Steiner x Goldberg x Greer x Fish

This is the last show of the season. And we’ve got a great one for you.  At the Writer’s Group by Frances Klein in Milk Candy Review Looking at Houses on Zillow I Know I Can’t Afford, I Hurt My Feelings by Karisma Price in The Rumpus Quitting by DT Robbins in body fluids AContinue reading "Klein x Price x Robbins x Freligh"

We’ve got a special episode for you today. We teamed up with the folks over at Tadpole Press for microfiction contest — and we’re featuring the top 5 pieces here. Each of these tiny pieces – including one as short as 17 words – pack a punch. Stories that trace the fragile transformations of memoryContinue reading "Micro x Tadpole Press: 100-Word Contest"

We’ve teamed up with the folks at Tadpole Press for their 100-word writing contest. The winners will be featured on an episode of Micro! Listen to Tadpole founder, Amber Byers, talk about the contest and collaboration and visit Tadpole Press for more info! Guidelines Who Can Enter All writers are welcome—of any age, gender, orContinue reading "Micro + Tadpole Press 100-word Contest!"

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!"