Happy, happy Women in Horror Month! This February is the 11th annual WiHM. I have some great stuff going on this year, including several bits of news!
My story “The Problem with Being a Monster” is coming out in Not All Monsters this October. Editor Sara Tantlinger is hosting a roundtable interview on her blog with some of the (all-female) authors to celebrate WiHM, including me. You can read the first question + answers here, and follow along as the month goes on to find out even more about this gorgeous anthology! [Edit: Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4.]
Happy, happy news: My flash story “Redless,” first published in The Binge-Watching Cure II, has been picked up for Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Volume 5! This will be my third year working with Red Room Press in this series, and it’s an absolute blast. I can’t wait!
I’m really honored that Grimscribe Press has chosen my story “The Filling” from Vastarien Vol 2, Issue 3 for submission to the Shirley Jackson Awards! How cool is that? You can read “The Filling” for free at this Dropbox link. (Tangentially, you can read my rave about Jackson herself here. And if you enjoy my enthusiasm for masterclass female horror authors, don’t miss “Thoughts on Beloved by Toni Morrison and Horror’s Literary Problem.”)
If you follow women in horror with any regularity, you’ve probably by now come across the amazing team at Ladies of Horror Fiction. I adore these folks and the work they do to bring well-earned attention to the women killing it in the genre. So of course when they invited me to write a guest post for their blog this WiHM, I said yes! Look for my post later this month, and be sure to follow LoHF around the web. [Edit: Here’s my post “Women in Horror.“]
Here’s the fun, shocking (to me at least!) way to share this next bit: someone created an Annie Neugebauer Wikipedia page. Um, what?
Okay so my friend Kelsey saw the tweet that explains why the heck someone I don’t know bothered to fill out a page about my writing. The answer is the actual reason why I’m sharing this (pure delight not quite outweighing the ick factor of perceived bragging all on its own—another feminist issue I regularly do battle with). It’s part of a movement called Wiki Women in Red, which aims to close the gender gap on Wikipedia. Did you know that less than 20% of the biographies there are about women? Less than a fifth. That’s a big deal when you realize that Wikipedia is the biggest and most used general reference on the World Wide Web.
Some pretty badass folks are working toward equality in this representation, and for some reason I was one of the authors added. (I have no idea. Please allow me my pure delight.) What an amazing way to honor your favorite authors this Women in Horror Month! Love someone’s work? Search to see if they have a page. If not, adding it would be a fantastic way to support them. I know it feels super valuable to me. ♥
If contributing to Wikipedia isn’t in your repertoire, last year on LitReactor I shared more ideas in “9 Ways to Celebrate Women in Horror Month.” The year before that I spotlighted “20 Women in Horror: Recommended Reading.” (Reading work by women writing horror is always a good way to go.)
Here on my blog I’ve also published “8 Authors to Follow: the Women in Horror Edition” and “Why Women in Horror Month Is Important.” One year editor Simon Dewar interviewed me on his blog.
So far at LitReactor for WiHM I’ve interviewed Lisa Morton on Women in Horror, Juggling a Broad Career, and Becoming a Halloween Expert and Sarah Read on “The Bone Weaver’s Orchard”, Horror, and Knitting.
Which brings me to my final bit of news for this February. This year on LitReactor I’m continuing my mini-tradition of spotlighting contemporary women in horror by interviewing the co-authors of Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction, Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson. I am so excited for this one. Not only are these two amazing, hardworking women who write, they’re writing about women who write horror! Could Women in Horror Month get any more apt? This nonfiction book is phenomenal, and if you haven’t already, the interview with these two will make you want to check it out, and I think that’d be just a perfect way to celebrate. [Edit: Here’s the Interview with Lisa and Melanie!]
How about it, folks? What are you doing this year to celebrate Women in Horror Month 11? I’d love to hear all about it in the comments!
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