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When (inciting incident), (hero) struggles against (antagonistic force) in order to (goal) before (stakes are lost). ... Her? Summary San Marino - Piqued Jacks - "Like an Animal" (4:32) Austria - Teya and Salena - "Who the Hell is Edgar?" (12:06) Albania - Albina & Familja Kelmendi - "Duje" (18:54) Lithuania - Monika Linkyté - "Stay" (25:18) Australia - Voyager - "Promise" (32:26) Final Thoughts (40:30) Subscribe The EuroWhat? Podcast is available wherever you get your podcasts. Find your podcast app to subscribe here (https://www.eurowhat.com/subscribe). Keep tabs on everything happening with Eurovision 2023 on our website at eurowhat.com/2023 Comments, questions, and episode topic suggestions are always welcome. You can shoot us an email (mailto:eurowhatpodcast@gmail.com), reach out on Twitter @eurowhat (https://twitter.com/eurowhat), or give us a toot on Mastodon (https://douzepoints.social/invite/ZTd9ufAC). Over on Patreon, we have a slew of bonus episodes featuring the Eurowhat AV Club and deep dives on Eurovision-adjacent topics. Thank you for your support! Special Guest: Navah Wolfe.
We watched Eurovision and this time we brought in an expert, Navah Wolfe, to teach us the ways of Europe and their silly song contest! And some expert opinions were needed because this is the most politically fraught Eurovision in decades. Did Ukraine's song deserve all its goodwill? Was the UK robbed? What did Germany think it was doing? Find out now!
Here’s the second half of my two part interview with authors, C. S. E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez!In my last post for my paid subscribers, I talked about the common advice that creative people should choose one niche in which to specialize. In the first part of this interview, we explored how ignoring that advice can actually help creativity grow stronger, but in this second part we’re diving into the question of how to narrow your focus in order to finish projects, even when they’re really hard and you feel stuck. Image Description: Sal and Gabi Break the Universe and The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria by Carlos Hernandez and Jack O’ the Hills, How to Flirt in Faerieland and Other Wild Rhymes, Bone Swans, and Desdemona and the Deep by C. S. E. Cooney. Carlos’s Sal and Gabi Break the Universe won the Pura Belpré Medal for Latinx creators whose work portrays Latinx experiences well for young readers! Carlos also has a story in The Mythic Dream, an anthology edited by Navah Wolfe and Dominik Parisien. You can find Carlos on Twitter as @WriteTeachPlay.Claire’s Bone Swans won the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection! Her novella, Desdemona and the Deep is wonderful, too, and I am not just saying that because the title character was named after my late cat, Desdemona (but she really was! She is even called Desdemonster sometimes, which we also called my cat!) Claire has also narrated over 100 audiobooks, and has an alter ego as a rock star named Brimstone Rhine. Both of them will be at Boskone in February in Boston, Massachusetts, and so will I! In fact, we’ll all be performing together in one of Claire’s Brimstone Rhine concerts, AND we’ll be reading excerpts of our work together. I’ll post my full Boskone schedule soon, so you’ll know where to find us!Technical note: If you are reading these show notes in email or on the web, you don’t have to listen in a web browser! You can subscribe to this podcast in the podcatcher of your choice by clicking the “Listen in podcast app” link at the top of this message. It will send you an email, which will have a button in it that you can click while viewing the email on your phone, and that will generate a private RSS feed just for you. It will give you options to add it to one of several podcast apps by clicking a link, or to copy the RSS feed and add it to the podcast app you use. Once you add this feed to your app, future episodes should download to your phone automatically if you choose to autorefresh the feed. If you are a paid subscriber, you can use your private feed for both the paid and free episodes. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at omgjulia.substack.com/subscribe
After acknowledging that we failed to record a single podcast during the Dublin Worldcon, Jonathan and Gary compare notes about the con and the general wonderfulness of being in Ireland, than discussed perhaps the most debated bit of news emerging from Dublin: the renaming of the John W. Campbell award following the passionate acceptance speech by Jeanette Ng. This raised the issue of whether it's a good idea to name an award in honour of any past figure in the field, given the shifting historical and literary influences of modern writers, and the problems that might arise concerning such figures. Then we spent a bit of time talking about a new kind of "new space opera” such as Max Gladstone's Empress of Forever, and how space opera, like time travel, seems to survive and get reinvented in each new generation of writers. Finally, we recommend a couple of forthcoming books we've both been reading, Alix E. Harrow's The Ten Thousand Doors of January and Dominic Parisien and Navah Wolfe's anthology The Mythic Dream.
In which we consider renaming our podcast to Houston, We Have A Podcast, but someone else got in first... FEEDBACK: From Rachel & Phillip WHAT’S NEW ON THE INTERNET: Ditmars: https://locusmag.com/2019/06/2019-ditmar-awards-winners/ Norma: https://normakhemmingaward.org No Joanna Russ Book Club this week, but read How to Suppress Women’s Writing: Chapter 10 Responses for next episode! CULTURE CONSUMED: Tansy: Harry Potter & The Cursed Child (Princess Theatre, Melbourne), Last Pen Standing by Vivian Conroy, Big Finish blitz (Torchwood: Ghost Mission, Goodbye Piccadilly, Broken, The Green Life), Evelina, Frances Burney Alex: The Meg; all of Haven; most of my Hugo reading; Robots vs Fairies, ed. Navah Wolfe and Dominik Parisien Please send feedback to us at galacticsuburbia@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter at @galacticsuburbs, check out Galactic Suburbia Podcast on Facebook, support us at Patreon - which now includes access to the ever so exclusive GS Slack - and don't forget to leave a review on iTunes if you love us!
Inconceivable! Episode 22 - Welcome back to “Inconceivable!”, the show that tests two teams’ knowledge of the nerdy, the useless, and the obscure. For this episode, recorded live at the World Science Fiction Convention in San Jose, CA, it’s a North American face-off, as Team USA takes on Team Canada. The panelists must identify fictional foods, figure out what character a group of actors have in common, and play a little game of musical mash-ups. Helene Wecker, Adam Rakunas, and Navah Wolfe represent the U.S. while Warren Frey, Erika Ensign, and Steven Schapansky fly the Canadian flag. Host Dan Moren and Jason Snell with Helene Wecker, Adam Rakunas, Navah Wolfe, Warren Frey, Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky.
Welcome back to “Inconceivable!”, the show that tests two teams’ knowledge of the nerdy, the useless, and the obscure. For this episode, recorded live at the World Science Fiction Convention in San Jose, CA, it’s a North American face-off, as Team USA takes on Team Canada. The panelists must identify fictional foods, figure out what character a group of actors have in common, and play a little game of musical mash-ups. Helene Wecker, Adam Rakunas, and Navah Wolfe represent the U.S. while Warren Frey, Erika Ensign, and Steven Schapansky fly the Canadian flag. Host Dan Moren and Jason Snell with Helene Wecker, Adam Rakunas, Navah Wolfe, Warren Frey, Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky.
Brea and Mallory talk about how books get made and interview editor Navah Wolfe! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Navah Wolfe Saga Press https://twitter.com/sagasff Books Mentioned - Warcross by Marie Lu Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie Wait Until Spring, Bandini by John Fante Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran The Power by Naomi Alderman Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik The Starlit Wood edited by Navah Wolfe and Dominik Parisien Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland Impostor Syndrome by Mishell Baker
With nominations for the 2018 Hugo Awards closing shortly, Jonathan and Gary headed to the Gershwin Room to discuss nominating for the Hugos, the recent proposal to change the name of the young adult (not a Hugo) award and to discuss at length their respective nominees for the 2018 World Fantasy Awards. Towards the end of the podcast, Jonathan and Gary became aware of the sad news that Kate Wilhelm had died, and spend some time remembering one of the most important SF and mystery writers of the 20th century. We don't usually get to this, but in a rare moment of organisation, we're providing a combined copy of Jonathan and Gary's draft World Fantasy ballots below. These will change (they're drafts) but it may serve as a useful pointer to some good reading etc. As always we hope you enjoy the episode. More next week! World Fantasy Awards 2018 Life Achievement Gardner Dozois Howard Waldrop Novel Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, John Crowley (Saga) Wintertide, Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com) The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, Theodora Goss (Saga) A Skinful of Shadows, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan; Amulet) The River Bank, Kij Johnson (Small Beer) The Night Ocean, Paul La Farge (Penguin) The Changeling, Victor LaValle (Spiegel and Grau) The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman (Knopf; Fickling UK) Long Fiction The Twilight Pariah, Jeffrey Ford (Tor.com Publishing) Mapping the Interior, Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com Publishing) Agents of Dreamland, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tor.com Publishing) Passing Strange, Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing) Mightier than the Sword, K.J. Parker (Subterranean) The Process is a Process (All its Own), Peter Straub (Subterranean) Short Fiction “Probably Still the Chosen One“, Kelly Barnhill (Lightspeed 2/17) "This is Our Town", John Crowley (Totalitopia) “Come See the Living Dryad“, Theodora Goss (Tor.com 3/9/17) “The Faerie Tree“, Kathleen Kayembe (Lightspeed 11/17) “The Smoke of Gold Is Glory“, Scott Lynch (The Book of Swords) "The Resident", Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body and Other Parties) "Sidewalks", Maureen F. McHugh (Omni) “Carnival Nine“, Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/11/17) "The Lamentation of Their Women", Kai Ashante Wllson (Tor.com) Anthology The New Voices of Fantasy, Peter S. Beagle & Jacob Weisman eds (Tachyon) Black Feathers, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Pegasus) Mad Hatters and March Hares: All-New Stories from the World of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Ellen Datlow ed. (Tor) The Book of Swords, Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; HarperCollins UK) The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories, Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin, eds. (Solaris US; Solaris UK) Collection You Should Come With Me Now, M. John Harrison (Comma) Dear Sweet Filthy World, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean) Wicked Wonders, Ellen Klages (Tachyon) Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf) Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers, Tim Powers (Baen) Tender: Stories, Sofia Samata (Small Beer) The Emerald Circus and Other Stories, Jane Yolen (Tachyon) Artist Rovina Cai Kathleen Jennings Gregory Manchess Victo Ngai Omar Rayyan Special Award, Professional Irene Gallo, for Tor.com Publishing Joe Monti and Navah Wolfe for editing Saga Press Jonathan Oliver for editing at Solaris The Locus Publications editorial team for Locus: The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Fields Special Award, Non-professional Scott H. Andrews for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Ditch Diggers comes to you LIVE from Morgan Freeman's International Airport, a.k.a. WorldCon 75 in Helsinki, Finland! Special guests Alasdair Stuart as the fake Matt Wallace, Navah Wolfe, Amal El-Mohtar, Jen Udden, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes.
Ditch Diggers comes to you LIVE from Morgan Freeman's International Airport, a.k.a. WorldCon 75 in Helsinki, Finland! Special guests Alasdair Stuart as the fake Matt Wallace, Navah Wolfe, Amal El-Mohtar, Jen Udden, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes.
In the 11th episode of Nice Jewish Fangirls, the Fangirls talk to Hugo-nominated(!!) Orthodox Jewish editor Navah Wolfe, offer up some book recommendations for Pesach (Passover), and discuss City Field’s Opening Day, ‘Power Rangers’, ‘Space Case’ by Stuart Gibbs, The Sorting Hat Chats, and a lot, lot more. (Riverdale! Star Trek! Books books booooooks!!!!)
Navah Wolfe, an editor at Saga Press, joined us to talk about the manuscripts she would really like to see. Ordinarily we don't encourage people to write to the market, but Navah asked specifically for the opportunity to tell our listeners what she's looking for. As it happens, tracking Navah's wish list as you write is unlikely to send you haring after the latest trend—you're far more likely to develop some new writing skills that will make your work more enjoyable, more fulfilling, and ultimately easier to sell. Spoiler Warning: In three weeks we'll be doing a Project in Depth on Ghost Talkers, by Mary Robinette Kowal. If you want to get the most out of that episode, you have three weeks to acquire and read the book. Credits: This episode was recorded aboard Oasis of the Seas by Bert Grimm, and mastered by Alex Jackson.
Editors’ Intro: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Short Fiction: E. Lily Yu’s "The Witch of Orion Waste and The Boy Knight", as read by Amal El-Mohtar Poetry: Ada Hoffmann’s “Million-Year Elegies: Tyrannosaurus", as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Dominik Parsien and Navah Wolfe interviewed by Deborah Stanish Want to join the Space Unicorn Ranger Corps? You can find new science fiction and fantasy stories, poetry, and nonfiction every month in Uncanny Magazine. Go to uncannymagazine.com or subscribe to the eBook version at weightlessbooks.com or amazon.com. This podcast was produced by Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky. Music created by Null Device and used with permission. Copyright © 2016 by Uncanny Magazine