthur Rackman's Little Match Girl
(This is an extract from my MA thesis from 2006, and is a meditation on my own writing of Black-Winged Angels and Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Donoghue’s Kissing the
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Meanwhile, over at SF Signal: The Dream Anthology
The delightful John DeNardo at SF Signal asked a few people to pick and choose for their dream anthology, citing what you’d choose and why. The answers were so big, they had to split the post in two.
Mine is here, as is that of Nancy Kress (hallowed be her
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