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 Angel" visit ToniAnnJohnson.comThe Offing is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and we rely on l...
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 Letters. The collection was also a 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Finalist. Beast Meridian and her highly anti...
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 copy at Pshares.com.The Offing is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and we rely on literat...
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 journey through addiction, time in prison and life after punk rock.To learn more about Patric...