About the Strange Horizons podcast
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Our Shows: Short Fiction • Critical Friends • Strange Horizons @ 25 • Writing While Disabled
The podcast was launched in 2016 as the audiobook arm of the fiction department, and quickly grew to encompass the poetry as well. In 2022, the Critical Friends podcast was added to the lineup, talking about all things SFF criticism, and in 2024 we began celebrating our 25th anniversary by launching Strange Horizons @ 25, an interview series with past contributors and staff charting the magazine's 25-year history while delivering sage writing advice. The latest addition is the Writing While Disabled podcast column, which tackles chronic illness and disability in the SFF writing community through fun interviews with special guests.
We are delighted to offer a variable podcast feed, alternating between any of our four shows on any given week. Just as the magazine is a smorgasbord of ideas, formats, and topics, the podcast seeks to reflect this by giving you lots to enjoy, from short fiction in audio format to interviews and discussions on all things science fiction and fantasy.
All interview and discussion podcasts are fully transcribed on our website, and of course all the fiction and poetry episodes have their text counterparts published on there too, so head over there to read the stories, and to find more extended show notes and links to everything the hosts and guests discuss.
The Team
The Strange Horizons Podcast was founded by Anaea Lay with Ciro Faienza on Poetry Podcast duties from 2016 to 2020. Courtney Floyd served as Editor between 2020-2022, alongside Kat Kourbeti who is still on the roster.The current team consists of Senior Podcast Editor Kat Kourbeti and Podcast Editor Michael Ireland, with Reviews Editors Dan Hartland and Aisha Subramanian taking charge on the Critical Friends podcast, and Kristy Anne Cox and Kate Johnston producing and hosting the Writing While Disabled podcast.
Find out more at StrangeHorizons.com.