The Outer Dark presents “The Weird Has Always Been Female: The Women’s Canon of Weird Fiction” a NecronomiCon 2022 panel moderated by Ann VanderMeer and featuring Christa Carmen, Leslie S. Klinger, Nicole Givens Kurtz, Zin E. Rocklyn, and Elena Tchougounova-Paulson. This podcast’s content was recorded in Providence, RI, on August 21, 2022.
Show Notes
The Outer Dark presents “The Weird Has Always Been Female: The Women’s Canon of Weird Fiction” a NecronomiCon 2022 panel moderated by Ann VanderMeer and featuring Christa Carmen, Leslie S. Klinger, Nicole Givens Kurtz, Zin E. Rocklyn, and Elena Tchougounova-Paulson. Recent scholarship shines an increasing light on the women founders and pioneers of Weird fiction who have been there since the beginning of the genre and who have been sometimes sidelined, sometimes writing under pseudonyms, and sometimes celebrated. Our panelists trace the history of these Weird women who shaped the genre, identify those overlooked or forgotten, and discuss the influence of women writers from Mary Shelley to the modern era. Be sure and scroll down to the Additional Links for all their reading recommendations! Thank you to Niels Hobbs, K.H. Vaughan, and all the fabulous NecronomiCon 2022 team for allowing us to air this podcast’s content, which was recorded in Providence, RI, on August 21, 2022.
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Additional Links
LISTEN: TOD 113 State of The Weird Roundtable 2022
Weird Women 2: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers, 1840-1925. (edited by Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Morton, Pegasus, 2021)
Octavia E. Butler (official website)
Gwendolyn Kiste (author website)
Sara Orne Jewett (“Return to Witness the Supernatural,” article, Boston.com)
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (wiki)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Chapter XIII, search “men in green”)
Zinaida Gippius, Part 1 (Making Queer History)
‘The Literary Legacy of Pauline Hopkins’ (WBUR, Feb. 12. 2021)
‘What Was Russian Symbolism?’ (Museum Studies Abroad)
We Are Here to Hurt Each Other by Paula D. Ashe (Nictitating Books, 2022, GoodReads)
Spook Lights: Southern Gothic Stories by Eden Royce, 2015, GoodReads)
When the Night Bells Ring by Jo Kaplan (CamCat Books, 2022)
Regina Miriam Bloch (Bio, Lesser Know Writers blog)
LISTEN: The Swine-Gods and Other Visionsby Regina Miriam Block (audio book, Librivox)
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington (Dorothy Project, NYRB Books)
Clarice Lispector (Various works translated into English, New Directions)
Tatyana Tolstaya (Penguin Random House)
Tananarive Due (author Website)
LISTEN: TOD 054 Her Own Dark Mythos: Tanith Lee Panel at NecronomiCon 2019
Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction (Cheeky Frawg Books, 2015)
Karin Tidbeck (author Website)
Shirley Jackson (official Website)
LISTEN: TOD A08 Chesya Burke: Strange Crimes and Dangerous Women
Carmen Maria Machado (author Website)
Sheree Renee Thomas (author Website)
Dark Matter, edited by Sheree Renee Thomas (2000, Good Reads)
WATCH: ‘How To Read Lovecraft When Black Lives Matter’ (Panel, HPLFF, 2020)
Show Credits
Hosts/Producers: Scott Nicolay and Anya Martin
Co-Host, News from The Weird: Justin Steele
Co-Host, Reviews from The Weird: Gordon B. White
Symposium Assistant Director: Melanie Crew
Symposium Programming Coordinator: Jess Lewis
Symposium Logistics: Melissa Eisner
Logo Design: Nick “The Hat” Gucker
Music: Michael Griffin
