Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones
@eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social
A podcast about the works of Diana Wynne Jones, with Emily Tesh and Rebecca Fraimow.
Website: https://www.eightdaysofdiana.com/
Website: https://www.eightdaysofdiana.com/
we're back and launching S3 with a BANGER today as the fabulous @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us for a TWO HOUR episode on our favorite future-dressing-gown-wearing disaster, Christopher Chant
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The Lives of Christopher Chant by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
Nobody should be losing lives at this rate. What is wrong, Christopher?
In our first episode of Season Three, the brilliant Iona Datt Sharma joins us for a discussion of bureaucracy, cricket boys, Bu...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
we're back and launching S3 with a BANGER today as the fabulous @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us for a TWO HOUR episode on our favorite future-dressing-gown-wearing disaster, Christopher Chant
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We're finally wrapping up S2 today with our last bonus episode for the season -- thank you all so much for the many thoughtful, interesting and insightful letters you sent in for our Q&A!
S2 Bonus Episode 3 - Q&A by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
The first time round most of the catching-up you do is retrospective. The second time round you see it happening.
In our final S2 bonus episode, we do a terrible job of not looking ahead to Hexwood a...
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October 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
We're finally wrapping up S2 today with our last bonus episode for the season -- thank you all so much for the many thoughtful, interesting and insightful letters you sent in for our Q&A!
A bunch of stories we really loved, a bunch of stories we'd love to see more of, and a Lot of stories in which a bad adult gets turned into (metaphorical or literal) bacon: it's time for DWJ's short fiction of the 70s and 80s!
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S2 Bonus Episode 2 - DWJ Shorts of the 70s and 80s by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
"She has tremendous talent, of course, or she couldn’t do it at all, but I do sometimes feel that she—well—she repeats herself. Put it like this: I think maybe Carol doesn't give herself a chance to b...
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September 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
A bunch of stories we really loved, a bunch of stories we'd love to see more of, and a Lot of stories in which a bad adult gets turned into (metaphorical or literal) bacon: it's time for DWJ's short fiction of the 70s and 80s!
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thank you all so much for all the amazing questions you've sent in for our Q&A!!
FOR THE RECORD, although we planned to record that ep today, life events plus the realization that people might have thoughts about the shorts has caused us to reschedule for NEXT THURSDAY 9/25
FOR THE RECORD, although we planned to record that ep today, life events plus the realization that people might have thoughts about the shorts has caused us to reschedule for NEXT THURSDAY 9/25
September 18, 2025 at 3:02 AM
thank you all so much for all the amazing questions you've sent in for our Q&A!!
FOR THE RECORD, although we planned to record that ep today, life events plus the realization that people might have thoughts about the shorts has caused us to reschedule for NEXT THURSDAY 9/25
FOR THE RECORD, although we planned to record that ep today, life events plus the realization that people might have thoughts about the shorts has caused us to reschedule for NEXT THURSDAY 9/25
for the first of our S2 bonus episodes, we had the absolute joy of talking with critic and historian @effjayem.bsky.social for an hour and a half about historical context, book-hunger, and DWJ as a critical writer of critical texts
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S2 Bonus Episode 1 - With Farah Mendlesohn by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
The thing we must notice is frequently identified by what is not described or told or explained.
In our first Season Two bonus episode, Farah Mendlesohn -- who literally wrote the book on Diana Wynne...
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September 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
for the first of our S2 bonus episodes, we had the absolute joy of talking with critic and historian @effjayem.bsky.social for an hour and a half about historical context, book-hunger, and DWJ as a critical writer of critical texts
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apparently we are now a Hugo-winning podcast! a fact which is thanks entirely to a.) Diana Wynne Jones, for her consistent ability to make us think, wonder, and delight and b.) all of you, for taking time out of your lives to join us in reading her as deeply as she deserves
The #HugoAward for Best Fancast goes to Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones, presented by Emily Tesh & Rebecca Fraimow
August 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
apparently we are now a Hugo-winning podcast! a fact which is thanks entirely to a.) Diana Wynne Jones, for her consistent ability to make us think, wonder, and delight and b.) all of you, for taking time out of your lives to join us in reading her as deeply as she deserves
Today we're wrapping up our second season with A Tale of Time City! a real butter-pie of a book: delicious ice cream froth on the outside, but full of surprisingly rich ideas once you actually bite into it
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A Tale of Time City by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
Twenty Century refugee equipment. Case is open to show clothing and protective mask.
A tale of one or two cities, three or four Vivians, four to fourteen badly translated old women, and at least two...
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August 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Today we're wrapping up our second season with A Tale of Time City! a real butter-pie of a book: delicious ice cream froth on the outside, but full of surprisingly rich ideas once you actually bite into it
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through dangers untold (sleeping infants) and hardships unnumbered (three wildly incompatible timezones) we have managed to successfully kidnap brilliant romance expert @freyamarske.bsky.social to discuss DWJ's most romantic novel with us. Happy Howl's Moving Castle Day! zencastr.com/z/r0LaZYob
Howl's Moving Castle by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
Her mind was such a blank that for a second, it actually seemed to her that Howl had no faults at all. How stupid!
The fantastic Freya Marske joins us for a discussion of John Donne, fairy tales, un...
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August 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
through dangers untold (sleeping infants) and hardships unnumbered (three wildly incompatible timezones) we have managed to successfully kidnap brilliant romance expert @freyamarske.bsky.social to discuss DWJ's most romantic novel with us. Happy Howl's Moving Castle Day! zencastr.com/z/r0LaZYob
[belated] obligatory reminder that we are nominated for a Hugo award, and there are approximately eight remaining hours in which you can vote for us if you feel so inclined!
Hugo Awards voting closes TOMORROW!
Make sure your ballot is in before the deadline: Wednesday, July 23 at 11:59 p.m. PDT. There’s still time to weigh in on the best of science fiction and fantasy—don’t miss your chance!
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Make sure your ballot is in before the deadline: Wednesday, July 23 at 11:59 p.m. PDT. There’s still time to weigh in on the best of science fiction and fantasy—don’t miss your chance!
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How to Vote
Instructions for voting in the 2025 Hugo Awards.
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July 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
[belated] obligatory reminder that we are nominated for a Hugo award, and there are approximately eight remaining hours in which you can vote for us if you feel so inclined!
This week, in our most intimidating project yet, we spend two recording sessions and three hours exploring Nowhere as we attempt to unpack the dense oppositional layers of truth and fiction, heroism and monstrosity, sacrifice and selfishness underlying Fire and Hemlock
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FIre and Hemlock by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
She realized he had sat down on purpose near the door, and she knew, perhaps without quite understanding it, that if she ran away, it would mean he had to go back into the funeral again. She was his e...
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July 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This week, in our most intimidating project yet, we spend two recording sessions and three hours exploring Nowhere as we attempt to unpack the dense oppositional layers of truth and fiction, heroism and monstrosity, sacrifice and selfishness underlying Fire and Hemlock
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Loved your Archer's Goon conversation! Thanks for doing the podcast, it's so great. To fill up the time until Fire & Hemlock, I decided to share my LEGO re-enactment of Archer's Goon. Thought you might get a kick out of it!
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July 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Loved your Archer's Goon conversation! Thanks for doing the podcast, it's so great. To fill up the time until Fire & Hemlock, I decided to share my LEGO re-enactment of Archer's Goon. Thought you might get a kick out of it!
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We are back with CAHOOTS. We are back with HIJINKS. We are back with MEGALOMANIAC EVIL WIZARDS, and we are back with the best picture of a family that actually likes each other that DWJ has written to date: it's Archer's Goon!
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Archer's Goon by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
I hate Mum, I hate Dad, I hate Howard and the Goon.
Big brothers and bigger brothers, good words and bad infrastructure, the power of being a megalomaniac evil wizard, and the power of having parents...
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July 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
We are back with CAHOOTS. We are back with HIJINKS. We are back with MEGALOMANIAC EVIL WIZARDS, and we are back with the best picture of a family that actually likes each other that DWJ has written to date: it's Archer's Goon!
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Please give a warm welcome to a collection of miserable children with transcendently bad vibes: it's Witch Week!
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Witch Week by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
"He was fairly sure it made you wicked too, to be kissed by a witch."
The horrors of the British boarding school, the things you learn about yourself in the men's locker room, and what the Chrestoman...
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June 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Please give a warm welcome to a collection of miserable children with transcendently bad vibes: it's Witch Week!
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Looked up with some shock from the things I am buried in (the Clarke Award shortlist, my Iliad reread, a first draft in progress, the new season of the DWJ podcast @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social) and realized that THE INCANDESCENT has been out for a month.
THE INCANDESCENT is a book about money and education and status symbols, about loving your career, about demons, about magic, about fantasy school - but most of all about how 'school' is always a kind of fantasy. Available now!
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June 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Looked up with some shock from the things I am buried in (the Clarke Award shortlist, my Iliad reread, a first draft in progress, the new season of the DWJ podcast @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social) and realized that THE INCANDESCENT has been out for a month.
It's Homeward Bounders day! This week we're incredibly fortunate to have the brilliant @aptshadow.bsky.social walking the Bounds with us as we explore tragedy, time, the multiverse, and evil D&D
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The Homeward Bounders by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
"There are no rules, only principles and natural laws."
This week we're joined by the brilliant Adrian Tchaikovsky to discuss heroes and NPCs, gods and demons and sacrificial victory, and the wors...
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June 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It's Homeward Bounders day! This week we're incredibly fortunate to have the brilliant @aptshadow.bsky.social walking the Bounds with us as we explore tragedy, time, the multiverse, and evil D&D
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good morning everyone it is TIME! for the GHOST!
are you ready to confront the looming spectre of childhood trauma? because DWJ sure is!
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are you ready to confront the looming spectre of childhood trauma? because DWJ sure is!
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Time of the Ghost by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
"People write stories pretending you can alter the past, but it can't be done. All you can do to the past is remember it wrong or interpret it differently."
The horrors of the past, the traps of the ...
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May 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
good morning everyone it is TIME! for the GHOST!
are you ready to confront the looming spectre of childhood trauma? because DWJ sure is!
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are you ready to confront the looming spectre of childhood trauma? because DWJ sure is!
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And we're back! Starting off the 80s with a cream pie and a clown car, it's Magicians of Caprona, a joyous structural experiment in comedy and heterosexuality that is also somehow a sequel to Charmed Life
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The Magicians of Caprona by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
"Tonino wondered how he could laugh like that at something so horrible until he remembered that he had stood himself a score of times and laughed himself sick at just the same thing."
Two households...
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May 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
And we're back! Starting off the 80s with a cream pie and a clown car, it's Magicians of Caprona, a joyous structural experiment in comedy and heterosexuality that is also somehow a sequel to Charmed Life
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our second season of Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones is coming soon! the 1980s is full of certified bangers; we'll be covering, in order:
The Magicians of Caprona
The Time of the Ghost
The Homeward Bounders
Witch Week
Archer's Goon
Fire and Hemlock
Howl's Moving Castle
A Tale of Time City
The Magicians of Caprona
The Time of the Ghost
The Homeward Bounders
Witch Week
Archer's Goon
Fire and Hemlock
Howl's Moving Castle
A Tale of Time City
May 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
our second season of Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones is coming soon! the 1980s is full of certified bangers; we'll be covering, in order:
The Magicians of Caprona
The Time of the Ghost
The Homeward Bounders
Witch Week
Archer's Goon
Fire and Hemlock
Howl's Moving Castle
A Tale of Time City
The Magicians of Caprona
The Time of the Ghost
The Homeward Bounders
Witch Week
Archer's Goon
Fire and Hemlock
Howl's Moving Castle
A Tale of Time City
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Eight Days is some of the work I’m proudest of from last year, thank you SO much to those who nominated the show for Best Fancast.
we're Hugo nominated?! a wild and delightfully surprising thing to happen to a highly specific podcast in its first year of life, thank you so much to any of you who put our names in!
✨ 2025 Hugo, Lodestar, & Astounding Awards Finalists (🧵 3/10) ✨
🚀 2025 Hugo Awards Finalists for:
- Best Fancast
- Best Fanzine
Congratulations to all of the finalists!
#HugoAwards #HugoAwards2025 #Worldcon #Worldcon2025 #SeattleWorldcon2025
🚀 2025 Hugo Awards Finalists for:
- Best Fancast
- Best Fanzine
Congratulations to all of the finalists!
#HugoAwards #HugoAwards2025 #Worldcon #Worldcon2025 #SeattleWorldcon2025
April 7, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Eight Days is some of the work I’m proudest of from last year, thank you SO much to those who nominated the show for Best Fancast.
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Still kind of reeling: A Meal of Thorns is a Hugo finalist! A huge thanks to everyone who listened & nominated, and of course to the wonderful guests who have made this project such a treat.
Also, it is lovely to be in such company; a quick thread of faves from '24 in case followers are unfamiliar:
Also, it is lovely to be in such company; a quick thread of faves from '24 in case followers are unfamiliar:
✨ 2025 Hugo, Lodestar, & Astounding Awards Finalists (🧵 3/10) ✨
🚀 2025 Hugo Awards Finalists for:
- Best Fancast
- Best Fanzine
Congratulations to all of the finalists!
#HugoAwards #HugoAwards2025 #Worldcon #Worldcon2025 #SeattleWorldcon2025
🚀 2025 Hugo Awards Finalists for:
- Best Fancast
- Best Fanzine
Congratulations to all of the finalists!
#HugoAwards #HugoAwards2025 #Worldcon #Worldcon2025 #SeattleWorldcon2025
April 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Still kind of reeling: A Meal of Thorns is a Hugo finalist! A huge thanks to everyone who listened & nominated, and of course to the wonderful guests who have made this project such a treat.
Also, it is lovely to be in such company; a quick thread of faves from '24 in case followers are unfamiliar:
Also, it is lovely to be in such company; a quick thread of faves from '24 in case followers are unfamiliar:
we're Hugo nominated?! a wild and delightfully surprising thing to happen to a highly specific podcast in its first year of life, thank you so much to any of you who put our names in!
✨ 2025 Hugo, Lodestar, & Astounding Awards Finalists (🧵 3/10) ✨
🚀 2025 Hugo Awards Finalists for:
- Best Fancast
- Best Fanzine
Congratulations to all of the finalists!
#HugoAwards #HugoAwards2025 #Worldcon #Worldcon2025 #SeattleWorldcon2025
🚀 2025 Hugo Awards Finalists for:
- Best Fancast
- Best Fanzine
Congratulations to all of the finalists!
#HugoAwards #HugoAwards2025 #Worldcon #Worldcon2025 #SeattleWorldcon2025
April 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
we're Hugo nominated?! a wild and delightfully surprising thing to happen to a highly specific podcast in its first year of life, thank you so much to any of you who put our names in!
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We are in the process of recording season two of @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social and may I just say the 80s is an astonishing decade in Diana Wynne Jones’ output. Just an unbelievable creative flourishing. Time of the Ghost, Homeward Bounders and Witch Week back to back and that’s just the START.
February 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
We are in the process of recording season two of @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social and may I just say the 80s is an astonishing decade in Diana Wynne Jones’ output. Just an unbelievable creative flourishing. Time of the Ghost, Homeward Bounders and Witch Week back to back and that’s just the START.
thanks to whoever nominated us for the BSFAs, we're very stoked to see the podcast on the longlist!
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February 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
thanks to whoever nominated us for the BSFAs, we're very stoked to see the podcast on the longlist!
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Really delighted to see @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social on this list, which reminded me that Eight Days of Diana is in fact Hugo eligible! So if you're thinking about your Fancast ballot and you enjoy deep dives into an influential author's backlist, please give it a listen.
2025 Nerds of a Feather Awards Recommended Reading, Part 4: Institutional Categories and New Hugo for Best Poem
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2025 Nerds of a Feather Awards Recommended Reading, Part 4: Institutional Categories and New Hugo for Best Poem
Welcome to our final presentation of the Nerds of a Feather 2025 Award Recommendation List. Today will look at the Institutional Categories ...
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January 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Really delighted to see @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social on this list, which reminded me that Eight Days of Diana is in fact Hugo eligible! So if you're thinking about your Fancast ballot and you enjoy deep dives into an influential author's backlist, please give it a listen.
we couldn't let the seventies pass from us without talking for another hour-plus about Dalemark -- here's our bonus episode, in which we answer questions from listeners to us and also from us to each other
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Season One Bonus Episode by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
And as I fixed upon the down-turned face
That pointed scrutiny with which we challenge
The first-met stranger in the waning dusk
I caught the sudden look of some dead master...
Dalemark conspiracy th...
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January 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
we couldn't let the seventies pass from us without talking for another hour-plus about Dalemark -- here's our bonus episode, in which we answer questions from listeners to us and also from us to each other
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