Short Story Today
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 and stage director. In the last few years he has begun producing and narrating audiobooks for Audible.com. His most recent release, Doctor Assassin: A Medical Science Thriller by Mark R. Belsky, was just published in December of 2021.
Episodes
138 episodes
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 Take Me With You Next Time (Betty Books) are athletes and outdoorswomen who find themsel...
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Episode 114
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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 ensuring that her right brain gets time to do some playing - particularly in the form of writing ...
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Episode 113
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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's just published her second novel, Much Too Vulgar, which has been described by Rona...
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Episode 112
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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 masterful. At turns funny, insightful, and wise. I couldn't stop reading." - Cara Blue Adams, au...
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Episode 111
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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 collection An Astonishment of Stars, she honors the lives of women - sisters, wives and m...
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Episode 110
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Episode 109 - Meg Pokrass: Six Stories From FIRST LAW OF HOLES
In the fourteen years author Meg Pokrass has been writing flash, she has established herself as a key figure in the world of flash fiction. First Law of Holes, her newly-released volume of new and collected stories, represents the asto...
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Episode 109
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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 the lives of each character with laser-like focus and clarity. We read three stories fr...
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Episode 108
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Episode 107 - Kathryn Mockler: Four Stories from ANECDOTES
There's a lot on Canadian author Kathryn Mockler's mind when it comes to what sorts of things the future might hold. In her hybrid collection Anecdotes (Book*hug Press), she channels her anxiety about the planet into bold, origina...
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Episode 107
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54:30
Episode 106 - Claire Carroll: "My Two Sons"
UK author Claire Carroll is the daughter of a zoologist, which is no surprise given the ways in which her reverence for the natural world figures largely in her fiction. She brings a daring imagination and a dark humor to the stories in her deb...
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Episode 106
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Episode 105 - Nick Rees Gardner: "Psychedelicious"
In his linked story collection Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts, Washington DC author Nick Rees Gardner has created a fictional landscape inspired by his hometown of Mansfield, Ohio - which he has affectionately dubbed "Westinghou...
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Episode 105
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1:03:50
Episode 104 - John Sheirer: "Security"
In his collection Stumbling Through Adulthood, Massachusetts author John Sheirer pays homage to folks like the ones he got to know while growing up in rural Pennsylvania. He creates indelible portraits of the unsung heroes of small tow...
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Season 3
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Episode 104
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1:06:26
Episode 103 - Kolby Granville and After Dinner Conversation: "Father Dale's Drive-thru Exorcisms"
Kolby Granville, Founder and Editor of After Dinner Conversation: Philosophy and Ethics Short Story Magazine shares his thoughts and ideas about publishing a periodical, using fiction to explore ethical principals and philosophical concepts, an...
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Episode 103
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1:16:37
Episode 102 - Timothy Laurence Marsh: "The Perfect Paris Day"
Author Timothy Laurence Marsh's coastal Southern California home town set the stage for his entering college on a tennis scholarship, where he began pursuing a career in law enforcement. But an elective course in creative writing put him on a v...
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Episode 102
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1:09:42
Episode 101 - Eufemia Fantetti: "A Recipe For Disaster"
Toronto author Eufemia Fantetti is the child of Italian immigrants who emigrated to Canada in the sixties. In her story collection A Recipe for Disaster & Other Unlikely Tales of Love (Mother Tongue), she responds to the ways in wh...
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Episode 101
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1:09:16
Episode 100 - Aaron Kreuter: "The Krasners"
In Toronto author Aaron Kreuter's linked story collection Rubble Children, he's provided a stirring and provocative portrait of a Jewish community in Toronto struggling with the difficult choices they must face as their core beliefs ar...
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Episode 100
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Episode 99 - Nicola Winstanley: "Feeling in the Flesh"
Award-winning Ontario children's book author Nicola Winstanley has recently published a collection of fiction - this time for grownups. Smoke (Buckrider Books) is a linked story collection. It follows the path of a resilient woman from...
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Season 3
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Episode 99
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Episode #95 - Charles Hanson Towne: "Shelby" (A "Found Fiction" Episode)
While we prepare for Season 3, we thought it might be fun to bring you some first-rate stories that probably haven’t seen the light of day in ages. We’re going to refer to these episodes as our "Found Fiction" episodes. These gems have been une...
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Season 2
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Episode 95
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34:07
Episode #94 - Wole Talabi
Nigerian author Wole Talabi excels at math (he's an engineer), so he creates what he calls a "fiction-equation" when beginning a story. But don't be misled by the technical sound of it. There's a deep reverence for humanity in his stories, whic...
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Episode 94
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50:41
Episode #93 - Nicole Haroutunian: "Three Times I Breathed Other People's Breath and No One Worried About Death"
New York author Nicole Haroutunian knows how to keep an audience engaged - whether, as a museum educator, it's the groups she helps find a deeper connection with art - or readers of her fiction. Her newly-released novel-in-stories Choose Th...
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Episode 93
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Episode #92 - Ananda Lima
Chicago author Ananda Lima was born in Brasilia, Brazil, and made her way to Illinois via Australia and New York while working in the field of linguistics. She is a translator, a fiction writer, and an award-winning poet. Publishers Weekl...
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Episode 92
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Episode #91 - Jess Bowers: "Granddad Swam"
Missouri author Jess Bowers began her lifelong love affair with horses while still a child in her hometown of York, Pennsylvania - but she wasn't born to ranchers or farmers. Her dad was a sports journalist and a poet who fostered the love of l...
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Episode 91
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Episode #90 - Trent Lewin: "The Longest Day"
This emerging Canadian author writes under the pseudonym of Trent Lewin. "It was specifically picked so that I could elude the reality in which I’d lived for so many years, the reality that always had boundaries on it, and limits as to what I c...
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Episode #89 - Andrea Bishop: "Ice Created Layer Upon Layer"
Vancouver, Canada author Andrea Bishop has been awarded a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to complete her first collection of short stories. The work-in-progress features stories of fearless women - hikers, hockey-players, moms, ...
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Episode 89
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59:21
Episode #88 - Dave Gregory: "Last Jump Off the Lift Bridge"
Canadian author Dave Gregory writes fiction on a wide variety of topics. But with his stories based on experiences shared in the oral tradition by his father, he creates a palpable connection to a world gone by. His Port Colborne stories depict...
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Episode 88
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1:00:45
Episode #87 - Tommy Dean: "Naming the Darkness"
No stranger to hard work, Indiana author Tommy Dean toiled in the corn fields of his youth, dreaming of basketball or baseball stardom. He's drawn to the ways that writing fiction allows him to become a kind of shapeshifter, creating worlds in ...
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Episode 87
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1:13:45