Miller Aud-cast #55: Paul Allman

Hello and welcome to Miller Aud-cast, the Missouri Review podcast where we listen to and discuss the finalists for the 2021 Miller Audio Prize. Thank you for being here, wherever here is, for episode 55, featuring the latest finalist for the 2021 Miller Audio Prize in Humor, Paul Allman, with “Gravity Dance.” Allman’s comic novel Otis: On the Occasion of His Foray into the Wilderness of Civilization, was published by St. Martin’s Press. He has also published two YA novels, The Knot and No Pain, No Gain. His award-winning essay, The Frequency, was published in Harper’s Magazine. Other stories have appeared in Film Comment, Folio, Public Illumination and Witness, where his short story We Have Time won a Pushcart Prize. His plays have been produced by the 78th Street Theatre Lab, Theater 80 at St. Mark’s Church, the Florida Studio Theater, the Sundance Children’s Theater, Theater for the New City and The Broome Street Theater. He was Playwright-in-Residence at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and also the Sundance Institute. Allman has taught in NYC’s Authors in the Schools Program, and led writing workshops at the YMCA of St. Louis, his home town. Episode 56 will be here for you before you know it, so stay tuned. Thanks as always to the outgoing Missouri Review contest editor, Bailey Boyd, and to Patricia Miller, for her generous support for the Miller Audio Prize. BE ADVISED: Entries are now open for the second annual Perkoff Prize, the new opportunity from the Missouri Review which awards $3000 + publication in prizes to the poet, fiction writer, and essayist with the best work engaging the fields of health and medicine in provocative ways. Learn more on our website, or subscribe to our newsletter for weekly updates. As ever, TMR is open for submissions year-round, and we remain dedicated to discovering and publishing the best contemporary writing in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Be heard. Give us the opportunity to discover you: submit your work today! In addition, we have tons of marvelous (and free!) creative content to read, listen to, and even watch on our website. Learn more at missourireview.com.