Constellations: The Octavia Project Speculative Fiction Mentorship: Professionally published authors from the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers mentor Octavia Project alumni one-on-one. The mentors guide mentees as they enter into the greater writing community, contend with the business of writing, and refine a single piece of fiction with the end goal of publication. Marcy Arlin, senior mentor and managing director of Constellations, and her former mentor Leah are interviewed by Constellatio...
Nov 05, 2024•32 min
As Bright As A Pearl by Andrea Janes, Read by Tatiana Grey When you sit in Mora's chair at the salon on the Coney Island Boardwalk, her fingers will find your roots and your secrets. As for what she does with them... Andrea Janes tells ghost stories for a living. She is the co-author of A Haunted History of Invisible Women and the owner and founder of Boroughs of the Dead, a boutique tour company dedicated to dark and unusual walking tours of New York City. She is currently at work on a Middle G...
Apr 02, 2024•34 min
Work Life Balance by Cara Mast, Read by Tonia Ransom Amerie receives an email at work that Return-to-Work is being mandated for her office. This is a problem, as she has been secretly living in her office for the last nine months because she can't afford both rent and her out of pocket payments for her curse-based illness. As a retired tall-ship sailor, a failed academic, and a reluctant finance professional, Cara Mast gets stopped constantly in New York City and asked for directions. Cara spend...
Mar 12, 2024•1 hr 4 min
A Song for Sunken Streets by Evan Berkow, Read by Lanna Joffrey Nona is a loner living in a flooded Brooklyn. She's running away from her past and looking for hope. What she finds is a mermaid on a mission. The fate of New York City depends on their ability to see past their trauma. Evan Berkow is a writer of speculative fiction in the hours when he's not lawyering. His fiction has appeared in places such as Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and Flash Fiction Online. You can find him on Twitter @Eva...
Mar 12, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Special Delivery by Carlos Delgado, Read by Wilson Fowlie A Guatemalan delivery driver struggling to make it in a climate change affected Brooklyn where the fantastic is one cyber skin away, makes a delivery that goes very badly very quickly. Carlos Luis Delgado is a Brooklyn-based speculative fiction writer and editor. As a member of BSFW, he also leads workshops and writing classes. He's been previously published as part of My Father's Files, a mystery horror podcast. This is his second public...
Feb 27, 2024•57 min
And the Raucous Depths Abide by Sam Schreiber, Read by Rish Outfield An alien empire sends a drone to monitor Earth, but things go awry and the device's CPU and backup end up at cross purposes. After centuries at the bottom of the ocean, the CPU has gone mad and is bent on destroying humanity. The backup finds a way to save the day, though there is of course pain involved. But life is pain. Anyone who says anything different is selling something. Sam Schreiber is a writer living in Brooklyn with...
Oct 10, 2023•44 min
The Only Living Cabby In New York City by Jason Smith, Read by Laurice White A woman in the not-so-far future hails a cab home during a heavy storm and experiences a rare phenomenon: a human cab driver, persevering through the automation and technological advances of his competition. Jason A. Smith is a Brooklyn based science fiction author. His work can been heard in Kaleidocast, seen in the Fall 2022 Issue of the Brooklyn based Zine "Open Book," read in a college literary magazine from 14 year...
Sep 26, 2023•1 hr 6 min
The Bodies Upstairs by Divyansha Sehgal, read by Tony Perry A person haunted by zombie-like apparitions seeks to cure his condition with a specialist who claims he can help and is taught in the ways of mending otherworldly wounds.... Divyansha Sehgal is a speculative fiction writer currently based in New Delhi, India. She is also an associate editor and actor on the Kaleidocast.nyc Tony Perry is an actor and singer-songwriter. He narrated the film Lost and Found, and the audio comic The Captain ...
Sep 12, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Treatment and Cure by Katie Story, Read by Lanna Joffrey Your unexpected stay in the COVID wing takes a nightmarish turn. Something at the hospital is hungry. Katie Story is a Brooklyn-based graphic designer, illustrator, and writer who fosters cranky, toothless cats. She studied creative writing at Pratt Institute and is a member of Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers. Lanna Joffrey is an award-winning actor, spoken word performer and writer based in London who works extensively in the US and ...
Aug 29, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Jean Genii by Randee Dawn, Read by Sally Hourigan A Brooklyn lawyer unwittingly frees a genie from its lamp while cleaning out the closet of a deceased coworker, and uses her training and wits to find the happy ending that's so hard to come by. Randee Dawn is a Brooklyn-based entertainment journalist whose debut novel, Tune in Tomorrow, about a fantastical TV reality show, published in August. She writes about show business for Variety, The Los Angeles Times, Emmy Magazine and Today.com and is t...
Aug 15, 2023•50 min
No Version Like Home by Liam Burke, Read by Tatiana Grey A group of activists stage an attack against an evil conglomerate. When their plan goes horribly wrong, an unexpected ally appears to guide them to safety through a string of alternate dimensions, offering a proposition that could prove the salvation or damnation of the multiverse. Liam Burke is an independent author with a passion for juxtaposing biting humor along with the sharp teeth of horror, razor code of cyberpunk, and back alley de...
Aug 01, 2023•1 hr 16 min
Sometimes the only way forward is through fire. The only way to stay true to yourself is to change. Sometimes that can change the world. Read by Lanna Joffrey and Tatiana Grey, our grand finale comes from Amal El-Mohtar and Merc Fenn Wolfmoor. A poem of survival from Amal and a story of revolution's dawning from Merc. Resistance for the sake of love. Theirs are the words we truly need to hear, now more than ever. "A Tale of Ash in Seven Birds" by Amal El-Mohtar, Read by Lanna Joffrey Amal El-Moh...
Jul 27, 2021•1 hr 11 min
We're not always aware of the world we're creating for ourselves and for others. We don't always understand our impact. But there is impact nonetheless. Read by Tatiana Grey, Maria brings us a story of the world that crept up on us screaming for our attention. Read by Lucie Pohl, Brit's story is about a hero who is rescued by the city she loves. "The Kleptographer" by Brit E.B. Hvide, Read by Lucie Pohl Brit E. B. Hvide is a writer and a Hugo Award-nominated editor. She studied creative writing ...
Jul 13, 2021•1 hr 19 min
The rarest and wisest characters tell their own tale and create their own mythology. C.S.E. Cooney, Mimi Mondal, and Joshua A.C. Newman bring you characters that refuse to conform. "The Foxgirl Cycle" by C.S.E. Cooney, Read by C.S.E. Cooney, produced by Jeremy Cooney and Stefan Mark Dollak C.S.E. Cooney is the author of World Fantasy Award-winning Bone Swans: Stories. Her short novel The Twice-Drowned Saint is included in Mythic Delirium’s anthology The Sinister Quartet. Her forthcoming novel Sa...
Jun 22, 2021•1 hr 17 min
"Is it ever too late to start living? Is it ever too late to find your love? E.C. Myers and Liz Riegel give two very different but oh so compelling answers to this question. Stories read by the fantastic Bradley Robert Parks and introducing Q-Lim with a fantastically moving perfromance Liz Riegel is a queer collage artist, sometimes-beekeeper, and writer who is endlessly inspired by the natural world. Bradley Robert Parks is a writer and sometimes singer, and founded the Brooklyn Speculative Fi...
Jun 08, 2021•1 hr 5 min
At the core of every mind numbing horror, there is a joke waiting for its time to shine. I dare you not to laugh out loud when listening to Kris Dikeman's perfectly paired story (read it with wine for the spit take), and Sam Schreiber takes you on a noir whodunnit with a werewolf too curious for his own good. "A Singular Event, In Several Courses" by Kris Dikeman, Read by Mary Boughey Kris Dikeman lives and works in New York City. Her stories have appeared in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, B...
May 25, 2021•1 hr 2 min
The past lives in the walls. It lives just over our shoulder. It stares at us without blinking. It stares from the mirrors. It can never just be. So neither can we. Charlie Jane Anders and Bradley Robert Parks bring us two ghost stories. One takes lives while the other saves them, one punchline at a time. "Sustenance" by Bradley Robert Parks, Read by Bradley Levine Bradley Robert Parks is a writer and sometimes singer, and founded the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers in 2010. His publicatio...
May 11, 2021•1 hr 28 min
What happens to the not-heroes when the story's over? Max Gladstone and Ted Rabinowitz peak through the window of those characters who must live without the benefit of plot armor. "Centaur's Lament," by Ted Rabinowitz, Read by Rish Outfield Ted Rabinowitz Ted Rabinowitz is an author and copywriter whose previous careers include electrician, script reader, and professional card player. His first novel, The Wrong Sword, was published in 2012, and his writing has appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy...
Apr 20, 2021•36 min
Monsters know you better than they know themselves. Val Rigodon and Zin E. Rocklyn bring you stories inspired folklore and heartache. "Little Red" by Val Rigodon, Read by Tony Perry Val Rigodon is a poet, writer, and occultist from Brooklyn, New York. She is a 2019 Poets’ House Fellow and a member of Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers. She is also a J.D candidate. One day she hopes to own a house by the sea. Val is extremely honored to have her story featured on the Kaleidocast. Tony Perry is...
Apr 06, 2021•50 min
Memories of a country that never was, and the world behind the door at the top of the stairs. Nothing every trully belongs to us. Sarah Pinsker and Nikki C Smith give us bitter sweet stories that complicate the narratives we tell ourselves. "That Our Flag Was Still There," by Sarah Pinkser, Read by Stacie Chaiken Sarah Pinsker's novel A Song For A New Day won the Nebula Award for best novel, and her collection Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea won the Philip K. Dick Award. She has be...
Mar 23, 2021•1 hr 20 min
The meek shall inherit the Earth. Carmen Maria Machado and Sondra Fink tell us how the world ends. But every ending is also the beginning of something new. "The Hungry Earth" by Carmen Maria Machado, Read by Tony Perry Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House and the short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, t...
Mar 09, 2021•56 min
Here producer and Season 2 story runner, Sam Schreiber, chooses one of his favorite episodes that you may have missed and gives you the backstory behind the episode. Stories, and context, and quotes, oh my! Featuring commentary from Wilson Fowlie.
Jun 05, 2019•1 hr 47 min
"Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology" A group of academics initiate a project to "imagine" a fictional country, only to find that their collective imaginings have coalesced into a very real country with very real history, culture, and geopolitical significance. The story takes the form of one of the academics' writings, which take a harrowing and intimately personal turn. The Author: Theodora Goss is the World Fantasy and Locus Award-winning author of the short story collection ...
Jan 15, 2019•52 min
The Right to Bear Arms A near future, near-dystopia: the narrator is an army ve| with a government issued prosthetic arm. When it starts to malfunction, he goes to a specialist who builds him and two other disfigured vets a new state of the art arm for free. The Author & Narrator Zak Zyz is a SF fantasy writer who lives in Brooklyn and fixes things for a living. When he's not writing, he hosts the Surreal Symphony, a live internet talk show with today's best and brightest speculative fiction...
Jan 02, 2019•36 min
The Right to Bear Arms A near future, near-dystopia: the narrator is an army ve| with a government issued prosthetic arm. When it starts to malfunction, he goes to a specialist who builds him and two other disfigured vets a new state of the art arm for free. The Author & Narrator Zak Zyz is a SF fantasy writer who lives in Brooklyn and fixes things for a living. When he's not writing, he hosts the Surreal Symphony, a live internet talk show with today's best and brightest speculative fiction...
Dec 11, 2018•39 min
Not That Kind of Dream Girl A man at the crossroads of good and evil is perfect prey for the City. The Author: Evan Berkow is a writer of speculative fiction in the hours when he's not lawyering. His fiction has appeared in a bunch of places, such as Strange Horizons, Escape Pod and Crossed Genres Magazine. He's a member of SFWA, Codex, and the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers critique group. He lives in Pleasantville, NY, with his wife, kids, and a small menagerie consisting of two enormous...
Nov 27, 2018•50 min
Touch That Dial: THEY are coming for you and there's nothing you can do. Or is there? Author: Michael Philip Wells grew up in Michigan and lives in Brooklyn, New York. His story "A Chinatown Ghost Story" will be published in the upcoming fiction issue of Nang, a new and beautifully eccentric print magazine devoted to Asian cinema. He has been working on a large-scale fantasy novel since well before the invention of the podcast, and writes extremely intermittently about film at EveryoneLikesMovie...
Nov 13, 2018•30 min
Sabbath Wine A poignant story taking place in the radical Brooklyn twenties of a friendship between a Jewish girl and an African-American boy, centered around a Sabbath dinner. Their parents find common cause in their experiences and losses from prejudices and bigotries. The Author: Barbara Krasnoff has had short stories appear in over 30 print and online publications, including “Sabbath Wine,” which was published in Clockwork Phoenix 5 and was a finalist for the 2016 Nebula Award for short stor...
Oct 30, 2018•54 min
Judges Cave Author: Eric Rosenfield's fiction has been published in Kaleidotrope, LORE, Lakeside Circus and 365 Tomorrows. His non-fiction has been anthologized in The Modern Library Anthology of New York Diaries and published in io9, The New Haven Review, The Comics Journal, and LitKicks.com among other venues. He currently works as the CTO of the serialized fiction service Serial Box. Actor: Paul Karle is an actor living and working in New York City. He loves cats and Star Trek. Find him at ww...
Oct 16, 2018•53 min
Wallflowers: An upscale shop has usurped what used to be NYC's infamous Limelight nightclub. Now the ghosts of the nightclub, looking for the artistic vitality that once was, take their vengeance on a salesgirl to whom the current dictates of fashion and beauty are everything. The Author: Lilah Wild is a graduate of Clarion West and her dark fiction has appeared in venues such as Pseudopod, Dark Tales from Elder Regions: New York, Niteblade, and Morbid Curiosity. Her fascinations include belly-d...
Oct 02, 2018•55 min
