Moonshine Murmurs18 Nov 2025

Mining the Horrific

In this episode, host Carol Mitchell and Kristina Ten discuss Ten’s short story collection Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine, the origin of the stories, Ten’s influences, and more.

Carol Mitchell is a consulting editor with Stillhouse Press and a term professor in the English Department at George Mason University. She holds an MFA from George Mason and is the author of several books for children and one novel for adults: What Start Bad a Mornin'.

Kristina Ten’s debut short story collection Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine was published in 2025 by Stillhouse Press after winning our horror fiction contest. Kristina's stories appear in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction, The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, and elsewhere. She has won the McSweeney's Stephen Dixon Award for Short Fiction, the Subjective Chaos Kind of Award, and the F(r)iction Writing Contest, and has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Locus Award. Ten is a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop and the University of Colorado Boulder's MFA program in fiction, and has received fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation and the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing.

A transcript of this episode is available here.

Denne episoden er hentet fra en åpen RSS-feed og er ikke publisert av Podme. Den kan derfor inneholde annonser.

Episoder(14)

Playing with Forms

Necronauts: Moonshine Murmurs Podcast, Episode #14In this episode, host Carol Mitchell and Ryan Habermeyer discuss Habermeyer’s novel Necronauts, the role of form in story writing, and more.Carol Mitc...

13 Apr 46min

Throughlines: From Poetry and Community to Healing

In this episode, host Carol Mitchell and Alicia Elkort discuss A Map of Every Undoing, Alicia's beautiful poetry collection; writing through trauma; and the importance of community in writing.Carol Mi...

20 Jul 202525min

More than Human: Moonshine Murmurs Podcast, Episode #11

In this episode, host Carol Mitchell and Miranda Schmidt discuss Leafskin, Miranda's beautiful book of prosepoetry (not a typo) and the unavoidable physical and psychic connections between humans and ...

3 Jun 202545min

Patience is a Weapon, an interview with author Samuel Ashworth

Patience as a Weapon: Moonshine Murmurs Podcast, Episode #10In this episode, host Carol Mitchell and Sam Ashworth, author of The Death and Life of August Sweeney have a lively discussion about his fas...

12 Mai 202545min

Building Community with Reading Series (& strobe lights)

In this episode, host Carol Mitchell and Fox City Lit Reading Series founders and organizers: Billy Howell, Erika Ostergaard, and Michael Don riff about their Fairfax City reading series: Fox City Lit...

27 Jan 202534min

Short Story Exposé, an interview with author Amy Stuber

In this episode, host Carol Mitchell and Stillhouse author Amy Stuber discuss Amy’s new book, Sad Grownups, her journey to publication, the short story process, the process of submitting and writing. ...

30 Nov 202431min

Memory and Place

In this episode, host Carol Mitchell and Stillhouse author Paul Jaskunas discuss Jaskunas’s new book, The Atlas of Remedies. The Atlas of Remedies was released on March 5, 2024 from Stillhouse Press a...

2 Okt 202444min