Lo Fi Lit

Avee Chaudhur i is from Wichita, Kansas. Some of his recent stories have appeared at Southwest Review , BRUISER and Peach Fuzz . He teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

On this episode I hosted these four fantastic readers - with Claire, Evan and Aaron returning to the program. It was Kelly Erin's first appearance on the show. I thank everyone for coming and showing up. This was an excellent lil reading, I think.

Bizarre is a weirdo poet / performer who runs Bizarre Publishing House and the infamous God Pussy open mic reading series over on twitter. We recorded this way back in the day in Dec

GG Roland returns in this two hour action packed episode where we partake in many beverages .

Katie Frank is an editor of Hobart Pulp and has been published in Hobart, Burial Mag, and muumuu house, There's extra content with Katie coming on the lofipod youtube channel.

From the hobart editorial team - Joe Nasta and I discussed the ins and outs of Hobart and writings and poetry from their own life. We discuss poetry, Walt Whitman's boys and Cletus Crow adn Ginger Jones and skinny - dipping and working on ships and fiction and many other things.

Zuleyha is the co-founder of Leavings literary magazine. Her poems have appeared in Adroit , North American Review , Salamander , Nimrod , Northwest Review , Palette , Four Way Review , CALYX , and elsewhere. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Tennessee.

Kyle Hays was a peer of mine back in 2011 - 13 . He's a fiction writer and has been published in Juked, The Seattle Review. He teaches at Tulsa Community College and we talk shop, Brandon Taylor's book 'Minor Black Figures' and philosophy on community and writing. Enjoy!

Rachel Hyman is a software engineer and also an engineer of communities and is a cool person . Met her through the Zona Motel publication. She once ran Banango Street and Banango Lit. Which was a huge operation. She's pretty dope and was cool enough to agree to join the show. She's been published by Big Lucks Review as well . She is an iconic Chicago person too.

Gion Davis is a poet and returns to talk about his new poetry book, "Designated Stranger" Also go see him read at the Publishing Genius reading happening this weekend in Baltimore.

Brian Allen Carr is reading this weekend at the AWP off - site events . He's a badass writer and works for the Zona Motel publication on substack, Brian is the author of Bad Foundations, Opiod, Indiana, Motherfucking Sharks, Sip, Vampire Conditions, and The Last Horror Novel in the History of the World.

Jillian Luft is an excellent writer and person - author of Scumbag Summer by House of Vlad. She now works for Zona Motel and writes about Trash TV. She's putting on a reading this week with Alexandra Naughton and Shy Watson down in Baltimore

On today's episode ZH Gill joined the show to discuss all things "Burial Magazine" and his movies and his writings along with comics and graphic novels. Enjoy the show! Z.H. has been on several readings I've held in the past so it felt cool to just sit down and shoot the shit with him

Jennifer Espinoza comes on the show and we talk about poetry, ghosts and writing and Beachsloth and Erin Taylor, She has five new poems up on lofimag.com Badass conversation. Follow her substack - @jenespinoza twitter @sadqueerlife instagram @sadqueerlife Buy her book - I Don't Want To Be Understood

I've copy/pasted this from the Sabr Tooth Tiger website : Madeline Blair is the mastermind behind Sabr Tooth Tiger Magazine . A poet, editor, and award-winning filmmaker from Chicago, IL, she received her BA in Creative Writing from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Okay Donkey, Burial Magazine, Luna Luna Magazine, Libre Lit, Raging Opossum Press , Ekp...

Claire Hopple is a writer currently living in Asheville, who works and edits for Zona Motel. Claire Hopple is the author of five books. Her fiction has appeared in Wigleaf, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Peach Mag, Forever Mag , and others. She’s the fiction editor at XRAY . She grew up in the woods of Pennsylvania and currently lives in Asheville, NC.

Kirstie Mackenzie 's new novel ' Better to Beg ' is out now - published by Jillian Luft's Sweet Trash Press. She's a great writer and person. This was a great interview!!

Sebastian has returned to discuss Fresh, Green Life. We spoil the entire book . So read the book first.

Past guest and Alt Lit icon - Austin Islam Calls in again.

That Lit Podcast was a podcast from 2014 hosted by Alexandra Naughton . Otherwise this would've been considered lost media. Alexandra sent this over to me to put up on the stream. I met Jesse Prado back at ctchfest. On this episode Jesse has plans to see X-Men : Days of Future Past. Visit Jesse on twitter @mrkindakooky and Alexandra at @

What would've been a lost episode is now not . Back in the day poet Alexandra Naughton hosted a series of podcasts with her friends called 'That Lit Podcast' in 2014. On this episode she chats with a previous guest of the show - Ctch They speak on magazines, disorganization and ghosts! Enjoy

Rachelle Toarmino, Aidan Ryan, Gion Davis, Julianne Neely, Joshua Thermidor, Tim Livingston, and Spencer Williams all read today on a reading to celebrate Hell Yeah. Several of us including Rachelle Toarmino were pregnant and we held a brunch to celebrate her new poetry book, Hell Yeah by Third Man Books. Hell Yeah , Rachelle Toarmino’s fourth poetry collection might also be Rachelle's sixth book...

Rudy Johnson returns to show for a third time, to promote and discuss his new book, Kill Rudy Johnson. Pig Roast Publishing is putting it out. Or has. You can pick it up on their website. Check it out!

Zac Smith and Cav return to the show; however, Cav never showed up. Zac Smith and I recorded a show by ourselves. It was a fine lackadaisical back and forth. We ended up with a two hour heavy and intense back and forth thing. Everything Is Totally Fine was published by Muumuu house. We speak about Fresh, Green Life by Sebastian Castillo. We spoke about Cav's girlfriend. No edits. Raw analog audio....

On episode 108. I present the audio from the reading held on November 4th - Jillian Luft, Jennifer Ostopovich, Kirstie Mackenzie, Claire Hopple. Alexandra Naughton, J.L. Moultrie and Z.H. Gill read this evening. Everyone read shorter pieces than usual and I asked everyone to come in with a couple questions for each other.