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Write or Die Podcast
Write or Die, hosted by authors Claribel Ortega and Kat Cho, is podcast series that aims to share the real stories about what it takes to become an author – the gritty, infuriating, pull your hair out because it’s been years stories of writers who didn’t give up despite it all, and are now living…
Jesú Estrada, Ph.D.
Jesú Estrada, Ph.D. is a Chicana and first-generation American. Jesú owns a small independent, charity press, Barrio Blues Press that promotes the work of underrepresented authors. Founded in 2020, in Chicago, the mission of Barrio Blues Press is to elevate the voices of emerging writers and to help build a cooperative society. Visionaries for a better world are given…
NIGHTLIGHT
NIGHTLIGHT is an award-winning audio drama podcast featuring horror written by Black authors and performed by Black actors. NIGHTLIGHT was started because Black horror writers have been around as long as horror has, but they don’t get the exposure they deserve. NIGHTLIGHT wanted to change that and to make sure the writers got paid for…
kat o’keeffe
Kat O’Keeffe writes books and makes videos about books. She has a popular YouTube channel called “Katytastic” where she vlogs about writing, book reviews and NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). She may be best known for her book outlining approach, The 27 Chapter Outline method. Writers love her. Readers love her. You could, too. Find…
Amena Brown
Amena Brown is a spoken word poet, comedic storyteller, podcaster and author. She’s passionate about women’s empowerment, centering black women and women of color, and combining poetry and comedy to help her listeners and audience hold space and access joy. She’s the host of the podcast, HER with Amena Brown, where she centers and elevates the…
Laura Kate Dale
Laura Kate Dale is a video game critic, video creator, podcaster, author, and all around maker of things. Laura is co-host on the Podquisition Podcast, a cast member on the D&D Podcast Dice Funk, half of Queer & Pleasant Strangers, the former News Editor at Kotaku UK, former UK EIC at Destructoid and freelance contributor…
Sword & Board
Sword & Board LLC is an IP management and content creation company. Its mission is to support and create new, inclusive intellectual property for use in media, primarily novelization and gamification. They believe in diverse, independent storytelling and providing a means for publishing that may not otherwise be available to creators. They believe that it’s…
Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley is the author of the upcoming Sci-Fi/Fantasy titles Losing Gravity and Future Artifacts: Stories (2022) as well as The Light Brigade, The Stars are Legion and many other titles. Hurley has won the Hugo Award, Locus Award, Kitschy Award, and Sydney J. Bounds Award. She was also a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Nebula Award, and the Gemmell Morningstar…
Dialogues on Disability
Dialogues on Disability is a groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed series of interviews that disabled feminist philosopher of disability Shelley Tremain conducts with disabled philosophers and posts to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on the third Wednesday of each month. The series provides a public venue for discussion with disabled philosophers about a range of topics, including their philosophical work on disability; the…
K Tempest Bradford
K Tempest Bradford is a writer, podcaster, teacher and activist. She writes Afrofuturist and AfroRetroFuturist fiction for kids and adults that reflects her multiple identities, including her Blackness and Queerness. Her short stories have been published in magazines such as Strange Horizons and Electric Velocipede and anthologies such as Sunspot Jungle and In The Shadow…