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"