Let's Deconstruct a Story

Let's Deconstruct a Story Let's Deconstruct a Story: A podcast for the story nerds! It was later adapted into a play by Robin Martin and published in The Kenyon Review Online.

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Kelly Fordon’s latest short story collection, I Have the Answer (Wayne State University Press, 2020), was chosen as a Midwest Book Award Finalist and an Eric Hoffer Finalist. Her 2016 Michigan Notable Book, Garden for the Blind (WSUP), was a Michigan Notable Book, an INDIEFAB Finalist, a Midwest Book Award Finalist, an Eric Hoffer Finalist, and an IPPY Awards Bronze Medalist. Her firs

t full-length poetry collection, Goodbye Toothless House (Kattywompus Press, 2019), was an Eyelands International Prize Finalist and an Eric Hoffer Finalist. She is the author of three award-winning poetry chapbooks and has received a Best of the Net Award and Pushcart Prize nominations in three different genres. She teaches at Springfed Arts in Detroit and online.

Lots of great stories coming up! 'Pemi Aguda, Molly Dektar, Toni Ann Johnson, and Jim Shepard, to name a few. Check it o...
12/10/2025

Lots of great stories coming up! 'Pemi Aguda, Molly Dektar, Toni Ann Johnson, and Jim Shepard, to name a few. Check it out!

'Pemi Aguda, Molly Dektar, Toni Ann Johnson, Jim Shepard coming right up!

Check us out at letsdeconstructastory.substack.com or Apple, Spotify, whereve you get your podcasts. Remember to read th...
12/01/2025

Check us out at letsdeconstructastory.substack.com or Apple, Spotify, whereve you get your podcasts. Remember to read the story first: "Baboon" by Susan Shepherd in The Kenyon Review or Best American Short Stories 2024.

11/12/2025

Susan Shepherd talks about her Best American Short Story, "Baboons" first published in The Kenyon Review. Video available now for paid subscribers. Free audio podcast drops December 1st. letsdeconstructastory.substack.com

Coming up this Friday at letsdeconstructastory.substack.comShastri Akella discusses his BASS short story, "The Magic Ban...
11/11/2025

Coming up this Friday at letsdeconstructastory.substack.com
Shastri Akella discusses his BASS short story, "The Magic Bangle," first published in Fairy Tale Review.

11/01/2025

Listen now | First published in The Iowa Review

10/29/2025

Video interview with Katherine Damm is up for paid subscribers and the audio podcast drops November 1st for all listeners on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. letsdeconstructastory.com

Shastri Akella will join paid subscribers on November 14th to discuss his Best American Short Story, The Magic Bangle. P...
10/29/2025

Shastri Akella will join paid subscribers on November 14th to discuss his Best American Short Story, The Magic Bangle. Podcast will drop for everyone on February 1, 2026. letsdeconstructastory.substack.com.

Maura Stanton will join me next! See below for more details.
10/24/2025

Maura Stanton will join me next! See below for more details.

for a discussion of Maura Stanton's "School for Robots."

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