Inside the Issue, hosted by Southern Indiana Review (SIR) Fiction Editor, Casey Pycior (pronounced “Pitcher”), is an interview series with writers whose stories are published in each issue of SIR.
SIR is a literary journal housed in the English Department in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Southern Indiana and publishes bi-annually, in the fall and spring of each year. For more information, or to purchase issues, please go to www.usi.edu/sir.
In this episode of Inside the Issue, Casey talks with Richard Holinger about his story, “Before Saying Goodbye,” which is featured in the Spring 2024 issue.
Richard Holinger’s fiction, essays, poetry, and book reviews have appeared in The Southern Review, Boulevard, North American Review, The Iowa Review, Western Humanities Review, Witness, Chicago Quarterly Review, Chautauqua, and elsewhere. He is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee and two-time Best of the Net nominee. His book of poetry, North of Crivitz, and collection of essays, Kangaroo Rabbits and Galvanized Fences, have garnered praise respectively from Kevin Stein, former Illinois Poetry Laureate, and David Hamilton, Editor Emeritus of The Iowa Review. “Not Everybody’s Nice” won the 2012 Split Oak Press Prose Chapbook Contest. Kattywompus Press published “Hybrid Seeds: Little Fictions,” a chapbook of innovative writing.
He holds a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an M.A. in English from Washington University. He facilitates the Night Writers Workshop and writes a bimonthly newspaper column for Shaw Media. He has taught on the university, community college, and secondary school levels. He lives west of Chicago far enough to see fox, deer, turkeys, blue herons, and bald eagles occasionally pass by.
For more about the SIR Fiction Editor and host, Casey Pycior, go to www.caseypycio....
The music playing during the opening and credits is from Jacob Sunderlin’s “Ojos Primitivos.” To find this song and the rest of Jacob’s amazing music, go to jacobsunderlin.... To find out more about Jacob’s music and his poetry, check out www.jacobsunde....
Many thanks to Ron Mitchell, SIR Editor-in-Chief, the English Department and College of Liberal Arts at the University of Southern Indiana, and Gage Lynn for assistance with video layout and design.
2 окт 2024
