Fictionable
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- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 49
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Susan Muaddi Darraj: 'My writing has changed forever by what's happening in Gaza'
This Summer podcast series has brought us Samantha Harvey, Patrick Cash, Carolina Bruck – translated by Ellen Jones – and Jack Klausner. We bring it to a close with Susan Muaddi Darraj and her mighty…
Jack Klausner: 'I write more on the darker end of the spectrum'
Already this summer we've heard from Samantha Harvey, Patrick Cash, Carolina Bruck and her translator Ellen Jones. This time we're getting under the surface of Jack Klausner's short story The Coalfac…
Carolina Bruck: 'Fiction can transform the way we understand the world'
This summer series has already brought us Samantha Harvey and Patrick Cash. Now it's time for Carolina Bruck and her translator Ellen Jones, with Bruck's short story China.
We start with questions of …
Patrick Cash: 'The coming out story has been told so many times'
Last time Samantha Harvey let the cat out of the bag, diving straight into the heart of her story Bona Fide Nihon-kitsch. This time Patrick Cash is a little less spoiler heavy as he talks about and r…
Samantha Harvey: 'This is what fiction can do'
The weather may be up the spout but it's still summer, so it's time for another batch of Fictionable podcasts. We'll be hearing from Susan Muaddi Darraj, Carolina Bruck, Patrick Cash and Jack Klausne…
Jakub Żulczyk: 'We're all two inches tall'
In this Spring series of podcasts we've heard from Jenny Erpenbeck, Grahame Williams, Lauren Caroline Smith and Rose Rahtz. We bring it to a close with Jakub Żulczyk and his story Many Years of Hards…
Rose Rahtz: 'What if you did have magical powers in a toddler?'
This spring we've already heard from Jenny Erpenbeck, Grahame Williams and Lauren Caroline Smith. This time we welcome Rose Rahtz and her short story Where Hast Thou Been, Sister?
Rahtz tells us how t…
Lauren Caroline Smith: 'There is something countercultural in Christianity'
In this Spring series of podcasts we've already heard from Jenny Erpenbeck and Grahame Williams. Now it's time for Lauren Caroline Smith and her short story The Placing of Hands.
Smith looks back on h…
Grahame Williams: 'Random acts of violence could happen at any time'
Last time we heard from Jenny Erpenbeck, who told us that before her latest novel Kairos she'd "never written a love story". This time we welcome Grahame Williams and his short story Making It Happen…
Jenny Erpenbeck: 'What you write down can be made to hide something'
Spring has finally sprung and with it another series of Fictionable podcasts. Over the next few weeks we'll be hearing from Jakub Żulczyk, Grahame Williams, Lauren Caroline Smith and Rose Rahtz. But …
Liam Hogan: 'I want to be entertained'
We've already heard from Linda Mannheim, Richard Smyth, Ariel Marken Jack. and Robert Neuwirth in this Winter series of podcasts. Now we bring it to a close with Liam Hogan and his short story Backst…
Robert Neuwirth: 'I wanted it to be plausible as a machine thinking'
In this Winter series of podcasts we've heard from Linda Mannheim, Richard Smyth and Ariel Marken Jack. This time we welcome Robert Neuwirth and his short story The Disambiguation.
Neuwirth tells us h…
Ariel Marken Jack: 'The way I fight back is through my writing'
We've already heard from Linda Mannheim and Richard Smyth in this Winter series, and now it's time for Ariel Marken Jack and their story The Bread Boy.
Marken Jack tells us how their writing began in …
Richard Smyth: 'We all need an Otherland'
Last week we heard from Linda Mannheim, who told us that the only way she can go back to the neighbourhood where she grew up is in fiction. This time we welcome Richard Smyth and his short story Karó…
Linda Mannheim: 'What is a happy ending?'
In this Winter series of podcasts, we'll be hearing from Richard Smyth, Ariel Marken Jack, Robert Neuwirth and Liam Hogan. We start off with Linda Mannheim, who joined us down the line from Berlin.
Ma…
Catriona Bolt: 'Everyone in the story associates mushrooms with death'
We've already heard from M John Harrison, Irena Karpa, Seán Padraic Birnie and Shauna Mackay on the Fictionable podcast. Now we bring this autumn series to a close with Catriona Bolt and her mycologi…
Shauna Mackay: 'It's listening to the characters and letting them take the lead'
In this autumn series of podcasts we've heard from M John Harrison, Irena Karpa and Seán Padraic Birnie. This week we welcome Shauna Mackay to discuss her short story Matching up the Pattern at the J…
Seán Padraic Birnie: 'I was quite depressed and pissed off with work'
This autumn we've already heard from M John Harrison, Irena Karpa and her band, Qarpa. This week we have an appointment with Seán Padraic Birnie and his story The Medical Room.
Birnie tells us how he …
Irena Karpa: 'Literature must entertain, especially in dark times'
After hearing last week from M John Harrison, who discussed how he makes fiction from fragments of reality, this week we turn it up to eleven as we welcome Irena Karpa. Fuelled by the latest track fr…
M John Harrison: 'How do you know who’s alive and who’s the ghost?'
Over the next few weeks, we'll be hearing from Irena Karpa, Seán Padraic Birnie, Shauna Mackay and Catriona Bolt. But we launch this autumn podcast series with M John Harrison and his haunting short …