{"id":37189,"date":"2025-05-23T06:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T10:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?p=37189"},"modified":"2025-05-23T06:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T10:06:12","slug":"craig-laurance-gidney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2025\/05\/23\/craig-laurance-gidney\/","title":{"rendered":"Toast writer\/editor Craig Laurance Gidney on Episode 254 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

This episode, which invites you to take a seat at the table with Craig Laurance Gidney<\/a>, captures a meal which could<\/em> have taken place during AwesomeCon \u2014 but didn\u2019t. If you want to know why — you’ll have to join us! <\/p>\n

Gidney\u2019s short stories have been collected in Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories<\/em> (2008), Skin Deep Magic: Short Fiction<\/em> (2014), and The Nectar of Nightmares<\/em> (2022), the first two of which were Lambda Literary Award finalists \u2014 as was his 2019 novel A Spectral Hue<\/em> (2019). He received the Bronze Moonbeam Medal and Silver IPPY Medal for his 2013 novel Bereft<\/em>. In 1996, at the start of his career, he was also awarded the Susan C. Petrey Scholarship to attend the Clarion West Writing Workshop.<\/p>\n

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From 2020-2023 he co-edited Baffling Magazine<\/em> with Dave Ring, and he\u2019s also the co-editor \u2014 with Julie C. Day & Carina Bissett \u2014 of Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology<\/em>, published this month.<\/p>\n

We discussed how meeting Samuel R. Delany led to his attending the Clarion Writing Workshop, the influence of reading decadent writers such as Verlaine and Rimbaud, why he kept trying to get published when so many of his peers stopped, the many ways flaws can often make a story more interesting, our shared love of ambiguity, the reason there must be beauty entwined with horror, why he’s a vibes guy rather than a plot guy, the time Tanith Lee bought him a pint and how that led to him coediting her tribute anthology, what he learned from his years editing a flash fiction magazine, and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can join us for lunch at the Unconventional Diner <\/a> in Washington, D.C. — <\/p>\n

1) Subscribe at Apple Podcasts<\/a> — or wherever<\/a> you choose to consume your podcasts — where I hope you’ll be tempted to sample a few of the 253 previous episodes.<\/p>\n

2) Listen via the RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a> on the device of your choice.<\/p>\n

3) Or simply use the embed below.<\/p>\n