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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, October 19, 2022 Episode #24 - Olufunke Grace Bankole: "Niyi and the Tan Stucco House"

Nigerian-American author Olufunke Grace Bankole shares stories about her life, from serving as an intern with the Supreme Court, to the many impressio...

Wednesday, October 12, 2022 Episode #23 - Minyoung Lee: "Sing a Song of Sixpence"

Oakland, CA author Minyoung Lee shares her thoughts about the ways in which the immigrant time capsule effect contributed to her way of seeing the wor...

Tuesday, October 4, 2022 Episode #22 - Julia Strayer: "Empty House"

We learn from Connecticut author Julia Strayer how the misfits, eccentrics and outsiders she often writes about are, in a way, a reaction to the perso...

Wednesday, September 28, 2022 Episode #21 - Josh Dale: "A Losing Bet"

Pennsylvania author Josh Dale explains how creating a small press publishing house became a way to combine his love of books with his pursuit of a car...

Wednesday, September 21, 2022 Episode #20 - Reena Shah: "Gloria"

Michener Fellow Reena Shah talks about living as a young woman in Mumbai while learning the classical dance form known as khatak. She took inspiration...

Wednesday, September 14, 2022 Episode #19 - Sarah Schweitzer: "Love, Loss, Live"

New Hampshire author Sarah Schweitzer explains how writing fiction was for her a natural extension of the work she had done as a Pulitzer-nominated jo...

Wednesday, September 7, 2022 Episode #18 - Ahsan Butt: "Window"

Toronto-born author Ahsan Butt talks about growing up in a Punjabi community in Canada before venturing south to the U.S. He writes movingly about wha...

Wednesday, August 31, 2022 Episode #17 - Erik Pardos Olsen: "Straight People"

Danish-born, London-based author Erik Pardos Olsen writes short stories about life in East London. His on-line collection "Queer as in Weird&quot...

Wednesday, August 24, 2022 Episode #16 - Marcela Fuentes: "The Observable World"

Texas author Marcela Fuentes won a 2022 Pushcart Prize for her short story "The Observable World," published in Ploughshares in their Summer 2021 issu...

Wednesday, August 17, 2022 Episode #15 - A. Rafael Johnson: "Morrison's Note"

Minnesota author A. Rafael Johnson tells us how this week's story began life as a birthday gift to a friend in his college creative writing progr...

Wednesday, August 10, 2022 Episode #14 - Jules Chung: "Posting From a Secret Post-Op Bedside"

New Jersey author Jules Chung shares a glimpse into her experience of visiting relatives as a teenager in Seoul, South Korea in her reading of her poe...

Tuesday, August 2, 2022 Episode #13 - Claire Taylor: "Leap Year Mother"

Maryland author Claire Taylor tells us about her personal journey, where she first earned a psychology degree and then became a licensed massage thera...

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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