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In this episode of the Strange Horizons Fiction podcast, Michael Ireland presents Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas' 'Embroidery of a Bird's Heart' read by L.W. Salinas. You can read the full text of the story, and more about Nelly, ⁠here⁠.

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In the third episode of SH@25, editor Kat Kourbeti sits down with author Arkady Martine, for an in-depth interview on her multifaceted career, her review writing, and the history that inspired her two-time Hugo Award winning Teixcalaan Empire series.

We also present a reading of Arkady's poem, Cloud Wall, which marked her Strange Horizons debut, and remains to this day one of three poems she ever published, with reading by Kat Kourbeti and sound design by Michael Ireland.

• The music heard in the poetry segment is 'Uprising' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0.
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• Read a full transcript of this episode
• Find Arkady Martine in the SH Archives, including her poem 'Cloud Wall', the story 'City of Salt', and her book reviews
• Follow Arkady Martine on BlueSky (@byzantienne.bsky.social)
• Buy Arkady's books through Bookshop.org
• A full list of Arkady's short fiction elsewhere can be found on her website

In this episode of the Strange Horizons Fiction podcast, Michael Ireland presents KT Bryski's "Folk Hero Motifs in Tales Told by the Dead" read by Devin Martin You can read the full text of the story, and more about KT, here.

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In the first guest interview of this series, editor Kat Kourbeti sits down with author Kate Heartfield, whose 2015 story 'Limestone, Lye, and the Buzzing of Flies' marked a turning point in her publishing career.

• Follow Kate on social media @kateheartfield, or sign up for her newsletter on her website: https://kateheartfield.com
• For fuller show notes and to read the transcript of the interview: http://strangehorizons.com/podcasts/sh25-episode2-kate-heartfield/ ‎
• Read Kate's story "Limestone, Lye, and the Buzzing of Flies": http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/limestone-lye-and-the-buzzing-of-flies/
• Kate's 2017 fund drive essay "Expanding Ambitions": http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/azimuth/expanding-ambitions/
• Buy Kate's books through Bookshop.org: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/strange-horizons-25-guests

A Recipe for Life, A Tonic for Grief was originally published in the May 13th 2024 issue of Strange Horizons and is read by Emmie Christie.

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Chris is a palliative care physician by day and a writer by night. He is a dad (cat and human), by his back-of-the-napkin calculations, approximately 32 hours a day. His short fiction has appeared in Galaxy’s Edge, Zooscape, and Stupefying Stories. Find him on Bluesky at chrisblake.bsky.social

Emmie Christie has narrated the sci-fi novel "Amaranth Chronicles: Deviant Rising" for Audible and other short stories. She has also been published in Flash Fiction Online, Infinite Worlds Magazine, and Daily Science Fiction. You can find her work on her website or follow her on Twitter/X @EmmieChristie33. 

Podcast Editor Kat Kourbeti and Producer Michael Ireland announce our brand new podcast project, SH@25, a year-long interview and feature series that will delve into the Strange Horizons archives, celebrate the work of past contributors and staff, and highlight the contributions of Strange Horizons to SFF publishing and the wider community.

A full transcript can be found ⁠on our website⁠.

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For the curious, the narrator recruitment form can be found on this page. Shoot us an email with any questions at podcasts (at) strangehorizons.com.

In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Aisha and Dan discuss the knotty question of "the canon": what is it, how is it formed, who is it for? They do so in conversation with the critic Abigail Nussbaum, whose new reviews collection, Track Changes, has just been published by Briardene Books.

In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Aisha and Dan discuss genre boundaries in texts and criticism: how they're used, where they fall ... and what, if anything, they're good for. Is science fiction is more of a technique than a genre? Might it help to think about all texts as sitting across modes and categories? In the course of the conversation, Dan and Aisha return on several occasions to ⁠a recent episode of the New Yorker podcast Critics At Large⁠.

A transcript of this episode can be found at the ⁠Strange Horizons website⁠.

In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Aisha and Dan discuss ⁠⁠a recent essay⁠⁠ by Jake Casella Brookins that appeared in the Ancillary Review of Books. "The vaunted prophylactic prophecy of science fiction—the ability to prevent an undesirable future by loudly predicting it—has consistently proven false," argues Brookins, and so Aisha and Dan ask themselves: what good, and bad, might SF do? And when we find a piece of good criticism such as this essay, how can it help us think better about its questions?

In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Aisha and Dan talk to critic and poet Catherine Rockwood about her new chapbook, And We Are Far From Shore , a set of poems about the television show Our Flag Means Death. Catherine reviewed the show for Strange Horizons less than a year ago, and discusses how reviewing and criticism feed intocreative practice. There are also, of course, pirates.

The transcript of this episode can be found at the Strange Horizons website.