About this episode

This episode features a fantasy short story by J.S.Watts, exploring the art of storytelling through the lens of two story weavers.

Telling Stories ep. 833 J.S.Watts is a British poet and novelist who weaves the fantastical and the literary with other vibrant strands to create glowing, multi-faceted writing. Her poetry, short stories and non-fiction appear in a wide variety of publications in Britain, the US and abroad and have been broadcast on BBC and Independent Radio. She has edited various magazines and anthologies and performed her poetry across England, Scotland and Wales, but not yet in Ireland (should anyone from Ireland be reading this). Along the way, she has won various awards and had honourable mentions in others, but nothing so outstanding that she wants to make a big thing out of it. J.S.'s three poetry collections, Cats and Other Myths, Years Ago You Coloured Me and Underword , are published by Lapwing Publications, as is her multi-award nominated SF poetry pamphlet, Songs of Steelyard Sue. Her poetry pamphlet, The Submerged Sea, was published by Dempsey & Windle. Her novels, A Darker Moon – dark fiction, Witchlight, Old Light and Elderlight – an urban fantasy trilogy, are published in the US and UK by Vagabondage Press. For further details see her website: http://www.jswatts.co.uk J.S. also…

People in this episode

Host: Chris Herron

Guest: J.S.Watts

Topics covered

• fantasy
• storytelling
• poetry
• literature
• urban fantasy

Keywords

• fantasy short story
• story weavers
• J.S.Watts
• poetry
• urban fantasy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BBC, Independent Radio, Lapwing Publications, Vagabondage Press

Books & works: Cats and Other Myths, Years Ago You Coloured Me, Underword, Songs of Steelyard Sue, The Submerged Sea, A Darker Moon, Witchlight, Old Light, Elderlight

Places: England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland

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