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Micro features short, fresh pieces of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and those strange-but-beautiful writings that defy classification. Dedicated and avid readers constantly search through literary journals to find new work for the show. Micro's mission is to elevate small works with big voices and the writers and publications behind them.
Katanas and snapdragons, cadence and cold spoons. This episode is the resistance and the remedy, an oscillation of cherries and change. Lysz Flo – Silent Knives (Hooligan Mag) Rita Mookerjee – Voicemail for Emily Dickinson (The Offing) Andrew Ketcham – Horse Girl (Hobart) Richard Siken – Fear (The Harvard Advocate)
The moon in the mural. A space between bones. Matter that’s changed its mind. This episode, like all bodies, all rivers, all art — is a microcosm. Ja’net Danielo – For the Body as Poem in Diode Christina Hennemann – Astronomy Lecture, Or Mayo Dark Skies in All Existing Literary Magazine Carolyn Hembree – Prayer,Continue reading "Danielo x Hennemann x Hembree"
Hope you’re hungry. Because in this episode, we’ve got crystal goblets and styrofoam cups, sunsoaked artichokes and that hug from the inside. It’s a show that is—and isn’t—about food, making a case for defining things by what they aren’t. Sara Hills – Failure to Thrive, published by the Bath Flash Fiction Award Parker Logan –Continue reading "Hills x Logan x Collins"
What does grief look like to you? Is it a phone booth outside of a Wendy’s? Maybe this is a show about praying to a neon cross. Is it spoonfuls of yellow paint? Maybe this is a show about having buttons for eyes. Is it an unwanted present? Maybe this is a show about aContinue reading "Steiner x Goldberg x Greer x Fish"
This show has really just gone to the dogs. Or at least it has for today. Because in this episode — with catspeak and countdowns. Birch trees and bewilderment — we’ve got four pieces where dogs — and cats — lead us through other lives and our own.
Bear Hugs and Butcher Paper. Pond Frogs and Daniel Tiger. On today’s show, we follow children down paths chosen, stopping to meditate on what means to be a parent — or not. Richie Zaborowske is a dad, librarian, and author from the Midwest. Twitter Claire Taylor is a Baltimore-based writer and the founding editor of LittleContinue reading "Zaborowske x Taylor x Ruffin x Smith"
Kirsti MacKenzie, writer and editor-in-chief of Major 7th Magazine, curated this special “absurd” episode! Jane O’Sullivan is an Australian writer whose short stories and art writing have appeared in Meanjin, Passages North, Vault, Mascara, ArtAsiaPacific, and the Spineless Wonders anthologies Pulped Fiction and Play. Website | Twitter | Instragram Andrew Rivas is a normal manContinue reading "Wild & Weird!"
Surprise! It’s a new(ish) episode with pieces that have been featured on the show before. While we’re between seasons, we thought it would be fun to put out a remix episode! Paula Harris – “Chris pauses to enjoy the flowering cherry trees near his office, while a small Japanese man stands in front of themContinue reading "REMIX: Harris x Saunders x Chan"
MM Kaufman curates another installment in the Late Greats series — Halloween edition! Enjoy these pieces resurrected by Kirsti MacKenzie, Claire Denson, and William Spear. Kirsti MacKenzie is a writer and editor of Major 7th Magazine who lives in Ottawa. You can find her on Twitter at @KeersteeMack, on Bluesky at @keersteemack.bsky.social, on Instagram at @keerstee.mack,Continue reading "Late Greats: Halloween Edition"
Grace Q. Song is back curating another Young Writers episode! “Shrinking Sestina for Women’s Bodies” by Emma Janssen (published in The Nassau Literary Review and runner-up in their 2023 National Undergraduate Art & Writing Contest) Emma is a writer from the Bay Area and student at the University of Chicago who can be found swimming, learning languages,Continue reading "Young Writers: Change"
Guest curator Hema Nataraju and her daughter Meera read submissions from kids from all around the world, choosing five short stories and poems about “the future.” Guest host Eden Hawkins stepped in, so the entire episode features ONLY children’s voices. Enjoy!
This episode is part of an interview series for Miami Book Fair, where members of Team Micro interview authors appearing at the fair about their work. For more information about their programming and to check out the incredible roster of authors appearing this year, visit miamibookfair.com. And be sure to follow them at @miamibookfair and #MiamiBookFair2022 for more updates.
Ada Calhoun is the New York Times–bestselling author of Why We Can't Sleep, St. Marks Is Dead, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give, and Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me— featured on the TODAY Show, named one of the best books of 2022 by Oprah Daily and Vogue, and called "molten with soul" in a New York Times rave.
M.M. Kaufman is a fiction writer based in Georgia. She is a Fulbright Scholar and earned an MFA in the University of New Orleans’ Creative Writing Workshop. She is currently the Managing Editor at Rejection Letters and works on the team for Micro Podcast. Her fiction is published with The Normal School, Hobart, Metonym Journal, Sundog Lit, Daily Drunk Mag, (mac)ro(mic), HAD, Olney Magazine, the Miller Aud-cast, Pine Hills Review, and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter @mm_kaufman and on her website mmkaufman.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This episode is part of an interview series for Miami Book Fair, where members of Team Micro interview authors appearing at the fair about their work. For more information about their programming and to check out the incredible roster of authors appearing this year, visit miamibookfair.com. And be sure to follow them at @miamibookfair and #MiamiBookFair2022 for more updates.
Megan Abbott is the Edgar-winning author of the novels The Turnout. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Salon, the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, and The Believer. Her stories have appeared in multiple collections, including the Best American Mystery Stories of 2014 and 2016. Her work has won or been nominated for the CWA Steel Dagger, the International Thriller Writers Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and five Edgar awards.
M.M. Kaufman is a fiction writer based in Georgia. She is a Fulbright Scholar and earned an MFA in the University of New Orleans’ Creative Writing Workshop. She is currently the Managing Editor at Rejection Letters and works on the team for Micro Podcast. Her fiction is published with The Normal School, Hobart, Metonym Journal, Sundog Lit, Daily Drunk Mag, (mac)ro(mic), HAD, Olney Magazine, the Miller Aud-cast, Pine Hills Review, and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter @mm_kaufman and on her website mmkaufman.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This episode is part of an interview series for Miami Book Fair, where members of Team Micro interview authors appearing at the fair about their work. For more information about their programming and to check out the incredible roster of authors appearing this year, visit miamibookfair.com. And be sure to follow them at @miamibookfair and #MiamiBookFair2022 for more updates.
Antoine Wilson‘s new novel, Mouth to Mouth, recently named one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2022, is out from Avid Reader (Simon + Schuster) in the US and Canada, and from Atlantic Books in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Wilson is also the author of the novels The Interloper and Panorama City. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Quarterly West, and Best New American Voices, among other publications. He is a contributing editor at A Public Space.
M.M. Kaufman is a fiction writer based in Georgia. She is a Fulbright Scholar and earned an MFA in the University of New Orleans’ Creative Writing Workshop. She is currently the Managing Editor at Rejection Letters and works on the team for Micro Podcast. Her fiction is published with The Normal School, Hobart, Metonym Journal, Sundog Lit, Daily Drunk Mag, (mac)ro(mic), HAD, Olney Magazine, the Miller Aud-cast, Pine Hills Review, and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter @mm_kaufman and on her website mmkaufman.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This episode is part of an interview series for Miami Book Fair, where members of Team Micro interview authors appearing at the fair about their work. For more information about their programming and to check out the incredible roster of authors appearing this year, visit miamibookfair.com. And be sure to follow them at @miamibookfair and #MiamiBookFair2022 for more updates. Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree was the silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and a New York Times editor's choice. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Buzzfeed, Nylon, and Guernica, among others. Rojas Contreras has received numerous awards and fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, VONA, Hedgebrook, The Camargo Foundation, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. She is a Visiting Writer at Saint Mary’s College. Dylan Evers is a third culture kid interested in amplifying stories from the margins. She graduated with her MFA from the University of New Orleans and won a few awards for her thesis. When she’s not tending to her small children and large dogs, you can find her reading copious amounts of flash and working on her first novel. You can find her on Twitter at @dyl_evers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This episode is part of an interview series for Miami Book Fair, where members of Team Micro interview authors appearing at the fair about their work. For more information about their programming and to check out the incredible roster of authors appearing this year, visit miamibookfair.com. And be sure to follow them at @miamibookfair and #MiamiBookFair2022 for more updates.
Erika T. Wurth’s literary-horror novel, White Horse, is with Flatiron/Macmillan. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals including Buzzfeed, Boulevard, Lithub, The Writer’s Chronicle, and The Kenyon Review. She is a Kenyon and Sewanee fellow, and a narrative artist for the Meow Wolf Denver installation.
M.M. Kaufman is a fiction writer based in Georgia. She is a Fulbright Scholar and earned an MFA in the University of New Orleans’ Creative Writing Workshop. She is currently the Managing Editor at Rejection Letters and works on the team for Micro Podcast. Her fiction is published with The Normal School, Hobart, Metonym Journal, Sundog Lit, Daily Drunk Mag, (mac)ro(mic), HAD, Olney Magazine, the Miller Aud-cast, Pine Hills Review, and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter @mm_kaufman and on her website mmkaufman.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This episode is part of an interview series for Miami Book Fair, where members of Team Micro interview authors appearing at the fair about their work. For more information about their programming and to check out the incredible roster of authors appearing this year, visit miamibookfair.com. And be sure to follow them at @miamibookfair and #MiamiBookFair2022 for more updates.
A former National Book Award finalist and winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Jess Walter is the best-selling author of seven novels, two book of short stories and one nonfiction book. His work has been translated into 34 languages, and his fiction has been selected three times for Best American Short Stories, as well as the Pushcart Prize and Best American Nonrequired Reading. His stories, essays and journalism have appeared in, Harper's, Esquire, Playboy, McSweeney's, Tin House, Ploughshares, the New York Times, the Washington Post and many others.
Drew Hawkins is a writer and journalist in New Orleans. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Daily Beast, Scalawag Magazine, Southerly, No Contact, Rejection Letters, HAD, and other publications. You can follow him on Twitter at @WAdrewhawkins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This episode is part of an interview series for Miami Book Fair, where members of Team Micro interview authors appearing at the fair about their work. For more information about their programming and to check out the incredible roster of authors appearing this year, visit miamibookfair.com. And be sure to follow them at @miamibookfair and #MiamiBookFair2022 for more updates.
Brendan Nicholaus Slocumb was born in Yuba City, California and was raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a degree in music education, concentrations on Violin and Viola. While at UNCG, Brendan was the concertmaster for the University Symphony orchestra and served as the principal violist. He performed with numerous small chamber ensembles, including flute and clarinet choirs, and in the BESK string quartet.
M.M. Kaufman is a fiction writer based in Georgia. She is a Fulbright Scholar and earned an MFA in the University of New Orleans’ Creative Writing Workshop. She is currently the Managing Editor at Rejection Letters and works on the team for Micro Podcast. Her fiction is published with The Normal School, Hobart, Metonym Journal, Sundog Lit, Daily Drunk Mag, (mac)ro(mic), HAD, Olney Magazine, the Miller Aud-cast, Pine Hills Review, and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter @mm_kaufman and on her website mmkaufman.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This episode is part of an interview series for Miami Book Fair, where members of Team Micro interview authors appearing at the fair about their work. For more information about their programming and to check out the incredible roster of authors appearing this year, visit miamibookfair.com. And be sure to follow them at @miamibookfair and #MiamiBookFair2022 for more updates.
Tajja Isen is the editor-in-chief of Catapult magazine and the author of the essay collection Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service. Braiding cultural criticism with personal narrative, the book is about how industries—like entertainment, media, and publishing—have gotten very canny about speaking the language of social justice but don’t always follow through.
Kirsten Reneau is a writer, teacher, and interviewer. She received her MFA from the University of New Orleans in 2021 and lives there now with her dog. Her personal work can be found online at http://www.kirstenreneau.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This episode is part of an interview series for Miami Book Fair, where members of Team Micro interview authors appearing at the fair about their work. For more information about their programming and to check out the incredible roster of authors appearing this year, visit miamibookfair.com. And be sure to follow them at @miamibookfair and #MiamiBookFair2022 for more updates.
Reza Aslan is a leading expert in world religions. He is also a renowned writer, professor, and an Emmy- and Peabody-nominated producer. A recipient of the prestigious James Joyce Award, Aslan is the author of three internationally best-selling books, including the #1 New York Times Bestseller, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.
Drew Hawkins is a writer and journalist in New Orleans. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Daily Beast, Scalawag Magazine, Southerly, No Contact, Rejection Letters, HAD, and other publications. You can follow him on Twitter at @WAdrewhawkins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
You’re listening to a special episode that was curated a street poet based in New Orleans that goes by the name of Cubs the Poet. Armed with a typewriter and an open mind, Cubs generates his work through intimate conversations with his subjects, and for this show, he selected four poems that loosely revolve around the theme of parenting and childhood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This episode is part of an interview series for Miami Book Fair, where members of Team Micro interview authors appearing at the fair about their work. For more information about their programming and to check out the incredible roster of authors appearing this year, visit miamibookfair.com. And be sure to follow them at @miamibookfair and #MiamiBookFair2022 for more updates.
Cleyvis Natera is an essayist, short fiction writer, critic and novelist. Her debut novel Neruda on the Park was an anticipated book of 2022 by TIME, the Today Show, Good Morning America’s Zibby Owens, ELLE, Ms Magazine, Bustle, Goodreads, Book Riot, Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, Electric Literature, Lit Hub and The Rumpus. Upon publication, Neruda on the Park was selected as a May 2022 New York Times Editor’s Choice and as the June 2022 pick for Nobel Laurate Malala Yousafzai’s Fearless Literati Book Club.
M.M. Kaufman is a fiction writer based in Georgia. She is a Fulbright Scholar and earned an MFA in the University of New Orleans’ Creative Writing Workshop. She is currently the Managing Editor at Rejection Letters and works on the team for Micro Podcast. Her fiction is published with The Normal School, Hobart, Metonym Journal, Sundog Lit, Daily Drunk Mag, (mac)ro(mic), HAD, Olney Magazine, the Miller Aud-cast, Pine Hills Review, and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter @mm_kaufman and on her website mmkaufman.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome to Micro, I’m Drew Hawkins, and you’re listening to a special episode that was curated a street poet based in New Orleans that goes by the name of Cubs the Poet. Armed with a typewriter and an open mind, Cubs generates his work through intimate conversations with his subjects, and for this show, heContinue reading "POETRY STILL MATTERS"
Dave Housley’s third novel, The Other Ones, is coming out in January from Alan Squire Publishing. Sean Ennis is the author of CHASE US: Stories. Dave Eggers is an American writer, editor, and publisher. (Transcript) Welcome to Micro, a podcast for short, but powerful writing. I’m your host, Drew Hawkins. Bathtubs, Camaros, and under eyeContinue reading "Housley x Ennis x Eggers"
Abby Manzella is the author of Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements. Eleonora Balsano is a journalist and writer in Brussels, EU. Sarosh Nandwani works as an engineer, reads for the Longleaf Review, writes poetry and creative non-fiction, and loves experimenting with her curly hair. (Transcript) Welcome to Micro, a podcastContinue reading "Manzella x Balsano x Nandwani"
Josh Sippie is a NYC-based writer. Amy Collier once saw Fabio at an airport. Krissy Howard is a New Mexico-based writer. (Transcript) Welcome to Micro, a podcast for short, but powerful writing. I’m your host, Drew Hawkins. Minotaurs, career goals, and self-proclaimed “good dudes.” Today’s episode features three tongue-in-cheek comedy pieces, all with subjects thatContinue reading "Sippie x Collier x Howard"
Kip Knott is a writer, teacher, photographer, and part-time art dealer living in Delaware, Ohio. Austin Ross’s fiction and essays have appeared in Hobart, HAD, Necessary Fiction, and elsewhere. R.S. Powers is a fiction writer. (Transcript) Welcome to Micro, a podcast for short, but powerful writing. I’m your host, Drew Hawkins. Ceiling fans, spare rooms,Continue reading "Knott x Ross x Powers"
Claire Denson is a Brooklyn-based book publicity manager, editor, and poet. Evan Williams is a Midwestern poet and essayist studying at the University of Chicago. Ed Grabianowski is a freelance writer and the singer in a band called Spacelord. (Transcript) Welcome to Micro, a podcast for short, but powerful writing. I’m your host, Drew Hawkins.Continue reading "Denson x Williams x Grabianowski"
Amy Lyons writes fiction and nonfiction. Josh Hagy is a writer and high school English teacher from western Virginia. Rachel Trousdale is a poet and professor who teaches at Framingham State University. Jade Hawk is a meat popsicle. Daniel DeRock is an American fiction writer living in the Netherlands. (Transcript) Welcome to Micro, a podcastContinue reading "LATE GREATS: Lyons x Hagy x Trousdale x Hawk x DeRock"
Michael Cunningham is the author of The Hours, among other novels. Amber Sparks is the author of And I Do Not Forgive You, The Unfinished World and Other Stories, and the short story collection, May We Shed These Human Bodies. Kirsten Reneau is a writer living in New Orleans. (Transcript) Welcome to Micro, a podcastContinue reading "Cunningham x Sparks x Reneau"
Dave O’Leary is a writer and musician living in Seattle. Jillian Luft is a Brooklyn-based writer. Michael McGill is a poet from Edinburgh, Scotland. Jon Lindsey is the author of the novel BODY HIGH. (Transcript) Welcome to Micro, a podcast for short, but powerful writing. I’m your host, Drew Hawkins. Ballads, hymns, and voices likeContinue reading "O’Leary x Luft x McGill x Lindsey"
Brian Alan Ellis runs House of Vlad Press. Grant Faulkner is the executive director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. Erin Calabria is a co-founding editor at Empty House Press. (Transcript) Welcome to Micro, a podcast for short, but powerful writing. I’m your host, Drew Hawkins. Sumac trees,Continue reading "Ellis x Faulkner x Calabria"
Hannah Grieco is a writer and editor in Washington, DC. Robin Rosen Chang is the author of the full-length poetry collection, The Curator’s Notes (Terrapin Books, 2021). Megan Pillow is co-editor of The Audacity. Elle Nash is the author of the short story collection Nudes and the novel Animals Eat Each Other (Dzanc Books). (Transcript)Continue reading "Grieco x Chang x Pillow x Nash"
Paula Harris lives in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Praise Osawaru is a writer and editor of Bini descent. Sarah McPherson is a Sheffield-based writer and poet. (Transcript) Welcome to Micro, a podcast for short but powerful writing. I’m your host, Drew Hawkins. Static, sweat, and butterflies. Sparks fly in this episode in an ode to shapes andContinue reading "Harris x Osawaru x McPherson"
Michael Wheaton is the editor of Autofocus. K-Ming Chang is the author of the novel Bestiary and the forthcoming short story collection Gods of Want. Dorothy Chan is the author of BABE (Diode Editions 2021). (Transcript) Welcome to Micro, a podcast for short but powerful writing. I’m your host, Drew Hawkins. Watermelon rinds and baby’sContinue reading "Editor Edition: Wheaton x Chang x Chan"
Tarriona “Tank” Ball is a Grammy-nominated author, poet and frontwoman of the band Tank and The Bangas. Andrew Yoon is a New York-based Korean-American artist involved in music, poetry, and computers. Ryan Skaryd is the co-host of the Autofocus literary podcast; his chapbook “bottle rockets” was released in 2019 by ZED Press. (Transcript) Welcome toContinue reading "Ball x Yoon x Skaryd"
Sihle Ntuli is a South African poet from Durban. Matthew Mastricova is a writer based in New York. Jaya Wagle is a former Indian expat and current U.S. citizen. (Transcript) Welcome to Micro, a podcast for short but powerful writing. I’m your host, Drew Hawkins. Pressure cookers, arid soil, and too many Pokemon cards. ThisContinue reading "Ntuli x Mastricova x Wagle"
Ross Showalter is a short-story writer, essayist, and critic based in the Pacific Northwest. Cheryl Pappas is the author of the flash fiction chapbook The Clarity of Hunger (2021). Celeste Chen writes in her living room, which smells like turpentine. (Transcript) Welcome to Micro, a podcast for short but powerful writing. I’m your host, DrewContinue reading "Showalter x Pappas x Chen"
F. E. Clark lives in Scotland—she does not paint portraits. Tara Lynn Masih is author of the award-winning novel MY REAL NAME IS HANNA and editor of the acclaimed ROSE METAL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO WRITING FLASH FICTION. Danielle Rose is the author of at first & then and The History of Mountains. (Transcript) WelcomeContinue reading "Clark x Masih x Rose"
Rodrick Minor is a MFA candidate at Randolph College, Best of Net nominee and Hurston/Wright Fellow. Anna Cabe is a Pinay American writer and assistant fiction editor for Split Lip Magazine. Tara Campbell’s fifth book, Cabinet of Wrath: A Doll Collection (2021), has no dinos, but does feature lots of creepy toys. (Transcript) Welcome toContinue reading "Minor x Cabe x Campbell"
Lisa Suhair Majaj is the author of the prize-winning poetry volume Geographies of Light, published by Del Sol Press. Jimmy Santiago Baca is a Chicano and Apache poet living in New Mexico. Jericho Brown is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Deesha Philyaw is the author of the award-winning short story collection, The Secret Lives of ChurchContinue reading "Majaj x Baca x Brown x Philyaw x “Aysha”"
Meghan Phillips is the author of chapbook “Abstinence Only” and has stories in Best Microfiction 2019, 2020, and 2021. Zoe Contros Kearl is a writer and editor based in rural Vermont. J.B. Stone is a Neurodivergent/Autistic writer, slam poet, editor and literary critic from Brooklyn, now residing in Buffalo, NY. Kendra Fortmeyer lives and writesContinue reading "BACK FROM THE DEAD: Micro x HAD Halloween Special"
Sean Pravica is a Californian writer and the author of Hold Still Fast, a collection of stories fifty words and under, and Stumbling Out the Stable, a novel. Patrick Roche is a queer poet, mental health advocate, and Carly Rae Jepsen enthusiast from New Jersey. George Saunders is the author of eleven books, including LincolnContinue reading "Pravica x Roche x Saunders"
Scott Mitchel May is a fiction writer living in Wisconsin and his work has been featured in The Maryland Literary Review, Bending Genres, Ellipses Zine, Stone of Madness, and The Bear Creek Gazette, among others. Adam Ai is a poet and US Army veteran from Los Angeles where he lives with a ghost and teaches the clockContinue reading "May x Ai x Taylor"
Lauren Milici is a poet, writer, and pop culture connoisseur based in Metro Detroit. Teresa Douglas is a Mexican-American woman writing from Vancouver, B.C. torrin a. greathouse is a transgender cripple-punk, 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, and author of Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020). (Transcript) Welcome to Micro,Continue reading "Milici x Douglas x greathouse"
Jessica June Rowe is an author, playwright, and the fiction editor of Exposition Review. Sylvia Petter, an Australian in Austria, writes short, long, serious, sexy and fun. Lindsey Danis is a Hudson Valley-based writer whose work has appeared in Longreads, New World Writing, and The Sunlight Press, among other places. (Transcript) Welcome to Micro, aContinue reading "Rowe x Petter x Danis"
Caroljean Gavin is a writer and editor whose work is forthcoming from Best Small Fictions 2021. Justin Phillip Reed is an American writer and amateur bass guitarist. Robert Olen Butler has published 18 novels and 6 collections of short stories, one of which won the Pulitzer Prize. (Transcript) Welcome to Micro, a podcast for shortContinue reading "Gavin x Reed x Butler"
James Lindley is a human person writing things on the Internet. Ellie Gordon lives in Washington state and has had work featured with Complete Sentence, HAD, Wondrous Real Magazine, Jellyfish Review, and others. Meghan Kemp-Gee writes poetry, comics, and scripts in Los Angeles, CA and Vancouver, BC. Nicks Walker is a queer trans Scottish poetContinue reading "Rejection Letters x Micro: Lindley x Gordon x Kemp-Gee x Walker"
Shawn Berman runs The Daily Drunk. Meg Pokrass serves as Founding Co-Editor of Best Microfiction anthology series. Cathy Ulrich is editor at Milk Candy Review. (Transcript) Welcome to Micro, a podcast for short but powerful writing. I’m your host, Drew Hawkins. Zac Efron, dangerous chili, and grape popsicles. You guessed it—the first Editor Edition ofContinue reading "Editor Edition: Berman x Pokrass x Ulrich"
Ian O’Brien writes and teaches in Manchester, UK. His novelette-in-flash What the Fox Brings In Its Jaw will be out soon with Retreat West. Jennifer Lang lives in Tel Aviv, where she runs Israel Writers Studio, and has work featured in Ruminate, Consequence, and Stonecoast Review. Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie is a Zambian-Ghanaian poet and authorContinue reading "O’Brien x Lang x Afiriyie-Hwedie"
Miriam Jayaratna is a clinical psychologist and comedy writer based in New York City. Gracie Beaver-Kairis is a Pacific Northwest-based humor and fiction writer who has been published in McSweeneys, Slackjaw, and other outlets. Summer Koester is an award-winning poet from Juneau, Alaska who writes, teaches, and grows vegetables to feed an army of slugs.Continue reading "Comedy Special: Jayaratna x Beaver-Kairis x Koester"
May Hathaway is a Chinese-American writer based in New York City and Philadelphia. Laetitia Keok is a poet & writer from Singapore. Ottavia Paluch is a high school student from Ontario, Canada, and sometimes she writes poems. (Transcript) Welcome to a young writer edition of Micro, a podcast for short but powerful writing. I’m yourContinue reading "Young Writers Special: Hathaway x Keok x Paluch"
David Naimon is a writer of prose and poetry, as well as the host of the literary podcast Between the Covers. Victoria Buitron is a writer and translator with an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairfield University. Aimee Bender is the author of six books of fiction including, most recently, the novel The Butterfly Lampshade.Continue reading "Naimon x Buitron x Bender"
Jan Stinchcomb is the author of two novellas and a chapbook and has stories in The Best Small Fictions 2018 & 2021 and in Best Microfiction 2020. Stephanie Yu a writer and attorney in Los Angeles whose work has appeared in Hobart, Phoebe Journal, X-R-A-Y, and elsewhere. Maurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of TheContinue reading "Stinchcomb x Yu x Ruffin"
Eric Scot Tryon is the Founding Editor of Flash Frog. Mallory Smart is a Chicago-based writer and is the Editor-in-Chief of the publishing house, Maudlin House. David Byron Queen lives in New York and runs the independent publishing company word west press. (Transcript) Welcome to Micro, a podcast for short but powerful writing. I’m yourContinue reading "Editor Edition: Tryon x Smart x Queen"
Jaydn DeWald is the author of Sheets of Sound (Broken Sleep Books, 2020) and The Rosebud Variations (Broken Sleep Books, 2021). Kara Vernor’s short fiction has been selected for The Best Small Fictions, Best Microfictions, and Wigleaf’s Top 50, and her chapbook, Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song, is available from SplitContinue reading "Father’s Day Special: DeWald x Vernor x Crowder"
Aerik Francis is a Queer Black Latinx poet and teaching artist born and based in Denver, Colorado. Aliya White is a current college student majoring in biology. Kemi Alabi is the author of Against Heaven (Graywolf Press, April 2022) and was selected by Claudia Rankine as the winner of the Academy of American Poets FirstContinue reading "Juneteenth+Pride Special: Francis x White x Alabi"
Tejashree Murugan is a writer and student of biotechnology at the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras. Mingpei Li’s poems have been published most recently in Waxwing and Muzzle Magazine and have been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. Jason B Crawford is a poet born in Washington DC and raised in Lansing, Michigan. (Transcript)Continue reading "Murugan x Li x Crawford"
Julie A. Larick is a college student from Ohio who enjoys sewing, thrifting, and poeming. Christopher Bowen is a Midwestern, forty-something author, chef, and librarian. Lindsey is a writer who lives with her daughter in Upstate South Carolina and works on staff as a nonfiction editor for Red Fez. (Transcript) Welcome to Micro, a podcastContinue reading "Larick x Bowen x Heatherly"
L. P. Melling currently writes from the East of England, UK, with his work appearing in such places as Typehouse, The Molotov Cocktail, and Frozen Wavelets. Hema Nataraju is a Singapore-based writer and mom of two. C. T. Salazar is a Latinx poet and librarian from Mississippi. (Transcript) Welcome to Micro, a podcast for shortContinue reading "Melling x Nataraju x Salazar"
Rachel Ranie Taube is a fabulist writer whose work has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hobart, and The Millions, and won the 2020 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Award. Katherine Gleason writes in a number of genres and spends a lot of time with cats. Rachel A.G. Gilman is the Creator/Editor-in-Chief of The Rational Creature, a columnistContinue reading "Taube x Gleason x Gilman"
Josh Dale is a mountainous Pennsylvanian that loves cats and publishing books. Rachel Wiley is a Queer, Bi-Racial, Feminist Poet from Ohio. Christopher Gonzalez is the author of I’m Not Hungry But I Could Eat: Stories. (Transcript) Welcome to Micro. A podcast for short but powerful writing. I’m your host, Drew Hawkins. In this episode,Continue reading "Dale x Wiley x Gonzalez"
Alexis Briscuso is a writer, film critic, and radio host living in Brooklyn. K.B. Carle lives and writes outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a flock of geese, one very shy gopher, two spies disguised as vultures, several cardinals, and her nemesis, a nosey, obnoxious woodpecker. Alex Dimitrov is a poet in New York. Links andContinue reading "Briscuso x Carle x Dimitrov"
Carleton Whaley is an incoming MFA candidate at Goddard College, and spilled coffee everywhere during the first take of this recording. M. M. Kaufman lives in New Orleans where she earned an MFA in the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop. Matt Bell’s next novel, Appleseed, is forthcoming from Custom House in July 2021.Continue reading "Whaley x Kaufman x Bell"
Tara Isabel Zambrano is a writer of color and author of Death, Desire, And Other Destinations from Okay Donkey Press. Paula Harris lives in Aotearoa/New Zealand; her writing has been published in various journals, including The Sun, Hobart, Passages North, and Aotearotica. David Naimon is a writer of prose and poetry, and host of theContinue reading "Zambrano x Harris x Naimon"
Rita Feinstein is a poet and fiction writer whose work has appeared in Grist, Willow Springs, and Sugar House, and has been nominated for Best of the Net and Best New Poets. Blake Levario is a phlebotomist who lives in San Antonio, TX; he studies poetry in the MFA program at New York University. OllieContinue reading "Feinstein x Levario x Schminkey"
Siân Griffiths edits flash for American Short Fiction and short stories for Barrelhouse. Pascale Potvin is the Editor-in-Chief of Wrongdoing Magazine and on staff for many other publications. Christopher Allen is the editor of SmokeLong Quarterly. Links and Info: Siân Griffiths “Fistful” Twitter: @BorrowedHorses Website: sbgriffiths.com American Short Fiction: americanshortfiction.org (Facebook: @americanshortfiction; Instagram: @americanshortfiction) Barrelhouse:Continue reading "Editor Edition: Griffiths x Potvin x Allen"
Amy Barnes is an associate editor for Fractured Lit with work published in FlashBack Fiction, Popshot Quarterly, and elsewhere. Lori Sambol Brody writes from Southern California and has been published in Wigleaf, SmokeLong Quarterly, New Orleans Review, the Best Small Fictions anthology, and elsewhere. Abbie Barker is a fiction writer and creative writing instructor livingContinue reading "Mother’s Day Special: Barnes x Brody x Barker"
Mary Lynn Reed lives in upstate New York where she splits her time between teaching mathematics, writing fiction, and co-editing the online literary journal MoonPark Review with her wife, Lesley Weston. Exodus Oktavia Brownlow is a Blackhawk, Mississippi native and writer. Susmita Bhattacharya is a writer and teacher originally from Mumbai, now living in Winchester,Continue reading "Reed x Brownlow x Bhattacharya"
Nick Olson is the author of Here’s Waldo and Editor-in-Chief of (mac)ro(mic). Noa Covo’s work has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, Jellyfish Review, Passages North, Waxwing and elsewhere. Tyler Barton is the author of the story collection, Eternal Night at the Nature Museum, forthcoming from Sarabande Books in November, 2021. These three haunting microfictionsContinue reading "Olson x Covo x Barton"
Rachel Reeher is a writer from the Carolinas, with work in SmokeLong Quarterly, Sporklet, and elsewhere. I.S. Jones’s chapbook, Spells Of My Name, is forthcoming with Newfound in 2021. Rajiv Mohabir is a poet, translator, and memoirist who lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts. Links and Info: Rachel Reeher “Tea Party” Twitter: @RachelReeher Spork Press:Continue reading "Reeher x Jones x Mohabir"
Marilyn Duarte’s work has appeared in various print and online journals, most recently, Emerge Literary Journal, Anti-Heroin Chic, and (mac)ro(mic). Cath Barton is an English writer who has had two novellas published and is currently working on a third, as well as pieces of flash fiction betwixt and between. Jessica Evans is the Editor-in-Chief of TwinContinue reading "Duarte x Barton x Evans"
Vic Nogay is an Ohio writer anatomizing her traumas in the shared space between poetry and prose. Rena Su is a seventeen-year-old poet and the author of Preparing Dinosaurs for Mass Extinction published by ZED Press in Summer 2021. André Naffis-Sahely is the author of The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life published by PenguinContinue reading "Earth Day Special: Nogay x Su x Naffis-Sahely x Nezhukumatathil"
Melissa Llanes Brownlee is a native Hawaiian writer living in Japan. Matt Mitchell is intersex as hell and wrote The Neon Hollywood Cowboy published by Big Lucks in 2021. Kathy Fish’s most recent work may be found in the Norton Reader, Copper Nickel, Washington Square Review, and is forthcoming in Ploughshares. Links and Info: MelissaContinue reading "Brownlee x Mitchell x Fish"
DL Shirey lives in Portland, Oregon and has over 60 stories published. Jay Miller is a Montreal poet, editor, book reviewer, translator, and former copy- and technical writer. Jamy Bond’s stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Barren Magazine, Flash Frog, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Wigleaf, The Sun, and The Rumpus. Links and Info:Continue reading "Shirey x Miller x Bond"
Kristin Tenor is the flash-fiction editor at CRAFT and has work in Bending Genres, Emerge Literary Journal, and elsewhere. Anita Goveas is British-Indian, based in London and her flash fiction collection Families and Other Natural Disasters is available from Reflex Press. Grace Q. Song is a poetry and fiction writer whose work has been includedContinue reading "Tenor x Goveas x Song"
Trent England is a playwright, fiction writer, and stay-at-home dad, and he lives in Boston. Thad DeVassie is a multi-genre writer and painter from Ohio and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Martins Deep is a Nigerian poet, artist, photographer, and currently a student of Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria. Tommy Dean isContinue reading "England x DeVassie x Deep x Dean"
Colleen Rothman is the founding editor of Nurture: A Literary Journal. She’s a writer based in New Orleans with work that’s appeared in The Atlantic, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and Literary Hub, among other publications. Mimi Wong is a writer in Brooklyn, New York, and Editor-in-Chief of The Offing. Madeleine Corley is a writer by internalContinue reading "Editor Edition: Rothman x Wong x Corley"
Shome Dasgupta lives in Lafayette, Louisiana, and is the author of seven books, including The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India) and Anklet And Other Stories (Golden Antelope Press). Karen Schauber’s flash fiction appears in 50 international journals and magazines including Bending Genres, Brilliant Flash Fiction, and Fiction Southeast. Jack B. Bedell was Poet LaureateContinue reading "Dasgupta x Schauber x Bedell"
Brian Phillip Whalen is the author of Semiotic Love [Stories], and his work appears in The Southern Review, Creative Nonfiction, the Flash Nonfiction Food anthology, and elsewhere. Wilson Koewing is a writer from South Carolina. His work has recently appeared in Bending Genres, Maudlin House, New World Writing, X-R-A-Y, and Trampset. Bud Smith lives inContinue reading "Whalen x Koewing x Smith"
Myna Chang’s work has been nominated for Best Micro Fiction and Best Small Fictions and is included in Best Indie Speculative Fiction 2020. J. Bradley is the author of Teenage Wasteland: An American Love Story, published by WhiskeyTit Books in 2021. Alpheus Williams is a writer, curmudgeon, pissed off with humanity, loves his wife, nature,Continue reading "Sci-Fi Special: Chang x Bradley x Williams x Grauke"
Nada Faris is a writer and performance poet from Kuwait. Gabrielle Bates works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium and co-hosts the podcast The Poet Salon; poems from her book-in-progress, Judas Goat, have appeared in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, and Poetry Magazine. torrin a. greathouse is a transgender cripple-punk, 2021 National Endowment for the ArtsContinue reading "Faris x Bates x greathouse"
C. Cimmone is an author and comic. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Versification. Crow Jonah Norlander is the Managing Editor of X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine and co-💀 of HAD. He lives in Maine with his wife, child, and retired racing greyhounds. Emily Devane is a writer, teacher from West Yorkshire in the U.K, andContinue reading "Editor Edition: Cimmone x Norlander x Devane"
Anna Vangala Jones is the author of the short story collection Turmeric & Sugar forthcoming from Thirty West Publishing in May 2021. Terena Elizabeth Bell is a fiction writer originally from Sinking Fork, Kentucky, now living in New York. Pat Foran is a writer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Links and Info: Anna Vangala Jones “How Then”Continue reading "Jones x Bell x Foran"
Taylor Byas is a Black poet and essayist, and the author of the chapbook Bloodwarm, forthcoming from Variant Lit this summer. Mileva Anastasiadou is a neurologist, from Athens, Greece, whose work can be found in Litro, HAD, Ruminate, and elsewhere. Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre is a poet, activist, and educator based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. LinksContinue reading "Byas x Anastasiadou x Guante"
Natascha Graham writes for stage and screen, as well as fiction and poetry. Cheryl Pappas writes fiction and poetry, and her first flash fiction collection will be published by Word West Press in September 2021. Jo Varnish is the CNF editor at X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine and has short fiction and creative nonfiction in PANK, JellyfishContinue reading "Graham x Pappas x Varnish"
Alice Kaltman is the author of the short story collection Staggerwing and the novel Dawg Towne. Alle C. Hall is a writer who left her editorial positions at Vestal Review and jmww to focus on her novels. Rumaan Alam is the author of the novels Rich and Pretty, That Kind of Mother, and Leave theContinue reading "Kaltman x Hall x Alam"
Laura Besley is a writer of short and super-short fiction. Josh Corson is a poet and educator usually playing guitar or PlayStation instead of writing. Ankita Sharma is a writer and artist based in India and has authored four titles. Neil Clark writes tiny stories from his tiny flat in Edinburgh, Scotland, and has releasedContinue reading "Besley x Corson x Sharma x Clark"
Minyoung Lee writes fiction and essays in Oakland, CA. Tucker Leighty-Phillips is a writer from Southeastern Kentucky currently finishing his MFA at Arizona State University. Adam Dalva is a writing professor, a critic on the board of the National Book Critics Circle, and an author whose work has appeared in The New York Review ofContinue reading "Lee x Leighty-Phillips x Dalva"
Ryan Skaryd is the co-host of the Autofocus literary podcast; his chapbook bottle rockets was released in 2019 by ZED Press. Timi Sanni is an NF2W scholar in poetry and fiction and loves to dabble in experimental writing. George Abraham is a Palestinian-American poet, writer, and Bioengineering Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University. Links and Info:Continue reading "Skaryd x Sanni x Abraham"
Jonathan Cardew is an ex-pat British writer of flash fiction, short stories, and befuddled genre pieces featured in such places as Cream City Review, Passages North, trampset, 100 Word Story, and more. Sean Ennis lives in Mississippi and is the author of Chase Us: Stories. TJ Fuller writes and teaches in Portland, Oregon. Links andContinue reading "Cardew x Ennis x Fuller"
Megan Broussard is a writer and producer in New York City, currently at discovery+ and writing most recently for ABC’s The Chase. John Merrifield is a comedian, activist, freelance writer, and satirist from Lafayette, Louisiana who now lives in Brooklyn. Megan Peck Shub is a writer and producer; she currently works as a segment producerContinue reading "Comedy Special: Broussard x Merrifield x Shub"
Purnima is a writer, editor, and artist from India. Her short fiction and poetry can be found in Kahini Quarterly, The Sea Letter, and others. Jiksun Cheung is a short fiction writer from Hong Kong and has been published in SmokeLong Quarterly, Atticus Review, and others. Karen Jones, from Glasgow, Scotland, is Special Features EditorContinue reading "Bala x Cheung x Jones"
Liz Wride is a writer from Wales who writes fiction & stage plays. Stephanie King has won the Quarterly West Novella Prize and the Lilith Short Fiction Prize, and has stories in a number of other magazines. Gillian O’Shaughnessy is a journalist and short fiction writer from Fremantle, Western Australia. Links and Info: Liz WrideContinue reading "Wride x King x O’Shaughnessy"
Nicola Humphreys writes short stories of connection, sonder and home on her blog, and all of her dresses have pockets. Abhinita Mohanty is a PhD student at IIT Madras. Ulrica Hume is the author of An Uncertain Age, a spiritual mystery novel, and House of Miracles, a collection of tales about love, one of whichContinue reading "Humphreys x Mohanty x Hume"
Janice Leagra is Founding Editor of Janus Literary and Visual Editor for Splonk. DT Robbins is Founding Editor of Rejection Letters and Twin Pies Literary. Kelsey Ipsen is Founding Editor of Tiny Molecules. Links and Info: Janice Leagra “Flight” Twitter: @JaniceLeagra Instagram: @janiceleagra Website: janiceleagra.com Flash Flood Journal: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com (Twitter: @nationalflashfd) Janus Literary: janusliterary.com (@JanusLiterary) DTContinue reading "Editor Edition: Leagra x Robbins x Ipsen"
Lori Graham is an American writer who lives in England with her partner, Natascha. Anna Press is a writer and teacher originally from Los Angeles, CA, now living in New York. Ed Ahern has had over three hundred stories and poems published, as well as six books and currently sits on the review board atContinue reading "Graham x Press x Ahern x O’Callaghan"
Chris Haven teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan and was listed in Best American Short Stories 2020. Sudha Balagopal’s flash fiction appears in journals worldwide, has been nominated for several awards, and is listed in the Wigleaf Top 50. Robert Olen Butler, who won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for a bookContinue reading "Haven x Balagopal x Butler"
Susan Triemert’s stories, essays, and poems have published in various online and print journals, including Colorado Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Boston Literary Magazine. Twila Newey lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she writes at the confluence of poetry, motherhood, and local ecology. Kendra Fortmeyer is the author of the YA novel HoleContinue reading "Triemert x Newey x Fortmeyer"
Ibrahim Babátúndé Ibrahim is a Pushcart Prize nominee who has had works accepted in JMWW, Ake Review, Door is a Jar Magazine, and more. Megan Carlson is a writer and nonprofit communications professional living in Chicago. K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, andContinue reading "Ibrahim x Carlson x Chang"
J. Edward Kruft is a fiction writer and an editor-at-large at trampset who is no longer banned from Nordstrom. Alyson Tait lives with her husband, daughter, and corgi, and somehow manages to still get writing done. Sophia Yapalater is a fourth-year medical student and writer based in Philadelphia. Links and Info: J. Edward Kruft “TwoContinue reading "Kruft x Tait x Yapalater"
Precious Emmanuel is a law student living in Kano, Nigeria. Christy Alexander Hallberg serves as Senior Associate Editor of North Carolina Literary Review and editor of Flash Friday USA at Litro Magazine. Nayyir Ransome writes things and hopes people like it, they’re really bad at professional bios though. Links and Info: Precious Emmanuel “Life ImitatesContinue reading "Emmanuel x Hallberg x Ransome"
Dave O’Leary is a writer and musician living in Seattle. Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar is an Indian American writer, and a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. Dustin M. Hoffman is the author of the story collections One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist and No Good for Digging. Austin Davis is the author of The World Isn’t the SizeContinue reading "O’Leary x Chansarkar x Hoffman x Davis"
Gauraa Shekhar is a Founding Editor of No Contact. Aaron Burch is the Founding Editor of Hobart and HAD. Hannah Grieco is an editor at JMWW Journal and Porcupine Literary. Links and Info: Gauraa Shekhar “Write About Race” Twitter: @bloodandGauraa Instagram: @bloodandGauraa Website: gauraashekhar.com Rejection Letters: rejection-letters.com (Twitter: @rejectionlit) No Contact: nocontactmag.com (Twitter: @nocontactmag) AaronContinue reading "Editor Edition: Shekhar x Burch x Grieco"
Kirsten Reneau is a creative nonfiction editor at Bayou Magazine, and has been previously published in The Threepenny Review, Hobart, Trampset, and others. Merridawn Duckler has been published in New Flash Fiction, FRiGG, Hobart. Fiona M. Jones lives in Scotland and writes very short pieces, usually about trees and things. Links and Info: Kirsten Reneau “CosmonautsContinue reading "Reneau x Duckler x Jones"
Caroljean Gavin’s work has appeared in places such as Pithead Chapel, Barrelhouse, and X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine. Stephen Ground is a short fiction and nonfiction writer, poet, photographer, screenwriter, producer, and co-founder of Pearson House Films. Jeffrey Xiong is a writer and software engineer, currently residing in San Jose. Links and Info: Caroljean Gavin “Anything UnderContinue reading "Gavin x Ground x Xiong"
Rahma O. Jimoh is a 2020 Pushcart Prize Nominee for her poem Walking. Skye Jackson serves as the poetry editor for French Quarter Journal. Meg Pokrass has appeared in over 800 literary magazines including Electric Literature, Craft, The Center for Fiction, Waxwing, and Washington Square Review. Links and Info: Rahma Jimoh “Walking” Website: www.dynamicrahma.wordpress.comFacebook: @RahmaContinue reading "Jimoh x Jackson x Pokrass"