The Best Reading You Might Be Missing
They’re tucked away on the magazine racks at your local bookstore. Smaller than magazines, smaller than books, but vital to the publishing world.
Literary journals are where writers of all kinds jump in to get their start. Journal editors keep established writers in front of their audience, and take a chance on fresh new voices.
Reader’s Radar
is a half-hour journey into the best new short prose fiction being published in literary magazines around Indiana. Producer/host Shayne Laughter showcases short stories from current issues of literary journals like Sycamore Review, Driftless, and Flying Island, along with brief interviews of journal editors about each publication’s history, editing process, mission, and how live community events such as readings integrate the publication into their local civic life.
Each editor recommends a story from their current issue as something truly special. That story gets a dynamic reading by host Shayne Laughter.
Reader’s Radar debuted July 18, 2018 and new episodes are posted twice a month.
Your Host And Reader
Shayne Laughter is a broadcast journalist, fiction writer, and voice talent who produces arts programs for WFIU. She has been a news reporter, news anchor, and live spot interviewer for WFHB Community Radio. The WFHB show Books Unbound featured Shayne reading novels and short stories for WFHB listeners. She is an award-winning fiction writer, published in print and online literary journals.
Shayne Laughter
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What Happens After ‘The End’: The Road To Getting Published
From Page To Mouth: Teaching The New Literacy With Slam Poetry
Interview With Liberian Poet Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Authors From The IU Writers Conference: Mary Robinette Kowal, Amy Kurzweil, Alexander Weinstein
‘Anthology:’ Readings On Themes
