{"id":4401,"date":"2022-11-26T18:12:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T01:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=4401"},"modified":"2023-10-14T19:23:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T02:23:41","slug":"the-strange-recital-receives-ben-jorgensen-memorial-fund-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=4401","title":{"rendered":"The Strange Recital receives Ben Jorgensen Memorial Fund Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Dactyl Foundation is pleased to announce that Brent Robison and Tom Newton, producers\/hosts of The Strange Recital<\/a>,<\/em> have received a grant\u00a0 from the Ben Jorgensen Memorial Fund in recognition of the work they have done creating their high-quality literary podcast.<\/p>\n

The Strange Recital<\/em> is an audio anthology of short fiction that “questions the nature of reality” and has been in continuous production since 2016 with over 130 episodes.<\/p>\n

Each podcast episode features one writer and runs about 20 minutes. It includes a story reading \u2013 the Recital, a brief musical interlude, and an author interview with a twist \u2013 the Post Recital.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Brent Robison<\/strong>\u00a0lives in the Catskill Mountains of New York with his wife, a maker of fabulous masks, and their wisecracking teenage daughter. His fiction has appeared in over a dozen literary journals and several anthologies, and has won the\u00a0Literal Latte<\/i>\u00a0Short Short Award, the\u00a0Chronogram<\/i>\u00a0Short Fiction Contest, a Fiction Fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, and a Pushcart Prize nomination. His collection of linked short stories,\u00a0The Principle of Ultimate Indivisibility<\/i><\/strong>, and his new mystery novel,\u00a0Ponckhockie Union<\/i><\/strong><\/a>, are available from booksellers everywhere. He blogs occasionally at ultimate-indivisibility.com<\/strong>. His second novel, now in progress, threatens to take him to the grave.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Tom Newton\u00a0<\/b>is the author of\u00a0Warfilm<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(Bloomsbury 2015),\u00a0Seven Cries of Delight<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(Recital Publishing, 2019) and\u00a0Voyages to Nowhere<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(Recital Publishing 2021). He has spent many years working in the film industry as a prop man, while pursuing a parallel existence\u00a0as musician, sound engineer and mastering engineer. He was a participant in\u00a0London’s punk music scene in the late seventies.\u00a0He\u00a0lives on a mountain in Woodstock, New York with his wife and daughter.<\/p>\n

About the Ben Jorgensen Memorial Fund<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ben Jorgensen was an award-winning actor who worked on television, stage, film, and audiobook productions.\u00a0 This fund was set up by his mother to honor his creative and generous spirit.<\/p>\n

With this award, we hope to encourage great artists to continue producing great work, and we hope more listeners will subscribe to free podcast via email at TheStrangeRecital.com or on the app The Podcast Source or at\u00a0 iTunes<\/a>,\u00a0Stitcher<\/a>,\u00a0Soundcloud<\/a>,\u00a0Google Play Music<\/a>,\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0TuneIn<\/a>,\u00a0YouTube<\/a>,\u00a0Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0iHeart Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n