Special Episodes
Special Episode 7: The Serial Numbers
Elizabeth interviews Flourish about their fanfic habits and pull-to-publish practices.
Fanfiction
Episodes
Episode 72: Alternate Universes
A conversation on AU fic with culture writer and “Overinvested” co-host Morgan Leigh Davies.
Episodes
Episode 66: The Humanizing Turn
A conversation on tropes, characterization, and what we want from stories, in canon and in fanfic.
Features
Fic, Interrupted
The unfinished history of works in progress.
Episodes
Episode 53: Stealth Fandom
From “adventure lunch” to stealth cosplay, the ways people engage with fandom that are harder to see.
Episodes
Episode 52: Fanfic v. FANtasies
On Wattpad’s FANtasies webseries and the changing pathways for fan-to-pro writing.
Episodes
Episode 49: Defining Fanfiction: The Results
Digging into the results of the fanfiction definitions survey, which was taken by more than 3,500 people.
Surveys
Towards a Definition of “Fanfiction”
3,564 people took our survey. Here’s what we learned.
Features
Fan Fiction vs. Fanfiction
When the dictionary doesn’t reflect the world.
Episodes
Episode 46: Defining Fanfiction: The Survey
What counts as fanfiction—and what doesn’t? We discuss our survey that explores these questions.
Special Episodes
Special Episode 3: Fanfiction Book Club #1
Discussing lettered’s Harry Potter MASTERPIECE, “The Pure and Simple Truth.”
Criticism
Mary Sue
From self-inserts to imagines, how young women write themselves into the narrative.