The Write Song is a podcast about the intersection of music and stories, and how one art form can influence and inspire another. Join host Kat Kourbeti as she sits down with some of the most talented fiction writers of today to find out how they use music as part of their creative process, going through a playlist per project and chatting about how each song shaped the story they ended up writing.
The Team
host
Kat is a speculative fiction writer, narrator, and podcaster based in London, UK. She is a Hugo Award and British Fantasy Award-winning Senior Podcast Editor at Strange Horizons magazine, and writes a column on speculative theatre and art events for the BSFA's critical journal, Vector. She also organises Spectrum, the largest critique group for SFF writers in the UK. She has been writing to music forever, and loves uncovering the connections between one art form and another.
editor
Michael Ireland is a disabled award-winning Audio Director known for his work on The Secret of St Kilda and the Strange Horizons Podcast. Based near Glasgow, Scotland, Michael works with audio for fiction, film and podcasts. He is currently working alongside Kat Kourbeti for their Strange Horizons@25 Project, a retrospective look at the impact of the magazine over the past 25 years, as well as The Write Song. Michael is also writing his first fiction book.
Credits
Music
Our music was composed exclusively for us by talented friends:
Intro – “Never Dawn” (Write Song Edit) by Xenopolis
Outro – “Fascination” by Allen Stroud
Software
The Write Song is recorded on Squadcast and edited on Descript and Hindenburg Pro.