Women Writers of the Pulp Era
OnStephen Mazur, former Assistant Editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, to talk about the women of sci-fi’s pulp era.
Category: Podcasts
Kittysneezes Podcasts
No Plot Just Vibes
OnIn this episode of Rite Gud, we are joined once again by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez, who is going to tell us why plot isn’t everything.
Writing Beyond the End of History
OnThere’s one thing contemporary SFF can’t seem to escape. Simon McNeil joins us to talk about writing beyond the end of history.
How To Start a Magazine for Fun and Absolutely No Profit
OnIn this episode, Blood Knife’s Kurt Schiller shares what it takes to launch a magazine, attract subscribers, and give writers a space to create thought-provoking work.
Space Racism, Oppressed Wizards, and Other Marginalized Fantasy Allegories
OnFiction has always used speculative elements to express political ideas; but sometimes, it falls flat in terms of storytelling and politics.
Writing Beyond Limits with Naben Ruthnum
OnWriters are often under pressure to follow rules, to write to the market, to carefully fit themselves into a safe cultural and commercial niche.
Internet Fiction
OnCartoonist RE Parrish joins us to talk about the uneasy marriage of writing and the internet—incorporating the internet into fiction, using the internet as a medium for fiction, and why it’s so hard to write a good social media epistolary novel.
Tales From the Slush Pile
OnWhen you send a short story to a magazine, it probably doesn’t go directly to the editor. Instead, it ends up in what’s called the slush pile–the pool of unsolicited work waiting for review. Who reviews it? Weirdos like us.
Never Bring a Pen to a Sword Fight
OnThey say the pen is mightier than the sword, but it is way easier to kill a guy with a sword than with a pen.
A Rite Gud Minifesto
OnThe changing of the guard in the early 2000s and the euthanization of the reactionary Sad Puppy movement in the early 2010s should have ushered in a new era of speculative fiction, an era of creative freedom and experimentation.