11 - Margaret Killjoy

05/22/20 • 32 min

For this episode, we are stepping away from academia and diving into the exciting worlds of writing and music with Margaret Killjoy!

Margaret is a writer of book-length fiction, short fiction, and non fiction. Perhaps our listeners will be most interested in her short story "The Free Orcs of Cascadia" published in The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy. She is also well known for her contributions to music! Our listeners may be particularly interested in her band Feminazgul. You can learn more about Margaret from her website, and even support her on Patreon (where you can also access a lot of her work as a perk of signing up).

For this episode, we are stepping away from academia and diving into the exciting worlds of writing and music with Margaret Killjoy!

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10 - Una McCormack

It is our absolute privilege to welcome to the podcast a very notable writer and Tolkien scholar: Una McCormack!

A quick glance at Dr. McCormack's website and you quickly learn that she is a New York Times bestselling author and a prolific writer of tie-in novels and short and long fiction. She is an ex-academic and loves to give public talks and engage with fans of science fiction and fantasy. What is less obvious, though, is that Dr. McCormack is also very involved with FanFiction and Fan Studies! We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we loved talking with this wonderful guest!

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12 - John Garth

We are elated to have with us on this episode a superstar of Tolkien scholarship, John Garth!

John is a writer who is best known to fans of J.R.R. Tolkien for his autobiographical work about the author, entitled Tolkien and the Great War. He has also written numerous articles and other works about the author, and we are delighted that he agreed to be our guest just days before his new book is released!

Listen in to hear details about his latest work, The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places that Inspired the Writer's Imagination! We also cover our usual Tolkien Experience questions, so we get to hear about how he became a huge Tolkien fan early on! We hope you enjoy listening!