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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, April 3, 2024 Episode 91 - Jess Bowers: "Granddad Swam"

Missouri author Jess Bowers began her lifelong love affair with horses while still a child in her hometown of York, Pennsylvania - but she wasn't born...

Wednesday, March 27, 2024 Episode 90 - Trent Lewin: "The Longest Day"

This emerging Canadian author writes under the pseudonym of Trent Lewin. "It was specifically picked so that I could elude the reality in which I’d li...

Wednesday, March 20, 2024 Episode 89 - Andrea Bishop: "Ice Created Layer Upon Layer"

Vancouver, Canada author Andrea Bishop has been awarded a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to complete her first collection of short stories...

Wednesday, March 13, 2024 Episode 88 - Dave Gregory: "Last Jump Off the Lift Bridge"

Canadian author Dave Gregory writes fiction on a wide variety of topics. But with his stories based on experiences shared in the oral tradition by his...

Wednesday, March 6, 2024 Episode 87 - Tommy Dean: "Naming the Darkness"

No stranger to hard work, Indiana author Tommy Dean toiled in the corn fields of his youth, dreaming of basketball or baseball stardom. He's drawn to ...

Wednesday, February 28, 2024 Episode 86 - Amy Cipolla Barnes: Four Flash Stories

Tennessee author Amy Cipolla Barnes grew up in the Great Plains, where her grandparents owned and operated a farm. In her fiction and other writing, o...

Wednesday, February 21, 2024 Episode 85 - Keith Hood: "Utility"

Michigan author Keith Hood can remember with clarity the day the riots of 1967 came right up to the front door of his childhood Detroit home. In his f...

Wednesday, February 14, 2024 Episode 84 - Chaya Bhuvaneswar: "Wormhole" (an excerpt)

Massachusetts author Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing psychiatrist in the Boston area who joins a long tradition of doctors who have written poetry a...

Wednesday, February 7, 2024 Episode 83 - Doug Brown: "My Bohemian Baptism"

Pennsylvania author Doug Brown's debut story collection My Bohemian Baptism and Then Some (Serif Press) is a testament to his determination to ne...

Wednesday, January 31, 2024 Episode 82 - Mark Wish and Elizabeth Coffey of COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES

COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES is the brainchild of authors Mark Wish and Elizabeth Coffey, whose combined years working in the publishing industry has give...

Wednesday, January 24, 2024 Episode 81 - Alyson Mosquera Dutemple: Four Flash Stories

New Jersey author Alyson Mosquera Dutemple began her professional career working in film production. The pressures of being on-set soon had her turnin...

Wednesday, January 17, 2024 Episode 80 - Dustin M. Hoffman: "Smoke at the End of the World"

South Carolina author Dustin M. Hoffman spent ten years as a house painter - which might have something to do with his fondness for characters from th...

About The Show

A biweekly 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. Episodes contain an author interview followed by a reading of a story by that author.

Jon DiSavino is an actor, stage director and voice artist. He's been producing and narrating audiobooks since 2019. His most recent is Abduction: Another Max Dent MD Adventure by Mark R. Belsky, set for publication in 2025.

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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