The Art of the Short Story - author T.D. Johnston

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Welcome to the first episode of Writers Drinking whiskey, the show where you find more than your next read: you find your next AUTHOR. In this episode our host William R. Hincy shares a drink with award-winning writer T.D. Johnston, author of Friday Afternoon and Reciprocity (among others). We had such a great time chatting we had to break our conversation into two episodes. In part 1, we get to know Mr. Johnston, the person; in part 2, Tim reads us one of his phenomenal stories and we get to know the writer. For video, check out the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NBo93gsAqS0

Today’s drinking game: take a sip every time one of us mentions “short stories.”

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Links:
Part 2 with T.D. Johnston: https://youtu.be/Rt5Q2u4qB7Q
Writers Drinking Whiskey Episode 2 with Mathieu Cailler: https://youtu.be/IurSNQmO0bg
T.D. Johnston’s site: https://tdjohnston.com/ 
William R. Hincy’s books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/William-R.-Hincy/author/B07ZYB5FHZ

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Recipes:
*WDW Old Fashioned - rocks glass, 1.5” sphere ice, 4-5 dashes of AUGUSTO bitters, Bulliet Rye whiskey (a little above the ice), a Woodford Reserve luxadaro cherry. A spritz an orange peel over the glass. 
*Captain and Cherry Coke Zero - heavy pour of the rum. 

Bios:
Tim: T.D. Johnston won the 2017 International Book Award for Best Short Fiction for his debut collection, Friday Afternoon and Other Stories. His short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and literary journals. The editor of the Short Story America anthology series of contemporary short stories, he lives in Jacksonville, Florida and Beaufort, South Carolina with his wife, Stacey, daughters Brooke and Taylor, and son Nick.

Bill: “Some people run from their demons; others sit down and have cocktails with theirs.” William R. Hincy is a man who does and writes about the latter. Having become a writer after deciding it was the only sensible thing for a problem drinker to do, Hincy aspires to use literature to connect society on an emotional level through characters who no longer create messes but have instead become the mess. Hincy has won the American Fiction Award and been named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award and two International Book Awards. Without Expiration, his personal anthology of short fiction, was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews. He now lives outside Los Angeles with his wife and kids, having found solace in the notion that the only things sacred are self and spice

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