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Fictionable

Fictionable

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

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Episodios

70 episodios

  1. Laura O'Meara: 'If you want to run and scream into the sea that's probably not very practical, but you can write a story' 13:07
  2. Mark Haddon: 'So much about writing, so much about art in general, is about solving a paradox' 21:56
  3. Elaine Vilar Madruga: 'I’m always thinking about Kafka when I write' 23:26
  4. Zhenya Oliinyk: 'Drawing and writing comics is more like journalism to me' 17:35
  5. Robin Munby: 'You're always writing in some sense for yourself' 20:50
  6. EC Osondu: 'The writer is also a strange animal' 14:26
  7. Will Boast: 'You almost have to make your characters feel interestingly doomed' 20:04
  8. Takiguchi Yūshō: 'When I’m writing fiction, I have very little sense I’m the one inventing the story' 19:32
  9. Holly Edwards: 'There's obviously something political about presenting trans characters' 17:16
  10. Joel Cox: 'It's fine to have jerks in stories, but you have to have something that makes the reader keep reading' 24:33
  11. Bruna Martini: 'I have spent too many months without drawing' 25:36
  12. Diana Evans: 'Writing is an act of hope' 19:58
  13. Cynthia Banham: 'Writing is a dangerous act' 26:23
  14. Samuel Rigg: 'Often I find I'm writing about people who are not me' 14:51
  15. Tim Conley: 'Short fiction is a lot more liberating' 19:51
  16. Rodrigo Urquiola Flores: 'Everything in this short story is true' 23:19
  17. Cynthia Zarin: 'You write out of the world that you're living in' 31:25
  18. Ephameron: 'My work is always at the crossroads between literature, graphic arts, painting, comics' 18:06
  19. Kasimma: 'Because I’m writing fiction, I can get away with anything' 21:10
  20. Caroline Clark: 'This story completely surprised me' 17:31
  21. Helon Habila: 'What fiction does is make you live the life of the other' 22:53
  22. Sheyla Smanioto: 'It's a haunted story, where you know something is going to happen' 21:52
  23. Dafydd McKimm: 'I write this kind of story in a bit of a fever' 18:27
  24. Ali McClary: 'This story started as a conversation between two young women' 15:15
  25. Pete Segall: 'I don’t feel like it’s my job as a writer to answer questions' 17:07
  26. AL Kennedy: 'It's all political, if you're writing fiction' 28:39
  27. Susanna Clarke: 'You’ve got to play with things being very fantastical and also slightly humdrum' 30:06
  28. Jeremy Wikeley: 'I would always defend the notion of being able to write about a place called England' 19:36
  29. PR Woods: 'I would never write anything against Wolf Hall' 19:58
  30. Bronia Flett: 'This is obviously all fiction' 22:51
  31. Fríða Ísberg: 'We are always just looking for simple stories' 25:33
  32. Joanna Kavenna: 'We all make fictions about the future' 27:18
  33. Rachida Lamrabet: 'Fiction gives me the opportunity to introduce another perspective' 18:24
  34. Julian George: 'Any word out of place, the whole thing is worthless' 16:56
  35. Ben Sorgiovanni: 'What fiction does really well is capture the nuance of human experience' 14:59
  36. Helga Schubert: 'There's got to be distance between the writer and their story' 24:34
  37. Esther Karin Mngodo: 'I am more myself when I write in Swahili' 29:09
  38. Hannah Webb: 'I always seem to end up writing at the extremes' 19:09
  39. Scott Jacobs: 'I made a few things up along the way' 18:18
  40. Judith Vanistendael: 'This first love has defined my storytelling' 22:37
  41. Daisy Johnson: 'Most of the things I write do have a twist' 24:07
  42. Susan Muaddi Darraj: 'My writing has changed forever by what's happening in Gaza' 31:20
  43. Jack Klausner: 'I write more on the darker end of the spectrum' 14:43
  44. Carolina Bruck: 'Fiction can transform the way we understand the world' 18:04
  45. Patrick Cash: 'The coming out story has been told so many times' 15:36
  46. Samantha Harvey: 'This is what fiction can do' 34:26
  47. Jakub Żulczyk: 'We're all two inches tall' 19:51
  48. Rose Rahtz: 'What if you did have magical powers in a toddler?' 24:27
  49. Lauren Caroline Smith: 'There is something countercultural in Christianity' 20:38
  50. Grahame Williams: 'Random acts of violence could happen at any time' 19:26