Today’s podcast guest is J M Frey, aka Jess. She is a Canadian science fiction and fantasy author as well as an actor and voice actor. With her MA in Communications and Culture she’s also a pop culture scholar. She calls herself a “professional geek” and even has an IMDB page (although theatre work isn’t […]

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Welcome to the first inaugural #CripLit Keys, awards for representations of disability in storytelling. This presentation is available in video (just down the page a little bit), podcast (above and on all good podcasting platforms) as well as in text format. (Acceptance speeches aren’t in text format at this time.) In 2016 I announced that […]

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Today Nalini Haynes talks to Adam Egypt Mortimer, the writer and director of superhero movie Archenemy. Archenemy is distributed by StudioCanal. In New York City, Adam played electric sitar in the subways and explored various forms of art. Then he gave away his musical instruments and moved to Los Angeles to become a filmmaker. As […]

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This may shock you , but I am passionate about books, literacy and libraries. So, when I met teacher librarian Holly Godfree, we talked about her passion project. Inviting Holly to be a guest on DMZ’s podcast was inevitable. It was only a matter of time. This podcast is available at the top of this […]

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In this podcast Nalini has the privilege of sniggering and chortling with the mute button and/or her hand over her mouth while Tosh Greenslade and Andrew Weldon talk about their political satire The Scomo Diaries: My First Eighteen Months at the Coalface. Tosh Greenslade This bio is adapted from Wikipedia because I was rushing in […]

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Nalini Haynes talks to fantasy author Garth Nix in this podcast, which is at the top of this post and available on all good podcasting platforms. Garth started in Melbourne, grew up in Canberra, moved around then returned to Sydney Australia. He worked as a literary agent; marketing consultant; book editor, publicist, sales representative; and […]

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This podcast features a guest who has written Robin Hood with a twist: King Richard is the sociopath he was in real life. This guest also criticises my FAVORITE superhero movie – Wonder Woman – and I agree with him! Furthermore, he tells everyone that the reason they hate the new Star Wars movies is […]

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In this podcast, Nalini talks to Naomi Novik, the much-awarded fantasy and speculative fiction author who also co-founded a FanFic organisation. Naomi Novik was born in New York in 1973, a first-generation American. She grew up with Polish fairy tales, Baba Yaga, and Tolkien. After studying English Literature at Brown University and doing graduate work […]

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Today’s podcast guest is Octavia Cade, a New Zealand writer with a PhD in science communication and a particular interest in science history and marine studies. She’s also passionate about promoting other excellent authors. Late in this podcast she lists many quality works. Octavia has been researching the reproductive strategies of Zostera muelleri seagrass, and when […]

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In this podcast I interview Harry Cook, an award-winning actor, writer and LGBTQI activist whose latest novel, Fin & Rye & Fireflies, has just been released. I reviewed Fin & Rye & Fireflies over here but you can also gauge my reaction from the podcast , which is at the top of this post and […]

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