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SEASON 3 IS HERE! Up next: Georgia author Viggy Parr Hampton

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, November 29, 2023 Episode 73 - Leslie Kirk Campbell and Daniel A. Olivas: "City of Angels" and "Elizondo Returns Home"

California authors and fellow Stanford grads Leslie Kirk Campbell and Daniel A. Olivas reverse roles in this episode as interviewer and interviewee. T...

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 Episode 72 - Jessie Ren Marshall: "After I Become a Ghost" and "Find Water Near Me"

Hawai'i author Jessie Ren Marshall began publishing her own writing at a very early age. And her confidence as a writer was evident even then, as...

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 Episode 71 - John Fulton: "Stitches"

Massachusetts author John Fulton's fiction has the power to cast an unusual kind of spell upon its readers. He might, at times, deftly weave elem...

Wednesday, November 8, 2023 Episode 70 - Melissa Ostrom: "Super-Absorbent Stella," "The Postscript," and "Measurements"

Before Western New York author Melissa Ostrom fell in love with reading and long before she began writing stories, all she wanted to do was play. And...

Wednesday, November 1, 2023 Episode 69 - Julee Newberger: "Along the Sound"

Virginia author Julee Newberger's life was upended when she learned, at the age of forty, that she'd been adopted - information she received only afte...

Wednesday, October 25, 2023 Episode 68 - Stephen Cicirelli: "Quitting"

New Jersey author Stephen Cicirelli has a penchant for philosophy - and it shows up in his stories in surprising ways. But there's nothing academic ab...

Wednesday, October 18, 2023 Episode 67 - Grant Faulkner: "The Passenger" and "Cold Hard Cash"

California author Grant Faulkner was born and raised in Oskaloosa, Iowa - an experience that helped shape his sensibilities as a writer of stories of ...

Wednesday, October 11, 2023 Episode 66 - Erica Plouffe Lazure: "The Shit Branch"

New Hampshire author Erica Plouffe Lazure was born and raised in Massachusetts, but she has a particular fondness for the South - and for story-tellin...

Wednesday, October 4, 2023 Episode 65 - Eleonora Balsano: "The Best Vintages Have a Distinctive Character" and "The Movie Star's Daughter Has an Itchy Back"

Italian author Eleonora Balsano (who now resides in Brussels) can speak and write in multiple languages - but she feels most at home writing in Englis...

Wednesday, September 27, 2023 Episode 64 - Catherine McNamara: "The Bamboo Furnace"

Australian author Catherine McNamara has made the Veneto region in Italy her chosen home. But to get there, she first had to explore Paris, West Afric...

Wednesday, September 20, 2023 Episode 63 - J. Kevin Shushtari: "The Vast Garden of Strangers"

Connecticut author J. Kevin Shushtari is a practicing physician, but when it comes to his fiction, it's not the world of medicine that interests him. ...

Wednesday, September 13, 2023 Episode 62 - Francine Witte: Four Flash Stories from JUST OUTSIDE THE TUNNEL OF LOVE

NYC author Francine Witte has had a major impact on the world of flash fiction. As a writer, editor and prompt session leader, she has become an influ...

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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