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TMR Podcast: Rachel Yoder, "The Thing at the Foot of the Bed" (2009 Finalist)
On this Missouri Review podcast, we present “The Thing at the Foot of the Bed” by Rachel Yoder, a finalist in our 2009 Audio Competition. Look for more audio winners throughout the month of March!
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2009 Audio Competition Winners Podcast Series Begins
We’ve just posted the first episode in our four-part podcast series featuring the winners of our 2009 Audio Competition. On this episode, we present “Lucy and the Bike Girl” by Hillary Frank, a finalist in the competition. Lucy, a 28-year-old with cystic fibrosis, meets the “Bike Girl,” who has the same disease, in an internet chat room. They are both, against the advice of friends and doctors, trying to get pregnant. They quickly become friends but can never meet in person, because the Bike Girl carries a bacteria in her lungs that is toxic to anyone with cystic fibrosis. This piece is an experiment in combining fact and fiction. The interview tape is all from a real interview; the narration is semi-ficitonal.
Hillary Frank is a freelance writer and radio producer, whose work has aired on This American Life, Weekend America, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Day to Day, Studio 360, Marketplace, and Chicago Matters. She has won awards for her radio stories from the Third Coast International Audio Festival, the Association for Women in Communications, and the National Mental Health Association. She is the author and illustrator of the novels Better Than Running at Night, I Can’t Tell You, and the forthcoming The View from the Top.
Lisa K. Buchanan reading on KQED's "The Writer's Block"
Lisa K. Buchanan, who was our first runner-up in the voice-only creative non-fiction category of our 2007 Audio Competition, can currently be heard on the KQED’s “The Writers’ Block” reading her winning entry to Opium Magazine’s 2007 “Bookmark Contest” in which authors had to submit a 250-word story that could be printed on a bookmark. You can listen to this episode of “The Writer’s Block” here.
You can also listen to Lisa’s winning entry in our audio competition on our podcast.
TMR Podcast: Audio Winners Series Wrap-Up
We’ve now concluded our podcast presentations of the winners of our 2007 Audio Competition. You can all of the winners are listed below with links to the podcast containing their work. Congratulations again to all of our winners!
Narrative Essay
First place, $1,000: Judith Sloan, “Sweeping Statements” [Listen]
First runner-up: Kris Saknussemm, “Cahoots” [Listen]
Second runner-up: Richard Paul, “Fighting With My Dad” [Listen]
Documentary
First place, $1,000: Lu Olkowski, “Grandpa” [Listen]
First runner-up and Editors’ Choice Award, $100: Richard Paul, “Shakespeare in Black and White” [Listen]
Second runner-up: Ken Cormier, “The Secret Pianos of Manhattan” [Listen]
Third runner-up: Dan Collison, “Lord God Bird” [Listen]
10-minute play
First place, $500: Kris Saknusemm: “Memory Wound” [Listen]
First runner-up: George Zarr: “Old Dog/Newer Tricks” [Listen]
Second runner-up: Sue Zizza, National Audio Theatre Festivals, “Avian Invasion” [Listen]
Voice-only Literature
Creative Nonfiction
- First place in Voice-only Literature category and Creative Nonfiction subcategory, $500: Albert Haley, “The Cough” [Listen]
First runner-up and Editors’ Choice Award, $100: Lisa K. Buchanan, “All That I Missed” [Listen]
- Second runner-up: Randolph Jordan, “A Death in the Family” [Listen]
- Third runner-up: Angela Cervantes, “A House of Women” [Listen]
Flash fiction
First place in subcategory and Editors’ Choice Award, $100: Josh McDonald, “Lost” [Listen]
First runner-up and Editors’ Choice Award, $100: Jithendria Kumar Aravamudhan, “Memoirs of a Mad Man” [Listen]
Poetry
First place in subcategory and Editors’ Choice Award, $100: Todd Boss, “To Wind a Mechanical Toy” [Listen]
First runner up: Todd Boss, “Yellow Rocket” [Listen]
Second runner-up: Runner up: Susan B.A. Somers-Willett, “The Golden Lesson” [Listen]
Third runner-up: Eric Torgersen, “Taking Tickets” [Listen]
Fourth runner-up: Josh McDonald, “Women in Strange Trousers” [Listen]
TMR Podcast: Audio Winners Series: Documentary: Dan Collison "Lord God Bird"
On this Missouri Review podcast, we have for you the audio feature “Lord God Bird” produced by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister, which was the 3rd runner-up in the Documentary category of our 2007 audio competition.
You can listen to this podcast directly here.
TMR Podcast: Audio Winners Series: Ken Cormier "The Secret Pianos of Manhattan"
On this Missouri Review podcast, we’re happy to share “The Secret Pianos of Manhattan,” by Ken Cormier, which was the 2nd runner-up in the Documentary category our of 2007 audio competition.
Ken Cormier is editor and producer of The Lumberyard, a radio magazine of poetry, prose, and music broadcast on WHUS in Connecticut, and also available online. His first book, Balance Act, a collection of poems and short stories, was published by Insomniac Press in 2000.
You can listen to this podcast directly here.