(00:00:00) Intro
(00:02:00) The Place to Find a Body (Ailsa Cox)
(00:06:17) The Woman in the Tracksuit (Charlie Hill)
(00:07:05) The Sunshine Skyway (Lauren C. Johnson)
(00:13:53) New You (Shelley Roche-Jacques)
(00:16:05) The Whites of Her Eyes (Molly Treweek)
(00:21:58) Muguette (Elsa Court)
(00:30:22) bill (Timothy Fox)
(00:33:49) Spirits (Elizabeth Geoghegan)
(00:37:01) Curtain Call (Niamh Swain)
(00:43:24) A New Lease (Loghan Fellows)
(00:45:29) Unbecoming (Sonya Moor)
(00:50:09) She Will Sleep (Abi Millner)
(00:53:05) The Man Who Walks Backwards (Charlie Hill)
(00:54:12) Outro

Ailsa Cox has published fiction in numerous magazines and anthologies, and twice been longlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. You can read her latest story, “Poltergeist”, in The Manchester Review. Precipitation, a mini-collection in collaboration with the artist Patricia Farrell, is available from Confingo. Other books include Writing Short Stories (Routledge 3rd edition 2025) and, as co-author, Reading Alice Munro’s Breakthrough Books (EUP 2024).“The Place to Find a Body” was first published in Suzanne Bray and Gérald Préher (eds.), Tomorrow’s World/ Le Monde de demain, Biennale Ecoposs, FLSH, Lille, 2022.

Elsa Court is a French-born writer and translator based in London. She holds a PhD in English Literature from UCL, and completed The Stinging Fly Advanced Fiction Workshop with Seán O’Reilly in 2019. Her stories and essays have appeared in Granta, American Short Fiction, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The TLS, and she has translated essays and interviews for publications including the Financial Times and Another Gaze. She teaches Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London. “Muguette” originally appeared in Issue Four of Worms Magazine, a London-based publication championing new writing by women and nonbinary authors, in 2021.

Loghan Fellows is a Sheffield-based writer and performer who enjoys writing short-form fiction and spouting long-form balderdash. He is currently in his final year of a Creative Writing undergraduate degree at Sheffield Hallam University. He can be found on Instagram under the dashingly original moniker of @loghanfellowswriter.

Timothy Fox lives and writes in London. His chapbook every house needs a ghost was recently published by The Braag. It was a finalist for the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize. His writing has appeared in, among others, The Molotov Cocktail, The Ghastling, Funicular Magazine and New Writing Scotland. In 2023, he was named a London Library Emerging Writer.

Elizabeth Geoghegan was born in New York, grew up in the Midwest, and lives in Rome. She is the author of two short story collections eightball and Natural Disasters, and the bestselling memoir The Marco Chronicles. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The Best Travel Writing, TIME, El Pais, Words Without Borders, BOMB, and elsewhere. “Spirits” is forthcoming in an anthology of writing about Naples in conjunction with the Giancarlo DiTrapano foundation.

Charlie Hill is a writer from Birmingham. His work has appeared in publications such as Ambit, Stand, The Lonely Crowd, Confingo, Riptide and the Manchester Review, featured in songs and been taught in South Australian schools. “The Man Who Walked Backwards” first appeared in a pamphlet and “The Woman at the Bustop” in the online magazine Spelk. They were later included in Charlie’s second collection Encounters With Everyday Madness, which was shortlisted for the 2025 Edge Hill Prize.

Lauren C. Johnson attributes her upbringing in Florida, America’s weirdest state, to her interest in the ecological and surreal. She lives in San Francisco, where she co-hosts Babylon Salon, a quarterly Bay Area reading series, and Club Chicxulub, a speculative reading and performance series. Her debut novel, The West Façade, is forthcoming from Santa Fe Writers Project on March 3, 2026. “The Sunshine Skyway” was first published on April 20, 2025, in The Sunlight Press.

Abi Millner was born and raised in Dorset, England. She has completed a BA Hons degree and Masters degree in creative writing at Sheffield Hallam university, during which she discovered a love for short and flash fiction. She was shortlisted for the Bridport flash fiction prize in 2024 and her short story “Joy” was recently published in the Linen Press anthology Skeins. She lives in the Peak District with her husband and children.

Sonya Moor is a French and British author and translator of short fiction. Her translation of Albertine Sarrazin’s The Crib and Other Stories is published by Cōnfingō, as is her collection The Comet and Other Stories. Her stories are widely published in literary reviews and anthologies, including Best British Short Stories 2024 and Best British Short Stories 2022, and recognised for awards such as the Cinnamon Literature Award, Seán O’Faoláin International Short Story Competition and Bridport Short Story Prize.

Shelley Roche-Jacques’ work has appeared in magazines and journals such as The Boston Review, Litro, The Rialto and Brevity. Her poetry pamphlet Ripening Dark was published in 2015, followed by a collection of dramatic monologues, Risk the Pier, in 2017. Her work has been highly commended for the Bridport Prize for flash fiction and shortlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction Award and Wigleaf Top 50. Her current research is on flash fiction as a distinct literary form. She teaches Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University, where she is Course Leader for the BA Creative Writing programme. “New You” was first published in the Bridport Prize Anthology 2021 (Redciffe Press).

Niamh Swain was born in Derbyshire and is currently in her second year of a BA Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University, which has sparked her love for short stories and flash fiction. She is an enthusiast of storytelling in all its forms, from novels to film to video games. The short story “Curtain Call”, like most of her work, is inspired by her love of the British comedy she was raised on. Part of her writerly mission is to inject that essence into as many genres as possible.

Molly Treweek is a Leeds-based Creative who will be receiving her BA Hons Creative Writing degree from Sheffield Hallam University in June. She writes literary fiction and short stories exploring obsession and identity. Her poem “Just Nipping Out” was featured in The Flock Literary Magazine. You can find the rest of her short story “The Whites of Her Eyes” on her Instagram (Instagram) and Substack.

Podcast intro and outro credits: Shield, Leroy, Taylor Holmes, and Robert W Service. The shooting of Dan McGrew. 1923. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress.