What in the Weird?: A deep dive into weird fiction
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky So, by now, if you’ve been following this blog for a bit, you would have realised thatContinue Reading
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Unsettling Fiction: The weird, the horrifying, and the terrifying
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky Humans are strange creatures – in a world where we can choose from an abundance of comfortContinue Reading
The Terror and the Sublime in Tim McGregor’s ‘Lure’
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky I was recently lucky enough to score an Advance Reader Copy of Tim McGregor’s upcoming release, ‘Lure’.Continue Reading
The Sublime and Subliminal: Pushing boundaries in Gothic fiction
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky One of the most interesting characteristics of Gothic fiction has to be its veneration of the sublime.Continue Reading
The Gothic, the Grimdark, and the Grotesque
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky In my last post, I shared the results from putting Tasmanian Gothic through Chris Angelis’ Gothic Meter.Continue Reading
The Gothic Perspective – a Q&A with Gothic scholar Chris Angelis
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky Keeping with the deep-dive into all things gothic in the lead up to Tasmanian Gothic‘s release (AugContinue Reading
So, just how gothic is Tasmanian Gothic?
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky As you might have realised, I fell down a wondrous rabbit hole of gothic and weird scholarshipContinue Reading
A Gothic Future – the case for gothic science fiction
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky When I was first drafting my latest release, I knew I wanted to call it Tasmanian Gothic.Continue Reading
Speculative Fiction – a new approach to genre and subgenres
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky As my portfolio starts to expand (the complete Divided Elements series is published next year, and myContinue Reading
Dystopian Archetypes – 2. Divided Population
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky One of the recurring plot devices in dystopian literature is the ‘Divided Population’. This is to be expected,Continue Reading
Dystopian Archetypes – 1. High Tech Utopia vs Savage Natural World
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky Recently, I finished reading two YA dystopian novels that, while very different to each other, contained aContinue Reading
Fiction & Fashion
by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky Recently I was browsing through pinterest, looking for images that would help to crystallise my ideas forContinue Reading
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