The Write Song Season 1 Trailer

Discover the strange alchemy between music and fiction in this new podcast hosted by Hugo Award winning podcaster Kat Kourbeti.

Join her as she chats with talented fiction writers and storytellers to talk about their favourite music, and find out how the songs on their playlists shape or underscore the stories they’ve written.

Perfect for writers who like to listen to music for inspiration, readers and fans who want to know how their favourite stories were made, and podcast fans who enjoy discussions about music and creativity.

Hello and welcome to The Write Song. I’m Kat Kourbeti, and in this podcast I sit down to chat with some incredible writers to talk about the music they listened to before or while writing. Each episode is a deep dive into a project playlist that uncovers how the songs they picked helped to shape their stories into what we can read or see on screen.

Find out how Chappell Roan and Taylor Swift are the backdrop for a fantasy retelling of Pride and Prejudice, how psychedelic rock music inspired a haunted house novel, how the rhythm of 90s trip hop can set a scene for a neo-noir thriller, or how Lil Wayne actually counts as self-care. No, really.

So join me on this musical journey through the writing process wherever you get your podcasts, and find out more on thewritesong.co.uk.

Produced and edited by Kat Kourbeti. The music is our outro theme, “Fascination” by Allen Stroud.

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Some writers like to use music in their writing process, making soundtracks for the movies in their heads which they then make into stories for us to enjoy as readers, listeners, gamers, or cinema-goers. At The Write Song, we interview those writers to find out just how their imagination works, how music factors into each person’s writing, and how each song on a project’s playlist made an impact on that story.

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