Shortlisted for a BSFA Award
Or: Huzzah!
Delighted to see that the second Fight Like A Girl anthology, edited by Jo Hall and Roz Clarke and published by Cheryl Morgan at Wizard’s Tower Press, has been shortlisted for best anthology by the BSFA.
The collection celebrates women in the genre, featuring strong female leads and some of the best women writers of SFF. It follows the huge success of the first Fight Like A Girl antho, published by Kristell Ink books in 2016, which was also Award-listed.
Both of these collections were written in answer to the (sadly still existing) accusation that stories of woman warriors are somehow unrealistic (and likewise ties in with the more recent belief that SFF ‘didn’t exist for women’ ‘til the current ‘romantasy’ trend).
FLAG2 features:
Foreword by Roz Clarke & Joanne Hall
Introduction by Charlotte Bond
The God of Lost Things Or Ethel, Dragonslayer by Danie Ware
Ambition’s Engine by Gaie Sebold
A Human Response by Dolly Garland
More Trouble Than She’s Worth? by Cheryl Morgan
Civil War by Juliet E. McKenna
Lady Cona by Anna Smith Spark
Ready for Combat by K R Green
We have Always Been Here by Julia Hawkes-Reed
The Seamstress, the Hound, the Cook, and her Brother by K T Davies
A Way Out by S. Naomi Scott
Amplify by Lou Morgan
The full list of nominations is here, and the winners will be announced at this year’s EasterCon.
Fingers crossed!



Hurrah! Crossing everything 🤞