Podcast appearances and mentions of Nina Kiriki Hoffman

This episode features "The Shift" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (©2025 by Nina Kiriki Hoffman) and "Message In a Babel" by Adam-Troy Castro (©2025 by Adam-Troy Castro), both read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award-winning author and WOTF Judge Nina Kiriki Hoffman! , Nina Kiriki Hoffman has creaed adult and young adult novels and stories and books for 40 years now.she's sold about 400 short stories and a number of novels and young adult books, plus several collections.. Her works have been finalists for the World Fantasy, Mythopoeic, Sturgeon, Philip K. Dick and Endeavour Awards. Her first novel, The Thread That Binds the Bones, won a Bram Stoker Award, and her short story “Trophy Wives” won a Nebula Award in 2009. Her most recent novels are Fall of Light and Thresholds. She's teach science fiction, fantasy, and horror short story writing on Zoom through Fairfield County Writers Studio. I also teach through Wordcrafters in Eugene. Hoffman does production work for the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and she also works with teen writers. As one of the original winners of Writers of the Future, she was published in Volume 1. She became a judge of the Writers of the Future Contest in 2000.  

Feast on crab fried rice with Nina Kiriki Hoffman as we discuss the way a ghost story which left her wanting more led to her taking her writing more seriously, her early reactions to reading Robert A. Heinlein and Ursula K. Le Guin, how the Clarion workshop convinced her she could have a career as a writer, the way she wanted to grow up to be a combination of Ray Bradbury and Zenna Henderson, what she learned about characterization from Samuel R. Delany while at Clarion, the major difference she saw between the horror and science fiction communities during the early days of the Internet, how my perception of the arc her career was affected not by what she wrote but by what she sold, the lesson Ellen Datlow taught her which she passes on to her students, and much more.

Editors' Intro: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Short Fiction: “Travelers' Unrest” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, as read by Matt Peters Poetry: A Testament of Bloom” by Taiwo Hassan, as read by Matt Peters Interview: Lynne M. Thomas Interviews Nina Kiriki Hoffman.   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 © 2022 by Uncanny Magazine

Nina Kiriki Hoffman was a winner from the very first volume of Writers of the Future and later became a Contest judge. In this interview, she covers writer's block and how to deal with it. She also discusses how if you want to write short stories try taking characters from your novel and write something about that character before they got to the book, i.e. a right of passage before they became a character in the novel. Write a story about them and you get to know your character that much better when you write your novel. Learn more about Nina at fantasticfiction.com/h/nina-kiriki-hoffman/

Nina Kiriki Hoffman was a winner from the very first volume of Writers of the Future and later became a Contest judge. In this interview, she covers writer's block and how to deal with it. She also discusses how if you want to write short stories try taking characters from your novel and write something about that character before they got to the book, i.e. a right of passage before they became a character in the novel. Write a story about them and you get to know your character that much better when you write your novel. Learn more about Nina at fantasticfiction.com/h/nina-kiriki-hoffman/

Nina Kiriki Hoffman was a winner from the very first volume of Writers of the Future and later became a Contest judge. In this interview, she covers writer's block and how to deal with it. She also discusses how if you want to write short stories try taking characters from your novel and write something about that character before they got to the book, i.e. a right of passage before they became a character in the novel. Write a story about them and you get to know your character that much better when you write your novel. Learn more about Nina at fantasticfiction.com/h/nina-kiriki-hoffman/

James C. Glass, the 1991 Grand prize winning author (WOTF 7) has written 10 novels and 4 compilations, primarily hard science fiction. His first love was writing which transitioned to education for a career with twin Masters in Astronomy and Physics and then a PhD in Physics. After a long successful career, kids grown up, he transitioned back to writing in 1987 when he published his first story. He entered WOTF initially in 1987 after being introduced to the Contest by Algis Budrys, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and Dean Wesley Smith. www.author-jamesglass.com

Cuckoo's Nest by Nina Kiriki Hoffman. Narrated by J.S. Arquin. Featuring an afterword written by Nina Kiriki Hoffman. #fantasy #urbanfantasy  She reached out and gripped his chin in her too-hard grasp.  He tried to draw back, but she was too strong.  She stared at his mouth, leaned closer, suddenly pulled his head down and pressed her lips to his.  Before he could react, her tongue was in his mouth.  She tasted like lemon, like rosemary, like something wild.  She bit his lower lip, sucked on the wound until he had vampire fears.  There was nothing arousing about her actions; all of him was damped down with fear. Over the past thirty-odd years, Nina Kiriki Hoffman has sold adult and young adult novels and more than 350 short stories.  Her works have been finalists for many major awards, and she has won Stoker and Nebula Awards. Nina's novels have been published by Avon, Atheneum, Ace, Pocket, Scholastic, Tachyon, and Viking.  Her short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies. Nina does production work for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and teaches writing.  She lives in Eugene, Oregon. For a list of Nina's publications: http://ofearna.us/books/hoffman.html.   Please help support The Overcast. Become a Patron Today! Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher  or Spotify so you never miss an episode. While you're there, don't forget to leave a review!   J.S. Arquin's Crimson Dust Cycle trilogy is complete! Go to www.arquinworlds.com to download your free prequel story. Are you an author who loves J.S. Arquin's narrations? Ask him to narrate your audiobook at www.arquinaudiobooks.com     

James C. Glass, the 1991 Grand prize winning author (WOTF 7) has written 10 novels and 4 compilations, primarily hard science fiction. His first love was writing which transitioned to education for a career with twin Masters in Astronomy and Physics and then a PhD in Physics. After a long successful career, kids grown up, he transitioned back to writing in 1987 when he published his first story. He entered WOTF initially in 1987 after being introduced to the Contest by Algis Budrys, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and Dean Wesley Smith. www.author-jamesglass.com

This story is written by John Weagly. John is a writer with a bunch of plays produced on four continents and a bunch of short stories published. Once upon a time, Locus Magazine compared his short fiction to the works of Ray Bradbury and Nina Kiriki Hoffman and called him “a new writer worth reading … Continue reading Gateways: “Sasquatch of the Stratosphere” by John Weagley. Read by John Keefe. →

A wide ranging interview with Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Young Adult author Nina Kiriki Hoffman, winner of the Bram Stoker Award.

By Nina Kiriki Hoffman, from Issue #260 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Setsu Uzumé.As the oldest, I had to make sure I and my four sisters and little brother gave greetings to our parents in their first year under the ice.More info »

Echoes. For every action we take, there are multiple possibilities. And for each of those possibilities, a new universe is born, with each decision branching off into infinite parallel worlds, each of them subtly different from all of the rest. Captain Janeway and the crew of Voyager come across one world where the barriers between these universes are coming down: every two and a half hours, a door is opened between all realities, and every person is shifted to the next reality. And in one of these realities, a horrific holocaust repeats itself as every shift spells the deaths of billions. In this episode of Literary Treks, hosts Bruce Gibson and Dan Gunther are joined by The Edge's Brandon-Shea Mutala to discuss Echoes by Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and Nina Kiriki Hoffman. We talk about the plot of the novel, the unique perspective of the story's events, the dreaded Voyager reset button, Tuvok's role in the story, the crews' doppelgangers, and wrap up with our final thoughts and ratings. In our news segment, we discuss Bruce's new comic acquisition and talk about the newly-released Star Trek: The Book of Lists. News What Bruce is Reading (00:03:03) Star Trek: The Book of Lists (00:06:45) Feature: Echoes Voyager #15 (00:09:48) First Reading (00:12:57) The Plot (00:15:51) Different Perspectives (00:28:52) Reset Button (00:38:38) The Characters (00:46:15) Is That Work or Tuvok? (00:50:47) Ratings (00:52:35) Final Thoughts (00:56:08) Hosts Dan Gunther and Bruce Gibson Guest Brandon-Shea Mutala Production Matthew Rushing (Editor and Producer) C Bryan Jones (Executive Producer) Ken Tripp (Executive Producer) Matthew Rushing (Executive Producer) Richard Marquez (Production Manager) Brandon-Shea Mutala (Patreon Manager) Ken Tripp (Associate Producer) Brandon-Shea Mutala (Associate Producer) Bruce Gibson (Associate Producer) Justin Oser (Associate Producer) Norman C. Lao (Associate Producer) Greg Rozier (Associate Producer)

Coming Up Black Hole Friday – Starting 19th November until 25th November Short Story: In Their Garden by Brenda Cooper 05:55 Fact: Everything by Morgan Saletta 25:20 Main Fiction: Futures in the Memories Market by Nina Kiriki Hoffman 48:30 Promo: Science Fiction, Part II taught by Dr. Amy H. Sturgis 01:15:00 Narrators: Liz Ann Herd, Jeff Lane

My father's family had produced monster-finders for several generations. More monsters were being born than ever; our village didn't have enough finder power to track them all, or shaper power to abort or fix those the finders found, so many people had to offer their offspring to the Shadows. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

Coming Up Fact: Mundt Speaks by Martin Mundt 01:10 Fact: Horror List 101 by Kevin Lucia 21:30 Main Fiction: My Tears Have Been My Meat by Nina Kiriki Hoffman 42:30 Music: Empty House by Jonah Knight Narrator: Kristi Petersen Schoonover See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our first piece of audio fiction for June is "Futures in the Memories Market" written by Nina Kiriki Hoffman and read by Kate Baker.

Editorial: StarShipSofa Interrogation by Tony C Smith SF Weekly News: Tony C Smith 09:20 Main Fiction: The Last Evolution by John W Campbell Jr 15:30 StarShipSofa Interrogation: Lucius Shepard 16:30 Main Fiction: Knotwork by Nina Kiriki Hoffman 01:12:00 Narrators: J.J. Campanella Christie Yant [polldaddy poll=2634401] SF News Links: RIP: Kage Baker

Aural Delights No 76 Nebula Nominee Nina Kiriki Hoffman Trophy Wives By Nina Kiriki Hoffman First Published: Fellowship Fantastic Narration: Julie Davis Link to the Nebula Awards  site See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.