Season 3, Episode 1: Didactic Fiction ft. Vajra Chandrasekera, Samantha Mills, and Gregory A. Wilson

May 15, 2026May 15, 2026| Space WizardSeason 3, Episode 1: Didactic Fiction ft. Vajra Chandrasekera, Samantha Mills, and Gregory A. Wilson| 0 Comment| 6:00 am
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Welcome to our new season! To celebrate, we’re kicking it up a notch by holding an all-star roundtable of some truly incredible writers. Vajra Chandrasekera, Samantha Mills, and Gregory A. Wilson join us to discuss didactic genre fiction. Is it a skill problem? Is it a media literacy problem? Can you hammer home a message without alienating (sorry/not sorry) your audience?

A screenshot from the recording. Top row: Samantha Mills, a white woman with long black hair in front of bookshelves, Rachel A. Rosen, a white woman with short spiky hair and glasses, David Clink, a white man with glasses and a white beard, Vajra Chandrasekera, a Sri Lankan man with a beard and glasses in front of bookshelves, and Gregory Wilson, a white man with glasses, a beard, and a flat cap, in front of, you guessed it, bookshelves.

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