Ep. 17 | Short Stories

This month’s episode is about short stories! Host Kendra Winchester talks to special guests Halle Hill and George Singleton.

Things Mentioned

• Short Story Advent Calendar

• Hub City Press

Books Mentioned

• Good Women by Halle Hill

• You Want More: Selected Stories by George Singleton

• The Curious Lives of Nonprofit Martyrs by George Singleton

• Asides: Occasional Essays by George Singleton

• Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro

• Dear Life by Alice Munro

• Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros

• Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones

• In Love and Trouble by Alice Walker

• Decent People by De’shawn Charles Winslow

• Wilmington's Lie (Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize): The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino

• Something Rich and Strange by Ron Rash

• The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor

• The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever

• What We Talk about When We Talk about Love: Stories by Raymond Carver

• Get in Trouble by Kelly Link

• White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link

• T.C. Boyle Stories by T.C. Boyle

• The Stories of Richard Bausch by Richard Bausch

• All the Names They Used for God by Anjali Sachdeva

• The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night by Jen Campbell

Guest Info

(c) Halle Hill

Halle Hill is from East Tennessee and lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A graduate of Maryville College and the M.F.A. Writing program at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), she is the winner of the 2021 Crystal Wilkinson Creative Writing Prize and was a finalist for the 2021 ASME Award for Fiction. Her short stories have been published in Joyland, New Limestone Review, Southwest Review, and Oxford American, where she won the 2020 Debut Fiction Prize. Good Women is her first book. 

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(c) George Singleton

George Singleton has published ten collections of stories, two novels, a book of writing advice, and a collection of essays. His stories have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Story, One Story, Playboy, the Georgia Review, Zoetrope, Subtropics, and elsewhere. His personal essays have appeared in Garden and Gun, Bark, Best American Food Writing, Oxford American, and elsewhere He’s received a Pushcart, and a Guggenheim fellowship. A member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, he lives in South Carolina.

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