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Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 5d

Tony Robles speaks with participants in the Cork International Short Story Festival, part 2. We listen to an Irish poem and fairytale. Jay Rodriguez Sierra plays with Chucho Valdez in a rare live recording. New poetry from Martha Cinader.

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/30/s3e33/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 6d

Laura Cassidy is publisher and co-editor at the literary journal and small press Banshee, where along with her co-founders she was named a Bookseller Rising Star. Her novels for young adults were published by Penguin Ireland,…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/29/laura-cassidy-writer-publisher/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 6d

Mahreen Sohail was born in Pakistan. She has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College where she studied as a Fulbright scholar; and was a Writing Fellow at A Public Space and a Charles Pick Fellow at the University of East Anglia. Her work…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/29/mahreen-sohail-writer/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 6d

Laura Jean McKay is the author of The Animals in That Country – winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Victorian Prize for Literature, the ABIA Small Publishers Adult Book of the Year and co-winner of the Aurealis…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/29/laura-jean-mckay-writer/

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Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 6d

Mary O’Donnell has written award-winning poetry, novels, short fiction collections and dynamic essays. Published fiction includes the novels The Elysium Testament and Where They Lie. In 2023 she received an An Post/Irish Book Award for…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/29/mary-odonnell-writer/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 6d

Patrick Cotter is an Irish poet, born in Cork City where he still lives and works as a literary festival organiser and editor. His poems have been published in journals such as the Financial Times, The London Review of Books, Poetry and…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/29/patrick-cotter-poet/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 7d

In this masterful collection, Mary O'Donnell explores the subtle fractures and quiet transformations that shape modern life. Her characters navigate a society in flux, where traditional certainties give way to new complexities.

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/28/mary-odonnell-walking-ghosts/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 7d

A family of cat farmers gets the chance to set the felines free. A group of chickens tells it like it is. A female-crewed ship ploughs through the patriarchy. A support group finds solace in a world without men.

With her…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/28/laura-jean-mckay-gunflower/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 7d

In twelve kaleidoscopic stories, Mahreen Sohail shifts our perspective on this question from moment to moment. Two girls observe a group of child soldiers and one reflects: “My sister and I were only small scale sinners.”…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/28/mahreen-sohail-small-scale-sinners/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 10d

Nilsa Rivera, in Florida, brings her professional and personal experience of home insecurity to a conversation with Judy Talaugon, in California, and Martha Cinader, in New York. The conversation…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/25/beyond-borders-episode-10-talking-about-home-insecurity/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 11d

Tribunal Rising commemorates the 1992 International Tribunal movement in the city of San Francisco to dismantle the legacy of Christopher Columbus and the Myth of Discovery. In 1990, "[a]t the…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/24/edited-by-judith-talaugon-and-angela-marino-tribunal-rising/

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Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 11d

Showcasing a variety of voices shaped in and by a place that has been for them a crossroads and a land of contradictions, Home in Florida presents a selection of…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/24/edited-by-anjanette-delgado-home-in-florida-latinx-writers-and-the-literature-of-uprootedness/

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Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 11d

Nilsa Rivera is a data analyst and essayist exploring the intersections of housing insecurity, environment, and public policy. She's currently working on her debut nonfiction book, Houselessness in Florida, forthcoming…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/24/nilsa-rivera-data-analyst-essayist/

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Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 12d

Tony Robles speaks with writers, Mary Morrissy, Vanessa Onwuemezi and Gina Chung at The International Short Story Festival in Cork, Ireland. Martha Cinader speaks with artist, Brett Cook about Greg Tate Day in Harlem, New York. Jay Rodriguez Sierra…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/23/s3e32/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 13d

Brett Cook is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who uses storytelling to distill complex ideas and creative practices to transform outer and inner worlds of being.

His elaborate installations feature…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/22/brett-cook-interdisciplinary-artist-educator/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 13d

I’m an award-winning Irish novelist (The Hennessy Award, Lannan Foundation Award) and short story writer, the author of four novels, Mother of Pearl, The Pretender, The Rising of Bella Casey and Penelope Unbound, as well as three…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/22/mary-morrissy-writer/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 14d

Vanessa Onwuemezi is a writer living in London. She is the winner of The White Review Short Story Prize in 2019 and her work has appeared in literary and art magazines, including Granta, Frieze and Prototype. Dark Neighbourhood, her…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/22/vanessa-onwuemezi-writer/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 14d

Gina Chung is a Korean American writer from New Jersey currently living in New York City. She is the author of the novel Sea Change, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and a B&N Discover Pick, and the…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/22/gina-chung-writer-editor/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 14d

Twenty-Twenty Vision is a collection of stories exploring the notion of hindsight, and the honesty and deceptions of late middle-aged regret . A composite portrait of a generation of women and men moving into the third age…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/21/mary-morrissy-twenty-twenty-vision/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 14d

Equal parts fantastical—a pair of talking dolls help twins escape a stifling home, a heart boils on the stove as part of an elaborate cure for melancholy, a fox demon contemplates avenging her sister’s death—and true to life—a mother…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/21/gina-chung-green-frog/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 14d

Vanessa Onwuemezi takes readers on a surreal and haunting journey through a landscape on the edge of time. At the border with another world, a line of people wait for the gates to open; on the floor of a lonely room, a…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/21/vanessa-onwuemezi-dark-neighbourhood/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 19d

Pyeng Threadgill talks with Martha Cinader about her new book and audiobook, Lost & Found, part memoir part guide to life as an artist. Jay Rodriguez Sierra presents new music, The Light Within You, featuring Jay on Bansuri flute, Joe Russo on drums…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/16/s3e31/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 20d

Growing up in the 1980s, in the heart of New York City's downtown music and art scene became fertile ground for seeds of creativity, doubt, and eventual empowerment for Pyeng Threadgill-as expressed through Lost & Found: Finding…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/15/pyeng-threadgill-lost-found/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 20d

Pyeng Threadgill is an American vocalist, composer, author, video artist, and voice and movement teacher. With a deep belief in the transformative power of music and…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/15/pyeng-threadgill-vocalist-composer-author-video-artist-and-voice-and-movement-teacher/

Martha Cinader @cinader.bsky.social · 24d

Marque Gilmore returns home from London and makes time to talk with longtime friend and colleague in the music business, Gail Ward, and Jay Rodriguez Sierra, about his musical path, the Black Rock Coalition, Burnt…

https://listenandbeheard.net/2025/10/11/beyond-borders-episode-9-a-musical-odyssey/