Fictionable
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- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 49
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Sabba Khan: 'The terraced house is a big character in this story'
This summer we've been hearing a little more from our amazing authors in an expanded series of podcasts. Joyce Carol Oates confessed she feels "like a fourteen-year-old girl" while Fiona Mozley admit…
Donal McLaughlin: 'I've got that Derry voice in my head'
In this summer's new, expanded podcast we've already heard from Joyce Carol Oates, Fiona Mozley and José Falero – translated and interpreted by Maria Jacqueline Evans. This time we're heading north t…
José Falero: 'If people started robbing cars en masse, that would be a political event'
We've heard already this summer from Joyce Carol Oates and Fiona Mozley, but now the translator Maria Jacqueline Evans turns interpreter as we talk – via the magic of email – to José Falero.
He tells …
Fiona Mozley: 'Fiction really is a conversation'
After hearing last week how Joyce Carol Oates is firmly focused on the future, this week we’re focusing on Fiona Mozley and her mighty story Cadair Idris.
She tells us how this trip up the mountain be…
Joyce Carol Oates: 'With prose fiction you can go beneath the surface'
It's revolution on the Fictionable podcast, where we've evolved again to hear more from our fabulous contributors.
We're devoting an entire programme to Joyce Carol Oates and her fantastic story Small…
Etgar Keret: 'When I write a story I also live it'
The Fictionable podcast heads for Tel Aviv, where Etgar Keret talks about the mystery of translation, the surrealism of technology and surprising himself with his own fiction. The sudden reverses in …
Diana Evans: 'You can actually go quite far with very little'
On this edition of the Fictionable podcast, Diana Evans tells us how she started cooking up her short story Broth. She talks about minimalism in fiction, female friendship and how the category "black…
Evie Wyld: 'I feel much more able to do wilder things in the present tense'
Evie Wyld joins us for the second edition of the Fictionable podcast to spill the beans about the inspiration for her short story The Land. She tells us about childhood holidays in a rat-infested car…
Sarah Hall: 'At what point would you take grand steps?'
For the first edition of the Fictionable podcast, we welcome Sarah Hall, who reveals the inspirations for her story Be Good. She also explains why she chose to tell this haunting story in the second …