The AudPod – Details, episodes & analysis

It’s spooky season, my pretties! This month Bree interviews Premee Mohamed (she/her): a Nebula, World Fantasy, and Aurora award-winning author of BUTCHER OF THE FOREST (2024), NO ONE WILL COME BACK FOR US (2023), AND WHAT CAN WE OFFER YOU TONIGHT (2021), and BENEATH THE RISING (2020), among many others. Premee is also the 2024 Writer-in-Residence at the Edmonton Public Library and Assistant Editor of Escape Pod.

They’re joined by fellow Audreys bookseller, Mika (they/he), to talk about horror, authorial intent, genre mixing, and if there’s something wrong with us for enjoying it so much.

In this episode, Bree welcomes Rayanne Haines (she/her), a poet, writer, Assisstant Professor, and podcaster. Rayanne is the host of the Crow Reads Podcast, President for the League of Canadian Poets, director of She, The River (2020), author of the GUARDIAN SERIES, STAINED WITH THE COLOURS OF SUNDAY MORNING (2018), TELL THE BIRDS YOUR BODY IS NOT A GUN (2021) and the upcoming WHAT KIND OF DAUGHTER? (2024). They discuss Rayanne's career as an arts organizer, the poetics of grief and motherhood, and the burden of care. 

CW: This episode mentions suicide and suicidal ideation. 

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In the inaugural episode of The AudPod, our host Bree (she/they) interviews Matthew Stepanic (he/she/they): host of VERS/E, founder of AGATHA PRESS, co-author of PROJECT COMPASS (2017), and author of RELYING ON THAT BODY (2018). They discuss the creation of a chapbook and broadside press, hosting a queer poetry open mic, and Matthew’s triumphant return to publishing.