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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, May 3, 2023 Episode 52 - L Mari Harris: "They're So Beautiful When They're Sleeping" and "The Exterminator"

Missouri author L Mari Harris's flash fiction is not for the faint of heart. It is her aim to push readers into uncomfortable places. Nothing is ...

Wednesday, April 26, 2023 Episode 51 - Andrew Porter: "Two Men"

When a briefcase containing his laptop and years of work was stolen, Texas author Andrew Porter nearly lost all hope. Luckily for us, a visiting write...

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 Episode 50 - Kirsti MacKenzie: "The Incumbent" and "You Crown Paul Shaffer's Head With Mustard"

Canadian author Kirsti MacKenzie is blazing a trail as a writer of fiction with her unmistakable, inimitable voice. Like a modern-day Dorothy Parker, ...

Wednesday, April 12, 2023 Episode 49 - Madeline Anthes: Four Flash Fiction Stories

Growing up in rural midwest America gave author Madeline Anthes a way of seeing the world that would reverberate throughout her writing. As a mother o...

Saturday, April 8, 2023 Episode 97 - CULTURE IN FICTION: A Conversation With Jewish Writers

We begin our new Culture In Fiction series with an episode featuring five accomplished Jewish writers who discuss how their faith and cultural heritag...

Wednesday, April 5, 2023 Episode 48 - Danny DeRock: "Artifacts"

Author Danny DeRock was born and raised in the U.S. Midwest, and now lives in the Netherlands. He has a PhD in political science from the University o...

Wednesday, March 29, 2023 Episode 47 - Marianne Villanueva: "Residents of the Deep"

California author Marianne Villanueva has no fear when it comes to writing fiction. She writes in an astonishing variety of genres, styles, tones and ...

Wednesday, March 22, 2023 Episode 46 - Kyle Seibel: "Master Guns"

California author Kyle Seibel joined the Navy and got to see the world. The impression it made would inform his writing with wisdom and wonder. In the...

Wednesday, March 15, 2023 Episode 45 - Tanya Žilinskas: "Sillage"

California author Tanya Žilinskas has made her home of Marin County the backdrop for many of her stories. She is acutely aware that the perception of ...

Wednesday, March 8, 2023 Episode 44 - Justin Bryant: "On These Seas, Colors Wash to Gray"

In his stories, North Carolina author Justin Bryant is compelled to write about the things that fill him with fear. From forces of nature that wrest c...

Wednesday, March 1, 2023 Episode 43 - Maureen Aitken: "Tainted," "Bigfoot" and "Roby Burns"

Minneapolis author Maureen Aitken has written a love letter to her home town of Detroit with the evocative and heart-warming stories in her collection...

Wednesday, February 22, 2023 Episode 42 - Stanley Stocker: "The List"

Washington, DC area author Stanley Stocker knew he wanted to be a lawyer from the age of ten. What he discovered as an adult was a love for writing fi...

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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