In this inaugural episode of the L+ podcast, Dr. Ines Gregori Labarta & Dr. Kwasu David Tembo discuss Failure, its experience, its resonance, resilience, and failure as a resource.

Dr Labarta is Lecturer in Creative Writing here at Lancaster. A writer of speculative fiction especially interested in the weird, horror and genre-bending work, Dr. Labarta's research interests include the novella as a form - they're the author of two novellas, McTavish Manor (Holland House, 2016) and Kabuki (Dairea, 2017) although I am also a keen writer of novels and short stories. Dr. Labarta's latest novel, The Three Lives of Saint Ciarán (Blackwater Press, 2024), expeirments with different genres (including magic realism, the weird and dystopia) and languages to establish cultural and literary connections between Ireland and Spain and celebrate characters that move across genders and cultures.