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Other People's Flowers

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A podcast for showcasing stories, essays, and poems from around the world.
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S2:E19 Venture - Tracy Lyall

Other People's FlowersJun 02, 2019

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S2:E20 A Boot Full of Dreams - Philip Charter

S2:E20 A Boot Full of Dreams - Philip Charter

Philip Charter is a writer who lives and works in Pamplona, Spain. He is tall, enjoys travel, and runs the imaginatively named website 'Tall Travels'. His work has been featured in Flash Fiction Magazine, Fabula Argentea, and Page & Spine, among other publications. He won the 2018 Writing on the Wall Flash Fiction competition. 

Foreign Voices, his debut collection is available via Amazon. You read more about Philip on his website philipcharter.com.

Jun 23, 201925:22
S2:E19 Venture - Tracy Lyall

S2:E19 Venture - Tracy Lyall

Tracy L. Lyall resides in a dungeon beneath the steamy streets of Houston, TX. Born in the 1970's during the time of roller-disco and cool, cigarette-smoking tomboys, she spent her early years traveling on greyhound buses and experiencing life, much of which became the basis of her writing/art/photography ventures. After writing for underground Zines then progressing to poetry, her writing spanned into journalistic media. Published by university presses, magazines, and small press, she spent 8 years studying Creative Writing, English, and Studio Art at University level. Currently raising a series of fiction and creative non-fiction novels along with two Joeys, she runs an online Literary Zine while producing works of art and photographing many moments.

Jun 02, 201921:22
S2:E18: The Last Playdate - Christopher Bell
May 18, 201919:36
S2:E17 - The Stations of Grief - Pamela Scott

S2:E17 - The Stations of Grief - Pamela Scott

Pamela Scott lives in Glasgow, UK. Her work has appeared in various magazines including Brilliant Flash Fiction, Peeking Cat Poetry, The Cannon’s Mouth, Sarasvati, The Dawntreader and Toasted Cheese Literary Magazine. She has also featured in anthologies published by Collections of Poetry and Prose and Indigo Dreams Press. She is working on her first novel.  

May 04, 201933:31
S2:E16 Pink Sparkle Helmet - Jo Alkemade

S2:E16 Pink Sparkle Helmet - Jo Alkemade

Jo Alkemade is a Dutch citizen living in Long Beach, California. She spent many years riding her own motorcycle through the wide open spaces of the USA, and "Pink Sparkle Helmet" is based on personal experience. Previous publications include a children’s book (Jennifer and Jojo), novel (Belonging in Africa), and two short stories in an anthology (Short & Happy, or not).

Apr 26, 201914:19
S2:E15 The Siamese - João Cerqueira (trans. Chris Mingay)

S2:E15 The Siamese - João Cerqueira (trans. Chris Mingay)

João Cerqueira has a PhD in History of Art from the University of Oporto. He is the author of eight books.

The Tragedy of Fidel Castro won the USA Best Book Awards 2013, the Beverly Hills Book Awards 2014, the Global EbookAwards 2014, was finalist for the Montaigne Medal 2014 and  was considered by ForewordReviews the third best translation published in 2012 in the United States. It is published in six countries. Jesus and Magdalene won the silver medal in the 2015 Latino Book Award. The short story A house in Europe received an honorable mention in the Glimmer Train July 2015 Very Short Fiction Award.

A British national, Chris Mingay has lived and worked in Portugal for the last 15 years. A degree in Modern Languages from the University of Birmingham, and a love of foreign culture, especially that of his adoptive home, has led to his involvement in a series of translation and journalistic endeavours. With his own translation agency and working as a freelance journalist  for a number of publications, Chris entered the world of literary translation with João Cerqueira’s award-winning The Tragedy of Fidel Castro


Apr 13, 201927:50
S2:E14 Pissing Stones - Elson Dauti

S2:E14 Pissing Stones - Elson Dauti

This week's work comes from Elson Dauti

Apr 06, 201906:14
S2e13: Joe Bisicchia and Fabrice Poussin - Poetry

S2e13: Joe Bisicchia and Fabrice Poussin - Poetry

This week we're featuring work by two poets.


Joe Bisicchia writes of our shared dynamic. An Honorable Mention recipient for the Fernando Rielo XXXII World Prize for Mystical Poetry, his works have appeared in numerous publications. His website is www.JoeBisicchia.com.

The former TV host and high school English teacher, now a public affairs executive, lives near the city of Philadelphia where he particularly enjoys writing of human nature through the inspiration of bugs and easily overlooked things.


Fabrice Poussin teaches French and English at Shorter University. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, The Chimes, and dozens of other magazines. His photography has been published in The Front Porch Review, the San Pedro River Review as well as other publications. 

Mar 30, 201932:56
S2:E12 Anjali - Adreyo Sen

S2:E12 Anjali - Adreyo Sen

Adreyo Sen is currently a PhD student at the University at Albany.  He has been published in The Southampton Review, The Little Magazine, Danse Macabre, and Quail Bell.

Mar 15, 201913:13
S2:E11 The Weaver's Daughter - Jonathan Ball

S2:E11 The Weaver's Daughter - Jonathan Ball

Jonathan is a freelance cartographer who's day-job focusses on creating digital 3D landscape animations.  Based in a picturesque seaside town in Scotland, Jonathan enjoys writing both prose and poetry.  He also plays mandolin and haunts the local folk-club.

Mar 08, 201920:29
S2:E10 Cat in the Rain - Rosemary Harp

S2:E10 Cat in the Rain - Rosemary Harp

Rosemary Harp is a Chicago-based writer of fiction and essays. Her work has appeared in Brain Child Magazine, Hobart, Writing Disorder, and other journals. She is working on her first novel. Her hobbies include raising children and playing ice hockey.

Feb 23, 201911:32
S2:E9 The Hefner Project - Melodie Corrigall
Feb 15, 201915:31
S2:E8 The Shape of Things at Night - Niall Shepherd

S2:E8 The Shape of Things at Night - Niall Shepherd

Niall Shepherd is a young, autistic writer, from Preston, England. He uses his work as a means to express himself, and understand others. He often aims to explore themes of manhood and masculinity, adulthood and memory, family and fear. His work tends to be surrealist, making use of abstract imagery and absurdist humour.

Feb 01, 201912:24
S2:E6 My Comic Debut - Linda Herskovic

S2:E6 My Comic Debut - Linda Herskovic

Linda Herskovic is a former standup comic, a playwright, an essayist and is currently working on a funny yet touching fictional memoir and two children’s books, both about birds. She is an editor by trade and has appeared in the NY Time Metropolitan Diary section five times. All that and a great personality.

This is an excerpt from a larger piece. She would love to hear it on your broadcast.

Jan 18, 201919:16
S2:E5 Kind and Slow-witted Carpathian Spring - Lazar Trubman

S2:E5 Kind and Slow-witted Carpathian Spring - Lazar Trubman

Lazar Trubman is a college professor (linguistics and philology), who immigrated to the United States from a small town in the former USSR in 1990 after experiencing firsthand the hospitality of the Committee of State Security – KGB in common parlance. He taught languages and European literature at several colleges and universities for nearly twenty-two years. In 2017 he settled in North Carolina to dedicate his time to writing.

Jan 13, 201920:31
S2:E4 To Honor a Hero - Claudia Hinz

S2:E4 To Honor a Hero - Claudia Hinz

Claudia Hinz graduated from Harvard and received her master’s degree in English from Southern Methodist University. She worked as a broadcast journalist for network affiliates in California, Seattle and Dallas. Her articles, essays, book reviews and fiction have appeared in The Manifest-Station, Brevity, The Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune, 1859 Oregon’s Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine and Bend Lifestyle Magazine. Her first novel is out on submission with Writers House.

Jan 05, 201921:14
S2:E3 Glimpse - Jamie Leung

S2:E3 Glimpse - Jamie Leung

This week we're featuring a short story from Jamie Leung.

Dec 28, 201819:44
S2:E2 Here at the Esplanade - Irving Greenfield

S2:E2 Here at the Esplanade - Irving Greenfield

Irving Greenfield is a writer. His work has been published in Amarillo Bay, Runaway Parade, Writing For Tomorrow, eFictionMag and the Stone Hobo; and in Prime Mincer, The Note and Cooweescoowee (3X); and in THE STONE CANOE, electronic edition. He is cited in Wikipedia. He and his wife live on Staten Island.

He has been a sailor, soldier and college professor, playwright and novelist.

Dec 21, 201813:36
S2E1 The Hotel With the Blue Light - David Woods
Dec 14, 201818:48
Episode 30 - Weekend in the Suburbs - Mark Tulin
Oct 04, 201814:05
Episode 29 - Disclaimer - Paige Olausen
Sep 26, 201806:22
Episode 28 - Let this Damn Day Break - Stephen McQuiggan
Sep 19, 201814:16
Episode 27 - A Penny for 50 Cent's Thoughts - R.J. Fox

Episode 27 - A Penny for 50 Cent's Thoughts - R.J. Fox

This week we're featuring a non-fiction essay, A Penny for 50 Cent's Thoughts, by Robert Fox. R.J. Fox is the award-winning writer of several short stories, plays, poems, a memoir, and 15 feature length screenplays. Two of his screenplays have been optioned to Hollywood. His first book – a memoir entitled Love & Vodka: My Surreal Adventures in Ukraine was previously published by Fish Out of Water Books. His most recent publication was a collection of essays entitled Tales From the Dork Side. His forthcoming novel Awaiting Identification arrives in May 2018. Other People's Flowers is the podcast that showcases short stories, essays, and reportage. We're the first podcast-based literary journal. People hardly read journals anymore so we hope you'll listen instead. If you'd like to have your work featured on the show, please send it to editor@otherpeoplesflowers.com http://www.otherpeoplesflowers.com
Sep 05, 201819:20
Episode 26 - A Woman of the Arts - Steve Carr
Aug 30, 201817:07
Episode 25 - A Sicilian Tale - Susan P. Blevins
Aug 22, 201809:33
Episode 24 - The Squall - Michael Anthony
Aug 15, 201822:22
Episode 23 - Jenean McBrearty
Aug 08, 201827:43
Episode 22 - Country Man - Terry Barr
Aug 01, 201807:40
Episode 21 - Twenty Good Years - Pete Stavros
Jul 18, 201816:15
Episode 20 - Jeffery Berg - Poetry
Jul 12, 201809:01
Episode 19 - Christopher Woods - Man with a White Cane
Jul 04, 201808:36
Episode 18 - Robert Beveridge - Poetry
Jun 27, 201805:40
Episode 17 - JJ Steinfeld - Poetry

Episode 17 - JJ Steinfeld - Poetry

This week we're featuring a selection of poetry byt J.J. Steinfeld.

Canadian fiction writer, poet, and playwright J. J. Steinfeld lives on
Prince Edward Island, where he is patiently waiting for Godot’s
arrival and a phone call from Kafka. While waiting, he has published
eighteen books, including Would You Hide Me? (Stories, Gaspereau
Press, 2003), Misshapenness (Poetry, Ekstasis Editions, 2009),
Identity Dreams and Memory Sounds (Poetry, Ekstasis Editions, 2014),
Madhouses in Heaven, Castles in Hell (Stories, Ekstasis Editions,
2015), An Unauthorized Biography of Being (Stories, Ekstasis Editions,
2016), and Absurdity, Woe Is Me, Glory Be (Poetry, Guernica Editions,
2017). His short stories and poems have appeared in numerous
anthologies and periodicals internationally, and over fifty of his
one-act plays and a handful of full-length plays have been performed
in Canada and the United States.

Other People's Flowers is the podcast that showcases short stories, essays, and reportage.
Jun 20, 201808:35
Episode 16 - Ted DeMarsh - Sweet Run
Jun 13, 201811:12
Episode 15 - Robert Okaji and Veronica Fitzhugh Poetry
Jun 06, 201803:60
Gale Acuff - Naked Truth - Episode 14

Gale Acuff - Naked Truth - Episode 14

This week's episode is a collection of poetry by Gale Acuff, titled
Naked Truth. It's a comic, moving story of a young boy and his
obsession with his scripture teacher.

Gale Acuff has had poetry published in Ascent, McNeese Review,
Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Poem, Adirondack Review, Weber: The
Contemporary West, Maryland Poetry Review, Florida Review, Slant,
Poem,, Carolina Quarterly, Arkansas Review, South Dakota Review,
Orbis, and many other journals. He has authored three books of poetry:
Buffalo Nickel (BrickHouse Press, 2004), The Weight of the World
(BrickHouse, 2006), and The Story of My Lives (BrickHouse, 2008).Gale
has taught university English in the US, China, and the Palestinian West Bank.

Other People's Flowers is the podcast that showcases short stories, essays, and reportage. We're the first podcast-based literary journal. People hardly read journals anymore so we hope you'll listen instead.

If you'd like to have your work featured on the show, please send it to e
May 30, 201814:24
Patrcia Kenet Stories - Episode 13
May 23, 201830:20
Conversations with My Mother - Sile Mannion
May 15, 201819:58
Toms Tom - Thomas Healy - Episode 11
May 02, 201820:33
Early Morning Fog - Kate Lunn-Pigula
Apr 25, 201812:27
Short Fiction - Marc Nash
Apr 18, 201814:24
War Hero - David Calladine
Apr 11, 201823:17
Those Left Behind - Jonathan D'Arcy
Apr 04, 201825:06
We Don't Do Catholics Here - Jemma Prandial
Mar 28, 201824:29
Pity Friends - David Calladine
Mar 21, 201827:05
Courting - Robert Davies
Mar 14, 201825:24
Inscription - Dorothy Piers
Mar 07, 201831:58
Allemande Grave - Daniel Richards
Feb 28, 201826:01
Just Once In The Moonlight - Ayunda Dlamini
Feb 22, 201812:38