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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Cynthia Banham: 'Writing is a dangerous act'
26 mins; February 20, 2026
Samuel Rigg: 'Often I find I'm writing about people who are not me'
14 mins; February 12, 2026
Tim Conley: 'Short fiction is a lot more liberating'
19 mins; February 05, 2026
Rodrigo Urquiola Flores: 'Everything in this short story is true'
23 mins; January 30, 2026
Cynthia Zarin: 'You write out of the world that you're living in'
31 mins; January 22, 2026
Ephameron: 'My work is always at the crossroads between literature, graphic arts, painting, comics'
18 mins; November 20, 2025
Kasimma: 'Because I’m writing fiction, I can get away with anything'
21 mins; November 13, 2025
Caroline Clark: 'This story completely surprised me'
17 mins; November 06, 2025
Helon Habila: 'What fiction does is make you live the life of the other'
22 mins; October 29, 2025
Sheyla Smanioto: 'It's a haunted story, where you know something is going to happen'
21 mins; September 01, 2025
Dafydd McKimm: 'I write this kind of story in a bit of a fever'
18 mins; August 24, 2025
Ali McClary: 'This story started as a conversation between two young women'
15 mins; August 08, 2025
Pete Segall: 'I don’t feel like it’s my job as a writer to answer questions'
17 mins; July 31, 2025
AL Kennedy: 'It's all political, if you're writing fiction'
28 mins; July 25, 2025
Susanna Clarke: 'You’ve got to play with things being very fantastical and also slightly humdrum'
30 mins; May 23, 2025
Jeremy Wikeley: 'I would always defend the notion of being able to write about a place called England'
19 mins; May 15, 2025
PR Woods: 'I would never write anything against Wolf Hall'
19 mins; May 08, 2025
Bronia Flett: 'This is obviously all fiction'
22 mins; May 01, 2025
FrĂĂ°a ĂŤsberg: 'We are always just looking for simple stories'
25 mins; April 24, 2025
Joanna Kavenna: 'We all make fictions about the future'
27 mins; February 23, 2025
Rachida Lamrabet: 'Fiction gives me the opportunity to introduce another perspective'
18 mins; February 15, 2025
Julian George: 'Any word out of place, the whole thing is worthless'
16 mins; January 30, 2025
Ben Sorgiovanni: 'What fiction does really well is capture the nuance of human experience'
14 mins; January 25, 2025
Helga Schubert: 'There's got to be distance between the writer and their story'
24 mins; January 17, 2025
Esther Karin Mngodo: 'I am more myself when I write in Swahili'
29 mins; January 11, 2025
Hannah Webb: 'I always seem to end up writing at the extremes'
19 mins; November 01, 2024
Scott Jacobs: 'I made a few things up along the way'
18 mins; October 24, 2024
Judith Vanistendael: 'This first love has defined my storytelling'
22 mins; October 18, 2024
Daisy Johnson: 'Most of the things I write do have a twist'
24 mins; October 11, 2024
Susan Muaddi Darraj: 'My writing has changed forever by what's happening in Gaza'
31 mins; August 17, 2024
Jack Klausner: 'I write more on the darker end of the spectrum'
14 mins; August 10, 2024
Carolina Bruck: 'Fiction can transform the way we understand the world'
18 mins; August 03, 2024
Patrick Cash: 'The coming out story has been told so many times'
15 mins; July 27, 2024
Samantha Harvey: 'This is what fiction can do'
34 mins; July 18, 2024
Jakub Żulczyk: 'We're all two inches tall'
19 mins; June 13, 2024
Rose Rahtz: 'What if you did have magical powers in a toddler?'
24 mins; June 06, 2024
Lauren Caroline Smith: 'There is something countercultural in Christianity'
20 mins; May 28, 2024
Grahame Williams: 'Random acts of violence could happen at any time'
19 mins; May 23, 2024
Jenny Erpenbeck: 'What you write down can be made to hide something'
25 mins; May 10, 2024
Liam Hogan: 'I want to be entertained'
25 mins; March 09, 2024
Robert Neuwirth: 'I wanted it to be plausible as a machine thinking'
30 mins; March 02, 2024
Ariel Marken Jack: 'The way I fight back is through my writing'
34 mins; February 23, 2024
Richard Smyth: 'We all need an Otherland'
32 mins; February 16, 2024
Linda Mannheim: 'What is a happy ending?'
24 mins; February 10, 2024
Catriona Bolt: 'Everyone in the story associates mushrooms with death'
23 mins; October 28, 2023
Shauna Mackay: 'It's listening to the characters and letting them take the lead'
14 mins; October 21, 2023
Seán Padraic Birnie: 'I was quite depressed and pissed off with work'
22 mins; October 14, 2023
Irena Karpa: 'Literature must entertain, especially in dark times'
31 mins; October 08, 2023
M John Harrison: 'How do you know who’s alive and who’s the ghost?'
30 mins; September 29, 2023
Sabba Khan: 'The terraced house is a big character in this story'
20 mins; August 23, 2023
Donal McLaughlin: 'I've got that Derry voice in my head'
