Deborah Treisman

This is The Writer's Voice, new fiction from The New Yorker.

I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.

On this episode of The Writer's Voice, we'll hear Rachel Heng read her story, A Very Safe Place, which appears in the October 12, 2026 issue of the magazine.

Heng is the author of the novels Suicide Club and The Great Reclamation, which won the New American Voices Award in 2023.

For an early look at new fiction, poems and author interviews, sign up for the This Week in Fiction newsletter at newyorker.com slash fiction.

This episode of The Writer's Voice was produced by John LeMay.

I'm Deborah Treisman.

Thanks for listening.

[instrumental music] This is The New Yorker Fiction Podcast from The New Yorker magazine.

I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.

Each month, we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and discuss.

This month, we're going to hear Awaiting Orders by Tobias Wolff, which appeared in The New Yorker in July of two thousand and five.

[upbeat music] The story was chosen by Colm Tóibín, a winner of the International Dublin Literary Award, whose books of fiction include the novels The Master and Long Island, and the story collection, The News From Dublin, which was published earlier this year.

Hi, Colm.

Hi, Deborah.

So, uh, the last couple of times that you were on the Fiction Podcast, you chose stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner and Mary Lavin.

This is The Writer's Voice, new fiction from The New Yorker.

I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.

On this episode of The Writer's Voice, we'll hear Sarah Anderson read her story, Dark Horse, which appears in the September 28th, 2026 issue of the magazine.

Anderson is a graduate of the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan, where she won two Hopwood Awards.

For an early look at new fiction, poems, and author interviews, sign up for the This Week In Fiction newsletter at newyorker.com/fiction.

This episode of The Writer's Voice was produced by John Lemay.

I'm Deborah Treisman.

Thanks for listening.

[upbeat music] This is The Writer's Voice: New Fiction from The New Yorker.

I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.

On this episode of The Writer's Voice, we'll hear Joyce Carol Oates read her story, "Lost Child," which appears in the September 21, 2026, issue of the magazine.

Oates, a winner of the National Humanities Medal and the Jerusalem Prize, among others, is the author of more than 70 books of fiction, including the novel Fox and the story collections Clint Kill Creek and The Frenzy.

For an early look at new fiction, poems, and author interviews, sign up for the This Week in Fiction newsletter at newyorker.com/fiction.

This episode of The Writer's Voice was produced by John Lemay.

I'm Deborah Treisman.

Thanks for listening.