Podcasts about new world writing

Integrating elegy, ekphrasis, and dance notation, Oli Peters's thesis project is a multilingual, multi-genre exploration in translation and lyric poetry. In this episode, she shares how her program encourages creative experimentation, even when she submits work that feels “absolutely unpublishable, verging on unreadable.” Plus, she discusses her courses in Medieval manuscripts and theater, university-funded opportunities in Paris and Ireland, and how being rejected from MFA programs right after undergrad led her to spend five years writing daily for no one but herself.Oli is a second-year MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Notre Dame. Her writing is forthcoming in Annulet, DIAGRAM, DREGINALD, and mercury firs. Her past work appears in Pleiades, New World Writing, Rain Taxi, Heavy Feather Review, and abobo zine. Her dance-performance piece "Body Glyph State" will be performed at the 2025 Iowa Choreography Festival. She is a MFA candidate at the University of Notre Dame. Find her at her website, oliupeters.wixsite.com/olipeters, and on Instagram @olimpeters.MFA Writers is hosted by Jared McCormack and produced by Jared McCormack and Hanamori Skoblow. New episodes are released every two weeks. You can find more MFA Writers at MFAwriters.com.BE PART OF THE SHOWDonate to the show at Buy Me a Coffee.Leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts.Submit an episode request. If there's a program you'd like to learn more about, contact us and we'll do our very best to find a guest who can speak to their experience.Apply to be a guest on the show by filling out our application.STAY CONNECTEDTwitter: @MFAwriterspodInstagram: @MFAwriterspodcastFacebook: MFA WritersEmail: mfawriterspodcast@gmail.com

Grave New World: Writing Dystopia Today is an Auckland Writers Festival event that is happening on Saturday 18th May. Among the speaker is author of Ockham NZ Book Awards longlisted Turncoat Tīhema Baker (Raukawa te Au ki te Tonga, Ātiawa ki Whakarongotai, Ngāti Toa Rangatira). From the AWF website: With wars raging, censorship on the rise and all manner of accepted human rights under threat both close to home and across the globe, how do fiction writers approach the dystopian genre when the line between fictional dystopias and our lived reality seems increasingly blurred? Beth caught up with Tīhema Baker about the panel and the dystopia genre. They also spoke about another event Tīhema is chairing, We Can Be on Other Planets: Māori Speculative Fiction.

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. 

Paul Rabinowitz is a novelist, poet, photographer, founder of ARTS By The People and an adjunct professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University. His works appear in The Sun Magazine, New World Writing, Burningword, Evening Street Press, The Montreal Review, and elsewhere. Rabinowitz was a featured artist in Nailed Magazine in 2020, Mud Season Review in 2022 and Apricity and Woven Tale Press in 2023. He is the author of The Clay Urn, Confluence and Limited Light, a book of prose and portrait photography, which stems from his Limited Light photo series, nominated for Best of the Net in 2021. Rabinowitz is creator and co-writer with Brittney Bertier of the TV pilot called Bungalow, and author of the book of poems called truth, love and the lines in between and a chapbook of auto-fiction called Grand Street, Revisited (both with Finishing Line Press). His poems and fiction are the inspiration for 8 award-winning experimental films, including Best Experimental Short at Cannes, Venice Shorts Film Festival, RevolutionME, Oregon Short Film Festival, and The Paris Film Festival. This month his photograph appeared on the cover of Press Pause Press Magazine and inside Glint and Burningword Literary Magazine. His latest prose poems “Netflix Thriller” will appear in Sonora Review and “In The Original Language” in Talking River Review.

Kyle Seibel is a writer in Santa Barbara CA. His work has been featured in Joyland Magazine, New World Writing, and Wigleaf. He is represented by Christopher Schelling of Selectric Artists and his debut collection of short fiction is currently looking for a publisher. Follow him on Twitter @kylerseibel. He's been getting a lot better lately. Intro beats by God'Aryan Support Textual Healing with Mallory Smart by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/textual-healing

Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. She wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. Writing to a friend in the mid-1950s, O'Connor noted that we live in an age in which "the moral sense has been bred out of certain sections of the population, like the wings have been bred off certain chickens to produce more white meat on them....This is a Generation of wingless chickens, which I suppose is what Nietzsche meant when he said God was dead." In such a situation, she felt, subtlety could not work: "you have to make your vision apparent by shock---to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures." Everything That Rises Must Converge is the main story in a collection of short stories written by Flannery O'Connor during the final decade of her life. The collection was published posthumously in 1965 and contains an introduction by Robert Fitzgerald. The short story that lends its name to the 1965 short story collection was first published in the 1961 issue of New World Writing. The story won O'Connor her second O. Henry Award in 1963.

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.

You've been listening to the Night's End podcast which is a production of Dissonance Media.   Ofuyu and Sasuke investigate several mysterious deaths. All signs point to an otherworldly force being responsible for the acts. Will they reveal and defeat the evil?   Kamaitachi Incident was written by Toshiya Kamei. Toshiya is a fiction writer whose short stories have appeared in such places as Bending Genres, New World Writing, and SmokeLong en Español, as well as the anthologies Daily Flights of Fantasy and Enchanted Entrapments.    This episode was narrated by James Barnett.  James is a writer, narrator, editor, podcast producer, and reluctant Transport Manager. For more works from James, head to www.jamesbarnettcreative.com  To connect with him on Twitter and Instagram, follow @jimmyhorrors    Mary, Edward, and Elizabeth were performed by Zoe, Mike, and Evie Rickard. Zoe and Mike are the hosts of the Stories of Strangeness podcast where they discuss all things on the topics of paranormal, folklore, cryptids, hauntings and more. To check it out head over to www.storiesofstrangeness.com or wherever you listen to your podcasts.  Mary – Zoe Rickard - http://storiesofstrangeness.com/ Edward – Mike Rickard - http://storiesofstrangeness.com/ Elizabeth – Evie Rickard    Jimmy Horrors was performed by James Barnett  This episode was edited and produced by James Barnett    This is just another reminder that we are open to specific submissions. We are accepting ghost and paranormal stories for a secret project. Head over to www.nightsendpodcast.com  for all details and to submit via our form. If you aren't already aware, Night's End has released a horror-themed apparel line called, Stay Horrific. There are horror-themed t-shirts, mugs, dresses, socks, and all the good stuff. Go and check it out now. Support the Night's end on Patreon to receive bonus content and merch: www.patreon.com/nightsendpodcast Or support us by purchasing directly from our shop: www.nightsendpodcast.com/shop Donations: www.ko-fi.com/nightsendpodcast    And as always, stay horrific, everyone.

In this episode, I got a chance to chat with one of my favorite writers: Wilson Koewing Wilson is a writer from South Carolina. His work is featured in publications like X-R-A-Y, New World Writing, Maudlin House, No Contact, Wigleaf, and Hobart.   His memoir "Bridges" is forthcoming from Bull City Press.   Listen to hear us talk about his crazy writing process, Foo Fighters, what music he liked in his formative years, the mystery of Weezer, presidential campaign songs and so many other random but literary-related things. You can check out his writing at: https://www.wilsonkoewing.com/ OR His Twitter: @WKoewing

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 Zac Smith about burning out on linguistics, getting into writing, writing in collaboration, his poetry collection 50 BARN POEMS, poems as jokes/jokes as poems, his story collection EVERYTHING IS TOTALLY FINE, deadpan humor, sentence energy, performing first person, the fine lines of gimmicks, and more.Zac Smith is the author of EVERYTHING IS TOTALLY FINE (Muumuu House, 2021) and 50 BARN POEMS (Clash Books, 2019). His writing has been published by Hobart, X-Ray, Maudlin House, New World Writing, Wigleaf, Bending Genres, and other magazines.Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.

Claire Hopple is the author of four books. Her fiction has appeared in Hobart, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, New World Writing, and others. More at clairehopple.com. If you're writing cool, strange, different literature, if you're publishing online, if you'd like more readers or if you know someone doing any of those things, send me some writing at leftthehoseonpod@gmail.com Thank you to Theo Teravainen for the intro music.

When a flood threatens to overtake the village, an unlikely visitor appears.Today's episode was written by Toshiya Kamei.Toshiya Kamei is a fiction writer whose short stories have appeared in such places as Bending Genres, New World Writing, and SmokeLong en Español, as well as the anthologies Daily Flights of Fantasy and Enchanted Entrapments.Visit https://toshiyakameiwrites.wordpress.com/ to learn more.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/rerule)

Jessica June Rowe is an author, playwright, and the fiction editor of Exposition Review. Sylvia Petter, an Australian in Austria, writes short, long, serious, sexy and fun. Lindsey Danis is a Hudson Valley-based writer whose work has appeared in Longreads, New World Writing, and The Sunlight Press, among other places. (Transcript) Welcome to Micro, a podcast for short but powerful writing. I'm your host, Drew Hawkins. A thousand fractals, bay leaves, and the strangeness of double yolks. This episode centers around transformation and rebirth, with a blend of speculative fiction and creative nonfiction. Enjoy! Our first piece is a delightfully fulfilling transformation—not for the speaker, but for her grandmother. It's called “Underage.” It was written by Jessica June Rowe and published in Atlas and Alice on April 8, 2021. Enjoy. “Underage” by Jessica June Rowe in Atlas and Alice Jessica June Rowe is an author, playwright, and the fiction editor of Exposition Review; her own writing has been featured on multiple pages and stages, as well as stamped in concrete on one sidewalk in Valencia, CA, where she currently lives. You can find her on Twitter at @willwrite4chai or on her website at willwriteforchai.com. Our second piece merges the mythical with the mundane, and a unique supermarket find. It's called “The Wishbone.” It was written by Sylvia Petter and published by Reflex Fiction on April 19, 2017. Enjoy. “The Wishbone” by Sylvia Petter in Reflex Fiction Sylvia Petter, an Australian in Austria, writes short, long, serious, sexy and fun. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram at @sylviaapetter, or on her website at sylviapetter.com. Our final piece is about eggs. But it's also not about eggs. Eggs are the lens through which we see the speaker's trajectory, and the medium through which we see her change. It's titled “The Way a Person Does One Thing is the Way They Do Everything: Eggs.” It was written by Lindsey Danis and published in (mac)ro(mic) on March 22, 2021. Enjoy. “Eggs” by Lindsey Danis in (mac)ro(mic) Lindsey Danis is a Hudson Valley-based writer whose work has appeared in Longreads, New World Writing, and The Sunlight Press, among other places. You can find her on Twitter @lindseydanis, on Instagram @lindsey.danis.writer, or on her website at lindseydanis.com. Micro is edited and curated by Dylan Evers, our social media is managed by fellow curator M.M. Kaufman, and the show is produced and hosted by me, Drew Hawkins. Our theme song is by Matt Ordes. You can find all of the information about this episode's writers, their featured work, and the publications where they were published, as well as a transcription of this episode in the show notes. Find more of our shows wherever you listen to podcasts, check out our website at micropodcast.org, and follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook at podcastmicro.  Thanks for listening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jessica June Rowe is an author, playwright, and the fiction editor of Exposition Review. Sylvia Petter, an Australian in Austria, writes short, long, serious, sexy and fun. Lindsey Danis is a Hudson Valley-based writer whose work has appeared in Longreads, New World Writing, and The Sunlight Press, among other places. (Transcript) Welcome to Micro, aContinue reading "Rowe x Petter x Danis"

In this sixth episode of Cabana Chats, we bring you a conversation with Tracy O'Neill, on acclimating to new jobs during a pandemic, the importance of eavesdropping, and the fact that even when you are not writing, you are writing. Also, sandwiches are important. Tracy O'Neill is the author of The Hopeful, one of Electric Literature's Best Novels of 2015, and Quotients, a New York Times​ New & Noteworthy Book, TOR Editor's Choice, & Literary Hub Favorite Book of 2020. In 2015, she was named a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, long-listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan Prize, and was a Narrative Under 30 finalist. In 2012, she was awarded the Center for Fiction's Emerging Writers Fellowship. Her short fiction was distinguished in the Best American Short Stories 2016 and earned a Pushcart Prize nomination in 2017. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, the New Yorker, LitHub, BOMB, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Believer, The Literarian, the Austin Chronicle, New World Writing, Narrative, Scoundrel Time, Guernica, Bookforum, Electric Literature, Grantland, Vice, The Guardian, VQR, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Catapult. She holds an MFA from the City College of New York; and an MA, an MPhil, and a PhD from Columbia University. While editor-in-chief of the literary journal Epiphany, she established the Breakout 8 Writers Prize with the Authors Guild. ​She teaches at Vassar College. Find out more about Tracy O'Neill here: https://www.tracyoneill.net/ Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Craig Eley, and our music is by Pat Irwin. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/

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.

Sherrie Flick is the author of the novel Reconsidering Happiness and two short story collections, Whiskey, Etc. and Thank Your Lucky Stars. Her stories have been performed for Selected Shorts and appear in Ploughshares, New World Writing, and Wigleaf, as well as Flash Fiction Forward, New Sudden Fiction, and New Micro. She is co-editor for Flash Fiction America, forthcoming from Norton in 2022.

Kim Chinquee is the author of seven collections, most recently Snowdog, due out in January 2021 with Ravenna Press. She is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes and has published in several joumals and anthologies including Noon, Denver Quarterly, Fiction, Story, StoryQuarterly, New Miro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, Buffalo Noir, Conjunctions, The Best Small Fiction 2019 and others. She is Senior Editor for New World Writing, and an associate professor of English at SUNY-Buffalo State.

Bud Smith reads his short story, Rewild, for the Selected Prose Reading Series. This story was originally published in New World Writing. Bud is a writer from Jersey City, NJ. He works in heavy construction. His new book, Teenager (Vintage), is coming out in spring 2022. He's written a bunch of wonderful books, including but not limited to Double Bird (Maudlin House), Dust Bunny City (Disorder Press), and Tollbooth (Piscataway House). Find him online at www.coolgoodluck.com and follow him on Twitter at @Bud_Smith. And check out Episode #2 of Selected Prose to hear my interview with Bud!!!

Dan sits down with one of the best flash fiction writers out there. Kim Chinquee, to discuss her journey as a writer, her new book Snow Dog, and how to keep writing when the world turn's upside down. SnowDog: http://www.kimchinquee.com/Flash Fiction: Very Short Stories: https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Fiction-Very-Short-Stories/dp/0393308839Lydia Copeland Gwyn: https://www.pw.org/node/1078585 Kim Chinquee grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, served in the medical field in the Air Force, and is often referred to as the "queen" of flash fiction. She's published hundreds of pieces of fiction and nonfiction in journals and magazines including The Nation, Ploughshares, NOON, Storyquarterly, Denver Quarterly, Fiction, Story, Notre Dame Review, Conjunctions, and others. She is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes and a Henfield Prize. She is Senior Editor of New World Writing, co-director of Buffalo State's Writing Major, and serves as the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Northeast Regional Council Chair.You can follow the Write To Survive Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WritingSurvivor

Mik Grantham is the author of the debut poetry collection Hardcore, available from Short Flight / Long Drive Books. Grantham is the founder and co-editor of Disorder Press which she runs with her brother. Her work has appeared in New World Writing, Hobart, Maudlin House, The Nervous Breakdown, and Fanzine. She currently lives in New Orleans. Hardcore is her first book. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Life. Death. Etc. Support the show on Patreon Merch www.otherppl.com @otherppl Instagram  YouTube 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

Brian Phillip Whalen is the author of Semiotic Love [Stories], and his work appears in The Southern Review, Creative Nonfiction, the Flash Nonfiction Food anthology, and elsewhere. Wilson Koewing is a writer from South Carolina. His work has recently appeared in Bending Genres, Maudlin House, New World Writing, X-R-A-Y, and Trampset. Bud Smith lives inContinue reading "Whalen x Koewing x Smith" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Born and raised in Pennsylvania's coal country Damian Dressick is the author of the novel 40 Patchtown (Bottom Dog Press). His creative work has appeared in more than fifty literary journals and anthologies, including W.W. Norton's New Micro, Post Road, New Orleans Review, Cutbank, failbetter.com, Hippocampus, Smokelong Quarterly, HeartWood, and New World Writing. A Blue Mountain Residency Fellow, Dressick is the winner of the Harriette Arnow Award and the Jesse Stuart Prize. His story collection Fables of Deconstruction is forthcoming from CLASH Books in early 2021. He co-hosts WCONA: LIVE!, a virtual reading series that brings some of the best Appalachian writers to the world. Dressick teaches writing at Clarion University of Pennsylvania.To learn more about Damian and to order his work, visit his website: DamianDressick.com

Imagine a world with no pain. Would it be heaven or would it be hell?  In this episode, we try to guess what Strymon will do next, Aaron gives Cole and Phil an update on Ja Rule following the Fyre documentaries of recent months, Cole wonders why his cohosts are so excited about dice knobs, Phil tries to trick everyone, and the gang wonder about the relative merits of vintage and modern production overdrive units.  Aaron may have coughed occasionally, although he worked really hard to always do it off mic and to remove the sound from the final track where possible.  Today Michael Cohen openly called the president of the USA a racist cheapskate, so that was fun.  Here's your poem of the week. This time from the incomparable Frank O'Hara from his collection Lunch Poems:  The Day Lady Died It is 12:20 in New York a Friday three days after Bastille day, yes it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine because I will get off the 4:19 in Easthampton    at 7:15 and then go straight to dinner and I don't know the people who will feed me   I walk up the muggy street beginning to sun    and have a hamburger and a malted and buy an ugly NEW WORLD WRITING to see what the poets    in Ghana are doing these days                                                         I go on to the bank and Miss Stillwagon (first name Linda I once heard)    doesn't even look up my balance for once in her life    and in the GOLDEN GRIFFIN I get a little Verlaine    for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do    think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or    Brendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les Nègres of Genet, but I don't, I stick with Verlaine after practically going to sleep with quandariness   and for Mike I just stroll into the PARK LANE Liquor Store and ask for a bottle of Strega and    then I go back where I came from to 6th Avenue    and the tobacconist in the Ziegfeld Theatre and    casually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a carton of Picayunes, and a NEW YORK POST with her face on it   and I am sweating a lot by now and thinking of leaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT while she whispered a song along the keyboard to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing       This episode is brought to you by SINASOID. They have amazing cables of all kinds. Check out the signature Slate cable, for all your instrument needs. With the 100 year warranty, it's the last cable you'll ever need to buy. Check them out at www.sinasoid.com This episode is also sponsored by Gabriel Tenorio String Company. Gabriel makes the finest hand-made strings for all your electric and acoustic guitar needs. Each set is hand-made and designed for your specific instrument. Join the #stringcult at www.thegts.co This episode is also sponsored by Gunstreet Wiring Shop. Gunstreet makes prewired kits for all kinds of guitars and even does custom orders. Check them out at www.gunstreetwiringshop.com INTRODUCING Gear Slum Patreon. The Slum Hard Street Crew is now broken into three tiers. Join now for as low as $2/ month. www.patreon.com/thegearslum Limited Edition iron on Slum Hard Street Crew Vintage Vision logo patch. A bunch of stickers The respect and admiration of your peers. A personalized, hand-written note from one of the Slummers. An episode dedicated to you. If you want, you can even come on and do the opening segment with the three of us. (This will be available to all SHSC members, one at a time). If you don't want to have an episode dedicated to you, we can also dedicate it to your mom, dog, etc. Mad props. Early access to all future offerings. We'll buy you a coffee, beer, or Diet Mt. Dew if we ever see you around town. You get to help spread the gospel of Slum all across your town/ the internet. Special discount code for certain Sinasoid and Gunstreet products