Former entertainment lawyer and screenwriter, Kelly Sather, visits us to discuss her debut short story collection, Small in Real Life: Stories . Her book is filled with nine of her short stories and while most of the stories are set in sunny California, all them contain an element of sadness to it. Sather elaborates, “Yes, Read More
In her first published book, Have Mercy On Us, Lisa Cupolo shares with us her collection of ten extraordinary short stories, which encompass a wide variety of characters from all walks of life with many different voices. Winner of the 2020 W.S. Porter Prize for short story collections, Have Mercy On Us, includes stories set Read More
Author of more than 20 books of fiction, essays, and personal narratives, Scott Russell Sanders visits with us to discuss his book, Small Marvels: Stories. The book contains a series of short stories about a fictional family, the Mills family, who lives in a fictitious town in southern Indiana. “All of the stories in the Read More
Winner of the Iowa Short Story Fiction Award Blake Sanz’s short story collection -The Boundaries of Their Dwelling takes us into the place where all of us are immigrants. He talks with us about his work. “The title comes from a line in the Bible, from Act’s I believe, and the full line is “and Read More
Musician and writer Doug Hoekstra has a new CD out – The Day Deserved . He talks with Writers Voices about his new short story collection – Ten Seconds In-Between – “I’d always written prose here an there… That’s something I’d always done in an on going way. And when I was focused on my Read More
“Lyrics for Rock Stars” is a collection of short stories by Pushcart-nominated author Heather Mateus Sappenfield. All of these stories are set in the American West, a region which the author, a native Coloradoan, describes as “always present and influential in my writing.” In this conversation, we talk about why short story writing is a Read More