Tarot Interviews

Beans on Toast, Jess Silk, Amelia Coburn and GANS join Tarot Interviews for a Bearded Theory Festival 2026 podcast episode. Meet the festival fire crew, traders and everyday festival-goers too. Ready for some beautiful nonsense? Hit subscribe and discover which cards came up. Episode contains some strong language. Image: Beans on Toast, photographed by Finbarre Snarey. 

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Tarot Interviews returns with a new run of special episodes that invite you beyond the studio and into the middle of festivals, events and creative spaces.

We'll start at Bearded Theory Festival and see where the cards take us.

Coming soon.

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Discover more on the Tarot Interviews website and on Instagram at @finbarre. 

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Carrie Harris writes novels, comics, and games set in original worlds as well as for exciting licenses including Marvel, Warhammer 40k, Miraculous Ladybug, Arkham Horror, and the World of Darkness. She's also an editor, ghostwriter, and writing teacher, and she's passionate about mental health support for creatives. Her most recent book, THE FORBIDDEN VISIONS OF LUCIUS GALLOWAY (Aconyte Books, 2024) is a slowburn horror about a gay...

Kit Whitfield is an English novelist and essayist based in London. Her debut novel, published in 2006 as Bareback (UK) and Benighted (US), was shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, longlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award, and optioned by Warner Bros.

Kit is the author of the Gyrford duology - In the Heart of Hidden Things (2022) and its sequel All the Hollow of the Sky (2023) - both longlisted ...

Nova and Mali are married nonbinary lesbians who love fostering kittens and making inclusive gay art projects. Nova is from Michigan and Mali is from Germany and Texas, and they live together in Lansing, Michigan with their cats, Sam and Cosmo.

Discover their latest project Star Crossed: A Queer Tarot - a gorgeous new set of cards celebrating LGBTQ+ identities and disability representation. Now live on Kickstarter, the deck is a lov...

Beth Sage Phung is a nonbinary, first generation Asian-American writer and voice actor. They have poetry published in the Boats Against the Current magazine and the second Poets Underground Anthology,as well as various pieces posted on their Instagram account. Their voice acting talents can be heard most notably as Cassius in the audio drama Syntax. 

Their writing highlights their personal experience with their identity and int...

Cassandra Snow is an author of Tarot & Occult books, full-time Tarot reader and creative witch about town. Their latest book project is Tarot In Other Words. This book is an essay anthology on queer tarot topics that Snow curated, edited and contributed to. 

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Chloe De Lullington is a writer, chronic overthinker, and queen of the chaotic coming-of-age narrative. Her debut novel Cacoethes (Northodox Press, June 2025) is a bold, funny, and unflinching exploration of queer longing, bad decisions, and the mess of early adulthood.

Chloe’s background spans screenwriting and fiction. Whether she’s writing in silence or swapping blurbs in the wild world of indie lit, her work pulses w...

Kay Purcell is a storyteller, community builder, and co-founder of Chaotic Wholesome Presents, known for conjuring vibrant, inclusive worlds in the realms of Tabletop Roleplaying Games and live-play performance. Their work blends razor-sharp humour with emotional depth, telling tales where every player has power, penguins are terrifying, and chaos is often delightfully wholesome.

Kay has worked across video games, streaming, and com...

Julia Bird is a poet whose collections include Hannah and the Monk and Twenty-Four Seven Blossom, and two illustrated pamphlets from The Emma Press: Now You Can Look and Is, Thinks Pearl. Her poetry is known for its cinematic sweep, surreal detail and inventive humour.

Julia has also collaborated with artist Mike Sims on projects including Paper Trail and A Joy Forever: a walk out with John Keats, blending poetry with visual art to ...

Clelia McElroy is a film researcher and the founder/director of Monstrous Flesh, a project dedicated to exploring the representation of women and non-binary people in the horror genre. Since its inception in 2021, Monstrous Flesh has been hosting film courses, events, panel talks, lectures and film seasons in collaboration with community groups and art institutions in the Midlands and the North of England.

Since 2023, Clelia has bee...

Julian Simpson is a British writer, director, and audio dramatist known for redefining modern audio fiction through immersive storytelling and atmospheric world-building. With a background in film and television, he is the creator of The Lovecraft Investigations, Mythos, and Who is Aldrich Kemp? - projects marked by his signature themes of mystery, belief, and the unknown. Julian is the founder of Pleasant Green, a creative label t...

Sadriana Zea is a disabled writer, traditional media artist, and Twitch streamer dedicated to mental health awareness and supporting nonprofits that help people live a life worth living. She lives with her two cats in the US in Cleveland, Ohio. Like many people with an abundance of time on her hands, her hobby is collecting hobbies. She reads, crochets, does counted cross stitch and other fibre arts, and plays games of all sorts (e...

Kate Gray is a British games writer and journalist with over a decade of experience in the industry. Based in Canada, she specializes in dialogue writing, narrative procedural generation, and storytelling through design. Her notable works include serving as the Narrative Lead for Moonstone Islandand Winding Worlds, as well as contributing to Goodbye Volcano High.

Kate's journalism has been featured in publications such as Rock Paper...

Tarot Interviews proudly brings you a bonus episode about Mama Nyah's House of Tarot with creator Devin Reid, who has crafted a magical combination of New Orleans mysticism and nostalgic gaming.

Unlike tarot apps that display card definitions, Mama Nyah creates personal readings where your intention shapes every interpretation. The cards aren't randomly generated, they're shuffled and laid face down, preserving the  exp...

Lindz McLeod is a Scottish author known for her imaginative fiction that blends the surreal, the unsettling, and the profoundly human. Lindz writes across genres, from speculative fiction and horror to literary romance. She is the author of Turducken, an award-winning short story collection, and Sunbathers, a darkly erotic horror novella. Lindz McLeod’s The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet, a sapphic Regency tale of forbi...

Chase McPherson is a queer speculative fiction writer whose stories blend the gothic with the emotional, exploring themes of grief, identity, and the resilience of love. His Bloodbound series reimagines vampire lore - a place where rules are meant to be broken and relationships rarely follow the expected path.

Influenced by a childhood filled with cult classics and dark comedy, Chase’s writing is rich with emotional texture, s...

Professor Carrie Jenkins is a philosopher and poet whose work explores the nature of love, identity, and the complexities of the self. She is the author of What Love Is: And What It Could Be and Sad Love: Romance and the Search for Meaning, which challenge traditional ideas of romantic relationships through both philosophical inquiry and personal experience. Her recent book Nonmonogamy and Happiness: A More Than Two Essentials Guid...

Amy Blackthorn is a respected author and herbalist best known for blending plant magic with practical spirituality. Her best-selling books include Blackthorn’s Botanical Magic, Blackthorn’s Botanical Brews, Blackthorn’s Protection Magic, Blackthorn’s Botanical Wellness, and Sacred Smoke.

Ordained through the Order of the Golden Gryphon and certified in aromatherapy, Amy has appeared on Netflix’s Top Ten...