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Podcast · A Small, Good Thing · "A Small, Good Thing" is a podcast about short fiction. In every episode, I get to discuss the short story form with writers, academics, publishers, and anyone who shares a passion for short stories.
A Small, Good Thing
A Small, Good Thing
"A Small, Good Thing" is a podcast about short fiction. In every episode, I get to discuss the short story form with writers, academics, publishers, and anyone
Writing Through Writer's Block (With Aaron Colton)
Writing Through Writer's Block (With Aaron Colton)
What can fictional representations of blocked short story writers teach us about writer’s block and what causes a writer to feel blocked? I discuss these ques
Women of Wonder: Women Short Story Writers in Science Fiction (With Paul March-Russell)
Women of Wonder: Women Short Story Writers in Science Fiction (With Paul March-Russell)
Paul March-Russell is the outgoing editor of Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, the co-founder of Gold SF, an intersectional femini
The Best of the Best: Literary Institutions and the American Short Story Canon (With Alexander Manshel)
The Best of the Best: Literary Institutions and the American Short Story Canon (With Alexander Manshel)
Alexander Manshel is Associate Professor of English at McGill University in Montreal (Canada). His research focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century Ameri
Small, Good Things. A Special Episode
Small, Good Things. A Special Episode
Ailsa Cox has published fiction in numerous magazines and anthologies, and twice been longlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. You can read her latest
Flash Fiction and Three-Dimensional Story Worlds (with Shelley Roche-Jacques)
Flash Fiction and Three-Dimensional Story Worlds (with Shelley Roche-Jacques)
Like Old Photographs in Second-hand Books (With Nicholas Royle)
Like Old Photographs in Second-hand Books (With Nicholas Royle)
Nicholas Royle is a short story writer, a novel writer, the editor of the Best British Short Stories series. In this episode, I get to chat with him about his l
William Saroyan: Life at Full Volume (with Scott Setrakian)
William Saroyan: Life at Full Volume (with Scott Setrakian)
More Facts and Fiction of Short Story Writing (with Ailsa Cox) [Part Two]
More Facts and Fiction of Short Story Writing (with Ailsa Cox) [Part Two]
Ailsa Cox is a professor Emerita at Edge Hill University (UK) and a short story writer. In this second part of the interview we discuss famous pieces of short s
The Facts and Fiction of Short Story Writing (with Ailsa Cox) [Part one]
The Facts and Fiction of Short Story Writing (with Ailsa Cox) [Part one]
Ailsa Cox is a Professor Emerita at Edge Hill University (UK) and a short story writer. In this first part of the interview, we discuss famous claims about shor
The Culture and Commerce of the American Short Story (with Andrew Levy)
The Culture and Commerce of the American Short Story (with Andrew Levy)
Andrew Levy is professor of English and Creative Writing and the Edna Cooper Chair of English at Butler University in Indiana (USA). In this episode, I get to a
Short Fiction and Knowledge for Living (with Michael Basseler)
Short Fiction and Knowledge for Living (with Michael Basseler)
How does the short story form contribute to our understanding of life and the world? To find out, listen to this episode of the podcast, in which I get to inter
Failed Summer Vacation (with the author, Heuijung Hur)
Failed Summer Vacation (with the author, Heuijung Hur)
In this episode I get to interview Heuijung Hur on her collection Failed Summer Vacation, which has recently been published in English by Scratchbooks. Listen t
Contact Zones (with Michael Collins)
Contact Zones (with Michael Collins)
Michael Collins is Reader in American Studies at King’s College, London and co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story (2024). In this e
[Part Two] Lucia Berlin: Laundromats and Missing Puzzle Pieces (with Elizabeth Geoghegan)
[Part Two] Lucia Berlin: Laundromats and Missing Puzzle Pieces (with Elizabeth Geoghegan)
In this two-part episode, I have the privilege of chatting about Lucia Berlin’s short fiction with writer (and Lucia Berlin’s personal friend) Elizabeth Geo
[Part One] Lucia Berlin: Laundromats and Missing Puzzle Pieces (with Elizabeth Geoghegan)
[Part One] Lucia Berlin: Laundromats and Missing Puzzle Pieces (with Elizabeth Geoghegan)
In this two-part episode, I have the privilege of chatting about Lucia Berlin’s short fiction with writer (and Lucia Berlin’s personal friend) Elizabeth Geo
Flannery at the Grammys: Flannery O'Connor and Popular Culture (with Irwin Streight)
Flannery at the Grammys: Flannery O'Connor and Popular Culture (with Irwin Streight)
In this episode, Prof. Irwin Streight (Royal Military College of Canada) discusses the unexpected legacy of short story writer Flannery O'Connor on popular sing
Cat Scratches and DeLoreans: On Publishing Short Fiction (with Tom Conaghan)
Cat Scratches and DeLoreans: On Publishing Short Fiction (with Tom Conaghan)
Meet Tom Conaghan, founder of Scratch Books! In this episode, I ask Tom what it takes and what it's like to run a publisher entirely dedicated to short fiction.
Introducing "A Small, Good Thing"
Introducing "A Small, Good Thing"
Intro credits: Shield, Leroy, Taylor Holmes, and Robert W Service. The shooting of Dan McGrew. 1923. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress.
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