# Fictionable Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986.md RSS feed: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/62b755f6d09b7b0013c62e2a Official site: https://shows.acast.com/fictionable Author: Fictionable Episodes: 62 ## Resource Interviews, book chat and everything about the short stories and graphic fiction from all around the world appearing in Fictionable. "Storytellers, readers and creatives alike will love" – The Independent Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fictionable-5586986 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986.md ## Episodes - [Holly Edwards: 'There's obviously something political about presenting trans characters'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/holly-edwards-there-s-obviously-something-political-about-presenting-trans-characters) — 2026-05-09T15:16:47+00:00 - [Joel Cox: 'It's fine to have jerks in stories, but you have to have something that makes the reader keep reading'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/joel-cox-it-s-fine-to-have-jerks-in-stories-but-you-have-to-have-something-that-makes-the-reader-keep-reading) — 2026-05-03T08:01:05+00:00 - [Bruna Martini: 'I have spent too many months without drawing'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/bruna-martini-i-have-spent-too-many-months-without-drawing) — 2026-04-24T16:18:03+00:00 - [Diana Evans: 'Writing is an act of hope'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/diana-evans-writing-is-an-act-of-hope) — 2026-04-16T13:45:53+00:00 - [Cynthia Banham: 'Writing is a dangerous act'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/cynthia-banham-writing-is-a-dangerous-act) — 2026-02-20T16:05:38+00:00 - [Samuel Rigg: 'Often I find I'm writing about people who are not me'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/samuel-rigg-often-i-find-i-m-writing-about-people-who-are-not-me) — 2026-02-12T16:10:54+00:00 - [Tim Conley: 'Short fiction is a lot more liberating'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/tim-conley-short-fiction-is-a-lot-more-liberating) — 2026-02-05T13:53:33+00:00 - [Rodrigo Urquiola Flores: 'Everything in this short story is true'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/rodrigo-urquiola-flores-everything-in-this-short-story-is-true) — 2026-01-30T15:53:30+00:00 - [Cynthia Zarin: 'You write out of the world that you're living in'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/cynthia-zarin-you-write-out-of-the-world-that-you-re-living-in) — 2026-01-22T13:11:14+00:00 - [Ephameron: 'My work is always at the crossroads between literature, graphic arts, painting, comics'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/ephameron-my-work-is-always-at-the-crossroads-between-literature-graphic-arts-painting-comics) — 2025-11-20T17:35:29+00:00 - [Kasimma: 'Because I’m writing fiction, I can get away with anything'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/kasimma-because-i-m-writing-fiction-i-can-get-away-with-anything) — 2025-11-13T13:09:39+00:00 - [Caroline Clark: 'This story completely surprised me'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/caroline-clark-this-story-completely-surprised-me) — 2025-11-06T15:24:22+00:00 - [Helon Habila: 'What fiction does is make you live the life of the other'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/helon-habila-what-fiction-does-is-make-you-live-the-life-of-the-other) — 2025-10-29T15:43:30+00:00 - [Sheyla Smanioto: 'It's a haunted story, where you know something is going to happen'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/sheyla-smanioto-it-s-a-haunted-story-where-you-know-something-is-going-to-happen) — 2025-09-01T16:04:59+00:00 - [Dafydd McKimm: 'I write this kind of story in a bit of a fever'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/dafydd-mckimm-i-write-this-kind-of-story-in-a-bit-of-a-fever) — 2025-08-24T09:28:18+00:00 - [Ali McClary: 'This story started as a conversation between two young women'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/ali-mcclary-this-story-started-as-a-conversation-between-two-young-women) — 2025-08-08T14:09:03+00:00 - [Pete Segall: 'I don’t feel like it’s my job as a writer to answer questions'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/pete-segall-i-don-t-feel-like-it-s-my-job-as-a-writer-to-answer-questions) — 2025-07-31T12:06:22+00:00 - [AL Kennedy: 'It's all political, if you're writing fiction'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/al-kennedy-it-s-all-political-if-you-re-writing-fiction) — 2025-07-25T13:01:18+00:00 - [Susanna Clarke: 'You’ve got to play with things being very fantastical and also slightly humdrum'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/susanna-clarke-you-ve-got-to-play-with-things-being-very-fantastical-and-also-slightly-humdrum) — 2025-05-23T11:54:50+00:00 - [Jeremy Wikeley: 'I would always defend the notion of being able to write about a place called England'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/jeremy-wikeley-i-would-always-defend-the-notion-of-being-able-to-write-about-a-place-called-england) — 2025-05-15T13:58:47+00:00 - [PR Woods: 'I would never write anything against Wolf Hall'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/pr-woods-i-would-never-write-anything-against-wolf-hall) — 2025-05-08T14:53:11+00:00 - [Bronia Flett: 'This is obviously all fiction'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/bronia-flett-this-is-obviously-all-fiction) — 2025-05-01T14:07:12+00:00 - [Fríða Ísberg: 'We are always just looking for simple stories'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/fr-a-sberg-we-are-always-just-looking-for-simple-stories) — 2025-04-24T14:54:00+00:00 - [Joanna Kavenna: 'We all make fictions about the future'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/joanna-kavenna-we-all-make-fictions-about-the-future) — 2025-02-23T13:54:37+00:00 - [Rachida Lamrabet: 'Fiction gives me the opportunity to introduce another perspective'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fictionable-5586986/rachida-lamrabet-fiction-gives-me-the-opportunity-to-introduce-another-perspective) — 2025-02-15T14:22:07+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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