That took a long time, didn’t it? At long last, Issue 3 of the audio magazine is here on the theme HEROES!
Big ups to our contributors who made the issue to those who submitted who didn’t make it into the final product.
Here’s a little bit of information from each of the writers:
Michael Cuglietta wrote “All the Time in the World. “His work has appeared in NOON, The Gettysburg Review, Hobart, Hippocampus, and elsewhere. He is the author of the fiction chapbooks Vertigo and Claims in White Wine. You can find more about Michael at michaelcuglietta.com or follow him on Instagram @mcuges.
Andrew Sottile, no relation to the great Leah Sottile, writes in reverence for his late grandfather and their shared love of donuts in “I Miss the Donut Shop.” Andrew has most recently published work in Autofocus and Kitchn. He is an associate professor of English at Manchester Community College. He lives on the Connecticut shore with his wife and son.
Lori Sebastianutti draws inspiration from Mariah Carey’s “Hero” during a particular trying time while she and her husband struggled to conceive. Lori is a writer and teacher from Ontario, Canada. Her essays have been published in Canadian and American journals, including The Hamilton Review of Books, The Humber Literary Review, the New Quarterly, Nurture, Porcupine Literary, and Serotonin Poetry, among others. You can more of her work at lorisebastianutti.com. You can follow her on Twitter @sebastianL74.
CNF Pod superfans might recognize Shawna Kenney from Ep. 47 fame and here she brings us a short essay about her love of a particular rock star in her essay “Your Biggest Fan.” Shawna is an award-winning memoirist, essayist, and pop culture journalist. She in as instructor with the UCLA Extension Writers Program and co-leads Hamlet’s Hideaway, a summer writing retreat in Denmark.
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Check out Issue 1 on Isolation and Issue 2 on Summer.
