EPISODE · Nov 18, 2025 · 1H
Writing the Diaspora Experience with R.B. Lemberg (SH@25 Episode 17)
from Strange Horizons · host The Strange Horizons Editorial Collective
In this episode of Strange Horizons at 25, Podcast Editor Kat Kourbeti sits down with long-time Strange Horizons contributor RB Lemberg for a conversation about their extensive work with the magazine, using poetry as a tool to refine short and long-form fiction, writing about the diaspora experience, and the comfort one can find in stories from perspectives outside one's own. Oh, and Ursula K LeGuin, of course.Links and things:Want to leave us a happy birthday message? Click here to record an audio message, and here for video.Join our Patreon for early episode access, or donate through any other way to hear your name and message in our next episodes.Are you starting to read stories for SFF awards season? Consider our fiction and poetry archives as a good starting point, and let us know your favourite stories and poems of the year on Bluesky.Episode show notes:Read RB Lemberg's work in our archives.Visit their website, their Patreon, or follow them on Bluesky.Buy Yoke of Stars, their latest Birdverse novella, which just won the World Fantasy Award!Pre-order We Will Rise Again, the activism anthology edited by Annalee Newitz, Karen Lord, and Malka Older.Find more links to their work, plus other interesting things, scattered through the transcript on our website.
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In this episode of Strange Horizons at 25, Podcast Editor Kat Kourbeti sits down with long-time Strange Horizons contributor RB Lemberg for a conversation about their extensive work with the magazine, using poetry as a tool to refine short and long-form fiction, writing about the diaspora experience, and the comfort one can find in stories from perspectives outside one's own. Oh, and Ursula K LeGuin, of course.Links and things:Want to leave us a happy birthday message? Click here to record an audio message, and here for video.Join our Patreon for early episode access, or donate through any other way to hear your name and message in our next episodes.Are you starting to read stories for SFF awards season? Consider our fiction and poetry archives as a good starting point, and let us know your favourite stories and poems of the year on Bluesky.Episode show notes:Read RB Lemberg's work in our archives.Visit their website, their Patreon, or follow them on Bluesky.Buy Yoke of Stars, their latest Birdverse novella, which just won the World Fantasy Award!Pre-order We Will Rise Again, the activism anthology edited by Annalee Newitz, Karen Lord, and Malka Older.Find more links to their work, plus other interesting things, scattered through the transcript on our website.
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