123 - #OwnVoices Fiction w/ Sheree Renée Thomas & K. Tempest Bradford

12/16/20 • 76 min

"Own Voices" fiction means stories written BY members of the marginalized groups and cultures they depict, instead of written by people from outside those groups. People deserve to tell their OWN stories instead of having others take up that space and write about them, so today we get into what needs to happen and why. We're joined by two amazing author/editors: Sheree Renée Thomas (World Fantasy Award-winning editor, author, Marvel writer, and new Editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction) and K. Tempest Bradford (author, editor, writing teacher at Writing the Other, podcaster, and Vice Chair of the board of the Carl Brandon Society) for a deep dive into Own Voices fiction and why it's so important.
Sheree Renée Thomas: Website and Twitter (@blackpotmojo)
Books: NINE BAR BLUES, DARK MATTER & DARK MATTER: READING THE BONES, & pre-order BLACK PANTHER: TALES OF WAKANDA
Visit & subscribe to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
K. Tempest Bradford: Website and Twitter (@tinytempest)
Fiction & Non-Fiction Bibliography: http://tempest.fluidartist.com/bibliography/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ktempestbradford
Writing the Other writing classes
The Carl Brandon Society's website
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122 - AudibleGate Update + the "Big 4" Merger w/ Nicole Givens Kurtz

Swing and a miss, Audible! After last week's episode, the audiobook giant emailed authors & publishers with a "solution" to their policy of not paying creators. It was... not good. We talk with author & Mocha Memoirs Press publisher Nicole Givens Kurtz about why SO MUCH MORE needs to be done to make publishing equitable and ethical. And while we're at it, we get into the recently announced purchase of Simon & Schuster by Penguin/Random House (taking the "Big 5" publishing houses down to the Big 4), and why this is a raw deal for readers as well as writers, agents. and publishers. On a positive note, congratulations to Nalo Hopkinson on being named SFWA's 37th Grandmaster! See, good stuff happens too, sometimes...
NICOLE GIVENS KURTZ: https://nicolegivenskurtz.net/ & @NicoleGKurtz on Twitter
MOCHA MEMOIRS PRESS: https://mochamemoirspress.com/ & @MochaMemoirs on Twitter
Author Susan May's blog post about AudibleGate 2
Washington Post article about the Penguin/Random House + Simon & Schuster purchase
Petition from Writer’s Guild: https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/sign-our-letter-and-tell-audible-to-stop-charging-authors-for-returns
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124 - The "Canon" Episode w/ Jeannette Ng & Dr. Lisa Yaszek

Some say there are certain works & authors in SF/F/H that one Must Read in order to appreciate or understand the genres. But with all the amazing new work coming out from new voices around the world, are the so-called "canonical" works even relevant anymore? How can fans navigate the world of speculative fiction in a way that makes it meaningful (and let's not forget FUN) for them? We get into it with two fantastic guests: 2019 Astounding Award winner & author of Under the Pendulum Sun, Jeannette Ng, and Georgia Tech Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies & author of The Future is Female, Dr. Lisa Yaszek. Heads up: there may be some discussion of gross '70s Jell-O molds.
Jeannette Ng: Website and UNDER THE PENDULUM SUNDr. Lisa Yaszek: Website & Amazon author page
Octavia Butler on Devil Girls from Mars:
https://www.blackhistory.mit.edu/archive/transcript-devil-girl-mars-why-i-write-science-fiction-octavia-butler-1998Hugo Gernsback and Amazing Stories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing_StoriesLost Transmissions:
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Transmissions-History-Science-Fiction/dp/1419734652

Jeanette Ng’s Astounding Award Acceptance Speech: https://medium.com/@nettlefish/john-w-campbell-for-whom-this-award-was-named-was-a-fascist-f693323d3293We Have Always Fought
http://aidanmoher.com/blog/featured-article/2013/05/we-have-always-fought-challenging-the-women-cattle-and-slaves-narrative-by-kameron-hurley/Big Book of Science Fiction (edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer):
https://www.amazon.com/Big-Book-Science-Fiction/dp/1101910097Milton Davis:
https://www.mvmediaatl.com/Balogun Ojetade:
https://chroniclesofharriet.com/Margaret Cavendish:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/one-of-the-earliest-science-fiction-books-was-written-in-the-1600s-by-a-duchessThe Last Man by Mary Shelley:
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Man-Wordsworth-Classics/dp/1840224037Brian Aldiss on Mary Shelley:
https://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/brian-w-aldiss/

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