This Podlit features an interview with Amy Stolls, Literature Program Officer for the NEA. Since the mid nineties, Literature remains the only NEA discipline to give individual grants. In this interview, Amy discusses the grant application process, trends in manuscript submissions, and why...

Each year, an estimated 100,000 people die from preventable medical errors. In PodLit #8, actress Kathryn Spitz reads Linda Peeno's essay, "Burden of Oath," which describes her work to preserve the humanity of patients caught in a corporatized healthcare system. In her role as lawyer and...

For this PodLit program, Lee Gutkind interviews Jeffrey Lependorf, the Executive Director of CLMP,  (Council of Literary Magazines and Presses), in Austin, Texas at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference.  In the interview, Jeffrey discusses the difference between mission...