Catching Up With P. Scott Cunningham – Season 10, Episode 6
Leaving Florida after you've built a huge legacy with a project like O, Miami must be hard. We welcome back P. Scott Cunningham to talk about relocating to Illinois, how…
Tyler Gillespie and “Florida Man: Poems Revisited” – Season 10, Episode 5
Poet Tyler Gillespie's 2018 collection Florida Man is BACK! The 2024 reissue contains 20 new poems under the title Heat Advisory. He stops by the clubhouse to talk about the…
Gale Massey and “Rising” – Season 10, Episode 4
Gale Massey presents a varied cast of imperfect, sometimes violent or reckless, but ultimately sympathetic characters in her 2021 collection Rising and Other Stories. We cover her creative process in…
Ansel Taylor and “Swampland” – Season 10, Episode 3
Lan O Lakes native and recent Ringling College grad Ansel Taylor joins us to discuss his animated series concept Swampland, a fun amalgamation of Gravity Falls, Celtic mythology, and Florida…
Scott Michael Powers and “The Murder Plague” – Season 10, Episode 2
"Dystopia" is a frequently-invoked genre description; Scott Michael Powers, author of the novel The Murder Plague, joins us in this episode to discuss his tale of a pathogen emerging from…
Lori Roy and “Lake County” – Season 10, Episode 1
Gambling, murder, and desperation plague the small town of Hockta, Florida over a several-day period in the 1950s in Lori Roy's compelling new novel Lake County. There's also a (fictionalized)…
Mara Beneway and Florida Weird – Season 9, Episode 8
Florida Weird is a zine that will remind some readers of a rougher-around-the-edges Islandia Journal. The creator and driving artistic force behind Florida Weird, Mara Beneway, joins us to discuss…
Ariel Francisco and “A Sinking Ship Is Still a Ship” – Season 9, Episode 7
Ariel Francisco joins us today to discuss his bilingual volume of poems, A Sinking Ship Is Still a Ship, which features haikus, lots of poems about insomnia, and haunting imagery…
A Conversation with Illustrator Russell Beans – Season 9, Episode 6
Printmaker and illustrator Russell Beans' work depicting cryptids, exotic animals, and rare endangered plants has graced the pages of Islandia Journal since its inception. He joins us to talk about…
Michael Wheaton and “Home Movies” – Season 9, Episode 5
Michael Wheaton's Home Movies is hard to classify. It's basically a memoir-essay-treatise of novella length, I guess? And it covers the evolution of media consumption, whether art or creativity matter,…