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Welcome the newest Broads and Books Production: Past Ten! This audio nonfiction journal asks writers: "Where were you on this date ten years ago?"

Follow Past Ten wherever you get your podcasts!

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In the first episode, Heather Gudenkauf reads her essay, "I Am Struck by How Upbeat I Sound."

Heather Gudenkauf is the Edgar Award nominated, New York Times & USA Today bestselling author of ten novels, including The Overnight Guest and her most recent thriller Everyone is Watching. Her debut novel, The Weight of Silence, was an instant NYT bestseller and remained on the list for 22 weeks. Gudenkauf’s critically acclaimed novels have been published in over 25 countries and have sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide.

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Past Ten asks writers to answer the question: "Where were you on this date ten years ago?"

Get more Past Ten at our website, and our anthology.

Want your work to appear on Past Ten? Submit today!

From Broads and Books co-creator Amy Lee Lillard comes a new podcast about channeling our rage and fear into creation. Follow and listen to The Art of Resistance wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe for free behind-the-scenes content at www.theartofresistancepodcast.com.

A Woman is a God is an audio novel in seven installments. Written, narrated, and with original music by Amy Lee Lillard.

Sign up for weekly installments at patreon.com/redeemedrejections.

About A Woman is a God:

When Shannon and her queer chosen family turned seventy, they created a communal home, a place for them to live out their days together. But as years pass, and death takes her friends, Shannon becomes the last.

Until one day, when her dead friends return. And Shannon discovers how powerful she has become.

Over the course of one week, Shannon transforms her body into beasts, sees into the lives she might have lived, watches time spool and unspool, and visits a land of myth and legend to meet the original woman. And as the week nears its end, Shannon must grapple with her own life and death, and what comes next.

Get a text transcript and go behind the scenes.

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...at patreon.com/redeemedrejections!

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Because we're back! The Broads are making new episodes just for you, over at Patreon.

Here's a sneak peek of our first reunion bonus. Listen to the full episode, plus bonuses for our other shows, Fuzzy Memories and Midwest Weird, at patreon.com/BroadsandBooksProductions.

Become a member today, and get all the good stuff!

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Today on Midwest Weird: “Growth” by Keira Perkins.

Keira Perkins writes both short fiction and poetry, most of it speculative. She is also a scientist, which is mostly not speculative. Keira lives in Indiana with her husband, dogs, cats, and whichever stray animal she’s brought home that week. Keira can be found at keiraperkins.com, where she blogs about knitting, ghosts, miscellaneous trivia and occasionally, writing.

For a full transcript of this episode, visit www.midwestweird.com.

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Midwest Weird is an audio literary magazine from Broads and Books Productions. We’re the home of weird fiction and nonfiction by Midwestern writers.

Submit your own work to Midwest Weird at www.midwestweird.com.

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Today on Midwest Weird: “Negation” by Jessica Klimesh.

Jessica Klimesh (she/her) is a US-based writer and editor whose creative work has been published or is forthcoming in Cleaver, Flash Frog, trampset, Atticus Review, Brink, Club Plum Literary, Ghost Parachute, and Bending Genres, among others. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net. Learn more at www.jessicaklimesh.com.

Find a full transcript for this episode at www.midwestweird.com.

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Midwest Weird is an audio literary magazine from Broads and Books Productions. We’re the home of weird fiction and nonfiction by Midwestern writers.

Submit your own work to Midwest Weird at www.midwestweird.com.

Mentioned in this episode:

Support Midwest Weird!

Become a member and you'll get bonuses and exclusive access. It's all at Patreon:

Today on Midwest Weird: “The Highway” by Maxine Firehammer.

Maxine Firehammer is a horror writer living in Saint Paul. She has previously had work appear in Hash Journal, The Molotov Cocktail, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. She is a 2024 Pushcart Prize nominee.

For a full transcript of this episode, visit www.midwestweird.com.

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Midwest Weird is an audio literary magazine from Broads and Books Productions. We’re the home of weird fiction and nonfiction by Midwestern writers.

Submit your own work to Midwest Weird at www.midwestweird.com.

Mentioned in this episode:

Support Midwest Weird!

Become a member and you'll get bonuses and exclusive access. It's all at Patreon:

Midwest Weird is an audio literary magazine featuring weird fiction and nonfiction by Midwestern writers. From strange styles to unique identities, from written tales to oral tradition, from Iowa to Indiana and everywhere in between, we’re the podcast home for stories that stick with you. Listen every other week for the edge of creation, come to life.

This season on Midwest Weird, you'll hear stories from Maxine Firehammer, Keira Perkins, Jessica Klimesh, Graham Marema, and more.

Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, or at MidwestWeird.com.

Amy's got two books coming out, and Erin has QUESTIONS. So we got together to talk books, writing, audio fiction, music, podcasts, and so much more.

Links:

Exile in Guyville

A Grotesque Animal

Wyrd Woman Podcast

Nuclear Shadow Music

Events:

Amy at Writers and Books, May 20 (virtual)

Amy and Erin at Beaverdale Books, June 5 (in-person)

Other shows:

Fuzzy Memories

Midwest Weird

Broads and Books Productions is bringing you our first audio fiction!

Listen to the first episode (with a special introductory message from Amy and Erin) here. When you're ready to binge the rest, search for "Wyrd Woman" in your favorite podcast player, or listen at wyrdwomanpodcast.com. All nine episodes available now.

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Wyrd Woman is an audio drama from Broads and Books Productions. The show is written, performed and produced by Amy Lee Lillard.

Music comes from the Ghosts albums by Nine Inch Nails, courtesy of a Creative Commons license. 

Get more from Amy Lee Lillard:

• Exile in Guyville
• A Grotesque Animal
• Dig Me Out

And check out our other Broads and Books Productions:

• Fuzzy Memories: All the culture that popped, one year at a time.
• Midwest Weird: An audio literary magazine
• Broads and Books: The best books and pop culture on a weekly theme.

View a full episode transcript at wyrdwomanpodcast.com.