Celebrating 25 Years - SH@25 Anniversary Issue Episode
Celebrating 25 Years with The Strange Horizons Editorial CollectiveIn this special episode of Strange Horizons at 25, Senior Podcast Editor Kat Kourbeti and Editor Michael Ireland welcome current members of the Strange Horizons Editorial Collective for a series of interviews to give you a glimpse behind the curtain of each department and to celebrate 25 years of this pioneering speculative fiction magazine.Read the full transcript on our website.A big thank you to Arturo Serrano, Proofreader; Dan Hartland and Aisha Subramanian, Senior Reviews Editors and hosts of Critical Friends; Hebe Stanton, Senior Fiction Editor; Romie Stott, Administrative Editor and Senior Poetry Editor; and Gautam Bhatia, Co-Ordinating Editor and Senior Articles Editor, for joining us for these interviews. Happy 25 years, one and all, and here's to many more!
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Critical Friends Episode 17: On Imagining Hopefully
In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Dan Hartland is joined by the outgoing editor of Foundation, Paul March-Russell, and the founding editor of the Harare Review of Books, Jacqueline Nyathi. They discuss speculative fiction’s approach to hope and optimism. Where has it gone? How do writers express it? And what are its pitfalls?Paul's review of When There Are Wolves Again by E. J. SwiftJacqui's review of The Afterlife Project by Tim WeedJacqui's essay, "Collective Dreaming: The Schrödinger's Cat Approach to Framing Futures"
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Velociraptor Space Army (Writing While Disabled S2E4)
In this special episode of Writing While Disabled's second season, hosts Kristy Anne Cox and Kate Johnston speculate about the impact of a space army made up of various species of dinosaurs, and make connections to disability and accommodations as they relate to the real life of disabled people.If you prefer, you can watch the full episode with close-caption subtitles here, or read the transcript here.Show notes:This episode was produced and hosted by Kristy Anne Cox and Kate Johnston, and edited, mixed, and transcribed by Kat Kourbeti.The theme song, "Funky - Upbeat Loop" by ispeakwaves, is licensed under CC BY 4.0.Want to send us a question? You can do so here!
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A Masterclass in Writing (and Finding Love) with Tim Melody Pratt
In this episode of Strange Horizons at 25, Tim Melody Pratt walks Podcast Editor Kat Kourbeti through their extensive oeuvre in the SH archives, recounts meeting their life partner through the magazine, and explains how it all intertwined together into a life and career bursting with magic.Links and things:Want to leave us a happy birthday message? Click here to record an audio message, and here for video.Join our Patreon for early episode access, or donate through any other way to hear your name and message in our next episodes.Want to meet the team? Podcast editors Kat and Michael will be at World Fantasy Con, alongside Poetry Editor Vanessa Jae and Fiction/Articles Editor Joyce Ch'ng! Come to the first Strange Horizons Tea Party in years on Sunday at 11am, and celebrate our 25th anniversary with us.Episode show notes:Read Tim Pratt's work in our archives.Visit their website, follow them on Bluesky, and check out their Patreon to read their monthly short stories.Buy Tim's latest book, Starfinder: Era of the Eclipse, or the one before that, The Knife and the Serpent.Find further links to Tim's work and other things mentioned throughout the transcript on our website.
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'City Grown From Seed' by Diana Dima read by Emmie Christie
In this episode of the Strange Horizons Fiction podcast, editor Michael Ireland presents Diana Dima's 'City Grown From Seed' read by Emmie Christie.You can read the full text of the story, and more about Diana Dima here.Content Warning: Domestic violence / domestic abuse
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