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Saturday, April 8, 2023 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...

Tuesday, February 14, 2023 Episode #41 - Emily Mirengoff: "It Could Be Worse Than California"

Washington, DC area author Emily Mirengoff loves the unreliable narrator.  Her stories with first person narratives feature the kinds of interior mono...

Sunday, February 12, 2023 A Valentine's Day Micro Fiction Sampler

We're celebrating Valentine's Day with a micro fiction sampler of love stories. They're not your grandma's love stories, however. These are of the lit...

Tuesday, February 7, 2023 Episode #40 - Pamela Painter: "Deck"

Author Pamela Painter is one of the most respected writers and educators in the world of short fiction. Her workbook "What If? Writing Exercises ...

Wednesday, February 1, 2023 Episode #39 - Evan Morgan Williams: "A House Call"

Portland, Oregon author Evan Morgan Williams gives a mini-master class on writing noir literary fiction. It's the genre he's chosen for his ...