You’re viewing the first iteration of this list. It will be updated as we add more links and titles. For now, the majority of the recommendations are related to writing the other, compiled as a supplement to our post, On #OwnVoices and the Importance of Sensitivity Readers.
Recommended Texts
Writing the Other by Cynthia Ward and Nisi Shawl
Life Isn’t Binary by Meg-John Barker and Alex Iantaffi
All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson
Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity by Micah Rajunov
Invisible: Personal Essays on Representation in SF/F (three volumes) (A lot of these essays are available on Jim C Hines’ blog. They are all published together in the books.)
Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction by Jeff VanderMeer
Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story by Ursula K Le Guin
Write Characters Your Readers Won’t Forget by Stan Litore
Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses
The Heroine’s Journey by Gail Carriger
Relevant Secondary texts:
About Writing by Samuel R Delaney
The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley
Web Resources
Writing the Other Roundtable: How To Stay In Your Lane
Listening 101 or What Happens When Your Sensitivity Reader Tells You The Book is Hot Garbage
11.46: Colonialism, with Steven Barnes, Tempest Bradford, DongWon Song, and Shveta Thakrar
Should White People Write About People of Color?
Hiromi Goto: WisCon38 Guest of Honour Speech
Writing POC When You are White
The Easiest And Quickest Way To Make A Bunch Of White People Mad At You (Hint: Just Say “No”)
Writing Better Diverse Characters
Nine Worlds: The ‘Just Don’t’ list from Writing the Other workshop
Writing the Margins from the Centre and Other Moral Geometries by Amal El-Mohtar
Max Gladstone on Bees and Diversity
The Dos and Don’ts of Writing About the Disabled
Good Writers, Coasting, and How You Can Avoid Joss Whedon’s Mistakes
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