The Offing Podcast
The Offing podcast, a branch of The Offing Magazine, invites you to listen to poetry, fiction, autobiography and more read by the authors at Past Due's Los Angeles recording studio.
Episodes
Experimental interdisciplinary poet, writer & educator Angela Peñaredondo reads four pieces from their latest collection nature felt but never apprehended, "Mercy Ceremony," "On Cures and Abrasions from a Responsive Environment," "Meditations on a Fist" and "A Girl too Disenchanted to Indulge in Romantics."
The Offing's interview with Angela about nature felt but never appre...
On today’s episode, short-story author Pete Hsu reads an excerpt from “Sunder,” a story of youth at play exploring belonging, death, and maybe love.
Pete Hsu has authored the short story collection If I Were The Ocean, I’d Carry You Home and the experimental chapbook There Is A Man. Both are available now at PeterHzHsu.com.
The Offing is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and we rely on literature lovers and art enthusiasts like...
On today’s episode, novelist and attorney Natashia Deón reads excerpts from her 2021 novel, The Perishing, nominated for both an NAACP Image Award in Literature and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Fiction.
The New York Times named Natashia’s first novel, GRACE, a Best Book of the Year. GRACE also earned Best Debut Novel recognition by the American Library Association’s Black Caucus. Grace and The Perishing are available now at Nat...
Lilliam Rivera reads an excerpt from Barely Floating, from KO-ki-la Books, an imprint of Penguin. "A dazzling story full of heart about how one twelve-year-old channels her rage into synchronized swimming dreams."
Lilliam Rivera is the author of nine works of fiction, most notably Never Look Back, winner of a 2021 Pura Bel-pray Award in Young Adult literature. Rivera also authored the graphic novel UNEARTHED: A...
In episode 1 of The Offing Podcast, punk rock roadie icon Patrick O'Neil reads an excerpt from his most recent book Anarchy at the Circle K, out now from Punk Hostage Press. An interview with O'Neil and Offing podcast producer Chistopher Chase Godwin follows, touching on O'Neil's time in the Bay Area punk and hardcore scene, working with bands like Dead Kennedys, Flipper, and TSOL as well as O'Neil's j...
On today’s episode, Dana Johnson, author of "Elsewhere, California" and the Flannery O'Connor award for short fiction winner "Break Any Woman Down," reads “Wyatt Earp Days.” A conversation between Johnson and Offing publisher Ashaki M. Jackson follows her reading.
Learn more about Dana Johnson and her work here.
"Wyatt Earp Days” was first published in issue number 148 of Ploughshares. You can buy a cop...
On today's episode, essayist, critic and award-winning poet Vanessa Angelica Villarreal reads new poems on family, ancestors and extinct flowers of the Americas. Here are "Shelter in Place," "Easter Poem," "August," and "Canis Latrans."
Vanessa's first poetry collection, Beast Meridian, earned a Whiting Award and the John A. Robertson Best First Book Award from the Texas Institute of...
On today’s episode, we welcome novelist, screenwriter, playwright, actress, and Humanitas prize-winner Toni Ann Johnson. During this episode, she reads a segment of the story "The Way We Fell Out of Touch," from her short story collection, Light Skin Gone to Waste.
To learn more about the Arrington family or to support Toni Ann's body of work, including her books "Homegoing" and "Remedy for a Broken Ang...
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