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TOD 113: State of The Weird Roundtable 2022

The Outer Dark presents State of The Weird Roundtable 2022 featuring Steve Berman, Nadia Bulkin, Gemma Files, Fiona Maeve Geist, Craig Laurance Gidney, and Nicole Givens Kurtz. This podcast’s content was moderated by Anya Martin and recorded at NecronomiCon in Providence, Rhode Island, on August 20, 2022. 

Show Notes

The Outer Dark presents State of The Weird Roundtable 2022 featuring Steve Berman (Lethe Press), Nadia Bulkin, Gemma Files, Fiona Maeve Geist, Craig Laurance Gidney, and Nicole Givens Kurtz. Our no-holds-barred BIG conversation on Weird fiction now and into the future begins with how the pandemic lockdown and its aftermath, as well as scary political realities, have affected the panelists’ own writing and publishing, as well as their relationship to horror, The Weird, and their place in society.  The discussion never skips a beat racing through a variety of topics including reading escapist literature in an era of soft apocalypse,  subverting expectations when the unexpected is the norm, ways the concept of “acceptance” of the numinous in Weird fiction are transforming as we ourselves feel out of control,  next frontiers for Weird fiction and what readers want now, and most importantly, how for marginalized authors the very act of writing Weird fiction is an act of empowerment. Listen to previous State of the Weird Roundtables here: 2015/2016201720182019, 2020. This podcast’s content was moderated by Anya Martin and recorded at NecronomiCon in Providence, Rhode Island, on August 20, 2022. 

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Additional Links

The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (Tor)

Kelly Link

Eric LaRocca

Haley Piper

The Books of Blood by Clive Barker (Wikipedia)

Lilith’s Brood by Octavia Butler

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin

LISTEN: TOD 093 Quarantine Readings: Nadia Bulkin and Eric Schaller

LISTEN: TOD 081 Weird Metamorphosis panel (featuring Fiona Maeve Geist)

LISTEN: TOD 075 Quarantine Readings: Gemma Files and Alistair Rennie

LISTEN: TOD 074 Craig Laurance Gidney: Dreaming a Weird that Shimmers

LISTEN: TOD 005 Black Women in Spec-Lit and Horror (Moderator: Nicole Givens Kurtz)

Show Credits

Hosts/Producers: Scott Nicolay and Anya Martin

Co-Host, News from The Weird: Justin Steele

Co-Host, Reviews from The Weird: Gordon B. White

Symposium Assistant Director: Melanie Crew

Symposium Programming Coordinator: Jess Lewis

Symposium Logistics: Melissa Eisner

Logo Design: Nick “The Hat” Gucker

Music: Michael Griffin