s3e32 Mary Morrissy, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Gina Chung, Brett Cook
Celebrating Short Stories in Cork, Greg Tate in Harlem
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October 23, 2025
Tony Robles speaks with writers, Mary Morrissy, Vanessa Onwuemezi and Gina Chung at The International Short Story Festival in Cork, Ireland. Martha Cinader speaks with artist, Brett Cook about Greg Tate Day in Harlem, New York. Jay Rodriguez Sierra presents new music, Your Sound – featuring Lonnie Plaxico, Pete Drungle and Pheeroan Aklaff. Poetry from Tony Robles and Martha Cinader.
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CREDITS– HOST: Martha Cinader, Tony Robles. FEATURED GUESTS: Mary Morrissy, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Gina Chung, Brett Cook. FEATURED SPOKEN WORD: Tony Robles, Martha Cinader. MUSIC: Your Sound by Jay Rodriguez Sierra- featuring Lonnie Plaxico – bass, Pete Drungle, Pheeroan Aklaff – drums, Jay Rodriguez Sierra – tenor saxophone. With a Key, by Martha Cinader, Jay Rodriguez Sierra, Martha Cinader – flute. ORIGNAL SOUNDTRACK, MIXING, MASTERING, SOUND DESIGN: Jay Rodriguez Sierra. Editing by Martha Cinader. Produced by Martha Cinader and Jay Rodriguez Sierra. Executive Producer, Martha Cinader.
FEATURED GUEST
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Gina Chung – Writer, Editor
Read more: Gina Chung – Writer, EditorGina Chung is a Korean American writer from New Jersey currently living in New York City. She is the author of the novel Sea Change, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and a B&N Discover Pick, and the short story collection Green Frog, which was a Good Morning America Book…
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Vanessa Onwuemezi – Writer
Read more: Vanessa Onwuemezi – WriterVanessa Onwuemezi is a writer living in London. She is the winner of The White Review Short Story Prize in 2019 and her work has appeared in literary and art magazines, including Granta, Frieze and Prototype. Dark Neighbourhood, her debut story collection, was named one of the Guardian’s Best Books of 2021, and was shortlisted for both the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the Edge Hill Prize…
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Mary Morrissy – Writer
Read more: Mary Morrissy – WriterI’m an award-winning Irish novelist (The Hennessy Award, Lannan Foundation Award) and short story writer, the author of four novels, Mother of Pearl, The Pretender, The Rising of Bella Casey and Penelope Unbound, as well as three collections of short stories, A Lazy Eye, Prosperity Drive and Twenty-Twenty Vision
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Brett Cook – Interdisciplinary Artist, Educator
Read more: Brett Cook – Interdisciplinary Artist, EducatorBrett Cook is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who uses storytelling to distill complex ideas and creative practices to transform outer and inner worlds of being. His elaborate installations feature painting, drawing, and photography to tell pluralistic stories with broad representation. His public projects typically involve community workshops featuring arts-integrated pedagogy and contemplative strategies—along with…
FEATURED BOOKS
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Vanessa Onwuemezi – Dark Neighbourhood
Read more: Vanessa Onwuemezi – Dark NeighbourhoodVanessa Onwuemezi takes readers on a surreal and haunting journey through a landscape on the edge of time. At the border with another world, a line of people wait for the gates to open; on the floor of a lonely room, a Born Winner runs through his life’s achievements and losses; in a suburban garden,…
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Mary Morrissy – Twenty-Twenty Vision
Read more: Mary Morrissy – Twenty-Twenty VisionTwenty-Twenty Vision is a collection of stories exploring the notion of hindsight, and the honesty and deceptions of late middle-aged regret . A composite portrait of a generation of women and men moving into the third age with a late-life perspectives. forming a tapestry of reckoning in the first year of the Covid pandemic.
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Gina Chung – Green Frog
Read more: Gina Chung – Green FrogEqual parts fantastical—a pair of talking dolls help twins escape a stifling home, a heart boils on the stove as part of an elaborate cure for melancholy, a fox demon contemplates avenging her sister’s death—and true to life—a mother and daughter try to heal their rift when the daughter falls unexpectedly pregnant, a woman reexamines…
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