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,…
Ryan Rivas and “Lizard People” – Season 9, Episode 4
Ryan Rivas is a regular at the Clubhouse; he joins us today to talk about his novella Lizard People, conspiratorial thinking, ideas of white identity, and the marketability of the…
Andrea Rinard and “Murmurations” – Season 9, Episode 3
Flash fiction, micro fiction, prose poems, and so-called "short-short stories" may all be technically different forms, but if you like tiny stories of any stripe, you will love Andrea Rinard's…
Mistie Watkins and “Hiraeth” – Season 9, Episode 2
Mistie Watkins joins us to talk about her alluring and compelling work Hiraeth, a collection of poetic, often-surreal vignettes detailing her childhood and family life in Central Florida. There are…