Third Coast Audio Library
Our vast and ever-growing collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories, episodes from Third Coast podcasts, educational sessions on craft from the best makers on the planet, and more.
We’ve also featured some incredible audio work beyond this audio library, in other ways and using other formats: don’t miss the 2021 Web Showcase, featuring a more in-depth look at the winners, judges and even a list of 40 finalists from the 2021 Third Coast/RHDF Competition.
The Control of Teenagers
The Control of Teenagers dances on the corpse of self-help publishing;
- 2008
- 02:41
- Michael Hearst
- Rick Moody
Every Morning I Hear This Voice...
A cultural detective searches out a singing stranger and in the process finds out how prayer affects a young man's life.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Mikkel Nedergaard
Retro Rhetoric: Becoming More Becoming
How to make your dreams of happiness come true.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Sarah Boothroyd
Two Trailer Love Stories
A young woman and a married couple look back on trailer-style good times.
- 2008
- 03:04
- Meagan Perry
Cicatrix
"Cicatrix" resonates in regenerative acts, resiliency, rootedness, and irreparably damaged nerves as it tries to imagine one woman's language of war.
- 2008
- 02:51
- Joan Schuman
Flying Dream Sequence
The tale of a recurring dream.
- 2008
- 02:37
- Matt Fleeger
Matt and Bart Sleep in the Airstream
A sketch comedy short in the style of my weekly radio show, which features my co-host Bart and me in zany situations.
- 2008
- 02:43
- Matt Fleeger
The Unsustainable Age
A History Channel-style short told from the 23rd century.
- 2008
- 02:58
- Matt Fleeger
Summer Snow in Moscow
Every summer it snows in Moscow -- because of sexually frustrated trees? What do you know about the sexuality of the poplar tree?
- 2008
- 03:00
- Anastasia Gorokhova
- Daniela Hannemann
- Sasha Fomichev
The Woman in the Tree
Here's a story along the theme of "ephemera" - things that were not built to be around for long.
- 2008
- 02:59
- Kathryn Born
A Transgender Childhood
Growing up isn't easy - when you feel as if your mind is one gender, and your body another.
- 2008
- 03:03
- Tina Antolini
Trees for Economic and Social Justice
This piece explores the connections between social justice, activism, and citizenship, and questions the best way to make the world a better place.
- 2008
- 02:52
- Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Six Minutes
A motorcyclist hits the only tree standing in an otherwise empty field.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Katie Ball
In Order to Remember
Stories, photos, tape . . . all ways of recording, of trying to preserve, that which is so ephemeral to begin with: our memories.
- 2008
- 02:56
- David Graham
- Sue Mell
Creative Process
An entry about making a contest entry.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Kay Collins
Out of Control. Noise.
From children to adults . . .
- 2008
- 02:31
- Alexander Soleev
Ad Absurdum
A herd of marketing hits, cliches and platitudes, featuring a chorus of cats and two pounds of Velveeta.
- 2008
- 02:58
- Sarah Boothroyd
When Condos Travel
This piece explores what happens when trailers want to stay put, but condos travel -- removing Austin residents and their beloved trees.
- 2008
- 02:48
- Sara Robberson
Pink George
McCarthyism and me.
- 2008
- 02:59
- Kay Collins
A Large, Well-Rounded Head
The strange journey of Walt Whitman's brain, both inside his head, and out.
- 2008
- 03:01
- Kate Daloz
- Michelle Legro
Restful, Shady Places
The authors of Trailer Ahoy! and Trees as Good Citizens enjoy a written correspondence relating to their books' proximity in the library.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Sean Hurley
Leaves
The planting of a memorial tree reveals a lost story about my grandmother.
- 2008
- 03:33
- Max Barry
Why Question the Facts?
A tired teen talks in the second worst recording device he has.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Shaun D. Wilson
Sending Books to Africa
A surreal tale about book donations, whitefish salad, and trans-atlantic journeys.
- 2008
- 03:00
- Sarah Yahm
The Subtle Tongue of Racism Remains Unbitten in a "Post-Racial" America
How do Anglos think black people talk -- and how does that feel?
- 2008
- 02:58
- Will Wright