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KaleidocastConstellations Mentorship Interviews Episode 1 Marcy and LeahConstellations: 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 Constellations founder, Cameron Roberson. Then Tatiana Grey reads an excerpt of Leah's story.2024-11-0531 min
KaleidocastS4 Ep10: As Bright as a Pearl & Our Talons Can Crush GalaxiesAs 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 Grade historical fantasy novel set in...2024-04-0233 minKaleidocastS4 E9: A Song for Sunken Streets & When Two Swordsmen MeetA 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 @Evan_Berkow.
Lanna Joffrey is an award-winning Iranian...2024-03-121h 04KaleidocastS4E8: Work Life Balance & Your Future is PendingWork 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 spends their free time drinking coffee, binging words, and yelling about the Philadelphia Eagles in...2024-03-121h 04KaleidocastS4 Ep7: Special Delivery & How the Pooka Came to New YorkSpecial 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 publication.
How the Pooka Came to New York by Delia Sherman, Read by Wilson Fowlie
A pooka, a mythical...2024-02-2757 minKaleidocastS4 Ep6: And the Raucous Depths Abide & The Tallest Doll in New York CityAnd 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 his wife and two cats. His work can...2023-10-1043 minKaleidocastS4 Ep5: The Only Living Cabby In New York & I Built This City For YouThe 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 years ago, and that's about it. He hopes that his publication in this season of Kaleidocast...2023-09-261h 06KaleidocastS4 Ep4: The Bodies Upstairs & The Five Stages of GriefThe 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 Punishment Adventure Hour. He has performed in English and Yiddish, and he’s happy to talk ab...2023-09-121h 02KaleidocastS4 Ep3: Treatment and Cure & Clearly Lettered In A Mostly Steady HandTreatment 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 UK in theatre, film and has voiced numerous audio projects from video games to podcasts to audiobooks. For more about her...2023-08-291h 08KaleidocastS4 Ep2: Jean Genii & Cold WindJean 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 the co-author of The Law & Order: Unofficial Companion. Find out more at RandeeDawn.com
Sally...2023-08-1550 minKaleidocastS4 Ep1: No Version Like Home & Hold-Time ViolationsNo 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 deals of urban fantasy. When not crafting worlds, he’s playing in someone else’s via tabletop, LARP...2023-08-011h 16
KaleidocastA Tale of Ash in 7 Birds by Amal El-Mohtar & Brightening Star, Ascending Dawn by Merc Fenn WolfmoorSometimes 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-Mohtar is an award-winning author and critic. She's the...2021-07-271h 11KaleidocastS3:Ep9: "The Kleptographer" by Brit E.B. Hvide & "The Scavenger's Nursery" by Maria Dahvana HeadleyWe'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 and physics at Northwestern University. Originally from Singapore, she...2021-07-131h 18KaleidocastThe Foxgirl Song Cycle by C.S.E. Cooney & Sailing to the Underworld by Mimi MondalThe 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 Saint Death’s Daughter will be out with Rebellion in Spring of 2022. Other work...2021-06-221h 17
KaleidocastS3:Ep7: "Rachel is Home" by Liz Riegel & "The Land of the Morning Calm" by E.C. Myers"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 Fiction Writers in 2010. His publication credits can be found on his website, bradleyrobertparks.com. He lives in Br...2021-06-081h 05
KaleidocastA Singular Event, In Several Courses by Kris Dikeman & Homo Homini Lupis by Sam SchreiberAt 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, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, Analog and Mad Ha...2021-05-251h 01KaleidocastS3:Ep5: "Sustenance" by Bradley Robert Parks & "Ghost Champagne" by Charlie Jane AndersThe 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 publication credits can be found on his website, bradleyrobertparks.com. He lives in Brooklyn with his hu...2021-05-111h 28KaleidocastS3:Ep4: "Centaur's Lament" by Ted Rabinowitz & "Late Nights at the Cape and Cane" by Max GladstoneWhat 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 & Science Fiction, the Business International Money Report, the Valley Sun, Hollywood Scriptwriter, and elsewhere.
Rish Outfield is a podcaster, writer, and audiobook...2021-04-2036 minKaleidocastS3:Ep3: "Little Red" by Val Rigodon & "Summer Skin" by Zin E. RocklynMonsters 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 an actor and singer-songwriter. He narrated the film Lost and Found, and...2021-04-0650 minKaleidocastThat Our Flag Was Still There by Sarah Pinsker & All The Things You Will Never Know, Nikki C. SmithMemories 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 been nominated for the Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy, and...2021-03-231h 19KaleidocastS3:Ep1: "The Hungry Earth" by Carmen Maria Machado & "The Verge of Utopia" by Sondra FinkThe 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, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature...2021-03-0956 min
KaleidocastOff Season Stories with Extras: "The Insipid Profession of Jonathan Hornebom" by Jonathan LethemHere 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.2019-06-051h 47
KaleidocastS2:Ep14: "Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology" by Theodora Goss"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 In the Forest of Forgetting (2006); Interfictions (2007), a short story anthology coedited with Delia Sherman; Voices from Fairyland (2008), a poetry anthology with critical essays...2019-01-1552 min
KaleidocastS2:Ep13: "The Right to Bear Arms: Part 2," by Zak ZyzThe 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 authors where they talk about politics, genre, and all manner of...2019-01-0236 min
KaleidocastS2:Ep12: "The Right to Bear Arms: Part 1," by Zak ZyzThe 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 authors where they talk about politics, genre, and all manner of...2018-12-1138 min
KaleidocastS2:Ep11: "Not That Kind of Dream Girl" by Evan Berkow & "Appointment at Titlanitza" by Fred StesneyNot 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 gray cats and one adorable rescue dog. You can find him on...2018-11-2750 min
KaleidocastS2:Ep10: "Touch That Dial" by Michael Philip Wells and "Classified Ads"by Elliotte Rusty HaroldTouch 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 EveryoneLikesMovies.blogspot.com.
The Actors:
We have an ensemble cast of actors and producers. Kim Rogers (http://podcastle...2018-11-1329 min
KaleidocastS2: Ep 9: Sabbath Wine by Barbara KrasnoffSabbath 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 stories. Other publications where you can find her work include Mythic Delirium, Abyss & Apex, Space and Time, and Apex, among others .
When not producing weird...2018-10-3054 min
Tales to TerrifyTales to Terrify 352 Sam SchreiberComing UpGood Evening: 00:00:42Sam Schreiber's Four Legs Good, Eight Legs Better as read by Margaret Essex: 00:04:44Pleasant Dreams: 00:36:37Pertinent Links Love what you hear? Support us on Patreon!Mandy: www.imdb.com/title/tt6998518Anna and the Apocalypse: www.imdb.com/title/tt6433880Sam Schreiber: www.kaleidocast.nycSam Schreiber @ Twitter: www.twitter.com/ahzimandiasKaleidocast @ Twitter: www.twitter.com/kaleidocast_nyc Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/talestoterrify. Support this show ht...2018-10-2638 min
KaleidocastS2:Ep8: "Judges Cave" by Eric Rosenfield & "The Owl of Anatolia" by S.A. ChakrabortyJudges 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 www.paulkarle.com
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The Owl of Anatolia
Author: S. A. Chakraborty is a NY-based speculative fiction writer...2018-10-1652 min
KaleidocastS2: Ep7: "Wall Flowers" by Lilah Wild & "Beloved Mr. Grooch" by J.M. PlumbleyWallflowers:
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-dance dabbling, eerie synths, horror movie interior decorating, and running away to the beach. She lives in Queens amid a...2018-10-0255 min
KaleidocastS2: Ep6: Seven Standpoints by D.T. Friedman & Emperor Mantis by Essowe TchalimSeven 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.
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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, where he studied concepts of the soul and rituals of power from the Ancient Mediterranean. He currently works at Droga5, where he assists in producing TV commercials...2018-09-1843 min
KaleidocastS2:E5: The Machine by Phenderson Djèlí Clark & The Water Walls of Enceladus by Mercurio D RiveraThe 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 Black God's Drums will be published by Tor in August 2018. You can read his ramblings on SFF, diversity a...2018-09-0455 min
KaleidocastS2 Ep4: "Unleashed Beauty" by Nancy Hightower & "Blessed Days" by Mike AllenUnleashed 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 Post. She is the author of Elementari Rising (Pink Narcissus Press, 2013) and The Acolyte, (poetry, Port Yonder Press, 2015). She teaches at Hunter College...2018-08-211h 04
KaleidocastS2: Ep3 The Aliens Cloned Trent Darcell, Zigzag Claybourne & Oldish Woman Leaves Earth, Marcy ArlinThe 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 Journal, and a number of anthologies. His latest novel is The Brothers Jetstream: Leviathan. More at www.WriteonRighton.com.
The Actor:
Ni...2018-08-0747 min
KaleidocastS2 Ep2: The Magical Properties of Unicorn Ivory by Carlos HernandezThe 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.
The Actor:
Dyan Flores is a musical theatre writer and performer. She was a regular on the Chicago...2018-07-2439 min
KaleidocastS2: Episode 1: "Playing Nice with God's Bowling Ball" by N. K. JemisinThis 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 the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award; shortlisted for th...2018-05-2749 min
Tales to TerrifyTales to Terrify 297 Sam SchreiberComing UpGood Evening: 00:42Sam Schreiber’s Viscera (first published in A Breath From the Sky from Martian Migraine Press, August 2017) as read by Josie Babin: 04:15Pleasant Dreams: 50:26Pertinent LinksThe District of Wonders Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/districtofwondersSam Schreiber @ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AhzimandiasThe Kaleidocast @ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kaleidocast_nyc Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/talestoterrify. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/talestoterrify. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-10-0652 min
KaleidocastTheodora Goss and the Modern Monster Interview Part 4Hello 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 course your stories.
Everyone, go buy her book.
Also, look for me and the rest of BSFW at Readercon as...2017-06-2827 min
KaleidocastTheodora Goss and the Modern Monster Interview Part 3Here 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 also discuss some of the other stories that Theodora is working on and how teaching has...2017-06-2634 min
KaleidocastTheodora Goss and the Modern Monster Interview at Readercon Part 2Hello 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.2017-06-2614 min
KaleidocastTheodora Goss Interview Part1Hello 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 successful novelist is to
get your PhD in English literature.2017-06-2622 min
KaleidocastEpisode 12: "The Insipid Profession of Jonathan Hornebom" by Jonathan Lethem: PART 2Jonathan 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 internationally. Her work in The Night of Nosferatu garnered her an NYIT award nomination for Best Featured Actress and her portrayal of...2016-05-181h 04
KaleidocastEpisode 11: "Insipid Profession of Jonathan Hornebom" by Jonathan Lethem: PART 1Jonathan 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 internationally. Her work in The Night of Nosferatu garnered her an NYIT award nomination for Best Featured Actress and her portrayal of...2016-05-0444 min
KaleidocastEpisode 10: "Eight of Swords" by S. Boyd Taylor, and "First Cause" by Sam SchreiberSamuel 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
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Veronica Giguere is a voice-over artist and author. She is a co-author, voice talent, and producer for the "Secret World Chronicle" podcast, and she is the co-author, voice...2016-04-1922 min
KaleidocastEpisode 9: Crawl Space of the World by Tim PrattAuthor 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 Officer with the State of California. Fire prevention approval for public school construction projects fills his...2016-04-0541 min
KaleidocastEpisode 8: "My Shaigetz" by Marcy Arlin and "His Only Nose" by Richard BowesMarcy 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.
Author Richard Bowes has published six novels, four story collections and over eighty short stories. He has won two World...2016-03-2330 min
KaleidocastEpisode 7: "Dating Kali, My Sweet" by Alger Bliss and "Squeeze" by Rob CameronAlex 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 Island in order to cause a panic on the Fourth of July, but accidentally...2016-03-0823 min
KaleidocastKaleidocast Episode 7 OuttakeRish took Alger's narrator to it's ultimate Woody Allen extreme.2016-03-0800 min
KaleidocastEpisode 6: "Knowing You, Knowing Me" Part 2 by Marcus TsongMarcus 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 Florida State University and has been performing in one form or another since the age of 4. Some...2016-02-2327 min
KaleidocastEpisode 5: "Knowing You, Knowing Me" PART 1 by Marcus TsongMarcus 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 Florida State University and has been performing in one form or another since the age of 4. Some...2016-02-0931 min
KaleidocastEpisode 4: "The Chinatown Museum" by Christina Yu & "Bilaadi" by S. ChakrabortyChristina 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 Chinatown in San Francisco often. It's one of the perks of living in northern California. Her k...2016-01-2727 min
KaleidocastEpisode 3: The Path that Splits the Oaks Asunder & The Saturday DanceBradley 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. Along with these achievements, he's obtained one husband, Michael, and Insanity Anne Magoo (best cat ever). Keep up with...2016-01-1343 min
KaleidocastEpisode 2 - Wing by Amal El-Mohtar and Unfit to Eat by Tyus BarnwellAmal 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, a web quarterly devoted to fantastical poetry. She lives in Glasgow with her fiancé, a harp, and two jellicle cats. Find her online at amalelmohtar.c...2015-12-3030 min
KaleidocastEpisode 1 - Purgatory by F.F. White and Mercury by Cassie Alexander"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 Vancouver, Canada area – or even if you just love a good, fun show chor...2015-12-1645 min
KaleidocastKaleidocast TeaserDecember 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.
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