This This This Pod - New Short Fiction Podcast

In this episode, Crystal Wilkinson reads her story “Endangered Species: Case 47401” from Story magazine.https://www.crystalewilkinson.net/ is the author of three books, including The Birds of Opulence, (winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence), Water Street and Blackberries, Blackberries. Nominated for both the Orange Prizes and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, she has received recognition from the Yaddo Foundation, The Vermont Studio Center for the Arts, The Kentucky Foundation for Women, The Kentucky Arts Council, The Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and is a recipient of the Chaffin Award for Appalachian Literature. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and her short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including most recently The Kenyon Review, Story, Agni Literary Journal, Oxford American, and Southern Cultures. She currently teaches at the University of Kentucky where she is an associate Professor of English in the MFA in Creative Writing Program.  https://www.storymagazine.org/ is a tri-annual print publication devoted to the complex and diverse world of narrative with a focus on fiction and nonfiction. Since 1931, work that originally appeared in Story has been reprinted dozens of times in editions of The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and The Prize Stories.   https://www.storymagazine.org/store/issue-5/ https://www.storymagazine.org/store/story-subscriptions/ Author photo by Anastasia Pottinger of Rogue Studios; Story magazine cover art is by Maria Alejandra Zanetta.

In this episode, Lea Carpenter reads her story “Candy Cane” from the Summer 2019 issue of the Sewanee Review.https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/159150/lea-carpenter/ is the author of Eleven Days (Knopf, 2013) and Red, White, Blue (Knopf, 2018). She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton and has an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was valedictorian. She is a Contributing Editor at Esquire and wrote the screenplay for Mile 22, a film about CIA’s Special Activities Division, directed by Peter Berg and starring Mark Wahlberg. She lives in New York.Founded in 1892 by the teacher and critic William Peterfield Trent, the https://thesewaneereview.com/ is America’s oldest continuously published literary quarterly. Many of the twentieth century’s great writers, including T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Wallace Stevens, Saul Bellow, Katherine Anne Porter, Marianne Moore, and Ezra Pound, have appeared in the magazine. SR also has a long tradition of cultivating emerging talent: they published excerpts of Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O’Connor’s first novels, and the early poetry of Robert Penn Warren, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell. “Whatever the new literature turns out to be,” wrote editor Allen Tate in 1944, “it will be the privilege of the Sewanee Review to print its share of it, to comment on it, and to try to understand it.” The mission remains unchanged. https://www.press.jhu.edu/cart/for-sale?oc=1219 https://thesewaneereview.com/subscriptions/subscription-levels Author photo by Michael Lionstar.

In this episode, Erin Somers reads her story “Waltz” from the Summer 2019 issue of Ecotone.http://www.esomers.com/’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House Open Bar, Ploughshares, American Short Fiction, McSweeney’s, The Cincinnati Review, and many other publications. She holds an MFA from the University of New Hampshire and was a 2016 NYC Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow and a 2016 Millay Colony resident. She lives in Beacon, New York, with her husband and daughter. Stay Up with Hugo Best is her first novel.https://ecotonemagazine.org/’s mission is to publish and promote the best place-based work being written today. Founded at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2005, the award-winning magazine features writing and art that reimagine place, and our authors interpret this charge expansively. An ecotone is a transition zone between two adjacent ecological communities, containing the characteristic species of each. It is therefore a place of danger or opportunity, a testing ground. The magazine explores the ecotones between landscapes, literary genres, scientific and artistic disciplines, modes of thought.​ about:blank#https://ecotonemagazine.org/shop/issue-27/ about:blank#https://ecotonemagazine.org/subscriptions/ Author photo by Nina Suben; Magazine cover art is Pink Gets Hot (oil on canvas) by Denise Stewart-Sanabria.

In this episode, John Miguel Shakespear reads his story “We The Living” from the Fall 2019 issue of The Cincinnati Review. https://www.johnshakespear.com/ is a writer, editor, and musician from Massachusetts. He is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing from Vanderbilt University, where he is a 2019-20 creative writing fellow at the Curb Center for Arts, Enterprise, and Public Policy and co-translations editor of Nashville Review. His writing has appeared in Cincinnati Review and Boston Review, and his music has been featured on NPR, PopMatters, and American Songwriter. He bears no known relation to William Shakespeare. Since its inception in 2003, https://www.cincinnatireview.com/ has published many promising new and emerging writers as well as Pulitzer Prize winners and Guggenheim and MacArthur fellows. Poetry and prose from our pages have been selected to appear in the annual anthologies Best American Poetry, Best American Essays, New Stories from the South, Best American Short Stories, Best American Fantasy, Best American Mystery Stories, New Stories from the Midwest, and Best Creative Nonfiction.  https://www.cincinnatireview.com/subscriptions/ https://www.cincinnatireview.com/subscriptions/ Author photo courtesy John Miguel Shakespear; Cover art by Adriana Calvo.

In this episode, Tiphanie Yanique reads her story “The Special World” from the Winter 2019 issue of The Georgia Review. http://tiphanieyanique.com/ is the author of the poetry collection Wife, which won the 2016 Bocas Prize in Caribbean poetry and the United Kingdom’s 2016 Forward/Felix Dennis Prize for a First Collection. She is also the author of the novel Land of Love and Drowning, which won the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Phillis Wheatley Award for Pan-African Literature, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award. She is also the author of a collection of stories How to Escape from a Leper Colony, which won a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honor. Tiphanie is from the Virgin Islands and teaches at Emory University. https://thegeorgiareview.com/ is the literary-cultural journal published out of the University of Georgia since 1947. While it began with a regional commitment, its scope has grown to include readers and writers throughout the U.S. and the world, who are brought together through the print journal as well as live programming. Convinced that communities thrive when built on dialogue that honors the difference between any two interlocutors, we publish imaginative work that challenges us to reconsider any line, distinction, or thought in danger of becoming too rigid or neat, so that our readers can continue the conversations in their own lives. https://thegeorgiareview.com/shop/issues/winter-2019/ https://thegeorgiareview.com/shop/subscriptions/1-year-subscription/ Author photo by Debbie Grossman; Issue cover art is a detail of a mixed media work called “SHE” by Michi Meko.