Literary Podcasts

Novel Conversations

85 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 83 ratings
Novel Conversations is a podcast summarizing the world’s greatest works of classic literature: you get the whole story from cover to cover. If CliffsNotes had an audio-bestfriend, it would be us! E...

Asimov's Science Fiction

48 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 73 ratings
With every new issue, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine shares one piece of short fiction in podcast form. Enjoy these audio treats from our pages!

Thaddeus Ellenburg's Casual Friday

74 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 69 ratings
Finish the work week in all-out hysterics with short stories written and read by Thaddeus Ellenburg.

Paraphrase

16 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 69 ratings
Paraphrase is a podcast all about literary beginnings, from the first words in novel to the first steps in a career. Host Stephen Fishbach asks novelists to discuss the craft and thematic decisions...

Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse

237 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Shelf Love is about romance novels and how they reflect, explore, challenge, and shape desire. Host Andrea Martucci invites experts from a variety of perspectives to critically engaging with romanc...

Terrible Book Club

188 episodes - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★ - 46 ratings
Join Chris & Paris every other Tuesday to discover if you really can judge a book by its hideous cover, bad title, or weird synopsis. Support TBC on Patreon

Get Lit Podcast

327 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
"Welcome back to Get Lit, the literary podcast where we discuss famous works of literature and the authors who wrote them..."

Alternative Stories and Fake Realities

182 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities is a podcast designed to promote new and original audio drama, poetry and writing from across the English speaking world. Working with themes we will produce...

These Books Made Me

52 episodes - Latest episode: 26 days ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
These Books Made Me is a podcast about the literary heroines who shaped us and is a product of the Prince George's County Memorial Library System podcast network. Stay in touch with us via Twitter ...

Literary Entertainment! Live Author Interviews

365 episodes - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
You'll love Off The Shelf! Here you'll find all things storytelling! That's from books to stage plays to motion pictures. That's not all! We offer in-depth feature author interviews! 411 on book co...

Sheldrake on Shakespeare

60 episodes - Latest episode: 25 days ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratings

PoemTalk at the Writers House

167 episodes - Latest episode: 27 days ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
PoemTalk at the Writers House, hosted by Al Filreis and based at Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia. PoemTalk is a collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Programs in Contem...

Let's Get LITerary

29 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Let’s Get LIT[erary] is co-hosted by Sam Vega, Jen Atwell, and Kourtnie Berry at Rollins College. Each month you’ll find a new episode on a book we’ve chosen for many cultural heritage months. We’...

MFA Payday

46 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Join us as we explore how to make your MFA in Creative Writing pay on our new podcast, MFA Payday!Through interviews with MFA graduates, publishing industry insiders, and more, we will share the m...

Jones and Woolf

35 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
*Bronze medal winner at the Australian Podcast Award and a finalist for the Google Podcasts Creator Program.* Jones & Woolf is an audio fiction anthology series pairing literary noir and sci-fi wi...

Twenty Summers

97 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Twenty Summers is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, founded in 2009 to promote the private creation of art, to foster public engagement with art and artists, and to ...

All Write in Sin City

171 episodes - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Let's talk about writers and writing, right here in Sin City. Before we were the Motor City, one of the nicknames we were known by was "Sin City." Maybe that's why we've got so many great stories t...

Modern Poetry in Translation

102 episodes - Latest episode: 28 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
When Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort founded MPT in 1965 they had two principal ambitions: to get poetry out from behind the Iron Curtain into a wider circulation in English and to benefit writers ...

Write On SC

199 episodes - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
By writers, for writers, a weekly discussion of writing craft lead by South Carolina Writers Association members and guests.

Poets Wear Prada's Podcast

79 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
We're a small literary press, established in 2006 and based in Hoboken, New Jersey, birthplace of Frank Sinatra and professional baseball.

Books and Beyond with Bound

218 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago
Welcome to India’s No. 1 book podcast where Tara Khandelwal and Michelle D’costa uncover the stories behind some of the best-written books of our time. Find out what drives India’s finest authors:...

Lower Your Volume

162 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago
Join two Bibliophiles on this literary podcast adventure where they chat about books and talk way too loudly. Check out our social media accounts on Twitter @LowerPod, Instagram @LowerYourVolumePod...

Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast

132 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago
If you missed a moment of enlightenment or entertainment at this year’s Anniversary Festival, we’ve got you covered. Our 2023 festival highlights program brings a collection of captivating conversa...

Get Lit Minute

129 episodes - Latest episode: 12 days ago
A weekly podcast focusing on all things poetic, poetry and poets. Each week we will feature a poet and their poem. We will be highlighting classic poets from our In-School Anthology, sharing brief...

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast

77 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago
More than just a book talk. Each episode is its own unique forum, bringing Bloomsbury authors and experts to the front of the conversation and tackling key issues in today’s culture, both in academ...

Getting Lit with Linda - The Canadian Literature Podcast

76 episodes - Latest episode: 16 days ago
Using her expertise as a seasoned literature professor, Linda M. Morra develops provocative, timely insights about books from Canada and elsewhere to show why stories are relevant for all of us. Ho...

Podsothoth: A Lovecraft Book Club

70 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago
Podsothoth is a horror and comedy podcast dedicated to the works (and foibles) of H.P. Lovecraft, hosted by recovering goth and internet D-lister celebrity, Tod Beardsley. Every Lovecraft story wi...

Endnote

47 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago
Every other Friday, join Alexander Lynch, Juliann Garisto, Marta Anielska, Aïsha Philippe, Meixi Zhang, and the Hart House Literary and Library Committee (HHLLC) as they talk about the big ideas in...

FENCE Magazine - Poetry Fiction Essay Other

44 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago
With most of the entirety of the published journal's contents read aloud by the authors, the FENCE audiobook/podcast continues to push boundaries in literary publishing. In continuous publication s...