Story Circle Jerk

Welcome intrepid listeners to episode 6, in which Kai reads out the first draft of a new, hot-off-the-press essay about their experiences learning to teach English as a second language.

Special thanks as always to Strangely Doesburg for our theme song, "Grab Your Bags". Check out Strangely's music and podcasts here: https://www.strangelyandfriends.com/

And of course another big thank you to Rhiannon Dawn Dewar for designing our logo. See more of her wonderful art here: https://www.instagram.com/rhiannondawndewarartist/?hl=en

Check out our Twitter for podcast updates, as well as spreading any interesting writing news or competitions we come across! @StoryCircleJerk

And now for some Real Talk. If you're passionate about championing equality and justice for all; if you've been watching everything that's going on in the world during this tumultuous time and wishing you could help; if you enjoy Story Circle Jerk and have ever thought about tossing us a coin - please, consider contributing what you can to some or all of the links below, for BAME and LGBT+ charities:

sariweb.org.uk/who-we-are/donate/   (UK-based, providing support to victims of hate crime, including racism, homophobia and transphobia).

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/ (A US-based LGBT+ charity, currently running a Black Lives Matter campaign).

https://www.crer.scot/ (Scotland-based, the Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights  combats racial discrimination and harassment nation-wide).

And lastly, as a storytelling podcast, we thought our listeners might benefit from this list curated by the Book Trust of writing, illustrating and publishing opportunities for POC:
https://www.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/programmes-and-campaigns/booktrust-represents/support-for-authors-and-illustrators-of-colour/opportunities-for-writers-or-illustrators-of-colour/

Flying solo again, your intrepid podcast host Kai Durkin brings you a short story, Duncan, and frets over what they're gonna do when the backlog runs out...

Thanks to Strangely Doesburg for our theme song, "Grab Your Bags". Check out more of his music, podcasts and other work here: https://www.strangelyandfriends.com/

Our artwork was created by the wonderful Rhiannon Dawn Dewar, who can be found here: https://www.instagram.com/rhiannondawndewarartist/?hl=en

The background music used during this episode was created by Andrey Sitkov.

In this episode, Kai Durkin goes it alone to read a semi-true short story, followed by a creative essay about said short story. Discussion topics: memoir, essays, tabletop role playing games, semantics/semiotics and author intent.

Special thanks to Rhiannon Dawn Dewar for our cover art:  https://www.instagram.com/rhiannondawndewarartist/?hl=en

and to Strangely Doesburg for our theme song, Grab Your Bag: https://www.strangelyandfriends.com/

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Essay Bibliography/Further Reading:

Barthes, Roland, The Death of the Author, (1967), <http://tbook.constantvzw.org/wp-content/death_authorbarthes.pdf>, [accessed 17/11/17].

Guin, Ursula Le, Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story, (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1998).

Jamie, Kathleen, Findings, (London: Sort of Books, 2005).

Martin, George R. R., A Storm of Swords 1: Steel and Snow, (London: HarperCollins, 2011).

McCloud, Scott, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, (New York: HarperCollins, 1993).

McElroy, Griffin (producer), ‘The Adventure Zone Episode 56: The Suffering Game – Chapter Six’, The Adventure Zone, podcast recording, MaximumFun, 03 February 2017, <http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/adventure-zone?page=2>, [accessed 25/11/2017].

McElroy, Justin, (producer), ‘The Adventure Zone Episode 70: The The Adventure Zone Zone: Balance Finale Edition’, The Adventure Zone, podcast recording, MaximumFun, 24 August 2017, <http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/adventure-zone>, [accessed 25/11/2017].

Smith, Zadie, Changing My Mind, (London: Penguin Books, 2011).

In this episode, Kai is joined by novelist, poet, playwright and short story crafter Gavin Cameron. Together they discuss some of Gavin's work, along with the short story form, what you can gain from joining a writing group, and NaNoWriMo.

Story featured: 'Him' by Gavin Cameron

Special thanks to Rhiannon Dawn Dewar for our logo. For more of her work, visit her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rhiannondawndewarartist/?hl=en

Special thanks as well to Strangely Doesburg for our theme song, 'Grab Your Bags'. Find Strangely's music and podcasts here: https://www.strangelyandfriends.com/

Did you know we have a Twitter? https://twitter.com/StoryCircleJerk

Did you know we have a Twitter? Apparently Kai doesn't, because they forgot to plug it in the episode: https://twitter.com/StoryCircleJerk

This week Kai is joined by Dundee-based singer-songwriter Catrin Evans and her guitar, to discuss the unique benefits and challenges of telling stories through music (also baby eating, tortoises and Smash Mouth).

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Our artwork was created by Rhiannon Dawn Dewar. You can find more of her work here: https://www.instagram.com/rhiannondawndewarartist/?hl=en

Special thanks also go to Strangely Doesburg for our theme song, Grab Your Bag. Check out his music (and podcasts!) here: https://www.strangelyandfriends.com/

Welcome to the first ever episode of Story Circle Jerk, a new podcast about storytelling and storytellers! In this amuse-bouche of an episode, our intrepid (and might I, the third-person narrator, add, dashingly handsome) host Kai Durkin takes the first step on the Story Circle or Hero's Journey: answering the call to adventure! Or in other words, they finally decide to stop telling people they're making a podcast all about writing and actually, you know, make one. Even if they're bad at accents and forgot to get a pop filter.

Writing featured: 

• Martha (short story) written and performed by Kai Durkin.
• Lads Trip (short story) written and performed by Kai Durkin.

Cover art by Rhiannon Dawn Dewar: https://www.instagram.com/rhiannondawndewarartist/?hl=en

Theme song "Grab Your Bag" generously provided by Strangely Doesburg: https://www.strangelyandfriends.com