Cabana Chats

In this special between-seasons episode of Cabana Chats, we bring you PART TWO of the recording of a live event held on September 26, 2023, with writers ⁠Greg Mania⁠, ⁠Denne Michele Norris⁠, and ⁠Matt Ortile⁠ in conversation with Resort founder Catherine LaSota. This episode is part two of the event "What's Community Got to Do With It?", which was an Official 2023 Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend event held at LIC Bar in Queens, NYC. Listen in to hear Greg, Denne Michele, and Matt in a panel conversation with host Catherine LaSota, on the topic of how community has played a role in their writing lives. There is a lot of great stuff to learn in this entertaining discussion! Check out our previous episode for part one of this live event, which includes anecdotes and readings from Greg, Denne Michele, and Matt. *** IN-PERSON RETREAT in NYC!: Are you craving some time to reconnect to your creative practice, take good care of yourself, and build your writing community? Check out our very first IN-PERSON retreat for writers, called ⁠Come to Your Senses⁠, taking place November 18-19, 2023. This retreat is open to anyone who wants to write, no matter your genre of interest or experience level. Registration closes on November 3, 2023. Learn more and register here: ⁠https://www.theresortlic.com/come-to-your-senses⁠ *** Want to hear more about what's coming up at the Resort? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter ⁠here⁠. Thank you to our podcast editor Jade Iseri-Ramos, and thank you to Pat Irwin for our music. Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: ⁠https://www.theresortlic.com/

In this special between-seasons episode of Cabana Chats, we bring you the recording of a live event held on September 26, 2023, with writers Greg Mania, Denne Michele Norris, and Matt Ortile in conversation with Resort founder Catherine LaSota. This episode is part one of the event "What's Community Got to Do With It?", which was an Official 2023 Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend event held at LIC Bar in Queens, NYC. Listen in to hear Greg, Denne Michele, and Matt each share an anecdote about the role that community has played in their writing lives, and then share a brief reading of their work. Check out our next episode for part two of this live event: the awesome panel discussion! *** IN-PERSON RETREAT in NYC!: Are you craving some time to reconnect to your creative practice, take good care of yourself, and build your writing community? Check out our very first IN-PERSON retreat for writers, called Come to Your Senses, taking place November 18-19, 2023. This retreat is open to anyone who wants to write, no matter your genre of interest or experience level. Registration closes on November 3, 2023. Learn more and register here: https://www.theresortlic.com/come-to-your-senses *** Want to hear more about what's coming up at the Resort? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here. Thank you to our podcast editor Jade Iseri-Ramos, and thank you to Pat Irwin for our music. Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/

On this final episode of season three, Resort founder Catherine LaSota shares five things she has learned and re-learned about the process of writing over the past several months, via group programs at the Resort and her 1-on-1 work with writers. Catherine also shares information about some exciting things coming up at the Resort this Fall! You can find out more about these below: Sep 18-Oct 6, 2023 online: Commit to Your Practice coaching project -- sign up for one of 20 one-hour, individual coaching sessions that Catherine is gifting to writers this Fall. http://catherinelasota.com/commit-to-your-practice Oct 7-8, 2023 in NYC: The Resort is hosting its first in-person retreat, Come to Your Senses. This two-day experience is open to writers of all genres and experience levels. Limited to eight participants. https://www.theresortlic.com/come-to-your-senses Oct 18, 2023 in NYC: Join our in-person 2 1/2 hour workshop with Eleanor Whitney, called Build a Writing Career on Your Own Terms. Workshop registration includes a copy of Eleanor's newest book, Promote Your Book: Spread the Word, Find Your Readers, and Build a Literary Community. Join us: https://little-math-115.myflodesk.com/ Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Hosted by Catherine LaSota: http://catherinelasota.com/ Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos. Our music is by Pat Irwin. Join the Resort mailing list for an awesome weekly newsletter, full of opportunities for writers!

It's our first (non-live event) episode with TWO guests! Nancy K. Miller and Tahneer Oksman, co-editors of Feminists Reclaim Mentorship: An Anthology (SUNY Press, 2023), are in conversation with Catherine LaSota about what we mean we identify as a mentor or a mentee, and how the nature of mentorship is changing -- and what that means as we build communities together. Nancy K. Miller is a feminist author, memoirist, and teacher who has authored or edited over a dozen books. She is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Learn more about Nancy K. Miller on her website: https://nancykmiller.com/ Pick up a copy of Nancy K. Miller's My Brilliant Friends here: https://bookshop.org/a/83344/9780231190558 Tahneer Oksman is a writer, teacher, and scholar. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Language, with a joint appointment in the Department of Communication and Media Arts, at Marymount Manhattan College. Learn more about Tahneer Oksman on her website: https://www.tahneeroksman.com/ Read more about and pick up a copy of Feminists Reclaim Mentorship: An Anthology here: https://sunypress.edu/Books/F/Feminists-Reclaim-Mentorship Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Hosted by Catherine LaSota: http://catherinelasota.com/ Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos. Our music is by Pat Irwin. Join the Resort mailing list for an awesome weekly newsletter, full of opportunities for writers! Coming up soon: Sep 18-Oct 6, 2023: Catherine is gifting 20 one-hour coaching sessions to 20 individual writers! Find out more: https://catherinelasota.com/commit-to-your-practice Oct 7-8, 2023: in-person writing retreat at the Resort! Find out more: https://www.theresortlic.com/come-to-your-senses

2023 has been kind of a strange year energetically, and this summer alone has been...a bit of a doozy at times. On this near-season-end episode of the Cabana Chats, host Catherine LaSota checks in to ask: How are you doing? If you've been feeling out of sorts, a calendar review and some intentional future planning can be super helpful. Catherine walks you through this process using her own exhausting 2023 calendar as an example! Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Hosted by Catherine LaSota: http://catherinelasota.com/ Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos. Our music is by Pat Irwin. Join the Resort mailing list for an awesome weekly newsletter, full of opportunities for writers! Coming up soon: Sep 18-Oct 6, 2023: Catherine is gifting 20 one-hour coaching sessions to 20 individual writers! Oct 7-8, 2023: in-person writing retreat at the Resort! FULL DETAILS IN THE RESORT NEWSLETTER

This episode features the wonderful Randy Winston, lover of milkshakes and Director of Writing Programs at the Center for Fiction, in conversation with Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Randy and Catherine talk about the importance of demystifying literary ecosystems, the ways that building relationships form the cornerstones of a writing life, and New York City diner portions (especially the Lumberjack Special). Find out more about the Center for Fiction here: https://centerforfiction.org/ Follow Randy Winston on social media: Twitter: @_rwinstonsworld Threads: @_rwinstonsworld Instagram: @_rwinstonsworld Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Hosted by Catherine LaSota: http://catherinelasota.com/ Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos. Our music is by Pat Irwin. Join the Resort mailing list for an awesome weekly newsletter, full of opportunities for writers!

It's a conversation with the one and only Ariel Gore! In this episode of the Cabana Chats podcast, Resort founder Catherine LaSota is thrilled to be in conversation with a writer she admires not only for the various zines and books she's put out into the world, but also for the ways she helps other writers to find their path by integrating their creative practice with the fullness of life and forging a way that works for them. Ariel and Catherine talk about the helpful permissions we give ourselves, the ways that life impacts writing output, and tricks for getting back into the writing flow, among other topics. Ariel Gore is a journalist, memoirist, novelist, and nonfiction author. She is the founding editor and publisher of Hip Mama, an Alternative Press Award-winning publication covering the culture and politics of motherhood, and she leads writing workshops at Ariel Gore's School for Wayward Writers. Pick up a copy of Ariel Gore's The Wayward Writer: Summon Your Power to Take Back Your Story, Liberate Yourself from Capitalism, and Publish Like a Superstar here: https://bookshop.org/a/83344/9781648411847 More in Ariel Gore's world: https://arielgore.com/ http://literarykitchen.net/ https://readingandtraveling.net/ Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Hosted by Catherine LaSota: http://catherinelasota.com/ Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos. Our music is by Pat Irwin. Join the Resort mailing list for an awesome weekly newsletter, full of opportunities for writers!

We just had a new moon (new beginnings!), and it's Cancer season (lots of emotions!). How can we combine the theme of new beginnings, plus a mid-summer season that can be full of big feelings, into some helpful writing prompts for our journal? Resort founder Catherine LaSota shares some thoughts about the season and encourages a reinvigorated journal practice, including writing prompt suggestions. Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos. Our music is by Pat Irwin. Join the Resort mailing list for an awesome weekly newsletter, full of opportunities for writers!

It's our first episode with a second-time guest! Cabana Chats is thrilled to welcome back Brian Gresko, who sits down to chat with Catherine LaSota about the lessons and labor of parenthood and writing, the ways that we define community, and the exciting things that are happening at Writing Co-Lab, the teaching cooperative he helped to organize and launch in January 2023. More about Brian Gresko: https://www.briangresko.com/ Learn more about Writing Co-Lab: https://www.writingco-lab.com/ Follow Writing Co-Lab on social media: Instagram: @writing.colab Twitter: @thewritingcolab Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Hosted by Catherine LaSota: http://catherinelasota.com/ Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos. Our music is by Pat Irwin. Join the Resort mailing list for an awesome weekly newsletter, full of opportunities for writers!

All writers feel stuck sometimes. What can you do when you feel like you are hitting a wall in your writing, or when you are simply feeling low about the whole process and practice of being a writer? Resort founder and Cabana Chats host Catherine LaSota offers some suggestions for things to try when you hit those inevitable sticky seasons in your writing. Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos. Our music is by Pat Irwin. Join the Resort mailing list for an awesome weekly newsletter, full of opportunities for writers!

It's another live event episode of the Cabana Chats podcast! On May 31, 2023, we hosted a Happy Half Hour event via Zoom at the Resort, bringing together the wonderful writers and editors Tajja Isen and Matt Ortile to talk about writing and community. Tajja and Matt are friends and former colleagues of the wonderful Catapult magazine (which shuttered its doors unexpectedly in mid-February 2023, to much sadness amongst writers), as editor-in-chief and executive editor, respectively. On this episode of the Cabana Chats podcast, they have a wide-ranging discussion about the transition of their primary public identity from editor to writer, and what they are working on now. They also provide some stellar wine and food reviews. Join the Resort online community to check out more of our Happy Half Hour events!: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Tajja Isen and Matt Ortile are two of the guests who are participating in Ask Me Anything sessions for our 2023 group program, Summer of Support. Be sure to join the Resort's mailing list to find out about upcoming class and workshop opportunities, and visit the Resort website to learn more: https://www.theresortlic.com/ More about Tajja Isen: https://tajjaisen.com/ More about Matt Ortile: https://www.mattortile.com/ Purchase Tajja Isen's Some of My Best Friends here. Purchase Matt Ortile's The Groom Will Keep His Name here. Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Hosted by Catherine LaSota: http://catherinelasota.com/ Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos. Our music is by Pat Irwin. Join the Resort mailing list for an awesome weekly newsletter, full of opportunities for writers!

We've just had a new moon, and the solstice is upon us. It's a great time for new projects, big energy, and joyful romping. But what if you feel like a good cry instead? On this episode, Resort founder Catherine LaSota shares some things about her past couple of wobbly weeks, and she offers a reminder that just letting go - with some tears or screams or yells - can not only be part of the natural cycles of life but also necessary to a healthy writing process. Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos. Our music is by Pat Irwin. Join the Resort mailing list for an awesome weekly newsletter, full of opportunities for writers!

Happy Pride! We are thrilled to bring you a conversation with the owner/founder of a beloved, queer woman owned bookstore in New York City. Resort founder Catherine LaSota sits down for a chat with friend and literary event collaborator Lexi Beach, owner of the Astoria Bookshop in Queens, NYC. They talk about loving books, following new career paths, and how special bookstore communities are. The Astoria Bookshop recently celebrated ten years and a move into a new space -- bigger and better and beautiful! If you are in New York City, check them out at 36-19 30th Street, Astoria, NY 11106. Learn more about the Astoria Bookshop: https://astoriabookshop.com/ Check out upcoming events at the bookshop: https://astoriabookshop.com/events Follow the bookshop on social media: Instagram: @astoriabookshop Twitter: @astoriabookshop Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Hosted by Catherine LaSota: http://catherinelasota.com/ Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos. Our music is by Pat Irwin. Join the Resort mailing list for an awesome weekly newsletter, full of opportunities for writers!

It's a live event episode of the Cabana Chats podcast! On May 30, 2023, we hosted a Happy Half Hour event via Zoom at the Resort, bringing writers and friends Greg Mania and Denne Michele Norris in conversation together around writing and community. Greg and Denne Michele talk about what's going on in their professional lives, the importance of meeting up with other writers in real life, and much more. Join the Resort online community to check out more of our Happy Half Hour events!: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Greg Mania and Denne Michele Norris are two of the guests who are participating in Ask Me Anything sessions for our 2023 group program, Summer of Support. Be sure to join the Resort's mailing list to find out about upcoming class and workshop opportunities, and visit the Resort website to learn more: https://www.theresortlic.com/ More about Greg Mania: https://www.greg-mania.com/ More about Denne Michele Norris: https://www.dennemichele.com/ Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Hosted by Catherine LaSota: http://catherinelasota.com/ Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos. Our music is by Pat Irwin. Join the Resort mailing list for an awesome weekly newsletter, full of opportunities for writers!

Sometimes writing inspiration comes from the most unexpected places. Resort founder and Cabana Chats host Catherine LaSota shares a story about a recent experience that led to some writing inspiration, and then she challenges you to attune to your senses that are most evocative for you. How can you build a relationship with your receptors for the world around you, to pay attention in a way that feeds your writing practice? Season Three has just begun! Get ready for a bunch of interviews with awesome guests, alongside solo episodes offering inspiration, prompts, tips, and encouragement for writers. Are you looking to have fun, meet some writing goals, and build your community this summer? Writers of all genres and experience levels -- whether or not you have a writing project in mind for the summer -- are invited to join us in SUMMER OF SUPPORT, our 11-week online group program. We start June 5, 2023, with weekly group coaching, workshops, and guest Q&As with amazing authors and editors. Find out more about SUMMER OF SUPPORT and sign up here: https://www.theresortlic.com/summer-of-support Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos. Our music is by Pat Irwin. Join the Resort mailing list for an awesome weekly newsletter, full of opportunities for writers!

It's another solo episode from Resort founder and Cabana Chats host Catherine LaSota! In this episode, Catherine gives you an assignment: what is one thing in your writing practice over the last six months that you are proud of? And how can you celebrate this accomplishment? It's too easy to stay on the treadmill of always looking to the next goal on your list -- don't forget to take a moment to take stock of how far you've come! And celebrate yourself. Season Three has just begun! Get ready for a bunch of interviews with awesome guests, alongside solo episodes offering inspiration, prompts, tips, and encouragement for writers. Are you looking to have fun, meet some writing goals, and build your community this summer? Writers of all genres and experience levels -- whether or not you have a writing project in mind for the summer -- are invited to join us in SUMMER OF SUPPORT, our 11-week online group program. We start June 5, 2023, and a payment plan is available for sign ups before May 24, 2023. Find out more about SUMMER OF SUPPORT and sign up here: https://www.theresortlic.com/summer-of-support Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos. Our music is by Pat Irwin. Join the Resort mailing list for an awesome weekly newsletter, full of opportunities for writers!

We are kicking off Season Three of Cabana Chats with a solo episode from Resort founder and Cabana Chats host Catherine LaSota. In this episode, Catherine offers a series of permission slips for writers and encourages you to treat yourself well when you are working on a big project. And, as always, community is essential to the writing process! Season Three has just begun! Get ready for a bunch of interviews with awesome guests, alongside solo episodes offering inspiration, prompts, tips, and encouragement for writers. Are you looking to have fun, meet some writing goals, and build your community this summer? Writers of all genres and experience levels -- whether or not you have a writing project in mind for the summer -- are invited to join us in SUMMER OF SUPPORT, our 11-week online group program. We start June 5, 2023, and a payment plan is available for sign ups before May 24, 2023. Find out more about SUMMER OF SUPPORT and sign up here: https://www.theresortlic.com/summer-of-support Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos. Our music is by Pat Irwin. Join the Resort mailing list for an awesome weekly newsletter, full of opportunities for writers!

We may be between seasons, but Resort founder Catherine LaSota misses you and wants to say hi. Hello! Have a listen to this short bonus episode to remember some highlights from seasons 1 and 2 of Cabana Chats, and get excited for season 3, plus more great stuff coming your way in 2023 from the Resort writing community! Need some ideas for a great book to pick up? Check out the Resort's Bookshop storefront, where you can purchase books from all of our Cabana Chats guests, plus books by Resort writing teachers and even some special recommendations from Catherine: https://bookshop.org/shop/TheResort Season Three of Cabana Chats will launch in 2023, stay tuned! Subscribe so you don't miss an episode. Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network. Follow us on Instagram! @CabanaChatsPodcast and @TheResortLIC

In this last episode of season two of Cabana Chats, writer Lydia Conklin talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about fostering dogs, writing a story versus making a comic, and the places we can't bring our cell phones (thank goodness), among many other fascinating topics. Lydia Conklin is an Assistant Professor of Fiction at Vanderbilt University. Previously they were the Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Fiction at the University of Michigan. They've received a Stegner Fellowship in Fiction at Stanford University, a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award, three Pushcart Prizes, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, a Creative & Performing Arts Fulbright to Poland, work-study and tuition scholarships from Bread Loaf, and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Djerassi, Hedgebrook, the James Merrill House, the Vermont Studio Center, VCCA, Millay, Jentel, Lighthouse Works, Brush Creek, the Santa Fe Art Institute, Caldera, the Sitka Center, and Harvard University, among others. They were the 2015-2017 Creative Writing Fellow in fiction at Emory University. Their fiction has appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere, and is forthcoming from The Paris Review. They have drawn graphic fiction for Lenny Letter, Drunken Boat, and the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago and cartoons for The New Yorker and Narrative Magazine. Lydia's story collection, Rainbow Rainbow, was recently published by Catapult in the US and Scribner in the UK. Find out more about Lydia Conklin here: https://lydia-conklin.com Purchase RAINBOW RAINBOW by Lydia Conklin here: https://bookshop.org/a/83344/9781646221011 Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ You can find books for purchase by all of our Cabana Chats guests here: https://bookshop.org/lists/cabana-chats-podcast Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

In our next to last episode for season two of Cabana Chats, Leslie Shipman, founder of the The Shipman Agency, talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about her long career in the literary world, how her love of poetry has guided her, and her latest adventures as the founder of a speaking agency for writers that has turned into a full-service organization for writers, offering classes, editing services, and more, in just a few short years. Leslie Shipman has spent 30 years promoting writers, and creating and managing literary events in New York City. She spent over a decade at the National Book Foundation (which presents the National Book Award), where she was instrumental in creating events and programs such as 5 Under 35, a prize for promising young novelists, the National Book Awards After Party, Eat, Drink, and Be Literary at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Innovations in Reading, a prize that promotes community organizations working at the grassroots level to encourage reading across constituencies, and BookUp, an afterschool program for middle school age students, as well as assembling awards juries. She consulted at PEN America, a leading advocate for free expression, and worked on the PEN Literary Awards, and the PEN World Voices Festival. A poet with an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, her work can be found in the Kenyon Review, BOMB, Tinderbox, Mid-American Review, Cosmonauts Avenue and elsewhere. She lives in Ridgewood, Queens with her husband, musician Paul Pimsler, and their dog Junie. Find out more about The Shipman Agency: https://www.theshipmanagency.com/ Latest classes in The Work Room at The Shipman Agency: https://www.theshipmanagency.com/theworkroom Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ You can find books for purchase by all of our Cabana Chats guests here: https://bookshop.org/lists/cabana-chats-podcast Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

This episode of Cabana Chats is a throwback to 2018, when Resort founder Catherine LaSota had a Skype conversation with writers Molly Caro May and Meaghan O'Connell to discuss the intersection of motherhood and writing. This conversation was recorded for a special episode of the LIC Reading Series podcast that never aired, and this is the first time it is reaching an audience! Molly Caro May is an author of two books, a teacher, and a holder of space. For 12+ years, she has facilitated personal story workshops for more than hundreds of people across the globe. She is trained in Somatic Experiencing and focuses on where language/voice and the animal body meet each other. Her mission is to democratize expression and explore, in good company, the healing alchemy between story and nervous system. In this conversation, we discuss her book Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage Into Motherhood. Meaghan O'Connell is currently the features editor at Romper, where she works on stories about being, becoming, or wanting to be a parent (or not). Before that she was a freelance writer for publications such as New York Magazine's The Cut, as well as co-editor of the personal finance website The Billfold. In this conversation, we discuss her book And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready. Find out more about Molly here: https://www.mollycaromay.com Find out more about Meaghan here: http://www.meaghano.com Purchase Body Full of Stars here: https://bookshop.org/a/83344/9781640092075 Purchase And Now We Have Everything here: https://bookshop.org/a/83344/9780316393850 Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ You can find books for purchase by all of our Cabana Chats guests here: https://bookshop.org/lists/cabana-chats-podcast Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

In this episode, writer and comedian Greg Mania talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about how the growth of those closest to us can inspire our own growth, and also about how soothing Coca-Cola can be. We also trip on several words in the English language, including accountability, palatability, and more! And: how does a person pronounce LaCroix? Listen and find out! Greg Mania is a writer, comedian, and award-winning screenwriter based in New York City. His words have been published in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, HuffPost, Oprah Daily, and PAPER, among other international online and print platforms. His debut memoir, Born to Be Public, is out now from CLASH Books, and he publishes a newsletter called Save Our Serotonin (S.O.S.), which you can subscribe to here: https://saveourserotonin.bulletin.com Find out more about Greg Mania here: http://www.greg-mania.com Purchase Born to Be Public here: https://bookshop.org/a/83344/9781944866877 Invest in one month of one-on-one writing support with Resort founder Catherine LaSota: https://www.theresortlic.com/letsdivein Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ You can find books for purchase by all of our Cabana Chats guests here: https://bookshop.org/lists/cabana-chats-podcast Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

In this episode, writer K-Ming Chang talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about birding, writing's relationship to oral storytelling, and the audience she's writing for. We also hear a story of magic and dog poop. This episode is amazing, trust. K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice novel BESTIARY(One World/Random House, 2020), which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2021, her chapbook BONE HOUSE was published by Bull City Press. Her short story collection, GODS OF WANT, is forthcoming from One World, as well as a novel titled ORGAN MEATS. She lives in California. Find out more about K-Ming Chang here: https://www.kmingchang.com Pre-order/purchase Gods of Want here: https://bookshop.org/a/83344/9780593241585 Support the Resort in our May 2022 fundraiser!: https://www.freefunder.com/campaign/support-writers Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ You can find books for purchase by all of our Cabana Chats guests here: https://bookshop.org/lists/cabana-chats-podcast Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

In this special live event episode, One Story co-founders Hannah Tinti and Maribeth Batcha talk with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about the first twenty years of One Story, its community-based mission, and the most fun party of the year, the One Story Deb Ball (coming up on June 3, 2022!). Maribeth Batcha is the publisher and Co-Founder of One Story. She has worked in magazine circulation for over 25 years for titles including Diabetes Self-Management, Lingua Franca, University Business, the New York Review of Books, Working Mother, and The Progressive. In addition to circulation consulting, she currently does marketing and development copywriting for not-for-profits, including the 92nd Street Y and the National Academy Foundation. She has a BA from New York University and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. Hannah Tinti is the co-founder and executive editor of One Story magazine. She is the author of the bestselling novel The Good Thief, which won The Center for Fiction's first novel prize, and the story collection Animal Crackers, a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her most recent novel, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, is a national bestseller and is in development for television with Netflix. She co-founded the Sirenland Writers Conference in Italy and has taught writing at New York University's Graduate Creative Writing Program, Columbia University's MFA program, CUNY, and at the Museum of Natural History in New York City. For more information please visit hannahtinti.com. Find out more about One Story here: https://one-story.com Get tickets for the June 3, 2022 One Story Literary Debutante Ball here: https://one-story.com/connect/the-one-story-literary-debutante-ball/ Support the Resort in our May 2022 fundraiser!: https://www.freefunder.com/campaign/support-writers Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

In this episode, writer Sarah Perry talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about her identity as a writer, our needs to prove things to ourselves as writers, and the benefits of learning to observe across different media. Sarah Perry (she/they) is a memoirist and essayist who writes about love, trauma, gender-based violence, queerness, and the power dynamics that influence those concerns. She is the author of the memoir After the Eclipse, which was named a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, a Poets & Writers Notable Nonfiction Debut, and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. Perry is the recipient of a 2020-2022 Tulsa Artist Fellowship, the 2018 Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award, and fellowships from the Edward F. Albee Foundation, VCCA, Playa, and The Studios of Key West. She holds an M.F.A. in nonfiction from Columbia University. Find out more about Sarah here: https://www.sarahperryauthor.net Purchase After the Eclipse here: https://bookshop.org/books/after-the-eclipse/9781328511911 Find out more about our personalized, one-month writing coaching program, called LET'S DIVE IN, here: https://www.theresortlic.com/letsdivein Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC Support the Resort in our May 2022 fundraiser!: https://www.freefunder.com/campaign/support-writers

In this episode, writer and teacher Cinelle Barnes talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about her background as a visual artist, her allegiances to particular NBA teams, and the through lines in her creative work. Cinelle Barnes is a formerly undocumented memoirist, essayist, and educator from Manila, Philippines, and is the author of MONSOON MANSION: A MEMOIR (Little A, 2018, Booklist starred review) and MALAYA: ESSAYS ON FREEDOM (Little A, 2019), and the editor of the New York Times New & Noteworthy book, A MEASURE OF BELONGING: 21 WRITERS OF COLOR ON THE NEW AMERICAN SOUTH (Hub City Press, 2020). Cinelle is a wonderful writing teacher, and we are so grateful to have hosted a conversation and class with her at the Resort. Her course The Multitudes, about putting together an essay collection, is available for purchase in our online Resort network. It's a self-paced course that includes bonus content that is exclusive to the Resort. Sign up for Cinelle's self-paced The Multitudes class at The Resort here! Find out more about Cinelle Barnes here: https://www.cinellebarnes.com Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC Support the Resort in our May 2022 fundraiser!: https://www.freefunder.com/campaign/support-writers

In this episode, writer Rachel Khong talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about the joy of a good San Francisco walk, the community of the Ruby, and Rachel's awesome system for marking progress in her writing (it involves a ruler and coloring inside the lines). Rachel Khong is a writer living in San Francisco. Her debut novel, Goodbye, Vitamin, won the 2017 California Book Award for First Fiction, and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for First Fiction. From 2011 to 2016, she was the managing editor then executive editor of Lucky Peach magazine. With Lucky Peach, she also edited a cookbook about eggs, called All About Eggs. In 2018, she founded The Ruby, a work and event space for women and nonbinary writers and artists in San Francisco's Mission district. Rachel retired from the Ruby at the end of 2021 and is currently at work on a novel, called Real Americans. Find out more about Rachel here: http://www.rachelkhong.com Purchase Goodbye, Vitamin here: https://bookshop.org/books/goodbye-vitamin/9781250182555 Find out more about our personalized, one-month writing coaching program, called LET'S DIVE IN, here: https://www.theresortlic.com/letsdivein Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC Support the Resort in our May 2022 fundraiser!: https://www.freefunder.com/campaign/support-writers

In this episode, writer and editor Matt Ortile talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about cooking, video games, and the pressure to monetize anything you are good at. They also talk about how Matt's knowledge of the publishing process via his work as an editor is both a privilege and a challenge in his own writing process. Matt Ortile is the author of the essay collection The Groom Will Keep His Name. He is also the executive editor of Catapult magazine, and writes regularly for Condé Nast Traveler. Previously, he was the founding editor of BuzzFeed Philippines. He is a MacDowell Fellow and has written for Vogue, Self, Out, Into, and BuzzFeed News, among others. He is a graduate of Vassar College, which means he now lives in Brooklyn. Find out more about Matt here: https://www.mattortile.com Purchase The Groom Will Keep His Name here: https://bookshop.org/books/the-groom-will-keep-his-name-and-other-vows-i-ve-made-about-race-resistance-and-romance/9781541762794 Join the Cabana Club and check out our live, Club-exclusive AMA with Matt Ortile on May 5, 2022 (or watch the recording later, as a Cabana Club member!): bit.ly/3fsCVDg Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

In this episode, writer and teacher Emily Stone talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about her life in Los Angeles, the ways her teaching practice has grown and developed during the pandemic, and how there are some things we simply cannot do alone as writers. Emily and Catherine also talk about astrology, aging, and raccoons. Born in New Orleans and raised in Brooklyn, Emily Stone is a writer, teacher, and content alchemist with over 25 years of experience working with authors of all ages to distill the power and impact of every story. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Emily is also known as the College Essay Whisperer, and she's taught Latin at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn Heights, fiction writing at Hunter College, where she got her MFA, and drama at Stern College. Emily has taught many wonderful classes at the Resort, on topics like dialogue, plot, scene structure, and more. Her Fiction is Friction course, about writing amazing dialogue, is available for purchase in our online Resort network. It's a self-paced course that includes bonus content on outlining your book. Sign up for Emily's self-paced Fiction is Friction class at The Resort here! Find out more about Emily Stone here: https://www.emilybstone.com Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

On episode four of our second season, we bring you a conversation with writer and professor Jason Tougaw. In this episode, Jason Tougaw, author of The One You Get: Portrait of a Family Organism, and Professor of English and Creative Writing at Queens College, CUNY, talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about his journey from California to New York, the unexpected encounters that follow writing a memoir, and his approach to balancing a writing and academic life. Jason Tougaw's memoir The One You Get: Portrait of a Family Organism (Dzanc) is the winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize. His book The Elusive Brain: Literary Experiments in The Age of Neuroscience (Yale University Press) was named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2018 by Choice magazine. He is also the author of Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel (Routledge). He is also editor, with Nancy K. Miller, of Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community(University of Illinois Press). His essays have appeared in OUT magazine, DV8, Largehearted Boy, Literary Hub, and Electric Literature. He writes a monthly column for Psychology Today. Follow Jason Tougaw on Twitter here: @JasonTougaw Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

On episode three of our second season, we bring you a conversation with writer, and Resort teacher, Amy Jo Burns. In this episode, Amy Jo Burns, author of Shiner and Cinderland, talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about her process of note-taking and working with tone in her writing, and the importance of community in a writer's life. Amy Jo and Catherine also talk about baths, old shoes, dancing, and Twitter. Amy Jo Burns is the author of the memoir Cinderland and the novel Shiner, which was a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick, NPR Best Book of the year, and “told in language as incandescent as smoldering coal,” according to The New York Times. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review Daily, Tin House, Elle, Good Housekeeping, Ploughshares, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, and the anthology Not That Bad. You can find her on Twitter @amyjoburns. Sign up for Amy Jo's self-paced Make Your Memoir Remarkable class at The Resort here! Find out more about Amy Jo Burns here: https://amyjoburns.com Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

It's season two, episode two of Cabana Chats! In this episode, the amazing Lisa Lucas, Senior Vice President and Publisher of Pantheon and Schocken Books, chats with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about the importance of maintaining a whole life outside of one's work, what she reads for pleasure, and their love for the physical objects of books (as well as Lisa's ability to always be giving away books, yet still have a home that is very full of books). Lisa Lucas is Senior Vice President and Publisher of Pantheon and Schocken Books. Prior to her current position, Lisa served as the Executive Director of the National Book Foundation and as publisher of Guernica Magazine. Follow Lisa Lucas on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/likaluca Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

Welcome to season two of Cabana Chats! We are thrilled to bring you a conversation with writer, editor, and literary organization professional Halimah Marcus in this first episode of the season. In this episode, Halimah Marcus, Executive Director of Electric Literature, talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about city life and country life, leaning on your community for support with big new projects, and the opportunities that working together online has created for building an even greater community. Halimah discusses the relationship between her editing and writing, the way she has structured her time during the pandemic, and the variety of skills involved in bringing together the excellent anthology she edited, called Horse Girls. Halimah Marcus is the Executive Director of Electric Literature, an innovative digital publisher based in Brooklyn, and the editor of its weekly fiction magazine, Recommended Reading. She is also the editor of Horse Girls (Harper Perennial, 2021), an anthology that reclaims and recasts the horse girl stereotype, which was a New York Times “New and Noteworthy” pick. Her short stories have appeared in Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, One Story, BOMB, The Literary Review, and The Southampton Review. Halimah has an MFA from Brooklyn College, and lives in the Catskill region of New York. Find out more about Halimah Marcus here: https://www.halimahmarcus.com Get your copy of Horse Girls here: https://bookshop.org/books/horse-girls-recovering-aspiring-and-devoted-riders-redefine-the-iconic-bond/9780063009257 Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

Join us for a special, between-seasons Bonus Episode of the Cabana Chats podcast! This episode features a recording of a January 29, 2022 event that we held on Zoom: our four Fall 2021 Resort Fellows (Mai Tran, Lourdes Dolores Follins, Jaysen Henderson-Greenbey, and Dasia Moore) all read briefly from their amazing work, and then Resort founder Catherine LaSota is in conversation with the fellows for the second half of the episode. Listen in for some powerful flash non/fiction, memoir, novel excerpt, and poetry -- there is something for everyone! More about our Fall 2021 Fellows: Lourdes Dolores Follins on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrLourdesD Lourdes Dolores Follins professional practice website: https://drldfollins.com Jaysen Henderson-Greenbey on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jaysenhg Dasia Moore website: https://dasiasmoore.com Dasia Moore's writing for The Boston Globe Magazine: https://www.bostonglobe.com/about/staff-list/staff/dasia-moore/ Mai Tran website: https://www.maistran.com Mai Tran on Twitter: https://twitter.com/maiittran Season Two of Cabana Chats will launch in late March 2022, stay tuned! Subscribe so you don't miss an episode. Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network. Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

For our final episode of season one of Cabana Chats, podcast host and Resort founder Catherine LaSota turns the spotlight on five members of the Resort community who are also wonderful writers in our Cabana Club membership program for writers! Victoria, Nicole, Ian, Jules, and Devin reflect on what community has meant to them and their writing over the past year, and their goals for the year ahead. About this episode's guests: Victoria Melendez is a writer based in Washington, DC. She writes at the intersection of spirituality, identity and current events. She recently won an Honorable Mention in the Medium Writer's Contest and her work has been quoted in the Washington Post. You can follow her writing on Medium here: https://victoria-tm.medium.com. Nicole Zhu is a writer and developer based in New York. Her stories and essays have appeared in Catapult, Eater, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. Her website is http://nicolezhu.io and you can subscribe to her biweekly newsletter at https://nicoledonut.com. Ian MacAllen is the author of Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American. He is a writer, editor, and graphic designer living in Brooklyn. His website is https://www.ianmacallen.com, and you can follow his Red Sauce blog at http://www.redsauceamerica.com. Jules Chung can't stop thinking about women, gender, and family. She writes mostly fiction, lives in New Jersey, and shares her work at https://www.juleschungwriting.com. Devin Kate Pope is a writer paying attention to how people try and (sometimes) fail to connect with each other. She lives in Tempe, AZ, and online at @devinkatepope (Twitter and Instagram). Join the Cabana Club! Affordable monthly option available here. Discounted rate for writers from marginalized communities available here. We'd love to see you in our Artist's Way 12-week group course facilitated by Resort founder Catherine LaSota! This is a weekly live course via Zoom that begins January 24, 2022. Learn more and sign up here. Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Craig Eley, with help from Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network. Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

In our fourteenth full episode of Cabana Chats, writer and cultural organizer MARS talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about their love for Detroit, the possibilities that can be created in moments of tension, and the importance of carving out and protecting dedicated writing time, especially when you are so committed to your other work and to your community. Bonus: Catherine conducted this entire interview while recovering from her Covid vaccination booster shot! MARS. is a writer and cultural organizer born and raised in Detroit. Their work has been published or is forthcoming in Obsidian Literature & Arts for the African Diaspora, Michigan Quarterly Review: The Mixtape, Foglifter Journal, Gertrude Press, and elsewhere. MARS is a 2021 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow and a 2019 Lambda Literary Art Emerging Writers Fellow in Poetry. They work with Allied Media Projects as Director of the Allied Media Conference. Find out more about MARS here: https://blkboimars.com/ Find out more about the Allied Media Conference (AMC) here: https://amc.alliedmedia.org/ Mentioned in this episode: Room Project: https://www.roomproject.org/ InsideOut Literary Arts: https://insideoutdetroit.org/ Follow MARS on social media: Instagram & Twitter: @blkboimars Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Craig Eley, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

In our thirteenth full episode of Cabana Chats, writer and editor Sari Botton talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about co-working spaces for writers, the importance of building a community around you, and how aging can mean different things to different people. If you want the full experience of this conversation, we recommend listening while enjoying a pizza around a fire with some friends! Sari Botton is a writer and editor living in Kingston, NY. She is a contributing editor at Catapult, and the former Essays Editor for Longreads. She edited the anthologies Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving & Leaving NY and Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for NY. She teaches creative nonfiction at Wilkes University, Catapult and Bay Path University. She publishes three newsletters: Oldster Magazine, Adventures in "Journalism," and Memoir Monday. Her memoir-in-essays, And You May Find Yourself... will be published by Heliotrope in June 2022. More links: "Personal Space," Sari's talk show about memoir on LitHub: https://lithub.com/tag/personal-space/ Sari's latest from "How's the Writing Going?" (her interview column in Catapult's "Don't Write Alone" series): https://catapult.co/dont-write-alone/stories/hows-the-writing-going-r-o-kwon-a-conversation-with-sari-botton Mentioned in this episode: Matthew Salesses's Fine Lines essay: https://longreads.com/2019/04/22/to-grieve-is-to-carry-another-time/ Alexander Chee's essay, the first that Sari commissioned and edited at Longreads: https://longreads.com/2016/04/18/our-well-regulated-militia/ Kingston Writers' Studio: https://www.kingstonwritersstudio.com Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Craig Eley, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

Our twelfth episode of Cabana Chats is a throwback! In 2018, Resort founder Catherine LaSota chatted with the incredible writer Min Jin Lee, in Catherine's then-office on the campus of Columbia University. This episode features the recording of that conversation, in which Min Jin Lee compares the best writing projects to love affairs and talks about how parenthood irrevocably changes you. There is also a lot of discussion about prioritizing what is important, as well as advice for headache cures, and acknowledgement of the importance of understanding those who hate you. Chocolate is also consumed. Min Jin Lee is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe IAS at Harvard, and NYFA. Her novel Pachinko (2017) was a finalist for the National Book Award, a New York Times Bestseller, and on over 75 best books of the year lists. Lee's debut novel Free Food for Millionaires (2007) was a national bestseller, and her writings have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, and many other places. On July 10, 2018, Min Jin Lee had the unique honor of being a Double Jeopardy clue in the “Literary Types” category for $1200 on the game show Jeopardy: “Korean-born Min Jin Lee wrote a 2017 book with this Japanese pinball game as its title,” to which the contestant Becky answered correctly in the interrogative, “What is Pachinko?” Find out more about Min Jin Lee here: https://www.minjinlee.com/ Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Craig Eley, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

In this eleventh full episode of Cabana Chats, writer Amy Shearn talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about how our life circumstances impact our writing, and the joy of finding writing that speaks to you and connecting with strangers via your own writing. Some possible podcast spinoff ideas are also discussed! Also -- is Amy alien or human? You'll have to listen to find out! Amy Shearn is the award-winning author of the novels Unseen City, The Mermaid of Brooklyn, and How Far Is the Ocean From Here. She is the Content Lead for Writing at Medium and editor of Human Parts and Creators Hub. A former fiction editor at the literary magazine Joyland, Amy's work has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, Catapult, and many other publications. Amy has an MFA from the University of Minnesota, and currently lives in Brooklyn with her two children. You can find her at amyshearnwrites.com or @amyshearn. Find out more about Amy Shearn here: https://www.amyshearnwrites.com/ Link to Unseen City here. Here's a link to Amy's Modern Love essay!: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/style/modern-love-how-a-missing-sock-changed-my-life.html Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Craig Eley, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

Our tenth full episode of Cabana Chats is a special LIVE event episode, featuring a conversation we had with writer Leigh Stein as part of the 2021 Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends program. Leigh chats with us about how she conceived of, wrote, and published her newest poetry collection, What to Miss When, entirely during the pandemic, in 2020. We talk about how much community came into play in putting this book out into the world, and in the second half of the episode we hear from some wonderful members of the Resort Cabana Club! This live event was called Building an Online Community and Writing Through a Pandemic and took place on September 28, 2021. You can check out the video of the event in our free online Resort community! Leigh Stein is a writer interested in what the internet is doing to our identities, relationships, and politics. Her critically acclaimed satirical novel Self Care was released in June 2020, and her poetry collection What to Miss When was released in August 2021. Leigh is also the author of the memoir Land of Enchantment, the poetry collection Dispatch from the Future, and the novel The Fallback Plan. Her non-fiction writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker online, Allure, ELLE, Poets & Writers, BuzzFeed, The Cut, Salon, and Slate. Leigh was cofounder and executive director of Out of the Binders/BinderCon, a feminist literary nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the careers of women and gender variant writers. Nearly 2,000 writers attended BinderCon events in NYC and LA, to hear speakers including Lisa Kudrow, Anna Quindlen, Claudia Rankine, Jill Abramson, Elif Batuman, Effie Brown, Leslie Jamison, Suki Kim, and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc. Leigh also moderated the private Facebook community of 40,000 writers, and she is no longer on Facebook. Cabana Club members featured in this episode: Sarita Gonzalez: https://twitter.com/SarahXman22 Rascher Alcasid: https://www.tamespace.com/ Stephanie Jimenez: https://www.stephaniejimenezwriter.com/ More about Leigh Stein: https://www.leighstein.com/ More about What to Miss When: https://softskull.com/dd-product/what-to-miss-when Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ There is more information about our Cabana Club membership program inside the Resort community, too! More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Craig Eley, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

In this ninth full episode of Cabana Chats, we bring you a conversation with Eleanor Whitney, on walking, zine culture, and living both in the city and in the desert, among many other topics. Eleanor Whitney is a writer, editor, community builder, and content strategist. Through writing, speaking, and leading workshops, she creates space for people to reflect on their own experiences and inspire them to realize an empowered vision for their lives and ideas. Eleanor writes non-fiction essays and stories that fuse her lived experience with critical thought and feminist cultural analysis. Her first two books, Quit Your Day Job and Quit Your Day Job Workbook, are practical field guides for starting a creative business. Her third third book, Riot Woman, a collection of feminist essays, published in the fall of 2021 with Microcosm Publishing. She currently serves as the Senior Manager for Content Strategy and Copywriting for Axiom Legal Solutions. Formerly, she was the Managing Editor for All Hands, a publication about life at work from Managed by Q. Find out more about Eleanor Whitney here: https://eleanorcwhitney.com/ Link to Riot Woman: https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/8530 Link to Quit Your Day Job workbook: https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/11951 Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Craig Eley, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

On this very brief episode, Cabana Chats host Catherine LaSota pops in just to say hey and share a few thoughts about what community, and The Resort, has meant to her over the past year+, and to share that Cabana Chats interview episodes may slow down in frequency a little bit this season while we are busy preparing for lots of new awesomeness at The Resort in the new year. Check out the free online Resort network, and find out more about our Cabana Club membership program, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow The Resort on social media for all of the latest news: Twitter: https://twitter.com/theresortlic Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theresortlic/ More about The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/ FULL TRANSCRIPTS of Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available inside our free network: https://community.theresortlic.com/

In this eighth episode of Cabana Chats, we bring you a conversation with Hannah Bae, on being a generous community member, fighting the impulse to hoard resources, and the permission to take a break once in a while. And we talk about food a little bit, as well as many of the writers who inspire us. Hannah Bae is a freelance journalist and nonfiction writer who is at work on a memoir about family estrangement and mental illness. She is the 2020 nonfiction winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She is a 2021 Peter Taylor Fellow for The Kenyon Review Writers Workshops. Her work has been published in books including “(Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation About Mental Health” (Algonquin Young Readers, 2018) and “The Monocle Travel Guide, Seoul” (food and drinks chapter co-editor/writer, 2018). She is focused on stories about Korean American culture and identity, and in 2019, several of her essays received nominations for The Pushcart Prize. She was a 2019 Open City fellow in narrative nonfiction at Asian American Writers' Workshop. Through 2018 and 2019, Hannah served as president of Asian American Journalists Association's New York chapter, for which she was named AAJA National's Chapter President of the Year in 2019. Find out more about Hannah Bae here: https://www.hannahbae.com/ Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Craig Eley, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

In this seventh episode of Cabana Chats, we bring you a conversation full of awesome information about the ins and outs of the publishing world, and many years of the wonderful Minorities in Publishing podcast (and newsletter), with the fabulous Jennifer Baker. We also talk about just needing a break! Jennifer Baker was named the 2019 Publishers Weekly Star Watch “SuperStar” because her “varied work championing diversity in publishing has made her an indispensable fixture in the book business.” She is a publishing professional with almost 20 years' experience in a range of roles (editorial, production, media) and is an instructor for Bay Path University's Creative Nonfiction MFA, as well as the creator/host of the podcast Minorities in Publishing (a 2018, 2019, 2020 finalist for the Digital Book World Best Use of Podcasting in Book Marketing). Jennifer most recently served as a contributing editor to Electric Literature, and she has freelanced as a proofreader, copyeditor, and/or development editor and has written for various publications in print and online. From 2014-2017, Jennifer was panel organizer and social media manager for We Need Diverse Books, a non-profit organization that sprang to life from the #WeNeedDiverseBooks media campaign to increase minority representation in literature. She is the editor of Everyday People: The Color of Life—A Short Story Anthology with Atria Books (an imprint of Simon & Schuster). Her YA novel Forgive Me Not will publish with Putnam Books for Young Readers (an imprint of Penguin Random House) in 2022. Find out more about Jennifer Baker here: https://www.jennifernbaker.com/ Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Craig Eley, and our music is by Pat Irwin. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @theresortlic

In this sixth episode of Cabana Chats, we bring you a conversation with Tracy O'Neill, on acclimating to new jobs during a pandemic, the importance of eavesdropping, and the fact that even when you are not writing, you are writing. Also, sandwiches are important. Tracy O'Neill is the author of The Hopeful, one of Electric Literature's Best Novels of 2015, and Quotients, a New York Times​ New & Noteworthy Book, TOR Editor's Choice, & Literary Hub Favorite Book of 2020. In 2015, she was named a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, long-listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan Prize, and was a Narrative Under 30 finalist. In 2012, she was awarded the Center for Fiction's Emerging Writers Fellowship. Her short fiction was distinguished in the Best American Short Stories 2016 and earned a Pushcart Prize nomination in 2017. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, the New Yorker, LitHub, BOMB, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Believer, The Literarian, the Austin Chronicle, New World Writing, Narrative, Scoundrel Time, Guernica, Bookforum, Electric Literature, Grantland, Vice, The Guardian, VQR, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Catapult. She holds an MFA from the City College of New York; and an MA, an MPhil, and a PhD from Columbia University. While editor-in-chief of the literary journal Epiphany, she established the Breakout 8 Writers Prize with the Authors Guild. ​She teaches at Vassar College. Find out more about Tracy O'Neill here: https://www.tracyoneill.net/ Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Craig Eley, and our music is by Pat Irwin. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/

In this fifth episode of Cabana Chats, we bring you a conversation on the importance of accountability, the ways that genres inform one another, and the awesomeness of the individual writers who support us, with the wonderful writer and person Michele Filgate! Michele Filgate is a contributing editor at Literary Hub and the editor of the critically acclaimed anthology What My Mother and I Don't Talk About. At the time of this episode's conversation, she is an M.F.A. student at NYU. Her work has appeared in Longreads, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Refinery29, Slice, The Paris Review Daily, Tin House, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, Salon, Interview Magazine, Buzzfeed, The Barnes & Noble Review, Poets & Writers, CNN.com, Time Out New York, People, The Daily Beast, O, The Oprah Magazine, Men's Journal, Vulture, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Star Tribune, The Quarterly Conversation, The Brooklyn Rail, and other publications. She teaches creative writing at NYU, The Sackett Street Writers' Workshop, Catapult, and Stanford Continuing Studies and is the founder of the Red Ink series. In 2016, Brooklyn Magazine named her one of "The 100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture." She's a former board member of the National Book Critics Circle. Find out more about Michele Filgate here: http://www.michelefilgate.com/ Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Craig Eley, and our music is by Pat Irwin. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/

In this fourth episode of Cabana Chats, we bring you a conversation on the attraction of New York City, the complexities of curating events, and baseball as a writing metaphor, with writer and teacher Brian Gresko! Brian Gresko (he/they) is a writer based in Brooklyn, and the editor of the anthology When I First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk About the Triumphs, Challenges, and Transformative Experience of Fatherhood. He identifies as white and gender noncomforming. His work has appeared in Longreads, The Literary Hub, The Atlantic, The Rumpus, the L.A. Review of Books, and Poets & Writers magazine, among numerous other publications. He co-runs the esteemed Pete's Reading Series, and during the 2020 quarantine hosted The Antibody, an online reading and conversation series. He currently teaches for Jericho Writers and Catapult, and has previously led workshops and classes for the Sackett Street Writing Workshops, The Center for Fiction, and the New York Public Library. Brian received his MFA in Creative Writing from The New School, and graduated from Oberlin College as a first-generation college student with a self-designed, cross-disciplinary major entitled "Narrativity in Film." Find out more about Brian Gresko here: https://www.briangresko.com/ Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Craig Eley, and our music is by Pat Irwin. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/

In this third episode of Cabana Chats, we bring you a conversation on the fluidity of communities, the many ways one can enter the publishing world, and the importance of building a community of supporters for yourself, with writer/editor Nadxi Nieto! Nadxi Nieto is an Executive Editor at Flatiron Books and serves on the board of Latinx in Publishing, and she has held a wide variety of jobs in the publishing world. She also edits anthologies with Lincoln Michel, most recently Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror. Follow Nadxi Nieto on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/nadxinieto Find out more about Tiny Nightmares here: https://books.catapult.co/products/tiny-nightmares-very-short-tales-of-horror-edited-by-lincoln-michel-and-nadxieli-nieto Learn more about Latinx in Publishing here: https://latinxinpublishing.com/ Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Craig Eley, and our music is by Pat Irwin. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/

It's our SECOND episode of Cabana Chats, a podcast about writing and community, brought to you by The Resort! This episode features an interview with Hala Alyan, author of the novels Salt Houses and The Arsonists' City, as well as several collections of poetry, most recently The Twenty-Ninth Year. Hala lives in Brooklyn and works as a clinical psychologist. Hala chats with host Catherine LaSota about the many professional hats she wears, the push and pull between her introvert and extrovert selves, and how her relationship to social media has changed over the past year, among other topics. Find out more about Hala Alyan here: https://www.halaalyan.com/ Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Craig Eley, and our music is by Pat Irwin. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/

Welcome to the first episode of Cabana Chats, a podcast about writing and community, brought to you by The Resort! Our first episode features an interview with Courtney Maum, author of the novels Costalegre, Touch, and I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You, as well as her popular guidebook for writers, Before and After the Book Deal: Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book Deal. Courtney is also the founder of the interdisciplinary creative retreat The Cabins. Courtney chats with host Catherine LaSota about her community of not just writers but creative people from a variety of disciplines, as well as her role as a supporter of other writers, and the need for writers to have a good therapist, among other topics. Find out more about Courtney Maum here: https://www.courtneymaum.com/ Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Craig Eley, and our music is by Pat Irwin. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/

Cabana Chats is a podcast about writing and community brought to you by The Resort, an international community for writers based in Queens, NYC. In season one, Resort founder and host Catherine LaSota chats one on one with writers including Courtney Maum, Hala Alyan, Nadxi Nieto, and Brian Gresko, about the different ways that community plays a role in their own creative practice. Learn how different writers have built support systems around their writing, and maybe pick up some ideas for building your own! First episode launches late July 2021! Subscribe now, and don't miss a single weekly episode. Join the free Resort online writing community, with tons of great resources for writers of all backgrounds, experiences, and genres, at: https://community.theresortlic.com/