Podcast appearances and mentions of faith adiele

187 We're bringing back this encore episode to celebrate Faith and Nadine's March 11 masterclass: Applying to Residencies and Fellowships. Replay will be sent if you can't make it live. Episode originally aired in June 2023.Want to know how to fulfill your writing and traveling dreams (& receive full or partial funding)? Grab a notebook because this episode with travel memoirist Faith Adiele is FULL of helpful info and resources. In addition to chatting about Faith's memoir, her travel column, her 20+ residencies, and her fascinating experiences as Thailand's first Black Buddhist nun, we discuss:-How to find writing residency opportunities-The amazing places you can visit while on residency-How to make your application stand out-Why you don't need publication credentials in order to be chosen-How to ask for the funding and opportunities you want About Faith:FAITH ADIELE is author of the memoirs Meeting Faith, an account of flunking out of Harvard and ordaining as Thailand's first Black Buddhist nun that won the PEN Open Book Award, and the humorous The Nigerian Nordic Girl's Guide to Lady Problems. She has attended 20+ artists' residencies around the globe and writes a syndicated travel column that appears in Detour: Best Stories in Black Travel and the Miami Herald. Named one of Marie Claire magazine's “Five Women to Learn From,” Faith speaks and teaches workshops in memoir and travel writing at Esalen, Open Center NYC, InsightLA, VONA/Voices and elsewhere.WebsiteFacebookInstagram @meetingfaithTwitter @meetingfaithLinkedInAbout Nadine:Nadine Kenney Johnstone is a holistic writing coach who helps women develop and publish their stories. She is the proud founder of WriteWELL, an online community that helps women reclaim their writing time, put pen to page, and get published. The authors in her community have published countless books and hundreds of essays in places like The New York Times, Vogue, The Sun, The Boston Globe, Longreads, and more. Her infertility memoir, Of This Much I'm Sure, was named book of the year by the Chicago Writer's Association. Her latest book, Come Home to Your Heart, is an essay collection and guided journal that helps readers tap into their inner wisdom and fall back in love with themselves. Her articles and interviews have appeared in Cosmo, Authority, MindBodyGreen, Good Grit, HERE, Urban Wellness, Natural Awakenings, Chicago Magazine, and more. Pulling from her vast experience as a writing, meditation, and yoga nidra instructor, Nadine leads women's writing and wellness workshops and retreats online and around

This week's show features guest Faith Adiele, who's just released two chapbooks that are in conversation with one another. These books are a springboard for a conversation about hybrid writing, hybrid memoirs, the popularity of chapbooks, and hybrid forms. If you're a writer who's been told “you can't do that,” this episode will be validating, if not vindicating. The publishing world is playing catch-up to all the creativity writers are bringing to the fore, and Faith Adiele is at the forefront of a movement of writers who are playing, creating, and breaking both rules and boundaries. Tune in for an interesting, fun, and permission-giving show. And if you're interested in residencies, check out Faith's tutorial, “Residencies 101” on the homepage of her website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chenxing Han, interviewed by Faith Adiele We instantly fell in love with Chenxing Han's "one long listening: a memoir of grief, friendship, and spiritual care." A hospital chaplain and caregiver in the making, Han journeys from a mountaintop monastery in Taiwan to oncology wards in San Francisco, from oceanside Ireland to riverfront Phnom Penh. The book's short chapters alternate among narrative, reflections, letters to a dying friend, memories of a migratory childhood, and wry twists and hilarious footnotes everywhere. Buy the books here 

125 Want to know how to fulfill your writing and traveling dreams (& receive full or partial funding)? Grab a notebook because this episode with travel memoirist Faith Adiele is FULL of helpful info and resources. In addition to chatting about Faith's memoir, her travel column, her 20+ residencies, and her fascinating experiences as Thailand's first Black Buddhist nun, we discuss:-How to find writing residency opportunities-The amazing places you can visit while on residency-How to make your application stand out-Why you don't need publication credentials in order to be chosen-How to ask for the funding and opportunities you want About Faith:FAITH ADIELE is author of the memoirs Meeting Faith, an account of flunking out of Harvard and ordaining as Thailand's first Black Buddhist nun that won the PEN Open Book Award, and the humorous The Nigerian Nordic Girl's Guide to Lady Problems. She has attended 20+ artists' residencies around the globe and writes a syndicated travel column that appears in Detour: Best Stories in Black Travel and the Miami Herald. Named one of Marie Claire magazine's “Five Women to Learn From,” Faith speaks and teaches workshops in memoir and travel writing at Esalen, Open Center NYC, InsightLA, VONA/Voices and elsewhere.WebsiteFacebookInstagram @meetingfaithTwitter @meetingfaithLinkedInAbout Nadine:Her new book, Come Home to Your Heart, is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop.Award-winning author Nadine Kenney Johnstone is a holistic writing coach who helps women develop and publish their stories. Her articles and interviews have appeared in Cosmo, Authority, MindBodyGreen, HERE, Urban Wellness, Natural Awakenings, and more. Nadine is the podcast host of Heart of the Story, where she shares stories from the heart as well as interviews with today's most impactful female creatives. Pulling from her vast experience as a writing, meditation, and yoga nidra instructor, Nadine leads women's workshops and retreats online and around the U.S.In the past 2 years alone, Nadine has helped writers in her community develop and publish 12 books and more that 200+ pieces in places like The New York Times, Vogue, the Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Longreads, and more. Learn more about Nadine's Writer Workout community here. Learn more about her Women's journaling and meditation

George Harmon, the winner of the 2021 Hal Prize for nonfiction visits the podcast studio to read his winning story, “The Beast that Ate Words.” Nonfiction judge Faith Adiele called the story “a breathless beast of an essay that reads like fiction.” Harmon recounts the scene of his early days in the newspaper industry at the Chicago Daily News, when the newsroom was rollicking, loud, and full of characters. The deadline for the 2022 Hal Prize is Sept. 16. You can read Harmon's story, and all the winners of the 2021 Hal Prize, in the 8142 Review, available at DoorCountyPulse.com/store.

Story Story Late-Night—the positively shameless black sheep of the storytelling family—is shooting stories off the wall in our adults-only season recorded live from a walled garden in Boise, Idaho. True stories told live from our featured storytellers Tanya Cope, Chris Sundberg, and Faith Adiele. Adult content advised. Hosted by Reese Samuels Music by Subtle Force Support this podcast by texting "storypod" to 44-321

There She Goes...AGAIN Today we're here with Faith Adiele in our first bonus episode of There She Goes … Again. We know we said we wouldn't be doing interviews, but we've heard the requests for follow-ups with our storytellers, so -on occasion- we'll be offering these short bonus episodes--in which one of our guests answers THREE questions that bring you a little deeper into her story. We visit with Faith to learn more about how her story ends and what she takes away from her time in Thailand.

Today we travel with Faith Adiele to Thailand, where, on a pilgrimage in search of famous nuns, she finds her plans abruptly changed by a group of drunken businessmen, one small, sleepy boy, and the threat of bandits. FAITH is the author of the memoir MEETING FAITH, an account of becoming Thailand's first Black Buddhist nun that won the PEN Open Book Award. Her media writing credits include the HBO-Max limited series, A WORLD OF CALM, and the PBS documentary MY JOURNEY HOME. Her essays appear in numerous anthologies, including four volumes of BEST WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITING. Faith founded the nation's first writing workshop for travelers of color through VONA/Voices, and she teaches and lectures around the world on decolonial and inclusive travel writing.

Season 2 of Career Stewardship starts on January 6!  In the meantime, here’s one of Michael’s favorite episodes from “Meanwhile.”  He speaks with noted author, teacher, citizen of the world, and now writer on the HBO series “Calm,” Faith Adiele, who also happens to be his close friend of 30+ years.  Faith helps to examine what we mean by creativity, how we can misconstrue it and recover it, and what it means to express our creativity – whether in our day job or elsewhere else.  Plus she has a really cool exercise you can do.  A funny and informative conversation.    

This Week In Writing, Justin celebrates the first season finale with a panel discussion about books! We discuss the best books of the year and books making the best gifts this holiday season. The amazing panel includes: Faith Adiele, author of Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun and a writer of A World of Calm on HBO MAX. Eric Smith, author of Don't Read the Comments and literary agent at P.S. Literary Agency. Gretchen Hardin, librarian at the Bee Cave Public Library and creator of the bookstagram, Eating Reading. All of books mentioned in the episode are available in our expanded show notes at The Writing Cooperative. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/writingcooperative/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/writingcooperative/support

Ep. 238: The original Obama, FAITH ADIELE is the author of The Nigerian-Nordic Girl’s Guide To Lady Problems and Meeting Faith: The Thai Forest of a Black Buddhist Nun, which won the PEN Open Book Award. She is also writer/narrator/subject of My Journey Home, a PBS documentary film about growing up Nordic-American and then traveling to Nigeria as an adult, co-editor of the international anthology Coming of Age Around the World, and senior editor at Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel. Named as one of Marie Claire’s “5 Women to Learn From” and educated at Harvard University, the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Adiele is Associate Professor of Creative Nonfiction at California College of the Arts and Stonecoast Low-Residency MFA Program faculty. A member of San Francisco Writers’ Grotto and The Ruby, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, runs African Book Club, and lectures around the world. She is completing Twins, an epic family memoir completing the story begun in the PBS film. Visit her at http://adiele.com and@meetingfaith. For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic To subscribe to the Multiracial Family Man, please click here: MULTIRACIAL FAMILY MAN PODCAST Huge shout out to our "Super-Duper Supporters" Elizabeth A. Atkins and Catherine Atkins Greenspan of Two Sisters Writing and Publishing Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

This just in! In this episode, Michael M talks with his long-time bestest friend, writer and writing professor Faith Adiele, about the ingredients of a creative life, the role of humor vs. seriousness and the difference between being a working artist and someone who just lies on the couch eating chocolate chip cookie dough. This episode was ALMOST LOST TO THE AGES and was just recently found and magically put together. Listen now that you can! Whew!

Jeff is joined by Faith Adiele, founder of the nation's first workshop for travel writers of color. Her work includes Meeting Faith, her memoir about becoming Thailand's first Black Buddhist nun; the PBS documentary My Journey Home; and Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology. We also have stories on Baikal Watch and Ethical Travel to Israel.

This week on StoryWeb: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah. Nigerian Chinua Achebe was the first African writer to publish a major novel in English – a novel in the colonial master’s language. Published in 1958, Things Fall Apart tells the story of Okonkwo and his traditional Igbo village and the devastating transformation it undergoes with the arrival of British colonialists. But the novel is every bit as much about Okonkwo as a tragic hero – his story regardless of time and place – as it is about the damage wrought by Europeans. Things Fall Apart demanded that the Igbo be taken on their own terms. Now almost sixty years later, Nigerian literature has expanded considerably. In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2013 novel, Americanah, the main characters live in Nigeria, the United States, and England. If not completely comfortable in all of these worlds – or indeed maybe not comfortable in any of these worlds – they nevertheless figure out how to move in these worlds. The two main characters – Ifemelu and Obinze – are modern, urban Nigerians. Hailing from Lagos, the capital city of the West African nation, their postcolonial Nigeria is a place of power-shifting, power-grabbing corruption. Both extremely bright young people, they go their separate ways – Ifemelu to attend university in “Americanah” (as the Nigerians call it), Obinze to England to seek a new life. Eventually, they both return to Nigeria, determined to make a go of it in their home country. All that transpires from their youth in Africa to their adventures in North America and the U.K. to their return to Nigeria is the stuff of a long, complex novel – and I won’t give away anything about the many twists and turns of the detailed plot. Chinua Achebe, who died in 2013, the same year Americanah was published, might not have recognized the Nigeria of Adichie’s novel. It certainly seems that Lagos has developed in ways Achebe might have anticipated but never personally witnessed. I suspect, though, that he might have seen some of his own experiences in Ifemelu’s journey to study in the western white world. In many ways, Adichie literally followed in Achebe’s footsteps. Her debt to his literary legacy is evident, of course. But less well known is the fact that when the Achebes moved out of their home in the university town of Nsukka, Nigeria, it was Adichie’s parents and their children (including Adichie herself) who moved in. You can learn the full story and read an early interview with Adichie in Ike Anya’s 2003 article, “In the Footsteps of Achebe: Enter Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria’s Newest Literary Voice.” In that interview, Adichie said: “I think Chinua Achebe is one of the greatest writers the world has ever seen, because he did not only tell us, the writers who would come after him, that our stories were worthy, he also swiped at the disgusting stereotypes of Africa.” Here and elsewhere, Adichie has acknowledged the power of Achebe’s example, saying in another interview, “Chinua Achebe will always be important to me because his work influenced not so much my style as my writing philosophy: reading him emboldened me, gave me permission to write about the things I knew well.” To learn more about the Achebe-Adichie connection, read her essay “The Man Who Rediscovered Africa.” Born in Nigeria, Adichie now divides her time between her home country and the United States. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” award. To learn more about Adichie and her work, visit her website. You’ll also want to stop by the independent website about Adichie, which has a treasure trove of links to seemingly endless essays, articles, and more by the Nigerian writer. If you’ve got some time to invest in a long, winding novel, you just might consider curling up with Americanah. The best-selling and critically acclaimed book will leave you eagerly waiting for the film adaptation, which is set to star Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo. Visit thestoryweb.com/Adichie for links to all these resources and to watch a conversation between Faith Adiele and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Near the beginning of the video, Adichie reads the opening of Americanah. You can also watch Adichie’s TED talk titled “The Danger of a Single Story.”

Jewelle Gomez reads from her letter as editor Carolina de Robertis listens. Six brilliant women read their letters from RADICAL HOPE: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times: Jewelle Gomez, Faith Adiele, Aya de Leon, Reyna Grande, Kate Schatz and of course, editor and visionary, Carolina De Robertis. You'll laugh, you'll cry and you'll want to give money to support Women's Magazine! Thanks to our friends at Making Contact for this audio. Reel Resistance Wednesday, May 24 6:30 PM-Reception and Hearty Food, graciously provided by our hosts, TD and Barbara Daniell 7:00 PM -Program A benefit for the Dr. Willie Parker Fund for Abortion Access in the South. Free admission; donations will be requested Contact DaniellsDin@gmail.com or 510-277-6669 for a reservation, and location information.   The post Womens Magazine – May 22, 2017: Radical Hope: Letters of Love & Dissent appeared first on KPFA.

It is with great Behind the Prose pride that I share awesome news about Natalie Baszile's first novel. Queen Sugar is moving to Oprah Winfrey's OWN network under the helm of "Selma" director Ava DuVernay.  I am proud, but I'm not surprised. Days before the news broke, I wrote "If there ever was a novel that surely will be a movie, Queen Sugar is it." I met Natalie at the 2012 VONA Voices Workshop. In a nonfiction workshop taught by Faith Adiele, I had the pleasure of reading excerpts of Natalie's memoir in progress. The same rhetorical qualities that endeared me to her writing are earning her praise in a number of reviews: eloquence, description, and confidence. But in the words of the first book reviewer I knew, "Don't take my word for it." Listen to Behind the Prose on Sunday, March 1 at 6 p.m. EST!