Shining Moon Episode 36: Writing Real World Religions

Welcome to Shining Moon Episode 36, Writing Real World Religions. Priya Chand is a California transplant living in the Midwest, where she regularly cuts down trees and sets them on fire (as a certified volunteer forest steward). When she's not reading, writing, or eating, she enjoys swimming, martial arts, and naps. Her current big project is co-editing Reckoning 9. Find her at priyachandwrites.wordpress.comR. K. Duncan is a fat queer polyamorous wizard and author of fantasy, horror, and occasional sci-fi. He writes from a few rooms of a venerable West Philadelphia row home, where he dreams of travel and the demise of capitalism. His other full-time job is keeping house for himself and his live-in partner. Before settling on writing, he studied linguistics and philosophy at Haverford college. He attended Viable Paradise 23 in 2019. His occasional musings and links to other work can be found at rkduncan-author.com Zohar Jacobs is a Jewish writer who grew up in New Hampshire and now lives in Oxford. She has a PhD in Modern History from the University of Oxford and works in cultural policy. A graduate of Viable Paradise, she has work published or forthcoming in the Sunday Morning Transport, Asimov's, Analog and Clarkesworld. You can find her on Twitter @zoharjacobsStories in this episode:Priya Chand“Optimizing the Path to Enlightenment,” June 2020, Clarkesworld. http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/chand_06_20/ “Demeter Seeks Persephone in the year 2210.” Little Blue Marble, 2022. https://littlebluemarble.ca/2022/07/29/demeter-seeks-persephone-in-the-year-2210/Robin Duncan“A Circle of Steel and Bone,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies, December 2018  https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-circle-of-steel-and-bone/“Nemesis and the Sorcerer,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies, October 2021. https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/nemesis-and-the-sorcerer/Zohar Jacobs“The Enceladus South Pole Base Named after V.I. Lenin,” Clarkesworld, February 2024: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/jacobs_02_24/“For Out of Tai Shan the Torah Shall Go Forth,” Sunday Morning Transport, March 2024.   https://www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/for-out-of-tai-shan-the-torah-shallDavid Ebenbach “The Moon Rabbi,” Clarkesworld June 2023. https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ebenbach_06_23/"Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com