Selected shorts contest

Our greatest actors transport us through the magic of fiction, one short story at a time. Sometimes funny. Always moving.

Selected shorts history

Selected Shorts connects you to the world with a rich diversity of voices from literature, film, theater, and comedy. New episodes every Thursday, from Symphony Space. A Celebration of Langston Hughes. Host Meg Wolitzer hands off to stage and film actor Teagle F. Bougere, our guest host for a show that celebrates the protean literary master and social activist Langston Hughes It features three of his most striking works.

Program host Teagle F. Bougere is the reader. Pauletta Pearson Washington reads th Host Meg Wolitzer presents two stories from a live evening at Symphony Space celebrating the prolific writer Stephen King. It was hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead. Slippery Roads and Fancy Shorts.