Tag: fantasymagazine

  • Why Fantasy?

    Why Fantasy?

    Alexandria Burnham I have always had an appetite for the big and sprawling. When I first became a writer, film as a story medium was my first love. But, by their nature, screenplays can only be as long as people can sit still, without needing to go to the bathroom, eat, stretch their legs, or…

  • Why I write fantasy

    Bronwyn Eley It’s funny, as the avid writer and reader that I am today, it’s incredible to me that I barely read as a child. I read prescribed school texts, I read Harry Potter, I read the occasional fantasy book. But my true appreciation for fantasy began during university (I THINK) when I read Poison…

  • Why Fantasy?

    Tace Samoset I used to get sick as a kid. The kind of sick you only get in the tropics when you live a long way from a doctor. I have vivid memories of lying on a cane daybed in the living room while my mum read to me. She must have been worried, sitting…

  • Why Fantasy

    Ally Bodnaruk Fantasy and science fiction do something unique when compared to other, realist genres. They build entirely new worlds, with new ideologies and societies and cultures. They’re works of curiosity and trying to answer questions we don’t quite understand. From early foundational texts, like Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) or Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), that…