November, 2022 | Lauren Beukes

November 30, 2022

The Power Of Afrofuturism: Short Piece On Our “Unhinged Era” In SciFi For Nature Circa 2017

Throwback to 2017 when Nature Magazine asked six authors to talk about our "unhinged era" (2017) and how that affects science fiction. Some really great short pieces on the scifi genre in a world "unhinged" at times. I wrote a piece titled The Power of Afrofuturism. Ten out of ten - a compilation well worth [...]

November 23, 2022

Time Out List Shining Girls As A Series You Do Not Want To Miss in 2022

Time Out created a list of their top "22 best TV and streaming shows of 2022 (so far)" and included Shining Girls! The adaptation is featured alongside some amazing shows released in 2022, Time Out's Phil de Semlyen writes: "What a year. Seriously, why did we ever go outside?" "Mind-bending and complex" Alim Kheraj writes: [...]

November 17, 2022

IndieWire Include Shining Girls In Most Anticipated Films And TV Shows At SXSW 2022

Kate Erbland and Eric Kohn at IndieWire included The Shining Girls adaptation premiere in their list of The 20 Most Anticipated Films and TV Shows at SXSW 2022. So cool to see it listed here amongst some truly amazing films and shows featured at SXSW this year. The series premiered at SXSW under the EPISODIC [...]

November 9, 2022

Amazing Fan Art Of Shining Girls Episodes Featuring Dan, Kirby And Harper

We found this awesome fan art from @greentea_0830 while trawling the #shininggirls hashtag on Instagram. They've captured Dan, Kirby and Harper so brilliantly. Every one of their paintings are almost like picture summaries of each episode from episode 1 through to episode 6 - so cool. Thank you so much @greentea_0830 for the beautiful paintings [...]

November 5, 2022

Joining Barcelona’s Festival 42 This Weekend For Talks & Meets

Hola! This week I'm in Barcelona at the all-things-fantasy Festival 42 at the Fabra i Coats. This evening I'm joining a group talk titled Cardinal points for a map of the world: the international voices of Festival 42 - myself, Aliette de Bodard, Christian Guay-Poliquin, Cat Rambo and Lavie Tidhar chat about our works in fantasy [...]

November 2, 2022

Shining Girls Included In Vulture’s Top 2022 Book-To-Screen Adaptations

Thrilled to see Vulture include Apple TV's The Shining Girls adaptation in their 60 New Page-to-Screen Adaptations to Add to Your 2022 Reading List! A comprehensive list with some stellar book-to-screen adaptations. From Vulture: "After The Handmaid’s Tale and Shirley, Elisabeth Moss seems to have developed quite the penchant for gripping dramas. Her next venture is The Shining Girls, [...]