Short Stories Podcasts

A fast-paced, entertaining, and educational collection of narrated short stories and tales for all ages.

A monthly reading and conversation.

It's story time for adults with NPR's award-winning series of short fiction read by the stars of stage and screen.

Lose yourself in a great story with LeVar Burton Reads. In each episode, host LeVar Burton (Reading Rainbow, Star Trek, Roots) hand-picks a different piece of short fiction, and reads it to you.

LearnOutLoud.com presents the Novella Podcast featuring audio books that are longer than a short story, but shorter than your typical novel.

StoryWeb – a celebration of the stories all around us – is brought to you by Dr. Linda Tate, a former English professor who loves stories of all kinds.

The Classic Tales Podcast was created to make unabridged classics not only available, but approachable.

New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.

Listen as Jason and Carissa Weiser breathe new life into the classics and tell the stories of some of the greatest books ever written.

Authors including Jay McInerney, Martha Sandweiss, Garry Wills, and Tracey Morgan read from their new books.