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We're on hiatus for December and January. SEASON 4 begins in February 2025.

The SHORT STORY TODAY podcast features the best of today's emerging short story writers. Each episode contains a professional audiobook performance of a story and an author interview. 

Wednesday, September 4, 2024 Episode 108 - Hollay Ghadery: Three Stories from WIDOW FANTASIES

The flash stories in Canadian author Hollay Ghadery's debut collection Widow Fantasies are like portrait miniatures, capturing essential moments in th...

Wednesday, August 28, 2024 Episode 107 - Kathryn Mockler: Four Stories from ANECDOTES

There's a lot on Canadian author Kathryn Mockler's mind when it comes to what sorts of things the future might hold. In her hybrid collection Anecdote...

Wednesday, August 21, 2024 Episode 106 - Claire Carroll: "My Two Sons"

UK author Claire Carroll is the daughter of a zoologist, which is no surprise given the ways in which her reverence for the natural world figures larg...

Wednesday, August 14, 2024 Episode 105 - Nick Rees Gardner: "Psychedelicious"

In his linked story collection Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts, Washington DC author Nick Rees Gardner has created a fictional landscape inspire...

Wednesday, August 7, 2024 Episode 104 - John Sheirer: "Security"

In his collection Stumbling Through Adulthood, Massachusetts author John Sheirer pays homage to folks like the ones he got to know while growing up in...

Wednesday, July 31, 2024 Episode 103 - Kolby Granville and After Dinner Conversation: "Father Dale's Drive-thru Exorcisms"

Kolby Granville, Founder and Editor of After Dinner Conversation: Philosophy and Ethics Short Story Magazine shares his thoughts and ideas about publi...

Wednesday, July 24, 2024 Episode 102 - Timothy Laurence Marsh: "The Perfect Paris Day"

Author Timothy Laurence Marsh's coastal Southern California home town set the stage for his entering college on a tennis scholarship, where he began p...

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 Episode 101 - Eufemia Fantetti: "A Recipe For Disaster"

Toronto author Eufemia Fantetti is the child of Italian immigrants who emigrated to Canada in the sixties. In her story collection A Recipe for Disast...

Wednesday, July 10, 2024 Episode 100 - Aaron Kreuter: "The Krasners"

In Toronto author Aaron Kreuter's linked story collection Rubble Children, he's provided a stirring and provocative portrait of a Jewish community in ...

Wednesday, July 3, 2024 Episode 99 - Nicola Winstanley: "Feeling in the Flesh"

Award-winning Ontario children's book author Nicola Winstanley makes her adult fiction debut with SMOKE (Buckrider Books), a linked story collection. ...

Thursday, May 2, 2024 Episode 95 - Charles Hanson Towne: "Shelby" (A "Found Fiction" Episode)

While we prepare for Season 3, we thought it might be fun to bring you some first-rate stories that probably haven’t seen the light of day in ages. We...

Wednesday, April 24, 2024 Episode 94 - Wole Talabi

Nigerian author Wole Talabi excels at math (he's an engineer), so he creates what he calls a "fiction-equation" when beginning a story. But don't be m...

About The Show

A weekly podcast hosted by Jon DiSavino. It celebrates the enduring and compact literary form known as - you guessed it - the short story. But more importantly, it gives listeners an opportunity to hear the work of some of the best emerging writers of today. Each episode begins with an interview with the week's guest author, and ends with a professional audiobook production of a story by that author.

Jon DiSavino is an actor, stage director and voice artist. In the last few years he has begun producing and narrating audiobooks. His most recent release is a holiday book for young audiences: The Toe Mittens Christmas by Ross D. Clay. You can listen to a sample on the Audible.com website: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Toe-Mittens-Christmas-Audiobook/B0BRQZKLYT
 
For more information, please visit his website: https://www.jondisavino.com

Music used on the podcast is by C. S. Fuqua : https://csfuqua.bandcamp.com/ and Matt Hawkins: https://matthawkinssingingsomesongs.bandcamp.com/

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