BFS Online: Power in SFFH – Interview

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BFS Chair Shona Kinsella and Juliet McKenna chat about chat about power dynamics, fantasy reimaginings and all things writing.

Juliet McKenna (she/her): Juliet E McKenna is a British fantasy author living in the Cotswolds, UK. Her epic fantasy debut, The Thief’s Gamble, began The Tales of Einarinn in 1999, followed by The Aldabreshin Compass sequence, The Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution, and The Hadrumal Crisis trilogies. The Green Man’s Heir began her ongoing contemporary fantasy series inspired by British folklore in 2018. The Green Man’s Quarry won the BSFA Award for Best Novel 2023, and The Green Man’s Debt is the ninth title coming in September 2026. Her shorter fiction includes forays into dark fantasy, steampunk, science fiction and shared world projects, while her novel The Cleaving is a female-centred retelling of King Arthur’s story. She has served as a judge for the James White Award, the Aeon Award, the Arthur C Clarke Award and the World Fantasy Awards. In 2015 she received the British Fantasy Society’s Karl Edward Wagner Award. She is currently on the Society of Authors management committee, and blogs about book trade issues alongside other interests.

Connect with Juliet on Bluesky, Facebook or Mastodon. And find out what she’s up to on her website. Get Juliet’s books here.

Shona Kinsella (she/her): Shona Kinsella is a Scottish author of mythic fantasy. Her works include Daughters of Nicnevin, The Heart of Winter, Petra MacDonald and the Queen of the Fae, The Flame and the Flood, and non-fiction Outlander and the Real Jacobites: Scotland’s Fight for the Stuarts. Her short fiction can be found in various magazines and anthologies. Shona was the editor of the British Fantasy Society’s fiction publication BFS Horizons for four years and is now the Chair of the Society. She has been shortlisted for four British Fantasy Awards. She lives near Loch Lomond with her husband and children.

Find out more about Shona on her website. Or you can follow her on Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky. Books: Daughters of Nicnevin; Heart of Winter; Petra MacDonald; Flame & Flood; Outlander/Real Jacobites.