Author and podcaster Panio Gianopoulos discusses what inspires him to write, how family sometimes becomes fiction, and how sad can make for entertaining fiction

Episode 1: Panio Gianopoulos

Writer and activist Avery Irons talks Brooklyn, how setting influences what a character becomes, and how violence can become intensely personal

Episode 2: Avery Irons

Writer Jen Hinst-White describes how a life journey shapes our fictions, what it takes to work through an apprenticeship novel, and the stories in every tattoo.

Episode 3: Jen Hinst-White

The BIG FICTION Magazine Podcast is an exchange of ideas, a space for the fiction writers we publish to talk craft, motivation, family, and sometimes tattoos and the Midwest, among other nuances that compel their stories onto the page.

This podcast comes to you from BIG FICTION Magazine, a venue that celebrates the soul of the long story: generous, transportive, and a little wild. We celebrate the spirit of the long essay: curious, self-aware, and free. We are an independent journal publishing ambitious fiction and nonfiction twice a year.

You can find us at www.bigfictionmagazine.com