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Rocky Mountain Revival

Rocky Mountain Revival is an Audio Art Journal. What does that mean? We are a haven for readers, writers, singers, storytellers, audio artists, listeners and dreamers; an oasis for story-thirsty wanderers; an island of freedom in an ocean of thought tyranny surrounded by sharks that feed on the imagination. And no, we are not exaggerating. We support all arts, though we have a focus on literature and music.
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Dec 23, 2016

Joe Halstead is the author of West Virginia, a novel available from Unnamed Press. His work has appeared in People Holding, Cultured Vultures, Cheat River Review, The Stockholm Review, and others.

The Unnamed Press publishes literature from around the world. Whether it's fiction, memoir or something in between, we are always interested in unlikely protagonists, undiscovered territories and courageous voices.

Dec 10, 2016

An essay from D. Sidney Potter’s forthcoming collection of essays from Penguin Random House/Author House titled The Essayist: Reflections from a Real Estate Survivor.

A former commercial real estate broker in the 1990’s, Mr. Potter now spends his time writing about all things real estate related.  His first book, entitled The Flip: The True Life Story of How a Successful New Tract Home Investor Went from Zero to Hero, Back to Zero, received critical acclaim from New York Times best sellers, PhD’s to HGTV hosts.  He believes someone should start an organization called, Real Estate without Borders.

Nov 5, 2016

On this episode, a guidebook for writers looking to get published and learn the secrets of the writing world. Meg Tuite is our moderator and our panel is Robert Vaughan, Kathy Fish, and Len Kuntz.

What you’re going to hear about specifically is:

  • Submitting to literary journals
  • Competitions          
  • Rejections, dealing with rejection, learning from rejections, levels of rejections
  • Publishing collections and books
  • Promotion
Oct 21, 2016

Daniel DiFranco lives in Philadelphia. He teaches high school English and music. He plays in a band. He likes short, clear sentences. He often throws in a longer clause to balance out the rhythm of a paragraph. His work has appeared in Smokelong Quarterly, LitroNY, Philadelphia Stories, The Molotov Cocktail, and other fine publications. He is a regular contributor at Geekadelphia.

Daniel will read for us today "When You Find Yourself at the Center of the Earth", which he scored and recorded himself. It’s a reprint from the Winter 2015 issue of Hypertrophic Press.

Those People is a collection of multi-instrumentalists who create songs that “take the listener on a sonic journey chock full of inventive vocal harmonies, interesting melody, and lyrical content,” (Jennifer Logue, Rock On Philly).

Oct 6, 2016

Jonathan Cardew is a short story writer and editor based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His short [and very short] fiction appears in Atticus ReviewSegueJellyfish Review, Microfiction Monday, Flash FrontierPeople Holding, among other places. He teaches writing at Milwaukee Area Technical College, where he also edits The Phoenix Literary and Arts Magazine. He is from a city in the north of England, known for its knives.

Make sure and stick around after the stories to hear two guys nerding out and making  Star Wars jokes.

"Pretend-Phoning" was first published in Spelk Fiction and “The Girl who had a TIE-fighter for a Nose” was first published in The Forge Literary Magazine.

Sep 23, 2016

Hillary Leftwich is a native of Colorado and currently lives in Denver with her son. In her day jobs, she has worked as a private investigator, maid, and pinup model. Her writing appeared recently in NANO FictionMonkeybicycleDogzplotOne Sentence Love Stories with Meg Pokrass and is forthcoming in Eunoia Review. Her flash fiction story, “Free Lunch,” is forthcoming in Progenitor and was also nominated for The Pushcart Prize. You can follow her on twitter @HillaryLeftwich.

This is a live recording at Denver's F-Bomb. 

Sep 6, 2016

Steven Dunn is the author of the novel Potted Meat (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2016)

He was born and raised in West Virginia, and after 10 years in the Navy, he earned a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Denver.

Some of his work can be found in Columbia Journal and Granta Magazine.

In this episode Steven reads 6 stories from Potted Meat and then we talk about childhood, spankings, Steven's writing journey and much more. 

Jun 14, 2016

Our artists today are J. Bradley- Flash fictioneer, Lucia Cherciu- Poetess, Clive Collins- Author extraordinarre, All Human-Beautiful musical madness and M.Smith- Soulful songwriter.

It's a smorgasbord of audio art. Two unique bands with genre bending styles, flash fiction, poetry and a short story. It's almost too much. Almost. 

We're taking a break, be back in fall of 2016. 

*All Human is donating a song to those affected by the Orlando tragedy.

Click here to donate.

 

Apr 11, 2016

Blink-Ink is a print only quarterly of succinct fiction, featuring stories of about 50 words, plus some original art and photography. You can find them at www.blink-ink.org

11 authors reading 25+ microfiction stories. In order of appearance we have: Catfish McDaris, Nancy Stohlman, Meg Tuite, Jonathan Cardew, Jayne Martin, Gay Degani, Paul Beckman, Sharon Coleman, Lynn Mundell, and headlined by Blink Ink’s team and featured dancers Sally Reno and Doug Matthewson.

Mar 9, 2016

"Religions are not Potatoes" is a fullcast audio production from Gabriel Granillo and Michael Minassian reads his tale of Edgar Allen Poe's last three days in "Appointment in Baltimore." We finish the episode with a lovely Russian peasant song, derived from the music of the Romanov court, now fallen into oblivion from Sophie Paulette Jupillat. 

Feb 24, 2016

In this episode we team up with another awesome literary podcast, The Other Stories. Ilana Masad, the host and founder gives us the skinny on The Other Stories and then we have four authors reading stories from previous Other Stories episodes. Readings from: Todd Dillard, Bahiyyih El-Shabbaz, Tyler Barton, and Kit Haggard. 

Feb 9, 2016

The F-Bomb is Denver's premier flash fiction event, happening every month at Denver's own Mercury Cafe. January's F-Bomb "Mouth Crimes" featured Gay Degani and Sally Reno, with the fantacular Kathy Fish as our host. This is a live recording, prepare to get F-Bombed.

Jan 27, 2016

Steve Karas lives in Chicago with his wife and two kids. He is the author of Kinda Sorta American Dream and Mesogeios. His stories have also appeared in the short-fiction anthologies Friend.Follow.Text. #storiesFromLivingOnline and Bully, as well as literary journals like Necessary Fiction, jmww, Hobart, and Little Fiction. He can be found online at steve-karas.com or on Twitter at @Steve_Karas.

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