International Women’s Day Science-Fiction Sonnet Challenge

March 8th, 2010
by Yonmei
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Write a sonnet on women and girls reading and writing science-fiction.

Girls are reading science-fiction? What a
girl’s gotta do: transpose transform translate
re-do re-see re-late create update
hero thinker science nerd great white way
We are reading science-fiction – okay
girl, who are you? Are you hero’s soul mate
evil witch whore gopher silent oblate?
can you read science-fiction and re-play
each world in your mind as a maker of
worlds, each world of your mind makes a maker
of you, writing worlds out of words out of
science and her, robots and swords, shaker
of thoughts, whileaway nerds, and dreamer of
how you can change science-fiction, writer.

Be reminded that the deadline for Hugo nominations is Sunday 14th March 2010, 07:59 GMT (that is, midnight Saturday 13th March PST).

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One Response to “International Women’s Day Science-Fiction Sonnet Challenge”

  1. Sandra Almazan on March 9, 2010 12:25 am

    Thanks for sharing your sonnet! It inspired me to write my own:

    http://ulbrichalmazan.blogspot.com/2010/03/sonnet-for-women-sf-authors.html

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