PodCastle 885: Prisoners
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4.6 • 551 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Author : Si Wang Narrator : Shingai Njeri Kagunda Host : Matt Dovey Audio Producer : Devin Martin Discuss on Forums PodCastle 885: Prisoners is a PodCastle original. Rated PG Prisoners by Si Wang The fortress was as large as a city and empty as a dried-up well. During the days, I followed a […]
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| 0:00.0 | Podcastle, Episode 885 for Tuesday the 1st of April 2025. |
| 0:19.0 | Prisoners by Sai Wang, read by Shingai and Jerry Cogunda and produced by Devon Martin. |
| 0:26.6 | Rated PG. |
| 0:27.6 | Good morning, good day, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to Podcastle, the flying castle of fantasy fiction. |
| 0:46.8 | I'm your host, Matt Dovey, and it is my privilege to present for your enjoyment, Prisoners by Si Wang, |
| 0:53.3 | narrated by our own, for now, Shingai and Jerry Kugunda. |
| 0:58.2 | I'm even more privileged to say that this story is a podcast original, never before seen or heard on the public stage. |
| 1:05.8 | Your author today, Sai Wang, is a speculative fiction writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. |
| 1:12.5 | His work has appeared in Orialis, Electric Speck and Mythaxis. |
| 1:18.4 | Your narrator, Shinai and Jericho Gunda, is an Afro-surreal futurist storyteller from Nairobi |
| 1:23.1 | Kenya with the Literary Arts MFA from Brown. |
| 1:26.7 | Shinai's work has been featured in the Best American Sci-Fi and Fantasy 2020, |
| 1:30.3 | Year's Best African Speculative Fiction 2021, and Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2020. |
| 1:37.3 | They have fiction, essays and poetry in or upcoming in on Manana, Fantasy Magazine, Fractured Lit, |
| 1:43.3 | Corio, Afrika Rism, Baffling Magazine, |
| 1:46.1 | Lightspeed and Afro-Central Futurisms and our speculative fiction, among others. |
| 1:51.9 | Shingo's debut novella, and This Is How to Stay Alive, published by Neon Hemlock Press in |
| 1:56.9 | 2021, and the Ignite Award for Best Novella in 2022. |
| 2:01.6 | She is the co-editor of Podcast Magazine and the co-founder of Voodoo Nauts, an Afro Future |
| 2:06.6 | Summer Workshop nominated for Community Ignite Award. |
| 2:10.6 | Shingo is a creative writing teacher, an eternal student and a lover of all things soft and black. |
| 2:23.7 | And now pay attention, for our tale is about to begin, and it's traveled across oceans and years to find you. |
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