"A Small, Good Thing" is a podcast about short fiction. In every episode, I get to discuss the short story form with writers, academics, publishers, and anyone who shares a passion for short stories.
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Signup to Generate a Pitch"A Small, Good Thing" is a podcast about short fiction. In every episode, I get to discuss the short story form with writers, academics, publishers, and anyone who shares a passion for short stories.
Recent episodes include "The Welsh Short Story (with Rhiannon Marks)" (15 October 2026, 30 minutes), "A Career in Short Story Writing (with Elizabeth Baines)" (24 September 2026, 27 minutes), and "Writing Short Fiction in the Digital Age (with Vicky Grut)" (3 September 2026, 30 minutes).
A Small, Good Thing publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 33 minutes across 29 episodes.
Booking probability for A Small, Good Thing is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. A Small, Good Thing requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. A Small, Good Thing's contact route on record: verified email.
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A Small, Good Thing is an arts show with 29 episodes published.
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Episode #28
Wales has an ancient tradition of storytelling. Listen to Rhiannon Marks discuss the Welsh short story, from the oldest tales of the British Isles to Wales’s contemporary short story writers. Rhiannon Marks is Senior...
Episode #27
In this episode, I get to chat with Elizabeth Baines about her career as a writer, from the first short story she ever published to her upcoming projects, passing through the times when she worked as a writer of radio...
Episode #26
Vicky Grut is a short story writer and an essayist. In this episode, Vicky discusses what it means to be a short story writer in the heyday of the digital revolution, and at a time of hyper-connectivity. Listen as she...
Episode #25
David Hartley is a short story writer, creative writing teacher, and the author of the collection of short stories Fauna (2021). In this episode we discuss the importance of voice in short story writing. What is voice...
Episode #23
In this episode, I chat with William Weightman about his short story “Green Green Grass”, which won first place in this year’s Bristol Short Story Prize. Listen as William talks about how the story came about, what...
Episode #22
Around 1950, the short story genre in America was at the highest and at the same time most delicate moment of its history. While the number of magazines publishing short fiction and of short story collections reached...
Episode #21
2026 marks the 30th anniversary of the publication of Infinite Jest , arguably David Foster Wallace’s most famous and celebrated book. In this episode, Professor Marshall Boswell, one of the leading scholars in the...
Episode #20
In this episode, Naomi Kanakia (a.k.a Woman of Letters on Substack) tells the fascinating tale of the New Yorker Short Story. Since the times of Harold Ross and editor Katharine White, the New Yorker has been the most...
Episode #19
Richard Brautigan is most famous for his iconic novel Trout Fishing in America (1967), but he was also a prolific short story writer and poet. Whether you are a hardcore Brautigan fan, or you have never heard of him...
Episode #18
Chigozirim Nwaosu is a PhD candidate in English Literature in the School of Literature and Languages at the University of Surrey (UK). Her research focuses on the intersectionality between race, gender and sexuality and...
Episode #17
What can fictional representations of blocked short story writers teach us about writer’s block and what causes a writer to feel blocked? I discuss these questions with Aaron Colton, Associate Teaching Professor and...
Episode #16
Paul March-Russell is the outgoing editor of Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction , the co-founder of Gold SF, an intersectional feminist science fiction imprint of Goldsmiths Press, and the author of...
Episode #15
Alexander Manshel is Associate Professor of English at McGill University in Montreal (Canada). His research focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature, multi-ethnic American fiction, and the...
Episode #14
(00:00:00) Intro (00:02:00) The Place to Find a Body (Ailsa Cox) (00:06:17) The Woman in the Tracksuit (Charlie Hill) (00:07:05) The Sunshine Skyway (Lauren C. Johnson) (00:13:53) New You (Shelley Roche-Jacques)...
Episode #13
Shelley Roche-Jacques is a poet, flash fiction writer and Senior Lecturer of Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University (UK). In this episode, Shelley will be our guide into the world of Flash Fiction. How can a...
Episode #12
Nicholas Royle is a short story writer, a novel writer, the editor of the Best British Short Stories series. In this episode, I get to chat with him about his latest collection of short stories, Paris Fantastique...
Episode #11
Scott Setrakian is the president of the William Saroyan Foundation. At the time we recorded this interview, he had just come back from Armenia, where he had taken part in a seven-day event called Saroyan Days. In this...
Episode #10
Ailsa Cox is a professor Emerita at Edge Hill University (UK) and a short story writer. In this second part of the interview we discuss famous pieces of short story writing advice like “show don’t tell”, the Freitag...
Episode #9
Ailsa Cox is a Professor Emerita at Edge Hill University (UK) and a short story writer. In this first part of the interview, we discuss famous claims about short stories and short story writing, like reading short...
Episode #8
Andrew Levy is professor of English and Creative Writing and the Edna Cooper Chair of English at Butler University in Indiana (USA). In this episode, I get to ask him a few questions about his book The Culture and...
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Vice President of Business Development, IP & ASIC, The Brand New Heavies
Senior Director, Marketing and Communications, ACM SIGGRAPH Early Career Development Committee
Emory University
Sheffield Hallam University
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