ShortDocs
Discover hundreds of short audio gems produced in response to a prompt from Third Coast for the ShortDocs Competition, hosted between 2003 and 2016. Each year ushered in a new set of rules, new creative partners, and ever-more magical results.

What is Etched in Stone?
My Grandfather and Uncle recount their days as hand carving monumental sculptors in Ireland.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Ciara O'Conner

What does your name mean?
A mother and father reflect on what their child's name means and the incredible story of the destiny of the name.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Dan Gummel

Where Have All the Cars Gone?
Becca and Hunter discover CicLAvia, a place where no cars go.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Hunter Bermudez and Becca Grumet

What Grandad didn't tell us.
A look at the relationship between grandfather and grandson, and the stories people leave behind.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Chris Pearson
- Catherine Brinkworth

What was your first love?
A teenage girl recounts freshly ended first love.
- 2015
- 02:55
- Michaela Prell

Who works harder than this immigrant?
Zamina, originially from Trinidad, is a seamstress by day and a restauranteur by night.
- 2015
- 02:00
- @Jenniferpossible

Where are all the flowers from?
A little seaside town on the West Coast of Ireland wears floral posies for the children of Gaza.
- 2015
- 02:58
- Ellen Cranitch
When does life begin?
Two women go to the hospital with pain in their stomach but each one is on a very different journey.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Adriana Cargill

Why did you cut your hair?
The humour, the pain, and the liberation of a simple haircut.
- 2015
- 02:44
- Alison Broverman
- Veronica Simmonds

What was it like meeting JFK?
Interview with my grandma Jane about when she met JFK and how his assassination affected her.
- 2015
- 02:58
- Ellie Nakayama

Why Are You Wearing Roadkill?
The remarkable hat worn by a man on a park bench in Santa Fe plaza begs an explanation.
- 2015
- 02:47
- Siohban McHugh

Where do pigeons go when they die?
There are so many pidgeons in London, but why do you never see a dead one?
- 2015
- 02:59
- Chris Pearson
- Catherine Brinkworth

Where It's Not Junk
This is a story about what we sometimes do with the stuff that we don't use anymore.
- 2015
- 02:58
- Jackie Sojico

What's Your Number?
How many sexual partners is anyone prepared to admit to?
- 2015
- 03:00
- Marnie Chesterton

What happened that time I don't remember?
I ask my mother about the moment that defines her life and mine that I don't remember.
- 2015
- 02:56
- Meredith Turk

Where were you last night?
A short story.
- 2015
- 03:05
- Kate Landers

Where to get a bagel
In this exploration into the bagel feud between bagel shops St-Viateur and Fairmount, I speak with customers, employees and bagel connoisseurs alike to try and discover why people choose one bagel shop over the other.
- 2015
- 02:59
- Michelle Macklem

Who is Little Lulu?
A 5th grade girl interviews a classmate about his interest in Little Lulu.
- 2015
- 02:39
- Jesse Rhodes
- Shirley Liang

When you follow two children on the most chocolatey day of the year
Aoife (6) and Aoibhinn (3) were followed around with a microphone, and at times took matters into their own hands!
- 2015
- 02:31
- Lisa Madden

When Nothing Turns Out the Way We Would Ever Expect
Mixed with found hums from a used voice recorder, a furniture repair and vintage store-owner recollects his father's diversions, weaknesses, and love for people.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Meheriet Fesseha and Gaelin Monkman-Kotz

What is beyond both dream and sleep
One man's spiritual journey, made possible through chanting.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Stephanie Smith and Eugenia Viti

Where did we come from?
My mother tells me our immigration story.
- 2015
- 02:48
- Siva Vijenthira

Why Eat Ice Cream For Dinner?
Sometimes, getting lost and having ice cream for dinner is the best thing that can happen.
- 2015
- 03:00
- Katherine Kibler

Who Do I Come From
My grandfather, John Frank Noyes, is the only person who remembers our family's homestead in Wyoming; he died this winter.
- 2015
- 02:34
- Anne Noyes Saini

What do you look forward to, Aai?
The producer's grandma reflects on growing old in a country that's not her home.
- 2015
- 02:59
- Neena Pathak