Fictionable
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Episodes: 62
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Interviews, book chat and everything about the short stories and graphic fiction from all around the world appearing in Fictionable. "Storytellers, readers and creatives alike will love" – The Independent
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Holly Edwards: 'There's obviously something political about presenting trans characters'
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May 09, 2026 |
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Joel Cox: 'It's fine to have jerks in stories, but you have to have something that makes the reader keep reading'
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May 03, 2026 |
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Bruna Martini: 'I have spent too many months without drawing'
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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Diana Evans: 'Writing is an act of hope'
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Cynthia Banham: 'Writing is a dangerous act'
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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Samuel Rigg: 'Often I find I'm writing about people who are not me'
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Tim Conley: 'Short fiction is a lot more liberating'
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Rodrigo Urquiola Flores: 'Everything in this short story is true'
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Cynthia Zarin: 'You write out of the world that you're living in'
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Ephameron: 'My work is always at the crossroads between literature, graphic arts, painting, comics'
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Kasimma: 'Because I’m writing fiction, I can get away with anything'
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Caroline Clark: 'This story completely surprised me'
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Helon Habila: 'What fiction does is make you live the life of the other'
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Sheyla Smanioto: 'It's a haunted story, where you know something is going to happen'
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Dafydd McKimm: 'I write this kind of story in a bit of a fever'
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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Ali McClary: 'This story started as a conversation between two young women'
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Pete Segall: 'I don’t feel like it’s my job as a writer to answer questions'
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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AL Kennedy: 'It's all political, if you're writing fiction'
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Susanna Clarke: 'You’ve got to play with things being very fantastical and also slightly humdrum'
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May 23, 2025 |
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Jeremy Wikeley: 'I would always defend the notion of being able to write about a place called England'
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May 15, 2025 |
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PR Woods: 'I would never write anything against Wolf Hall'
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May 08, 2025 |
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Bronia Flett: 'This is obviously all fiction'
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May 01, 2025 |
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Fríða Ísberg: 'We are always just looking for simple stories'
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Joanna Kavenna: 'We all make fictions about the future'
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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Rachida Lamrabet: 'Fiction gives me the opportunity to introduce another perspective'
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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Julian George: 'Any word out of place, the whole thing is worthless'
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Ben Sorgiovanni: 'What fiction does really well is capture the nuance of human experience'
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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Helga Schubert: 'There's got to be distance between the writer and their story'
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Esther Karin Mngodo: 'I am more myself when I write in Swahili'
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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Hannah Webb: 'I always seem to end up writing at the extremes'
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Scott Jacobs: 'I made a few things up along the way'
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Judith Vanistendael: 'This first love has defined my storytelling'
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Daisy Johnson: 'Most of the things I write do have a twist'
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Susan Muaddi Darraj: 'My writing has changed forever by what's happening in Gaza'
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Aug 17, 2024 |
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Jack Klausner: 'I write more on the darker end of the spectrum'
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Aug 10, 2024 |
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Carolina Bruck: 'Fiction can transform the way we understand the world'
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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Patrick Cash: 'The coming out story has been told so many times'
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Samantha Harvey: 'This is what fiction can do'
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Jakub Żulczyk: 'We're all two inches tall'
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Rose Rahtz: 'What if you did have magical powers in a toddler?'
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Lauren Caroline Smith: 'There is something countercultural in Christianity'
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May 28, 2024 |
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Grahame Williams: 'Random acts of violence could happen at any time'
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May 23, 2024 |
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Jenny Erpenbeck: 'What you write down can be made to hide something'
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May 10, 2024 |
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Liam Hogan: 'I want to be entertained'
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Robert Neuwirth: 'I wanted it to be plausible as a machine thinking'
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Ariel Marken Jack: 'The way I fight back is through my writing'
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Richard Smyth: 'We all need an Otherland'
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Linda Mannheim: 'What is a happy ending?'
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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Catriona Bolt: 'Everyone in the story associates mushrooms with death'
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Shauna Mackay: 'It's listening to the characters and letting them take the lead'
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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Seán Padraic Birnie: 'I was quite depressed and pissed off with work'
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Irena Karpa: 'Literature must entertain, especially in dark times'
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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M John Harrison: 'How do you know who’s alive and who’s the ghost?'
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Sabba Khan: 'The terraced house is a big character in this story'
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Donal McLaughlin: 'I've got that Derry voice in my head'
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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José Falero: 'If people started robbing cars en masse, that would be a political event'
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Fiona Mozley: 'Fiction really is a conversation'
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Joyce Carol Oates: 'With prose fiction you can go beneath the surface'
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Etgar Keret: 'When I write a story I also live it'
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Diana Evans: 'You can actually go quite far with very little'
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Evie Wyld: 'I feel much more able to do wilder things in the present tense'
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Sarah Hall: 'At what point would you take grand steps?'
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Jun 27, 2022 |