352: Indigenous Horror with Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">We’re joined by the editors of Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst. They talk about finding community online, what makes Native stories post-apocalyptic, and the expectation of writing horror.</span></p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p3"><span class="s2">You can pre-order <a href= "https://bookshop.org/a/822/9780593468463"><span class= "s3"><em>Never Whistle at Night</em></span></a> now!</span></p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><em>Content Warning:</em> This episode contains conversations about or mentions of possession, colonialism, racism, gore, and tokenism. </span></p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>Guests</strong></span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s4"><a href= "https://www.shanehawk.com/">Shane Hawk</a></span> <span class= "s1">(enrolled Cheyenne-Arapaho, Hidatsa and Potawatomi descent) is a history teacher by day and a horror writer by night. Hawk is the author of <a href= "https://www.shanehawk.com/product-page/anoka-hardcover-signed"><span class="s4"> <em>Anoka: A Collection of Indigenous Horror</em></span></a> and other short fiction featured in numerous anthologies.</span></p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1"><span class="s4"><a href= "https://www.instagram.com/tvayyyy/">Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.</a></span> <span class="s1">(enrolled member, Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians) is the author of the novel Sacred Smokes, winner of the Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing, and Sacred City, winner of the Electa Quinney Award for Published Stories. His Pushcart-nominated fiction has been published in Southwest Review, Unnerving Magazine, Red Earth Review, The Journal of Working-Class Studies, Massachusetts Review, The Raven Chronicles, and Yellow Medicine Review, among others. He is a professor and chair of Indigenous Nations Studies at Portland State University.</span></p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1"><span class= "s1"><strong>Housekeeping</stron