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SEASON 3 - Up next: Stories of Thanksgiving

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 20, 2024 Episode 119 - Danila Botha: "Don't Look Back"

Toronto author Danila Botha's third story collection, Things That Cause Inappropriate Happiness (Guernica Editions), moves uniquely through time. She ...

Wednesday, November 13, 2024 Episode 118 - Eliot Parker: "Giving"

Mississippi author Eliot Parker's second collection of stories is something of a love letter to the hard-working people of Appalachia that he's come t...

Wednesday, November 6, 2024 Episode 117 - Jeffrey Feingold: "My Left Foot"

Award-winning Massachusetts author Jeffrey Feingold will see his third short story collection published this fall. A FINE MADNESS - AND OTHER MAD STOR...

Wednesday, October 30, 2024 Episode 116 - Marguerite Sheffer: "The Observer's Cage"

New Orleans author Marguerite Sheffer is a Professor of Practice at Tulane University, where she teaches courses in design thinking and speculative fi...

Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Episode 115 - Nina Schuyler: "Brethren and Sistren"

Bay Area author Nina Schuler doesn't subscribe to the "write what you know" school of thought. For her, that would just be boring. In her fiction, she...

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 Episode 114 - Janis Hubschman: "Please See Me"

New Jersey author Janis Hubschman was a marathon runner, so she understands the true meaning of endurance. The women in her debut story collection TAK...

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 Episode 113 - Tara Isabel Zambrano: Ruined a Little When We Are Born

Author Tara Isabel Zambrano is an electrical engineer by day, where she relies on her left brain in designing semiconductors. She balances that by ins...

Wednesday, October 2, 2024 Episode 112 - Viggy Parr Hampton: "The Waiting Mortuary"

Georgia author Viggy Parr Hampton discovered that the best way to find the satisfyingly scary horror stories she craved was to write them herself. She...

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 Episode 111 - Amy Stuber: "Dick Cheney Was Not My Father"

Don't be misled by the title of Amy Stuber's debut collection SAD GROWNUPS (Stillhouse Press). It's full of humor. "The stories in SAD GROWNUPS are ma...

Wednesday, September 18, 2024 Episode 110 - Kirti Bhadresa: "In a Name"

Canadian author Kirti Bhadresa was born in Red Deer, Alberta to Indian parents who had travelled far and wide before settling there. In her debut coll...

Wednesday, September 11, 2024 Episode 109 - Meg Pokrass: Six Stories From FIRST LAW OF HOLES

In the fourteen years author Meg Pokrass has been writing flash, she's established herself as a key figure in the world of flash fiction. FIRST LAW OF...

Wednesday, September 4, 2024 Episode 108 - Hollay Ghadery: Three Stories from WIDOW FANTASIES

The flash stories in Canadian author Hollay Ghadery's debut collection Widow Fantasies are like portrait miniatures, capturing essential moments in th...

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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