March 2018 Podcast: Spring 2018 Fiction Chat with Steven Schwartz

In our March episode, fiction editor Steven Schwartz joins podcast editor Meghan Pipe to chat about the four stories in Colorado Review’s Spring 2018 issue—Caitlin Fitzpatrick’s “The Laws of Motion,” Timothy Hedges’s “Category Five,” Hester Kaplan’s “Daylight Saving,” and Jaeden Langlois’s “An Offering to the Mother Goddess Danu.” Listen to the podcast here: Episode 34. […]

January 2018 Podcast: Katie M. Flynn’s “Island Rule,” 2017 Winner of the Nelligan Prize

In January’s episode, podcast editor Lauren Matheny reads Katie M. Flynn’s “Island Rule,” winner of the 2017 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction, from the Fall/Winter 2017 issue. Listen to the podcast here: Episode 32. Become a subscriber to the Colorado Review podcast! Just search “Colorado Review” in the iTunes store or follow this link.

December 2017 Podcast: Fall/Winter 2017 Poetry Features

In December’s episode, editorial assistant Danny Schonning joins podcast editor Meghan Pipe to read and discuss poetry selections from the new Fall/Winter 2017 issue. Listen to the podcast here: Episode 31. Featured poets include Adonis, Jackson Holbert, Jessica Reed, and Jess Williard. Become a subscriber to the Colorado Review podcast! Just search “Colorado Review” in […]

November 2017 Podcast: Fall/Winter 2017 Editors’ Chat

In November’s episode, editor-in-chief Stephanie G’Schwind and managing editor Katherine Indermaur join podcast editor Meghan Pipe to chat about the new Fall/Winter 2017 issue. Listen to the podcast here: Episode 30. Become a subscriber to the Colorado Review podcast! Just search “Colorado Review” in the iTunes store or follow this link.

October 2017 Podcast: Katherine Hill’s “Waste Management”

In October’s episode, podcast editor Meghan Pipe dives into the archives to read Katherine Hill’s “Waste Management,” winner of the 2010 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction (Fall/Winter 2010 issue). Then, Hill joins in via phone to chat about the Nelligan Prize and how her writing life has unfolded since winning. Listen to the podcast here: […]

Ethics and Aesthetics: Trauma Narratives

In the past several weeks, I have read submissions about war and horrific physical injuries, debilitating ailments and incurable diseases, families shattered by divorce or marital infidelity, death and suicide, drug addiction and abuse, homophobia, transphobia, and so many other sources of trauma that I often find myself ruminating on these narratives well after my shift at the Center for Literary Publishing has ended.