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STORYBEAST
STORYBEAST
111 episodes
1 day ago
A podcast for story lovers, Storybeast explores how we weave tales and why we love them. Co-hosts Ghabiba Weston and C. Shack chat with each other and legendary guests about different elements of various books, tv shows, plays, and other modalities to explore this fundamental aspect of humanity. Come for the story, stay for the snacks.
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A podcast for story lovers, Storybeast explores how we weave tales and why we love them. Co-hosts Ghabiba Weston and C. Shack chat with each other and legendary guests about different elements of various books, tv shows, plays, and other modalities to explore this fundamental aspect of humanity. Come for the story, stay for the snacks.
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Episode #92: On fiction, framing devices, and lady knights, with Legendary Alix E. Harrow
STORYBEAST
52 minutes 35 seconds
9 months ago
Episode #92: On fiction, framing devices, and lady knights, with Legendary Alix E. Harrow

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode of Storybeast! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Ghabiba Weston and Courtney Shack have the pleasure of interviewing legendary Alix E. Harrow.

Alix E. Harrow is the NYT-bestselling author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Once and Future Witches, Starling House, and various short fiction, including a duology of retold fairy tales (A Spindle Splintered and A Mirror Mended). Her work has won a Hugo and a British Fantasy Award, and been shortlisted for the Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, Southern Book Prize, and Goodreads Choice awards.

 She's from Kentucky, but now lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with her husband and their two semi-feral kids.

Her writing is represented by Kate McKean at Howard Morhaim Literary Agency.


In this episode, Alix

  • shares how she approaches short vs long form fiction
  • talks about her writing process
  • shares advice on honing your writing skills
  • gives us a delightful intro to a 1926 novel that revived her story joy. A witch who runs off to the woods? Deals with the devil? Please and thanks.
  • delves into how she likes to use framing devices in her writing
  • tells us her fav fairy tale and tropes
  • indulges Courtney's need for secrets by telling us more about her forthcoming "lady knight time travel" book (Fall 2025)
  • points out what happens as the Tamora Pierce girls are coming of age: i.e. more lady knight books to look out for soon


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A warm thank you to Deore for our musical number. You can find more of her creative work on Spotify.

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STORYBEAST
A podcast for story lovers, Storybeast explores how we weave tales and why we love them. Co-hosts Ghabiba Weston and C. Shack chat with each other and legendary guests about different elements of various books, tv shows, plays, and other modalities to explore this fundamental aspect of humanity. Come for the story, stay for the snacks.