Podcasts about best microfiction

– The stare-off begins. Puss-faces, Mom called us. A game of chicken, I think.Seven years older, decibels louder, she always won. Anne Anthony tends to carry on conversations with characters inside her head when writing her stories. A few years back, she stopped shushing them, agreed to tell their stories, and they've all been happy ever since. She lives and writes in North Carolina. Her recent publications include Bull, Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine, Flash Boulevard, Flash Fiction Magazine, and elsewhere. Her micro-fiction, It's a Mother Thing, was nominated for Best Microfiction 2024 by Cleaver Magazine. She is a senior editor and art director for the online literary journal, Does It Have Pockets. Find more of Anne's writing at https://linktr.ee/anchalastudio.

Bethany Jarmul is an Appalachian writer and poet. She's the author of two chapbooks and one poetry collection—This Strange and Wonderful Existence, Take Me Home, and Lightning is a Mother. Her writing was selected for Best Spiritual Literature 2023 and Best Small Fictions 2024, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize, The Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and Wigleaf Top 50. Find more information at: https://bethanyjarmulwriter.wordpress.com/ As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Write a poem that includes an unexpected vow. Next Week's Prompt: Write a poem about the happiest place on earth. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST!  LISTEN to my WIOX show (originally aired February 11th, 2025) featuring poet Tina Barry on her spellbinding new book, I Tell Henrietta.  Kristin Flynn, the artist who created the intense, expressive cover and interior art for I Tell Henrietta also joins us on the show.  Visit:Tina Barry at Tina Barry writer and  Kristin Flynn at https://www.kristinflynn.art   Praise for I Tell Henrietta"Tina Barry's astonishing collection I Tell Henrietta explores thresholds between the dream world and wakefulness and between poetry and prose... " ---- Mary Biddinger, author of Department of Elegy"Tina Barry's startling and eclectic I Tell Henrietta pushes the hybrid aesthetic envelope forward....Suffused with astute observation, memory and crystalline imagery, Barry's collection is a must-read for those who love small works containing multitudes"----  Nathan Leslie, editor of Best Small Fictions, author of Hurry Up and RelaxTina Barry is a textile designer turned poet, short-fiction writer and editor. She is the author of I Tell Henrietta (Aim Higher, Inc., 2024) with art by Kristin Flynn, Beautiful Raft and Mall Flower (Big Table Publishing, 2019 and 2016).Her writing can be found in Rattle, Verse Daily, ONE ART: a journal of poetry, SWWIM, The Indianapolis Review, The Best Small Fictions 2020 (spotlighted story) and 2016, and elsewhere. Tina has five Pushcart Prize nominations and several Best of the Net and Best Microfiction nods. She teaches at The Poetry Barn and Writers.com. Kristin Flynn earned a BFA in fashion design from Parsons School of Design, an AAS degree in Textiles from Rochester Institute of Technology, and studied painting at Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon. Her paintings and drawings have been exhibited in numerous group and solo shows, including the Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, Stone Ridge Center for the Arts, Jane Street Gallery Studio 89, Brick Gallery, Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, and Bard College. 

Send us a textWriter & Co-Founder of Saltwater Coffee — Suhail's  stories appear in Shenandoah, 3:AM, Passages North, and elsewhere. He has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and Best Small Fictions twice. In 2022, he made the Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist and Notable in Best American Food Writing.Click below for the full story.https://www.saltwaternyc.comhttps://www.ssmandani.comCheck out the website: www.drinkingonthejob.com for great past episodes. Everyone from Iron Chefs, winemakers, journalist and more.

The stories–which range from unsettling and heartbreaking to quirky and tender—are connected by a central theme of the intensity of loss and letting go; they pack a punch, just the way grief does—knocking us off our feet. This breathtaking debut has been met with incredible early praise, with a starred Library Journal review noting, "Short story fans might just discover their new favorite author in this arresting collection, a must-have.” Mary Jones's stories and essays have appeared in many journals including Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, Subtropics, EPOCH, Alaska Quarterly Review, Columbia Journal, The Hopkins Review, Gay Mag, The Normal School, Epiphany, Santa Monica Review, Brevity and elsewhere. The recipient of a summer prose fellowship from The University of Arizona Poetry Center, her work has been cited as notable in The Best American Essays and appeared in The Best Microfiction 2022. She holds an MFA from Bennington College and teaches fiction writing at UCLA Extension. Originally from Upstate New York, she lives in Los Angeles.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-unplugged-totally-uncut--994165/support.

The stories–which range from unsettling and heartbreaking to quirky and tender—are connected by a central theme of the intensity of loss and letting go; they pack a punch, just the way grief does—knocking us off our feet. This breathtaking debut has been met with incredible early praise, with a starred Library Journal review noting, "Short story fans might just discover their new favorite author in this arresting collection, a must-have.” Mary Jones's stories and essays have appeared in many journals including Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, Subtropics, EPOCH, Alaska Quarterly Review, Columbia Journal, The Hopkins Review, Gay Mag, The Normal School, Epiphany, Santa Monica Review, Brevity and elsewhere. The recipient of a summer prose fellowship from The University of Arizona Poetry Center, her work has been cited as notable in The Best American Essays and appeared in The Best Microfiction 2022. She holds an MFA from Bennington College and teaches fiction writing at UCLA Extension. Originally from Upstate New York, she lives in Los Angeles.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.

Today on Midwest Weird: “Negation” by Jessica Klimesh. Jessica Klimesh (she/her) is a US-based writer and editor whose creative work has been published or is forthcoming in Cleaver, Flash Frog, trampset, Atticus Review, Brink, Club Plum Literary, Ghost Parachute, and Bending Genres, among others. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net. Learn more at www.jessicaklimesh.com.Find a full transcript for this episode at www.midwestweird.com. _____Midwest Weird is an audio literary magazine from Broads and Books Productions. We're the home of weird fiction and nonfiction by Midwestern writers.Submit your own work to Midwest Weird at www.midwestweird.com.

“The Capes We Wear” by Avra Margariti Manawaker’s Patreon: https://patreon.com/manawaker/ Manawaker books: https://payhip.com/Manawaker More info / Contact CB Droege: https://cbdroege.taplink.ws Author Bio: Avra Margariti is a queer author and poet from Greece. Avra's work haunts publications such as Vastarien, Baffling Magazine, Lackington's, Daily Science Fiction, The Future Fire, Best Microfiction, and elsewhere. You can find Avra on twitter (@avramargariti)

“A Taste of Ocean” by Avra Margariti Manawaker’s Patreon: https://patreon.com/manawaker/ Manawaker books: https://payhip.com/Manawaker More info / Contact CB Droege: https://cbdroege.taplink.ws Author Bio: Avra Margariti is a queer author and poet from Greece. Avra's work haunts publications such as Vastarien, Baffling Magazine, Lackington's, Daily Science Fiction, The Future Fire, Best Microfiction, and elsewhere. You can find Avra on twitter (@avramargariti)

Today, Ronit plank is a successful writer of fiction and non-fiction, an editor, a podcast host of not 1 but 2 shows, and a teacher. But long before she became all those things, she was a young girl born on a Kibbutz in Israel, shuffled across the globe to Seattle by 2 unhappily married parents. Soon after, her father left to start a new family on the east coast. And then the following year, her mother dropped her and her younger sister on his doorstep - announcing she was headed to India. Her mother was sad and lost and was given cassette tapes by a guru called Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh – the man we now know as the leader of the cult featured in the Netflix Documentary Series Wild Wild Country. But back then Ronit didn't know any of that, she just knew that she and her sister were abandoned repeatedly, leaving her with a deep well of grief that no one was naming as loss. In her extraordinary memoir, When She Comes Back, she explores the revelations, and she discovered writing her memoir. Insights about the nature of loss when the person is very much alive. In our conversation today, we're both deeply moved and reflective about the adultification that happens when we grow up in disorganized and chaotic households, and the importance of honoring with care the versions of us that never got what we deserved, a safe and loving home. I can't wait for you to spend time with Ronit today. I know for sure you will be both touched and inspired by her story. About the Guest & Resources Ronit Plank is an award-winning writer, teacher, and podcaster who hosts Let's Talk Memoir featuring interviews with memoir writers and teachers. Her writing has earned Pushcart Prize, Best Microfiction, and Best of the Net nominations and has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic, Writer's Digest, The Washington Post, Hippocampus, The Rumpus, The New York Times, Poets and Writers, andelsewhere. WHEN SHE COMES BACK, her memoir about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation, was named Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards,the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts' 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023Page Turner Awards for Short Stories. She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and lives in Seattle with her family where she editsmemoir manuscripts and teaches workshops. You can learn more at RonitPlank.com, follow her on Instagram, and subscribe to her Memoir Moments newsletter here. Host Lisa Keefauver's forthcoming book Grief is a Sneaky Bitch: An Uncensored Guide to Navigating Loss IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble or Bookshop.org. Drop her a DM on Instagram @lisakeefauvermsw to let her know you did and she'll send you a party invite to her Book Launch Celebration Visit www.lisakeefauver.com to learn more about Lisa, sign up for her Not-So-Regular Newsletter, register for an upcoming online grief workshop or watch her TEDx talk, Why Knowing More About Grief Can Make it Suck Less. Oh, and this season, if you want to WATCH the show, you can now watch it on YouTube @lisakeefauvermsw Recorded April 5, 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Grant Faulkner, the former Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), the co-founder of 100 Word Story, and the co-host of the podcast, Write-minded. His essays on creativity have been published in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, Writer's Digest, and The Writer. His stories have appeared in The Southwest Review, and The Gettysburg Review, and he has been anthologized in collections such as Norton's New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, Flash Fiction America, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction. His new book is The Art of Brevity, published by the University of New Mexico Press. Grant joins Barbara Demarco-Barrett to talk about The Art of Brevity and why writing good flash fiction can be difficult to get right, the role of dialogue in flash, what you want to leave a reader with at the end of a story, how writing flash fiction influences his longer prose, the most common mistake he encounters in flash, and more. For more information on Writers on Writing and extra writing perks, visit our Patreon page. To listen to past interviews, visit our website. You can also support the show by buying books at our bookstore on bookshop.org. We've stocked it with titles from our guests, as well as some of our personal favorites. You'll support independent bookstores and our show by purchasing through the store. Finally, on Spotify you can listen to an album's worth of typewriter music like what you hear on the show. Look for the artist, Just My Type. Email the show at writersonwritingpodcast@gmail.com. We love to hear from our listeners. (Recorded on March 1, 2024)  Host: Barbara DeMarco-BarrettHost: Marrie StoneMusic and sound editing: Travis Barrett (Stream his music on Spotify, Apple Music, Etc.)

A new 'Craftwork' episode, about how to write flash fiction. My guest is author and editor Tommy Dean. Dean is the author of two flash fiction chapbooks and a full flash collection, Hollows (Alternating Current Press 2022). He is the Editor of Fractured Lit and Uncharted Magazine. His writing can be found in Best Microfiction 2019, 2020, 2023, Best Small Fictions 2019 and 2022, Harpur Palate, and elsewhere.  *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Twitter Instagram  TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adriana Elizabeth Herrera Bowen loves horses more than people and lives for junior rodeo competitions. For the first time, the All-Around Cowgirl saddle is within her reach. Except her old gray mare, Pearl, isn't as fast as she used to be, and another competitor has her eye on the same prize. So Adriana needs a faster horse. Is she willing to jeopardize her friendships and vet school dreams to win? Not if her parents have anything to say about it. Buy Breaking Pattern from Inlandia Books and Barnes and Noble BIO: Chicana Feminist and former Rodeo Queen, Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera (she/her) writes so the desert landscape of her childhood can be heard as loudly as the urban chaos of her adulthood. She is obsessed with food. A former high school teacher, she earned an MFA at Antioch University Los Angeles and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and is spotlighted in Best Small Fictions 2022. Her short stories have been anthologized in Rural Writers of Color (EastOver Press 2023), Made in L.A. Volume 4 and 5 (Resonant Earth 2022 and 2023), Ramblings & Reflections: SouthWest Writers Winning Words Anthology, and Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century. Her play Blind Thrust Fault was featured in Center Theater Group Writers' Workshop Festival 2022 and her young adult novel Breaking Pattern is forthcoming from Inlandia Books. She is a Macondista and works for literary equity through Women Who Submit. You can read her other work at http://tishareichle.com/

What is a Rodeo Queen, and does it come with a golden lasso like Wonder Woman gets? Tune in to get the answer to this hard-hitting question and more as we take a deep dive into the world of Breaking Pattern. Buy Breaking Pattern from Inlandia Books and Barnes and Noble BIO: Chicana Feminist and former Rodeo Queen, Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera (she/her) writes so the desert landscape of her childhood can be heard as loudly as the urban chaos of her adulthood. She is obsessed with food. A former high school teacher, she earned an MFA at Antioch University Los Angeles and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and is spotlighted in Best Small Fictions 2022. Her short stories have been anthologized in Rural Writers of Color (EastOver Press 2023), Made in L.A. Volume 4 and 5 (Resonant Earth 2022 and 2023), Ramblings & Reflections: SouthWest Writers Winning Words Anthology, and Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century. Her play Blind Thrust Fault was featured in Center Theater Group Writers' Workshop Festival 2022 and her young adult novel Breaking Pattern is forthcoming from Inlandia Books. She is a Macondista and works for literary equity through Women Who Submit. You can read her other work at http://tishareichle.com/

Today on One Life Radio, we welcomed Diane Gottlieb on the air for the first time to hear about her inspiration and the importance of Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness. Diane is an MSW, or Master of Social Work, MEd, Master of Education and a MFA, Master of Fine Arts and is the editor of the book Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness. Her writing appears in 2023 Best Microfiction, River Teeth, HuffPost, SmokeLong Quarterly, Hippocampus Magazine, The Rumpus, Chicago Review of Books, About Place Journal, and 100 Word Stories among many other journals and anthologies. She is the winner of Tiferet Journal's 2021 Writing Contest in the nonfiction category and on the 2023 Wigleaf Top 50 longlist. Diane is the Prose/CNF Editor of Emerge Literary Journal and the founder and author of WomanPause, a newsletter dedicated to lifting the voices of women over 50. To get more information about Diane Gottlieb and her work on Awakenings please visit dianegottlieb.com!Thank you to our sponsors!Enviromedica – Rewild your gut with spore-based probiotics and wild-harvested prebiotics designed to support a healthy and diverse microbiome.Cardio Miracle - A comprehensive heart and health supplement utilizing over 50 ingredients. Visit cardiomiracle.com today for an automatic 15% OFF your order! Children's Health Defense - Listen every Monday as we cover the top stories from the CHD‘s Defender NewsletterSunwarrior - Use the code OLR for 20% off your purchase!Well Being Journal - For nutritional, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health.Thorne - Get 20% off your order and free shipping!

Main fiction: "Nice For What?" by Dominica PhetteplaceDominica Phetteplace writes fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in Ecotone, Copper Nickel, PANK, The Los Angeles Review, Zyzzyva, Wigleaf, Best Microfiction and The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her honors include two Pushcart Prizes, a Rona Jaffe Award, a Steinbeck Fellowship and support from MacDowell, Tin House and Djerassi.This story originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/Aug 2019.Narrated by: Mary MurphyMary is a New York based actor/voice-over artist. She loves the world of audio drama and is delighted to be back on board the StarShipSofa. She has performed in theatre, film, TV, animation, radio, and video games. A few of her recent credits include the one-woman play An Evening With Lola Montez, It's a Wonderful Life, a streamed performance of the piece Near Nellie Bly, Divination of The Three for Asheville Fringe, and the audio dramas Frontier Gentleman, Chinook, and Newfield. She can be heard voicing various characters for Disney, GoKidGo, LeapFrog, the Center For New American Media, Audible, and Audimance. She has also been a regular performer on the audio drama series Fireside Mystery Theatre, The NoSleep Podcast, The Wicked Library, To the Manor Borne By Robots, and Campfire Radio Theater. marymurphyonline.comFact: Looking Back At genre History by Amy H SturgisSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mileva Anastasiadou is a neurologist from Athens, Greece, and the author of We Fade with Time, a flash fiction collection published in 2022 by Alien Buddha Press. A Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction and Best Small Fiction nominated writer, Mileva's work can be found in many journals, such as The Chestnut Review, New World Writing, Milk Candy Review, The Bureau Dispatch, and others. We discussed how Mileva's Greek publisher encouraged her to switch languages, how hard writing in English felt in the beginning, but also how it turned out to be a unique way she could look at her life and dissect her experience. In this episode Mileva reads He Used to Be Gold, first published in Bending Genres, Issue Sixteen, August 2020. 

Kathryn interviews Author PJ Caldas.For as long as she can remember, Yinyin heard she was poised to become part of something big. Then it happened. She was invited to join a scientific experiment that would allow her to connect her brain to others and become so powerful, she would be unbeatable. Though, it would also require her to allow others to have access to family secrets she was sworn to protect. Emmy award winner, bestselling author and martial artist PJ Caldas brings us this Sci-Fi thriller featuring a strong female protagonist and martial artist who travels from China to the U.S. with the goal of teaching martial arts to women so they can protect themselves from the attacks and abuse of men. It also tells the story of how AI affects her life. Caldas has been named to Adweek's Creative 100, Ad Age's Creativity 50, and to the 4A's 100 People Who Make Advertising Great.Kathryn also interviews Author Diane Gottlieb MSW. What happens when 49 authors sit down to craft their experiences of living in a body? Magic! Diane Gottlieb carefully curates a magical anthology of short essays, filled with trauma and triumph, pleasures and pain, challenges, resilience and growth. No matter where you turn in this tribute to the miracles, mishaps and mysteries of the body, you will be moved.A host of seasoned writers present a stunning array of diverse voices, journeys and literary forms. Awakenings will sometimes make you laugh, often make you cry, and will always spur a deep appreciation for the flesh and bones that carry us all through life. Gottlieb's writing appears in 2023 Best Microfiction, HuffPost, Chicago Review of Books, About Place Journal, and 100 Word Stories. She is the founder and author of Woman Pause, a newsletter dedicated to lifting the voices of women over 50.

Kathryn interviews Author PJ Caldas.For as long as she can remember, Yinyin heard she was poised to become part of something big. Then it happened. She was invited to join a scientific experiment that would allow her to connect her brain to others and become so powerful, she would be unbeatable. Though, it would also require her to allow others to have access to family secrets she was sworn to protect. Emmy award winner, bestselling author and martial artist PJ Caldas brings us this Sci-Fi thriller featuring a strong female protagonist and martial artist who travels from China to the U.S. with the goal of teaching martial arts to women so they can protect themselves from the attacks and abuse of men. It also tells the story of how AI affects her life. Caldas has been named to Adweek's Creative 100, Ad Age's Creativity 50, and to the 4A's 100 People Who Make Advertising Great.Kathryn also interviews Author Diane Gottlieb MSW. What happens when 49 authors sit down to craft their experiences of living in a body? Magic! Diane Gottlieb carefully curates a magical anthology of short essays, filled with trauma and triumph, pleasures and pain, challenges, resilience and growth. No matter where you turn in this tribute to the miracles, mishaps and mysteries of the body, you will be moved.A host of seasoned writers present a stunning array of diverse voices, journeys and literary forms. Awakenings will sometimes make you laugh, often make you cry, and will always spur a deep appreciation for the flesh and bones that carry us all through life. Gottlieb's writing appears in 2023 Best Microfiction, HuffPost, Chicago Review of Books, About Place Journal, and 100 Word Stories. She is the founder and author of Woman Pause, a newsletter dedicated to lifting the voices of women over 50.

Kathryn interviews Author PJ Caldas.For as long as she can remember, Yinyin heard she was poised to become part of something big. Then it happened. She was invited to join a scientific experiment that would allow her to connect her brain to others and become so powerful, she would be unbeatable. Though, it would also require her to allow others to have access to family secrets she was sworn to protect. Emmy award winner, bestselling author and martial artist PJ Caldas brings us this Sci-Fi thriller featuring a strong female protagonist and martial artist who travels from China to the U.S. with the goal of teaching martial arts to women so they can protect themselves from the attacks and abuse of men. It also tells the story of how AI affects her life. Caldas has been named to Adweek's Creative 100, Ad Age's Creativity 50, and to the 4A's 100 People Who Make Advertising Great.Kathryn also interviews Author Diane Gottlieb MSW. What happens when 49 authors sit down to craft their experiences of living in a body? Magic! Diane Gottlieb carefully curates a magical anthology of short essays, filled with trauma and triumph, pleasures and pain, challenges, resilience and growth. No matter where you turn in this tribute to the miracles, mishaps and mysteries of the body, you will be moved.A host of seasoned writers present a stunning array of diverse voices, journeys and literary forms. Awakenings will sometimes make you laugh, often make you cry, and will always spur a deep appreciation for the flesh and bones that carry us all through life. Gottlieb's writing appears in 2023 Best Microfiction, HuffPost, Chicago Review of Books, About Place Journal, and 100 Word Stories. She is the founder and author of Woman Pause, a newsletter dedicated to lifting the voices of women over 50.

Kathryn interviews Author PJ Caldas.For as long as she can remember, Yinyin heard she was poised to become part of something big. Then it happened. She was invited to join a scientific experiment that would allow her to connect her brain to others and become so powerful, she would be unbeatable. Though, it would also require her to allow others to have access to family secrets she was sworn to protect. Emmy award winner, bestselling author and martial artist PJ Caldas brings us this Sci-Fi thriller featuring a strong female protagonist and martial artist who travels from China to the U.S. with the goal of teaching martial arts to women so they can protect themselves from the attacks and abuse of men. It also tells the story of how AI affects her life. Caldas has been named to Adweek's Creative 100, Ad Age's Creativity 50, and to the 4A's 100 People Who Make Advertising Great.Kathryn also interviews Author Diane Gottlieb MSW. What happens when 49 authors sit down to craft their experiences of living in a body? Magic! Diane Gottlieb carefully curates a magical anthology of short essays, filled with trauma and triumph, pleasures and pain, challenges, resilience and growth. No matter where you turn in this tribute to the miracles, mishaps and mysteries of the body, you will be moved.A host of seasoned writers present a stunning array of diverse voices, journeys and literary forms. Awakenings will sometimes make you laugh, often make you cry, and will always spur a deep appreciation for the flesh and bones that carry us all through life. Gottlieb's writing appears in 2023 Best Microfiction, HuffPost, Chicago Review of Books, About Place Journal, and 100 Word Stories. She is the founder and author of Woman Pause, a newsletter dedicated to lifting the voices of women over 50.

Grant Faulkner is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. He recently published The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story. He's also published Fissures, a collection of 100-word stories; All the Comfort Sin Can Provide; Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story; and Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo. His stories have appeared in dozens of literary magazines, including Tin House, The Southwest Review, and The Gettysburg Review, and he has been anthologized in collections such as Norton's New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, Flash Fiction America, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction. His essays on creativity have been published in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, Writer's Digest, and The Writer.Find Grant online on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Listen to his podcast Write-minded and subscribe to his newsletter Intimations: A Writer's Discourse.

An unexpected event determines the outcome of a baseball rivalry.Vic Nogay (she/her) is a Pushcart Prize- and Best Microfiction-nominated poet and writer whose work appears in Fractured Lit, Barren Magazine, and Lost Balloon, among others. Her micro chapbook of poems, "under fire under water" was published in 2022 by tiny wren publishing. She is an Associate Poetry Editor for Identity Theory and lives in Columbus, Ohio. Find her online at vicnogay.comYou can read "The Ghost Runner" at https://www.kaidankaistories.com.Website: kaidankaistories.comFollow us on: TwitterInstagramYouTubeFacebook

Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling Jan Stinchcomb! (janstinchcomb.com) About our Guest: Jan Stinchcomb is the author of Verushka (JournalStone, 2023), The Kelping (Unnerving), The Blood Trail (Red Bird Chapbooks) and Find the Girl (Main Street Rag). Her stories have appeared in Bourbon Penn, SmokeLong Quarterly and Menacing Hedge, among other places. A Pushcart nominee, she is featured in Best Microfiction 2020 and The Best Small Fictions 2018 & 2021. She lives in Southern California with her family and is an associate fiction editor for Atticus Review. Find her at janstinchcomb.com or on Twitter @janstinchcomb. Verushka, now available from JournalStone: https://journalstone.com/bookstore/verushka/ About the novel: Someone is stalking Devon Woodward. They've been there all along, since before she was born, going back to her grandmother's time. Waiting for her. Watching. And the people who should be able to help, her own parents, are making everything worse. Devon is right to be afraid. Verushka, both victim and villain, is a half-human witch from the other side of the world. She will do anything to get what she needs from the Woodward family, but she may have finally met her match in young Devon. Will family conflict sabotage Devon's efforts to escape and put her in even greater danger? In this multi-perspective novel that is part fairy tale and part horror story, a young girl fights to uncover the truth and save her own life. Thanks this amazing conversation, Jan! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro (cruzfolio.com). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent: much love, j https://artscalling.com/welcome/

Hi there, Today I am thrilled to be arts calling Tommy Dean! (https://tommydeanwriter.com) About our Guest: Tommy Dean is the author of two flash fiction chapbooks Special Like the People on TV (Redbird Chapbooks, 2014) and Covenants (ELJ Editions, 2021), and a full flash collection, Hollows (Alternating Current Press, 2022). He lives in Indiana, where he currently is the Editor at Fractured Lit and _Uncharted _Magazine. A recipient of the 2019 Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction, his writing can be found in Best Microfiction 2019, 2020, 2023, Best Small Fiction 2019 and 2022, Monkeybicycle, Moon City Press, and numerous other litmags. His interviews have been previously published in New Flash Fiction Review, The Rumpus, CRAFT Literary, and The Town Crier (The Puritan). He has taught writing workshops for the Gotham Writers Workshop, the Barrelhouse Conversations and Connections conference, and The Writers Workshop. Hollows, now available from Alternating Current Press! https://altcurrent.square.site/product/hollows-flash-stories-by-tommy-dean/43?cp= Flash Fiction Perspectives, Tommy's newsletter on Substack! https://tommydean.substack.com Follow Tommy on Twitter! https://twitter.com/TommyDeanWriter Tommy on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/tommydeantommydean/ "No writing is wasted." Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro (cruzfolio.com). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent: much love, j https://artscalling.com/welcome/

Grant Faulkner is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. He recently published The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story. He's also published Fissures, a collection of 100-word stories; the short story collection All the Comfort Sin Can Provide; Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story (as editor); and Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo. His stories have appeared in dozens of literary magazines, including Tin House, The Southwest Review, and The Gettysburg Review, and he has been anthologized in collections such as Norton's New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, Flash Fiction America, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction. His essays on creativity have been published in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, Writer's Digest, and The Writer. Find Grant online on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Listen to his podcast Write-minded and subscribe to his newsletter Intimations: A Writer's Discourse.How Do You Write Podcast: Explore the processes of How Do You Write Podcast: Explore the processes of working writers with bestselling author Rachael Herron. Want tips on how to write the book you long to finish? Here you'll gain insight from other writers on how to get in the chair, tricks to stay in it, and inspiration to get your own words flowing. Join Rachael's Slack channel, Onward Writers: https://join.slack.com/t/onwardwriters/shared_invite/zt-7a3gorfm-C15cTKh_47CEdWIBW~RKwgRachael can be YOUR mini-coach, and she'll answer all your questions on the show! http://patreon.com/rachael Join my scribe of writers for LOTS more tips and get access to my 7-minute video that will tell you if you're writing the right book! Only for my writing community! CLICK HERE:➡️ How to Know If You're Writing the Right Book - https://rachaelherron.com/therightbook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 152 Notes and Links to Tommy Dean's Work       On Episode 152 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Tommy Dean, and the two discuss, among other topics, his reading trajectory which started with sports biographies and has branched out in many directions, his start writing in undergrad, his views of flash fiction vs. short shorts, the craft of writing flash fiction, Tommy's recurring themes and development as a writer, and inspiring works by Tobias Wolff and other titans of the trade.      Tommy Dean lives in Indiana with his wife and two children. He is the author of a flash fiction chapbook entitled Special Like the People on TV from Redbird Chapbooks. He is the Editor at Fractured Lit. He has been previously published in the BULL Magazine, The MacGuffin, The Lascaux Review, New World Writing, Pithead Chapel, and New Flash Fiction Review. His story “You've Stopped” was chosen by Dan Chaon to be included in Best Microfiction 2019. It will also be included in Best Small Fiction 2019. His interviews have been previously published in New Flash Fiction Review, The Rumpus, CRAFT Literary, and The Town Crier (The Puritan). Find him @TommyDeanWriter on Twitter.   Tommy Dean's Website   Buy Hollows    A.E. Weisberger Reviews Special Like the People on TV   “Past Lives” Story from Atlas and Alice Magazine-2020   “You've Stopped” from Pithead Chapel   2017 Mini-Interview with Megan Giddings   At about 7:30, Tommy discusses her early reading (a lot of sports and biographies and horror and “heavy genre”) and writing, with the writing mostly coming after undergrad    At about 10:00, the two discuss character as seen in these shared sports biographies   At about 11:30, Tommy describes his love for the library and its easy access to Sports Illustrated/SI for Kids   At about 12:30, Tommy and Pete discuss their shared loves for basketball and baseball, the former especially    At about 14:25, Tommy gives background on how he came to become interested in flash fiction/short shorts   At about 17:20, Tommy responds to Pete's questions about how he has honed his craft   At about 19:00, Tommy describes what it is about flash fiction that appeals to him   At about 19:50, Tommy differentiates between “flash fiction” and “short short”   At about 22:50, Tommy gives some of the formative texts, literary journals (like SmokeLong Quarterly and Vestal Review)  and writers that are classics of the flash fiction forms, like Stuart Dybek, Dan Chaon, Robin Black and “Pine,” and Elizabeth Tallent and her story, “No One's a Mystery”   At about 27:00, Pete recounts the connections between the podcast title and Tobias Wolff's “Bullet in the Brain”   At about 28:30, Tommy discusses the power of flash in its granularity   At about 29:30, The two discuss Hemingway and his “interludes” or works that could be classified as “flash”; they also discuss breaking convention   At about 34:20, Pete corrects himself on the pivotal line that inspired the podcast title   At about 35:10, Pete cites a powerful use of understatement from Elie Wiesel's Night   At about 36:30, Tommy talks about how teaching/editing inform his writing, and vice versa   At about 42:35, Pete quotes interviews with Tommy and Megan Giddings and talks about his “lifejackets” as character    At about 44:00, Pete references powerful opening lines from Tommy and asks about the connections between title and subject matter; Tommy talks about work that became awarded and his process   At about 45:35, Tommy talks about his philosophy of dialogue in flash fiction   At about 47:15, Tommy explains conscious choices in using quotation marks or not   At about 48:30, Pete and Tommy discuss the idea that dialogue to begin a story is fraught; Pete provides an example of a short he wrote that     At about 52:15, Pete highlights a stunning open line from “Past Lives”; Tommy gives real-life connections to the story before reading it   At about 55:45, Tommy describes an “in” for writers involving unique characters   At about 56:45, Tommy talks about his two chapbooks   At about 57:15, Pete reads a review from the first collection and talks about themes of childlessness and craft shared by Hemingway's “Hills Like White Elephants” and Tommy's early writing   At about 59:15, Tommy responds to Pete's questions about development as a writer between his first and most recent collections; he traces his development via “cuts” and themes used    At about 1:03:20, Pete shares a reader's review of Tommy's Hollows and Tommy discusses why he appreciates these particular sentiments   At about 1:05:25, Tommy reads “Baby Alone”   At about 1:14:30, Tommy gives out his social media and contact info, including Alternate Currents and ELJ Editions    You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.     Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl     Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!    This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.    The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.    Please tune in for Episode 153 with Luivette Resto, a mother, teacher, poet, and Wonder Woman fanatic born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, and proudly raised in the Bronx. A CantoMundo and Macondo Fellow, and Pushcart Prize nominee, she is on the Board of Directors for Women Who Submit.      The episode will air on November 22.

Episode 151 Notes and Links to Allison Hedge Coke's Work       On Episode 151 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Allison Hedge Coke, and the two discuss, among other topics, her multiracial and multiethnic and multilingual upbringing, wise words and inspiration from her family, her life of art and creativity, California as her muse, holding California to account, ideas of stewardship and environmental care, and the incredible inspirations and circumstances that brought her award-winning poetry to the world.    Allison Adelle Hedge Coke's previous poetry books include The Year of the Rat, Dog Road Woman, Off-Season City Pipe, Blood Run, Burn, Streaming as well as a memoir, Rock Ghost, Willow, Deer. She is the editor of the anthologies Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas, Effigies, Effigies II, and Effigies II and is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Riverside. Hedge Coke came of age working fields, factories, and waters and is currently at work on a film, Red Dust: resiliency in the dirty thirties, a new CD, and new poems. Buy Look at This Blue   Allison Hedge Coke's Website   Allison Hedge Coke's Wikipedia Page   National Book Awards Description for Look at This Blue             At about 7:30, Allison discusses her busy and exciting upcoming weeks that include a Georgia poetry circuit and the National Book Awards, where she's nominated for    At about 9:20, Allison discusses her experiences with languages and reading and writing as a kid; she discusses her father's and family's great pride in their lineages    At about 13:45, Allison relays a telling anecdote about her son and his crayons that speaks to the multilingual extended family from which she comes   At about 16:20, Pete reads from the beginning chapter of Allison's memoir and Allison expands on lessons learned from those times and from her mother and father   At about 18:50, Pete notes Allison lifelong devotion to art, and she talks about her family's background and about what it means to create for her in her traditions    At about 20:25, Allison recounts the amazing story of writing Look at this Blue in Montenegro in a stunningly short period of time   At about 22:00, Allison describes her first encounters with California in 1980 and then future time spent in CA    At about 26:05, Pete cites the wonderful blurbs from wonderful writers for Allison's collection; she defines it as an “assemblage” and talks about the assemblage in connection to jazz and other music    At about 28:00, Pete and Allison discuss the poetry's connection to “blue,” and blue's myriad meanings and connection to longing and fado and saudade (Pete's obsession)   At about 30:40, Pete shares the possibly apocryphal story of Garcia Marquez's writing a masterpiece    At about 31:00, Allison expands upon the title's meanings    At about 31:45, Allison responds to Pete wondering about “catharsis” upon writing about such personal and emotional work   At about 34:00, The two meditate on parenthood and influences on children    At about 36:00, The two discuss memory and perspective, and Pete cites the book's epigraph    At about 37:10, Pete provides a book summary and details the historical and personal     At about 38:15, Allison reads from the book regarding the Xerces blue butterfly and links its story to that of California and its abuses, excesses, and displacement    At about 43:00, Allison reads from the Prelude   At about 45:45, Allison recounts a bonkers story (adapted for the book) about the INS and her mother   At about 48:30, The two talk about extinctions, displacements, and endangerment featured in the book   At about 51:40, Allison talks about being stewards for the environment    At about 53:15, The two detail connections made in the book to events both historical and modern and themes like racism and homophobia    At about 54:20, Pete discusses “let” and “love” as depicted in the book    You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.     Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl     Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content! This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.    The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.    Please tune in for Episode 152 with Tommy Dean, author of a flash fiction chapbook, Special Like the People on TV from and the Editor at Fractured Lit; “You've Stopped” was included in Best Microfiction 2019.     The episode with this flash fiction writer extraordinaire will air on November 15.

In this episode, we learn vital information such as: Does Sonia have a plant named Shmoney? And what research went into deciding that succulents would talk smack? Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez is a Mexican writer and educator living in Queens, New York. Her stories have been published in Strange Horizons, Acentos Review, Longreads, Okay Donkey, Reckon Review, Mixed Mag, Hobart After Dark, and elsewhere. Sonia's writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fiction, and Best Microfiction. When she wants to avoid working, she makes paper flowers. You can follow her across all social media at @RodriguezSoniaA

If you've ever wondered what your plants think of you, this is the episode to listen to. In 'Lily,' Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez delves deep into the life of a Peace Lily and its human companion known only as 'they.' This story first appeared in the pages of Hispanecdotes in May of 2020. Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez is a Mexican writer and educator living in Queens, New York. Her stories have been published in Strange Horizons, Acentos Review, Longreads, Okay Donkey, Reckon Review, Mixed Mag, Hobart After Dark, and elsewhere. Sonia's writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fiction, and Best Microfiction. When she wants to avoid working, she makes paper flowers. You can follow her across all social media at @RodriguezSoniaA

Hi there, Thrilled to be arts calling aureleo sans today! aureleo sans is a flamingo. she is also a Colombian-American, non-binary, queer poet and writer with a disability. she grew up in various forms of homelessness in Miami, Barranquilla, Atlanta, St. Petersburg, and Phoenix before settling down in San Antonio, where she currently lives. her family limboed far below the poverty line until she escaped to chase the American Dream Unfulfilled. she is a 2022 Tin House Scholar, Periplus fellow, a Macondista, a VONA alumnus, and a creative nonfiction associate editor at jmww. she was named the second-place winner of Fractured Lit's 2021 Micro Fiction Contest, a longlister for the 2021 CRAFT Short Fiction Prize, and a semi-finalist for the 2021 American Short Fiction Halifax Ranch Prize. she is a 2022 Pushcart Prize nominee and a 2022 Best Microfiction nominee. aureleo is presently working on two projects: THE GLORIOUS POOR, a collection of short stories set in a housing project community confronting the specters of gentrification, the pandemic and a possible apocalypse. FLAMINGO, a memoir investigating legacy or rather, what is left behind after the shrapnel of intergenerational poverty and a life spent poor, queer, and different. Twitter https://twitter.com/aureleos Visit https://www.aureleos.com/readme for her latest published works. Thanks for inspiring us, aureleo! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro at cruzfolio.com. If you like the show: consider reviewing the podcast and sharing it with those who love the arts, your support truly makes a difference! Check out cruzfolio.com for more podcasts about the arts and original content! Make art. Much love, j

Michael talks with Jennifer Wortman about reading as a disaffected teen, becoming a fiction writer, her story collection THIS. THIS. THIS. IS. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE., self-conscious narrators, theme appearing without seeing it, the question of God, a novel-in-stories-in-progress, where strangeness in a story comes from, and more.Jennifer Wortman is the author of the story collection This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love. (Split/Lip Press, 2019). She's been a recipient of NEA and MacDowell fellowships, and her work has appeared in TriQuarterly, Hayden's Ferry Review, Glimmer Train, Electric Literature, Brevity, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, and elsewhere.Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.

We sit down with Tommy Dean author of the flash collection COVENANTS from ELJ Editions!  Tommy Dean lives in Indiana with his wife and two children. He is the author of a flash fiction chapbook entitled Special Like the People on TV from Redbird Chapbooks. He is the Editor at Fractured Lit. He has been previously published in the BULL Magazine, The MacGuffin, The Lascaux Review, New World Writing, Pithead Chapel, and New Flash Fiction Review. His story “You've Stopped” was chosen by Dan Chaon to be included in Best Microfiction 2019. It will also be included in Best Small Fiction 2019. His interviews have been previously published in New Flash Fiction Review, The Rumpus, CRAFT Literary, and The Town Crier (The Puritan). Find him @TommyDeanWriter on Twitter.Tommy Dean websiteTommy Dean twitter Tommy Dean substack COVENANTS Tommy Dean (ELJ Editions)SPECIAL LIKE THE PEOPLE ON TV Tommy Dean (Red Bird Chapbooks)HOLLOWS Tommy Dean (Alternating Current Press)"...class in May about metaphors not just for poets..."  I couldn't find a link for this class, yet, but I'm pretty confident it will be offered through this site where Dean has another offering: https://writingworkshops.com  "Wave" by Tommy Dean (Matter Press: Journal of Compressed Creative Arts) Indy Reads A Novel Idea (Philadelphia)Kathy Fish Fractured Lit journal Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Michael talks with Meghan Phillips about bringing her first chapbook into the world, crafting a voice at the sentence level, pens & notebooks, the daunting task of novel writing, reading as a comfort, kids TV, filling in gaps of nostalgic pop culture, and more!Meghan Phillips is a writer and editor who was a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in 2020. Her short fiction has been anthologized in Best Microfiction 2019, 2020, & 2021 and The Best Small Fictions 2019. Her sold out flash fiction chapbook Abstinence Only from is available right now for free as an e-book from Barrelhouse.Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.

On the latest episode of Now, Appalachia, Eliot speaks to author Tyler Barton about his latest collection of short stories, ETERNAL NIGHT AT THE NATURE MUSEUM. Tyler Barton is a literary advocate and cofounder of Fear No Lit, home of the Submerging Writer Fellowship. His fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, Subtropics, and elsewhere. He's earned honors from Kenyon Review, The Chicago Review of Books, Pheobe Journal, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction 2020 and Best Small Fictions 2020. His collection of flash fiction, The Quiet Part Loud, was published by Split Lip Press in 2019. He lives in Lancaster, PA. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/eliot-parker/support

Meghan Phillips is the author of chapbook "Abstinence Only" and has stories in Best Microfiction 2019, 2020, and 2021. Zoe Contros Kearl is a writer and editor based in rural Vermont. J.B. Stone is a Neurodivergent/Autistic writer, slam poet, editor and literary critic from Brooklyn, now residing in Buffalo, NY. Kendra Fortmeyer lives and writes in Austin, Texas. Megan Pillow is co-editor of The Audacity, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in, among other places, in Electric Literature, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Believer, TriQuarterly, and Guernica. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meghan Phillips is the author of chapbook “Abstinence Only” and has stories in Best Microfiction 2019, 2020, and 2021. Zoe Contros Kearl is a writer and editor based in rural Vermont. J.B. Stone is a Neurodivergent/Autistic writer, slam poet, editor and literary critic from Brooklyn, now residing in Buffalo, NY. Kendra Fortmeyer lives and writesContinue reading "BACK FROM THE DEAD: Micro x HAD Halloween Special"

Host Daniel Chacon welcomes Monique Quintana back to the studio for an in depth interview to discuss her new noel, Cenote City. Her book reviews, interviews, and personal essays appear at Luna Luna Magazine,  where she is a contributing editor. Her short works have been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and the Pushcart Prize.

Shawn Berman runs The Daily Drunk. Meg Pokrass serves as Founding Co-Editor of Best Microfiction anthology series. Cathy Ulrich is editor at Milk Candy Review. (Transcript) Welcome to Micro, a podcast for short but powerful writing. I'm your host, Drew Hawkins. Zac Efron, dangerous chili, and grape popsicles. You guessed it—the first Editor Edition ofContinue reading "Editor Edition: Berman x Pokrass x Ulrich" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shawn Berman runs The Daily Drunk. Meg Pokrass serves as Founding Co-Editor of Best Microfiction anthology series. Cathy Ulrich is editor at Milk Candy Review. (Transcript) Welcome to Micro, a podcast for short but powerful writing. I'm your host, Drew Hawkins. Zac Efron, dangerous chili, and grape popsicles. You guessed it—the first Editor Edition ofContinue reading "Editor Edition: Berman x Pokrass x Ulrich"

Nonfiction flash writer JJ Peña joins us in our season finale to read “this is how i want you to remember me” from the Change in Perspective Flash 405 contest. Writer and judge K.B. Carle leads in the interview with JJ as they explore flash, memory, and the power storytelling. Read along at: http://expositionreview.com/flash-405/this-is-how-i-want-you-to-remember-me/ About JJ Peña: JJ Peña (pronouns he/they) is a queer, burrito-blooded writer. JJ is the winner of blue earth review's 2019 flash non-fiction contest, cutbank's 2019 big sky, small prose contest, mythic picnic's 2020 postcard prize, & Santa Clara Review's 2021 Flash Non-fiction contest. JJ's work is included in the Best Microfiction 2020 anthology & Wigleaf's Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions (2020). JJ is a 2021 Periplus fellow, holds a BA in both English and Anthropology, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso. JJ's stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Washington Square Review, Cincinnati Review, Massachusetts Review, & elsewhere. JJ serves as a flash fiction reader for Split Lip magazine About K.B. Carle: K.B. Carle lives and writes outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is the Associate Editor at Fractured Lit. and an Editor at FlashBack Fiction. Her stories have appeared in Waxwing Magazine, matchbook, Bending Genres, No Contact Magazine, and have been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart Prize. She can be found online at http://kbcarle.com or on Twitter @kbcarle. Links from the Podcast: JJ Peña's website: https://www.jjpena.com/ JJ's Insta: bootyshortsjesus JJ's Twitter: @heckaseuss K.B. Carle's website: https://www.kbcarle.com/ K.B.'s Insta: @kbcarle K.B.'s Twitter: @kbcarle K.B.'s workshop: The Narrative Mystique: Embodying the Unexpected Narrator in Flash Workshop with K.B. Carle Exposition Review Chapbook: http://expositionreview.com/2021/04/composition-rearview-chapbook-now-available/ Help us spread the word! Please download, review, and subscribe to Transposition. Thank you to Mitchell Evenson for intro and outro music, and the generous donations from our supporters that allow us to pay our authors. Exposition Review is a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas. Transposition is the official podcast of Exposition Review literary journal. Associate Producer: Mitchell Evenson Intro Music by Mitchell Evenson Hosted by Laura Rensing --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/exposition-review/support

Jan Stinchcomb is the author of two novellas and a chapbook and has stories in The Best Small Fictions 2018 & 2021 and in Best Microfiction 2020. Stephanie Yu a writer and attorney in Los Angeles whose work has appeared in Hobart, Phoebe Journal, X-R-A-Y, and elsewhere. Maurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of TheContinue reading "Stinchcomb x Yu x Ruffin" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan Stinchcomb is the author of two novellas and a chapbook and has stories in The Best Small Fictions 2018 & 2021 and in Best Microfiction 2020. Stephanie Yu a writer and attorney in Los Angeles whose work has appeared in Hobart, Phoebe Journal, X-R-A-Y, and elsewhere. Maurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of TheContinue reading "Stinchcomb x Yu x Ruffin"

Tommy Dean is the author of the flash fiction chapbook Special Like the People on TV from Redbird Chapbooks. The Editor at Fractured Lit, Dean's work has appeared in the BULL Magazine, The MacGuffin, The Lascaux Review, New World Writing, Pithead Chapel, and New Flash Fiction Review. His stories have been included in the Best Microfiction 2019 and 2020. He is the winner of the Lascaux Review Short Story Prize 2019. Find him @TommyDeanWriter on Twitter.