Seven Standpoints Charming short poem about cultural differences when dealing w/ an alien, centered around sandwich issues. The Author: D. T. Friedman lives in Brooklyn with her cat, Kimble. ---------------------------------------- The Emperor Mantis A story of vengeance and resistance on the isle of ants. Never underestimate the small for they are legion and unforgiving. The Author: Essowe Tchalim is a writer of speculative fiction short stories and novels. He graduated from Brooklyn College, w...
Sep 18, 2018•43 min
The Machine For a pair of socks, a guide takes our narrator on a tour of The Machine (representing our world), as well as all the various groups that try to effect or control it. The Author: Phenderson Djéli Clark is an occasional speculative fiction writer. His short SFF stories have appeared in online venues such as Daily Science Fiction, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Fantasy-Magazine, Fireside Fiction, Tor.com and several print anthologies including Griots and Hidden Youth. His debut novella The ...
Sep 04, 2018•56 min
Unleashed Beauty: An artist creates a biological work of art, only to discover that he's playing with forces he doesn't understand. Marriage, love, and ambition all play a role in leading to the catastrophic conclusion of this story. The Author: Nancy Hightower has been published in Joyland, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Sundog Lit, Word Riot, storySouth. Gargoyle, and Cleaver, and has written about politics and religion in HuffPost. From 2014-2016, she reviewed science fiction and fantasy for The Washington...
Aug 21, 2018•1 hr 4 min
The Aliens Cloned Trent Darcell The clone of a mid-level pop star recounts his newly rekindled musical career to his genetic forebear, who was abducted and cloned by extraterrestrials in a strange, but beautiful romp through the rock scene. The Author: ZigZag Claybourne wishes he’d grown up with the powers of either Gary Mitchell or Charlie X but without the Kirk confrontations. His work has appeared in Apex Magazine, Strange Horizons, Stupefying Stories, Vex Mosaic, FlashShot, The Reverie Journ...
Aug 07, 2018•47 min
The Magical Properties of Unicorn Ivory When a cynical reporter goes to observe a unicorn from an alternate universe that now lives in ours, she encounters poachers, a forest ranger and a child used as a unicorn lure. The Author: Carlos Hernandez is the author of The Assimilated Cuban's Guide to Quantum Santeria (Rosarium 2016) and numerous works of short fiction, poetry, and drama, mostly in SFF. Look for his middle-grade novel Sal and Gabi Break the Universe from Disney Hyperion in March 2019....
Jul 24, 2018•39 min
This is the first episode of Season 2. I hope you enjoy it. We will begin releasing episodes to the public bi-weekly on July 10th. The Story: Jeffy has turned himself in for the murder of his friend Timmy over a rare card in a game. The murder is an accident, by black hole, and Jeffy, according to his mother, is the child of extra-terrestrial beings. But what happens to the lives of ordinary people while a child remains missing? The Author: N. K. Jemisin’s work has been multiply nominated for th...
May 27, 2018•49 min
Hello Everyone, As promised, here is the finale episode of my interview with Theodora Goss, and it's probably my favorite part. As you'll hear, we talk about Hungary as a fairyland, the politics of walls, Jane Austin as post apocalyptic required reading, and bears. But most important, we really get at Theodora's writer's journey, which is always personal, nuanced, and challenging for anybody who picks up the pen (keyboard? tablet? Smartphone?). Thank you, Theodora for your honesty, time, and of ...
Jun 28, 2017•27 min
Here is Part 3 of my interview with Theodora Goss. But, I realized today I have enough for a fourth episode. So, surprise! There will be one more! In today's episode, we'll start the discussion with the differences between vampires, fairies, and witches in Eastern Europe and the Catholic church's fight against them, or at least the belief in them. And speaking of vampires, we'll get a little more into the backstory of the classic novel, Dracula, particularly what (or who) was left out. We'll als...
Jun 26, 2017•34 min
Hello Writers, Here's part 2 of my interview with Theodora. This time, we'll be discussing... The enigmatic Sarah Bernhardt Writers craft and poetics in story telling And how to make room for the fantastic in the real world.
Jun 26, 2017•14 min
Hello Writers! This is Cameron Roberson, and what you're about to listen to is an interview I did with award winning author and professor of English literature, Theodora Goss. In part 1 of this three part interview, we'll discuss: -animal magic and Ursilla LeGuin's science fiction -the significance of the Gothic Period(s) and anthropology to our conception of the modern monster -Theodora's latest novel, The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter -Why the best way to start on the path of a succ...
Jun 26, 2017•23 min
Jonathan Lethem, Author of Insipid Profession of Jonathan Hornebom Jonathan Lethem is the author of Dissident Gardens and eight other novels. His fiction and essays have been translated into over thirty languages. He lives in Los Angeles and Maine. For more information, check out Jonathanlethem.com. Tatiana Gomberg as Narrator and Harriet: Narrator and Tatiana Gomberg is a New York City based actress and audiobook narrator. She has performed Off and Off- Off Broadway as well as regionally and i...
May 18, 2016•1 hr 5 min
Jonathan Lethem, Author of Insipid Profession of Jonathan Hornebom Jonathan Lethem is the author of Dissident Gardens and eight other novels. His fiction and essays have been translated into over thirty languages. He lives in Los Angeles and Maine. For more information, check out Jonathanlethem.com. Tatiana Gomberg as Narrator and Harriet: Narrator and Tatiana Gomberg is a New York City based actress and audiobook narrator. She has performed Off and Off- Off Broadway as well as regionally and i...
May 03, 2016•45 min
Samuel Boyd Taylor has been published in such markets as Chi Zine, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, and Drabblecast. He lives in Dallas, TX, with his wife and daughter, where pursues many strange and wonderful hobbies, such as meditation, Tai Chi, and singing along as loud as he can to the Beatles' "Hello Goodbye." You can find him on twitter and facebook, and on his website at www.samuelboydtaylor.com --- Veronica Giguere is a voice-over artist and author. She is a co-author, voi...
Apr 19, 2016•23 min
Author Tim Pratt's stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories,The Year's Best Fantasy, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, and other nice places. He has won the Hugo Award for his short fiction, and he's been a finalist for World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Stoker, Mythopoeic [myth-o-pee-ic], and Nebula Awards. He lives in Berkeley California with his wife, writer Heather Shaw, and their son. For more, visit www.timpratt.org. By day, narrator Andy Chen works as a Fire and Life Safety Offic...
Apr 05, 2016•42 min
Marcy Arlin teaches Theater for Social Change at Pace University and is artistic director of the OBIE-winning Immigrants' Theatre project and is a Fulbright scholar to Romania and the Czech Republic. She is a long-time member of BSFW, Theater Without Borders, Broad Universe, and her work has been published in Daily Science Fiction, Perihelionsf.com, Broad Universe Sampler, and Man.In.Fest theater journal. Marcy has several more short stories out there and is working on a sci-fi murder mystery. A...
Mar 23, 2016•31 min
Alex Kirtland, aka Alger Bliss, is a Brooklyn based writer of poetry and speculative fiction. He is currently at work on a novel about witches and magic. You can follow updates about his work and read his poetry at https://www.tumblr.com/blog/rhinoleaps Rish Outfield is a writer, audiobook narrator, and podcaster who is host of the Parsec Award-winning Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine. He is fond of frogs, Mister Pibb, Ben Affleck, and has just written his first novel. Rish once went to Amity Is...
Mar 08, 2016•24 min
Rish took Alger's narrator to it's ultimate Woody Allen extreme.
Mar 08, 2016•53 sec
Marcus Tsong spent his formative years in the Pacific Northwest, splitting his time between Seattle and Boise. He's since moved to Shanghai, Portland, San Francisco, Wisconsin, and Washington DC before settling in Brooklyn, where he lives with his wife, son, two cats, and a grumpy dragon. He is currently working on a fantasy novel and a collection of weird tales. Jenn Carter is an actress hailing from the bases and burbs of Virginia, California and Florida. She received her BA in Theatre from Fl...
Feb 23, 2016•28 min
Marcus Tsong spent his formative years in the Pacific Northwest, splitting his time between Seattle and Boise. He's since moved to Shanghai, Portland, San Francisco, Wisconsin, and Washington DC before settling in Brooklyn, where he lives with his wife, son, two cats, and a grumpy dragon. He is currently working on a fantasy novel and a collection of weird tales. Jenn Carter is an actress hailing from the bases and burbs of Virginia, California and Florida. She received her BA in Theatre from Fl...
Feb 09, 2016•32 min
Christina Yu holds an A.B in English with Creative Writing from Dartmouth College and an M.F.A in Creative Writing from Notre Dame where she was the Diversity Fellow and Nicholas Sparks Fellow at Hachette Book Group. Her work has previously appeared in venues such as Fence, New Letters, Indiana Review, the Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories anthology, and the Painted Bride Quarterly, among others, and has been nominated and cited in several Best American anthologies. Renée Chambliss has been to Ch...
Jan 27, 2016•28 min
Bradley Robert Parks lives, writes, and performs in and around Brooklyn, NY, where he founded the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers (BSFWriters.com). His passion for writing blossomed while growing up in a family of genre readers. While he's been pursuing writing for a while, the crazy energy of NYC and BSFW have given him the focus and motivation to finally get published. His story "Sustenance" appeared on BuzzyMag.com in October of 2014. He also sings and narrates stories when time permits....
Jan 13, 2016•43 min
Amal El-Mohtar is the Nebula-nominated author of The Honey Month, a collection of poetry and prose written to the taste of of twenty-eight different kinds of honey. Her work has appeared in multiple venues online and in print, including Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Mythic Delirium, Stone Telling, and most recently in Lightspeed magazine's "Women Destroy Science Fiction" special issue. She is a member of the Banjo Apocalypse Crinoline Troubadours performance collective, and edits Goblin Fruit...
Dec 29, 2015•31 min
"Purgatory," by F.F. White, Read by Wilson Fowlie F. F. White is a speculative fiction author and poet from California who joined the BSFW in 2013. He is the author of two books, "A Phantom Agony" and "Gospels of Rage," and his work has appeared most recently in Scifaikuest the scifi haiku magazine and Nomad's Choir literary magazine. ffwhite.com Wilson Fowlie has been getting more and more into voice work ever since 2008, when he narrated his first story for Podcastle. And if you’re in the Vanc...
Dec 15, 2015•45 min
December 16th the Kaleidocast, a speculative fiction podcast produced by the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers releases it's first episode! Join us to hear stories from the best writers as well as new voices in Spec-fic. kaleidocast.nyc
Nov 11, 2015•55 sec
