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SIDE QUEST: STORIES is the award-winning short story collection by Jalyn Renae Fiske that collects 14 speculative short stories and 1 poem that explore characters who yearn for a different life or a second chance amid magical curses, missing persons, dragon attacks, mad scientists, alien planets, human sacrifices, the undead, and silent gods. Fiske's wide range in writing style and subject matter makes for stories that are captivating and immersive for all types of readers. There's horror, there's adventure, there's whimsy, and there's tragedy. SIDE QUEST: STORIES is for anyone who wishes to step into the fantastical shoes of another and experience different perceptions, struggles, and dreams. Are you ready to begin? ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jalyn Renae Fiske is an author, editor, educator, and librarian. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College in 2017. That same year, she began her tenure as Fiction Editor for James Gunn's Ad Astra magazine and also served as Editor-in-Chief for The Pitkin Review and editor for Clockhouse. Jalyn writes blends of science fiction, fantasy, and horror that are at times unsettling, strange, or whimsical. She likes to explore themes of identity and transformation, as well as create different social constructs and systems in her worldbuilding that encourages the reader to ask–Why is it that way? Could it be different? Should it be? Jalyn's short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in The Science Fiction Tarot anthology, Allegory, Wyldblood, Mythaxis, Fabled Planet, and Sword and Sorceries Vol. 7, among others, and her debut short story collection, Side Quest: Stories, was released in November 2024. Learn more about Jalyn Renae Fiske and her work at: http://www.jrenaewriter.com/ TOPICS OF CONVERSATION Transformation and Identity Characters confront change, shed old selves, and explore what it means to evolve—willingly or not. Blending Genres and Tone A mix of dark fantasy, horror, and sci-fi delivered with emotional range—from eerie to uplifting. Power, Sacrifice, and Social Commentary Stories that examine who holds power, what it costs, and how we navigate flawed systems. Crafting Stories and Structure From poetic titles to layered suspense, each piece is shaped with intention and creative risk. Challenging Genre Expectations A collection designed to welcome curious readers—not just genre fans—into speculative fiction. CONNECT WITH AUTHOR JALYN RENAE FISKE: www.jrenaewriter.com Facebook: Jalyn Renae Fiske, author
Weekly shoutout: Read the latest literary releases from Punk Noir Magazine! -- Hi there, We're back! Today I am delighted to be arts calling author Theodora Ziolkowski! (www.theodoraziolkowski.com) ABOUT OUR GUEST: THEODORA ZIOLKOWSKI is the author of the novella, On the Rocks (2018 & 2020, The University Press of SHSU/Texas Review Press) and the short story chapbook, Mother Tongues (2016 & 2018, The Cupboard). On the Rocks, winner of a 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Award, is now available as an audiobook. Ziolkowski's debut collection of poems, Ghostlit (2025), is now available. Ziolkowski's work has received support from the Vermont Studio Center, the National Alumni Association (University of Alabama), and Inprint (Houston, Texas). Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in The Writer's Chronicle, Short Fiction (England), and Prairie Schooner, among over sixty other literary journals, magazines, anthologies, and exhibits. In the past, Ziolkowski has served as Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast, Fiction Editor for Big Fiction, and Assistant Poetry Editor for Black Warrior Review. She holds an MFA from the University of Alabama, where she was honored as a ‘30 Under 30' alum, and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston, where she was the recipient of the Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize in Creative Writing. Currently, she teaches creative writing as an assistant professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. GHOSTLIT: A new poetry collection, is now available! BOOKSHOP.ORG | BARNES & NOBLE | POWELL'S BOOKS | AMAZON ABOUT GHOSTLIT: Intimate, urgent, and relentlessly inventive, the poems in Ghostlit reflect upon mythology and feminist pop culture and contemporary ideology as they may become embedded in the psyches and even the bodies of their inheritors. Through visceral and sometimes gothic-inspired images, mythological allusions, and the assemblage of strands of narrative, the poems in this collection chart the ways in which manipulative emotional strategies on individual and cultural levels inflict lingering harm upon minds and bodies. Throughout, the poems peel back the layers of what it means for an abuse survivor to reclaim a sense of self—long after the damage has been done. “It turns out that the years I believed myself lucky/were partly responsible for my thinking/there was something deeply wrong with me” could be understood as a refrain for the speaker in Ghostlit or as a shorthand for a cautionary tale about how many survivors may be encouraged to deny the reality of abuse. Thanks for this amazing conversation, Theodora! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro. HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN.
WVBR News Director Jack Donnellan sat down for a second time with author, editor, and publisher Mark Wish. Mark and his wife founded an annual short story anthology, Coolest American Stories, which pushes its contributors to make their fiction as compelling as possible, reminding them that readers crave “unputdownable” storytelling. Mark also served as the Fiction Editor of California Quarterly, was the founding Fiction Editor of New York Stories and a Contributing Editor for Pushcart, and has long been known as the freelance editor who has revised the fiction of once-struggling writers, leading it to land numerous book deals as well as publication in dozens of venues including The Atlantic Monthly, The Kenyon Review, Tin House, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Hudson Review, and Best American Short Stories. His first novel, Confessions of a Polish Used Car Salesman, compared favorably with Huckleberry Finn by the Los Angeles Times back in 1997, went to a second printing one month after publication. Watch Me Go, his third novel, was published by Putnam and praised by Rebecca Makkai, Daniel Woodrell, Ben Fountain, and Salman Rushdie. More than 125 of Mark's short stories have appeared in print venues such as Best American Short Stories, The Georgia Review, TriQuarterly, American Short Fiction, The Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, The Gettysburg Review, Fiction, The Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, Barrelhouse, The Yale Review, The Sun, Paris Transcontinental, and Fiction International, and have won distinctions such as the Tobias Wolff Award, the Kay Cattarulla Award, an Isherwood Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize. The interview aired live on Talk of the Town on WVBR 93.5 FM on Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM. Catch the full Talk of the Town radio show on Saturdays at 3p on WVBR 93.5 FM or at wvbr.com. Follow us on social media! @WVBRFMNews on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. wvbr.com/afterhours
We're joined by our fiction editor, Francois Bereaud, who is the author of the upcoming San Diego Stories. Plus, Alex J. Barrio reads from his short story, "Foul Ball." Follow Francois Bereaud on Twitter The Twin Bill Lit Journal Patreon Instagram Twitter Hosted by Scott Bolohan Music by Mark Bolohan
JOE THE SALAMANDER -MEET THE AUTHOR Podcast: LIVE - Episode 161Originally aired Wednesday June 19,2024Featuring Author TIMOTHY GAGER.ABOUT TIMOTHY: Bestselling Author, Timothy Gager has published 18 books of fiction and poetry, which includes his latest novel, Joe the Salamander. He hosted the successful Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, MA from 2001 to 2018, and started a weekly virtual series in 2020. He has had over 1000 works of fiction and poetry published, 18 nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His work also has been nominated twice for a Massachusetts Book Award, The Best of the Web, The Best Small Fictions Anthology and has been read on National Public Radio. In 2023, Big Table Publishing published an anthology of twenty years of his selected work, with 150 pages of new material: The Best of Timothy Gager.Timothy was the Fiction Editor of The Wilderness House Literary Review, and the founding co-editor of The Heat City Literary Review. A graduate of the University of Delaware, Timothy lives in Dedham, Massachusetts.Watch or listen to all episodes at www.IndieBookSource.com
Brad Baumgartner is a theorist and writer. He is the author of several works, including Dead Man's Switch: Glissades (Orbis Tertius Press, 2022), The –Tempered Mid·riff: A Play in Four Acts (Schism-Neuronics, 2020), Celeste: Our Lady of Flowering Marvel (Spuyten Duyvil, 2020), which was a semi-finalist for the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Award, and Quantum Mechantics: Memoirs of a Quark (The Operating System, 2019). Additionally, Stylinaut (Spuyten Duyvil, 2021), a hybrid work of experimental fiction, aphorism/fragment, and poetry, was a finalist for the 2019 Tarpaulin Sky Book Award. Other recent work can be found in the edited collections Acéphale and Autobiographical Philosophy in the 21st Century (Schism Press, 2021) and Art Disarming Philosophy: Non-philosophy and Aesthetics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021). He is on the Editorial Board of Cyclops Journal: Contemporary Theory, Theory of Religion, and Experimental Theory and is Fiction Editor of Coffin Bell: A Journal of Dark Literature. In this episode we discuss his book Weird Mysticism: Philosophical Horror and the Mystical Text (Lehigh University Press, 2021) Book link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Weird-Mysticism-Philosophical-Mystical-Conversations/dp/1683932870 Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74
Our audio recording of our crowdcast with editor Barbara Byer and writers from Motel: An Anthology, celebrating the it's release. Featuring contributors: Casey Stegman Nils Gilbertson Cole Beauchamp Tessa Rossi and M.E. Proctor Barbara Byar is a working-class American (CT and CA) writer living in Ireland for over 25 years. Her critically acclaimed collection of stories: Some Days Are Better Than Ours (Reflex Press) was short-listed for the Saboteur Awards. Her short fiction has been published and prize-listed widely. She was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Irish Short Story of the Year in 2023 and longlisted in 2021. A recipient of an Irish Arts Council Literature Bursary and an Agility Award, she is a Fiction Editor at Variant Literature and is currently writing a novel set in motels. Find her at her website, or on Twitter. Want to submit your writing? Email darkwaterspodcast@gmail.com Intro/Outro music: www.bensound.com Disclaimer: Any and all opinions expressed are the opinions of the participants and not of the organizations or institutions with which they are affiliated. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/darkwaters/support
On this episode of Editors on Editing, Glenn is joined by Hilda Rasula. Hilda has edited such excellent projects as Transparent, Sorry for Your Loss, Little America, French Exit and Vengeance. Now she has crafted the brilliant satirical comedy, American Fiction. Thanks again to ACE for partnering with us on this podcast, check out their website for more. Want to see more interviews from Glenn? Check out "Editors on Editing" here. The Art of the Frame podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Anchor and many more platforms. If you like the podcast, make sure to subscribe so you don't miss future episodes and, please leave a review so more people can find our show! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artofthecut/support
SERIES 6 EPISODE 5: INTERVIEW WITH LOUISE HARNBY, FICTION EDITOR, AUTHOR AND PROLIFIC CONTENT CREATOR In a bumper episode, the two Alexas chat to the amazing editor and author, Louise Harnby. With her in-depth knowledge of writing craft and her experience within her own editorial business, Louise packs this episode with invaluable tips for fiction authors on how to produce first-class writing.
Virginia Pye discusses the first pages of her wonderfully smart and imaginative novel, The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann. AND, a special gift to our listeners: The ever-brave and generous Ginny also shares with us several paragraphs from her very first “shitty” draft for us to compare (which isn't so “shitty” after all, but sure makes her published pages look even better). We talk about the importance of narrative distance in historical fiction, how not to overly antiquate the prose and dialog, and how quickly we need to feel that trouble is brewing for the main character.Pye's first pages can be found here.Help local bookstores and our authors by buying this book on Bookshop.Click here for the audio/video version of this interview.The above link will be available for 48 hours. Missed it? The podcast version is always available, both here and on your favorite podcast platform.Virginia Pye is an award-winning author of three novels and the short story collection, Shelf Life of Happiness, which won the 2019 Independent Publisher Gold Medal for Short Fiction. Her debut novel, River of Dust, (Unbridled Books), was an Indie Next Pick and a 2013 Finalist for the Virginia Literary Award. Her second novel, Dreams of the Red Phoenix, (Unbridled Books), was named a Best Book of 2015 by the Richmond Times Dispatch. She is Fiction Editor for Pangyrus, a literary journal based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a board member of the Women's National Book Association, Boston Chapter. Virginia grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and moved back after thirty-five years living up and down the East Coast. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 7amnovelist.substack.com
Born in Chadera, Israel, Kitty Zeldis is the pseudonym for an award-winning author of nine novels and over thirty-five books for children. Her essays, articles and short fiction have been published in many national and literary publications. She is also the Fiction Editor of Lilith Magazine. Zeldis lives in Brooklyn, NY. The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights is her most recent novel. How Do You Write Podcast: Explore the processes of How Do You Write Podcast: Explore the processes of working writers with bestselling author Rachael Herron. Want tips on how to write the book you long to finish? Here you'll gain insight from other writers on how to get in the chair, tricks to stay in it, and inspiration to get your own words flowing. 90 Days to Done: http://rachaelherron.com/90Rachael Says Plan! Plan your writing with Rachael and GET IT DONE! http://patreon.com/rachaelJoin Rachael's Slack channel, Onward Writers: https://join.slack.com/t/onwardwriters/shared_invite/zt-7a3gorfm-C15cTKh_47CEdWIBW~RKwgRachael can be YOUR mini-coach, and she'll answer all your questions on the show! http://patreon.com/rachael Join my scribe of writers for LOTS more tips and get access to my 7-minute video that will tell you if you're writing the right book! Only for my writing community! CLICK HERE:➡️ How to Know If You're Writing the Right Book - https://rachaelherron.com/therightbookDon't miss a tip! Hit that Subscribe button now!
This week, we welcome back repeat Lit Up guest Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire's Books and Fiction Editor! Given Adrienne's role overseeing books coverage, writing about film, TV, & culture, and curating the Esquire Book Club, it's always a treat to get a glimpse into her ever-growing stack and to find out what recent reads and series have stayed with her. Along with sharing many recommendations, we also talk about our shifting relationship to book events, what makes for a good book-to-film/TV adaptation, and the beauty of merging poetry with travel. Adrienne's recommendations: -Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel -Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer -Matrix by Lauren Groff -Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah -Kindred, 2022 TV series adapted from the novel Kindred, by Hugo Award-winner Octavia E. Butler -Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023, dir. Kelly Fremon Craig) -Interview with the Vampire (1976) book by Anne Rice and 2022 series -the poetry of Jack Gilbert (1925–2012) Angela's recommendations: -The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell -It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History by Jennifer Wright -Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld -Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell -Fleishman Is in Trouble (2022 mini-series), based on the novel of the same name by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, we welcome back repeat Lit Up guest Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire's Books and Fiction Editor! Given Adrienne's role overseeing books coverage, writing about film, TV, & culture, and curating the Esquire Book Club, it's always a treat to get a glimpse into her ever-growing stack and to find out what recent reads and series have stayed with her. Along with sharing many recommendations, we also talk about our shifting relationship to book events, what makes for a good book-to-film/TV adaptation, and the beauty of merging poetry with travel. Adrienne's recommendations: -Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel -Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer -Matrix by Lauren Groff -Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah -Kindred, 2022 TV series adapted from the novel Kindred, by Hugo Award-winner Octavia E. Butler -Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023, dir. Kelly Fremon Craig) -Interview with the Vampire (1976) book by Anne Rice and 2022 series -the poetry of Jack Gilbert (1925–2012) Angela's recommendations: -The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell -It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History by Jennifer Wright -Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld -Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell -Fleishman Is in Trouble (2022 mini-series), based on the novel of the same name by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Meryl chats with Kitty Zeldis about her 2022 novel, The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights, which takes readers into the lives of three very different women living in Brooklyn during The Roaring Twenties. In this lively conversation, they discuss the themes of the book, including female vulnerability, pregnancy, religious intolerance, and the relationship of mothers and daughters. Born in Israel, Kitty Zeldis is the pen name of a Brooklyn-based author of nine novels and almost 40 books for children. Her new historical novel, The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights, was published in December. Her fiction, essays and articles have appeared in numerous national and literary publications including the New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Family Circle and O, the Oprah Magazine and she has been the Fiction Editor of Lilith Magazine for the last twenty years. Author's Social Media Facebook: www.facebook.com/kittyzeldis Instagram: www.instagram.com/kittyzeldis Copyright by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #AuthorsOnTheAir #AuthorsOnTheAirGlobalRadioNetwork #AOTA #KittyZeldis #TheDressmakersOfProspectHeights #RoaringTwenties #Brooklyn #NewOrleans #Dressmaking #NewOrleans #Russia #MotherDaughterRelationship #Prostitution #FemaleVulnerability #Pregnancy #HistoricalFiction #Immigration #PeopleoftheBook #ReligiousPersecution #Prejudice #MerylAin
Meryl chats with Kitty Zeldis about her 2022 novel, The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights, which takes readers into the lives of three very different women living in Brooklyn during The Roaring Twenties. In this lively conversation, they discuss the themes of the book, including female vulnerability, pregnancy, religious intolerance, and the relationship of mothers and daughters. Born in Israel, Kitty Zeldis is the pen name of a Brooklyn-based author of nine novels and almost 40 books for children. Her new historical novel, The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights, was published in December. Her fiction, essays and articles have appeared in numerous national and literary publications including the New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Family Circle and O, the Oprah Magazine and she has been the Fiction Editor of Lilith Magazine for the last twenty years. Author's Social Media Facebook: www.facebook.com/kittyzeldis Instagram: www.instagram.com/kittyzeldis Copyright by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #AuthorsOnTheAir #AuthorsOnTheAirGlobalRadioNetwork #AOTA #KittyZeldis #TheDressmakersOfProspectHeights #RoaringTwenties #Brooklyn #NewOrleans #Dressmaking #NewOrleans #Russia #MotherDaughterRelationship #Prostitution #FemaleVulnerability #Pregnancy #HistoricalFiction #Immigration #PeopleoftheBook #ReligiousPersecution #Prejudice #MerylAin
Meryl chats with Kitty Zeldis about her 2022 novel, The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights, which takes readers into the lives of three very different women living in Brooklyn during The Roaring Twenties. In this lively conversation, they discuss the themes of the book, including female vulnerability, pregnancy, religious intolerance, and the relationship of mothers and daughters. Born in Israel, Kitty Zeldis is the pen name of a Brooklyn-based author of nine novels and almost 40 books for children. Her new historical novel, The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights, was published in December. Her fiction, essays and articles have appeared in numerous national and literary publications including the New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Family Circle and O, the Oprah Magazine and she has been the Fiction Editor of Lilith Magazine for the last twenty years. Author's Social Media Facebook: www.facebook.com/kittyzeldis Instagram: www.instagram.com/kittyzeldis Copyright by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #AuthorsOnTheAir #AuthorsOnTheAirGlobalRadioNetwork #AOTA #KittyZeldis #TheDressmakersOfProspectHeights #RoaringTwenties #Brooklyn #NewOrleans #Dressmaking #NewOrleans #Russia #MotherDaughterRelationship #Prostitution #FemaleVulnerability #Pregnancy #HistoricalFiction #Immigration #PeopleoftheBook #ReligiousPersecution #Prejudice #MerylAin
Today our guests discuss why they consider themselves “plotters,” how they go about plotting their books, how they try to keep it loose and easy and discover new material and insight as they go, and methods for making the process visual and physical.Anjali Mitter DuvaAnjali Mitter Duva is an Indian American writer, editor, and dancer who was raised in France. She is he author of FAINT PROMISE OF RAIN, an historical novel set in 16th century India and shortlisted for a William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Anjali has been a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship finalist, and is an instructor at Grub Street. She co-founded the Arlington Author Salon, a quarterly literary reading series, and serves as Fiction Co-Editor for Solstice Literary Magazine. She is also a longtime student of kathak, the classical storytelling dance featured in her books, and is the co-founder and former executive director of a non-profit organization dedicated to this art form. Virginia PyeVirginia Pye's story collection Shelf Life of Happiness won the 2019 IPPY Gold Medal for Short Fiction and her two historical novels set in China, Dreams of the Red Phoenix and River of Dust, also received literary awards. She is Fiction Editor of Pangyrus and a board member of the Women's National Book Association, Boston Chapter. She has taught writing at NYU, UPenn, and GrubStreet. Virginia is the mother of two grown children and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and their miniature poodle, Honey. She has a new novel coming out in 2023, tentatively titled The Book Lovers, from Regal House.Other mentions:Scrivener, the manuscript planning softwareAnd Lisa Cron's Story Genius This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 7amnovelist.substack.com
Jazmine Jules is an up-and-coming book editor and author based in Maryland. In 2020, she graduated from George Mason University with a BFA in creative writing and a minor in global affairs. Jazmine spent her sophomore year in South Korea, learning the language and culture. She continued her study abroad ventures in Galway, Ireland where she partook in a summer creative writing program. Since graduating, Jazmine learned valuable skills in reader engagement as a copywriter and honed her understanding of language as an English tutor. At the end of 2021, she started her book editing business. She has worked with authors on non-fiction and fiction books. Jazmine has also had the privilege of working alongside KP publishing, an indie publishing house based in California. As her business continues to grow, she hopes to help more aspiring authors get their books published and build long-term relationships with her clients. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/editorknowsbest/support
On this episode of the Dance Cry Dance Break, we open with “Answer Inc.,” a story by Corey Farrenkopf followed by Inhuman, a track from the album Nothing Is by Nashville artist/producer Thomas Bryan Eaton.For Thomas Bryan Eaton, music is everything. Obsessed since childhood with sound and how you can make it, his musical journey has taken him all around this world. While often seen wandering around the fret boards of guitars & pedal steels with Miss Tess, Western Centuries, or JP Harris & the Tough Choices; Thomas also makes his own recordings reflecting his unique take on the music of America and beyond. Delving deep into the roots of music and searching for ways to push forward are at the core of his efforts & artistry.Bandcamp - Spotify - Instagram Corey Farrenkopf lives on Cape Cod with his wife, Gabrielle, and works as a librarian. His short stories have been published in Tiny Nightmares, The Southwest Review, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Smokelong Quarterly, Catapult, Flash Fiction Online, Reckoning, Uncharted, Wigleaf, Bourbon Penn, and elsewhere. He is the Fiction Editor for The Cape Cod Poetry ReviewWebsite - Twitter - InstagramAnswer Inc. By Corey Farrenkopf Answer Inc. doesn't provide a company computer. For thirty-two fifty an hour, my old Mac does the job. The screen illuminates my face as I hunch over the keyboard. Every light is off in my basement apartment, the scent of microwaved Biryani filling the cramped space. I'm confined to the beanbag chair my parents let me take from my childhood bedroom, the faux leather slightly sticky beneath my back. Once I log in, questions fill my ears. Is a Pomchi the right breed of dog for me? How far is too far to drive for a Tinder date before I look like a creep? If I can only afford to buy my father's diabetes medication or my brother's diabetes medication, whose should I buy? I'm not allowed a follow up question. I can't delve into which relative Asker C is closest with, which attended more of her high school drama performances, which calls on her birthday. No. They are paying for a one sentence reply, so one sentence is what they get. No, a cockapoo is the correct breed. Anything over fifty miles and you'll seem like an axe murderer. Strictly based on life expectancy, your brother. Sometimes I imagine my callers. Twenty-something with a perfect fade. Late thirties with a softening gym body. Early forties, grays coming in at the roots. It helps me answer, to humanize the anonymous caller numbers and blurred-out headshots. For fifty dollars, clients log on to have someone else make their decisions. Should they get a face tattoo? How many cats is too many cats for their condo? Which is the best day of the week to bring up divorce to their blindsided spouse? I can see the allure. There are too many options these days, too many lives you can live, and none of them feel right. The vastness is crippling. If I had money, maybe I'd use the service. Employees get a twenty percent discount, but rent is steep. My questions remain my own. *** I rarely get the same caller twice, except b582 that is. Somehow, she's in my queue every day. I imagine she's in her thirties, short hair, eyes baggy from sleep. At least that's what her one sentence a day conveys. “Is the air in my apartment toxic?” she asked on her first call. I listened for the bleep of CO detectors. Finding none, I said “No, the air in your home is clean.” The next day she asked, “If my landlord is trying to poison me, how would I know?” After consulting a poison control Google search, I said, “You would feel light-headed and nauseous.” Her daily questions morph from outward concerns to inner. “Is it crazy to believe your landlord is trying to kill you?” “Is it normal to fear the water coming from the tap?” “Is it normal to worry about what's coming for me?" To each question, given the times we live in, I say No it is completely normal to worry about X,Y, and Z as long as it doesn't rule your life. *** After a month, I email my boss asking if I can get in touch with b582 to give her the number for a healthcare professional or therapist that may be better equipped for her questions than an ex-barista with a sociology degree. My supervisor writes back that of course there is no way to contact b582. Answer Inc. cares about customer privacy, and, if we were to pass b582 onto another service, we would be losing the fifty dollars per call, and that certainly isn't in the business plan. We are a form of therapy, he says. The simplest form of therapy. *** On b582's hundredth call, I refuse to answer her question about fearing the inhuman silhouette standing on her street corner. Instead, I give her my cellphone number, rattling off the digits, hoping my supervisors aren't listening in. “There's got to be a better way of doing this. I can't give you the help you need. Call me and we'll figure something out.” b582 pauses. “But what about the silhouette?” She asks after a minute. I swallow whatever response I thought I'd come up with and simply tell her, “If it's close to your house, yes, go lock your doors.” Then she hangs up and my next caller is on, asking me about haircare products and flammability around tiki-torches. *** I wait for an unknown number to light up my cellphone screen, but nothing happens. I continue to answer questions about organic sheets, dopamine deficiency, and the most successful ways to potty train a cat, with no interruptions. I end my shift at eight o'clock and move to the kitchen where I microwave instant cup noodles and continue to wait for her call. But the call doesn't come. I worry about how quick she locked the door. *** The next morning, b582's ID pops up on my screen. She neglected my personal number, but I'm cool with that simply for the fact whatever she thought she saw beneath that streetlight didn't get her in the night. I click “accept” and wait for her voice. “How do you live in this world?” she asks, words coming quick, as if startled. I've given up on one sentence replies. If she isn't going to call my actual number, this is the only chance, the only way I might help “By following the truth. Listening to facts. Believing those you love. Not letting every fear swallow your day.” Each option sounds sensical as I say it, but there is a hesitancy in the back of my throat, an uncertainty clinging to my tongue. “But everyone possesses their own individual truth. You're seeing a different world than I'm seeing.” “Nope, there's one world and we're all sharing it.” I'm waiting for my supervisor to come on the line to end the call, but it's just the two of us, despite the fact we've far surpassed the time limit. My heart rate is up. I can smell my own sweat. “You tell yourself what you need to. Our worlds aren't the same, but they might be some day. You couldn't do your job if they were the same. You'd have too many questions and there'd never be enough answers. You'd always be too afraid of what's coming.” “What is coming? Is it that silhouette again?” I ask. “What's coming for me is also coming for you. It comes for all of us, eventually. Why do you think I'm so afraid?” “I assumed you had an anxiety disorder or a list of phobias, not this.” “We all have anxieties,” she replies. In the background, footsteps fall on hardwood, boots approaching from down a long hallway. “But this is different. It has arrived and I never learned how to prepare.” “Prepare for what?” “You'll know it when it gets to you. All I can say is you need to be the one asking the questions, not the one giving…” Then the line goes dead. “No, wait,” I reply, leaning forward, my face close to the screen as I frantically search for some trace of b582. An account number. An email. Something I might have previously overlooked. There's no redial option, no number I can reconnect with. It's just me and the next question. “What's the cheapest wine I can get away with on a first date?” I want to ask if he's aware of what's coming for him, whatever got b582, but I hold my tongue. “Twenty-eight a bottle,” I reply, not ready to be the one asking the questions. Not yet.The Dance Cry Dance Break is written and produced by Natalie Bayne and recorded and edited by Moe Provencher. Theme music is Red Lines, by Dance Cry Dance Records artist Tiny Tiny. Dance Cry Dance is a collective record label in Seattle, WA. Paid subscriptions support our artists and writers. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit break.dancecrydance.com/subscribe
Welcome to the very first episode of The Modern Editor Podcast!Have you ever thought of becoming an editor? Wondering what it takes to start your own editing business? Perhaps you've started your editing journey but are missing a key component—community! If any of this sounds like you, you're in the right place.In my new podcast, The Modern Editor Podcast, I'm talking about all things relating to business, mindset, coaching, how our values and our ethics dictate how we run our businesses, trends in the editing industry, marketing strategies, and current events that are applicable to editing, publishing, and working with authors. There will be guest interviews with other editors and professionals. And, of course, we'll talk about editing and best practices.In this episode, you'll learn the following:01:25 – Who am I, how did I get started as an editor, and what I'm up to now06:05 – Why I decided to create The Modern Editor Podcast10:55 – What is a “modern” editor?12:01 and 15:39 – How I'm slashing the age-old stereotypes and busting down the gates to ensure that editing and publishing are accessible to every person who wishes to be a part of itConnect:Book a free 15-minute callJoin the Freelance Editors ClubTara on InstagramTara on Facebook
Number One Bestselling Author, Timothy Gager has published 17 books of fiction and poetry. He hosted the successful Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, MA from 2001 to 2018, and started a weekly virtual series in 2020. He has had over 1000 works of fiction and poetry published, 17 nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His work also has been nominated for a Massachusetts Book Award, The Best of the Web, The Best Small Fictions Anthology and has been read on National Public Radio. Timothy is the Fiction Editor of The Wilderness House Literary Review, and the founding co-editor of The Heat City Literary Review. A graduate of the University of Delaware, Timothy lives in Dedham, Massachusetts with some fish and a rabbit, and he is employed as a social worker. Joe the Salamander, is his third novel. IN THIS EPISODE: 1:11 How NOT to start an interview! 2:41 Introducing Tim Gager 4:32 The birth of his daughter AND his first book gets accepted by a publisher! 6:57 From Ebook to Print: Tim convinces/demands that his publisher PRINT his next book 10:48 His path to sobriety 12:22 Eight published books on poetry 14:27 Lessons learned during The Shutdown 20:08 How to write 17 books 28:05 Sticking to a schedule & knowing how to live 32:45 His latest book: Joe the Salamander 41:18 Two stories that help shine a light on autism 46:45 Inspiration - How 130 words of a Flash Fiction piece turned into an 80,000 word novel 48:57 Tim's new book - it may not be finished for a decade 59:45 Revival tents, hot coals, snake handlers, Scientology, Hare Krishna's, and Time Share's 1:07:05 Dar's experience with his Norwegian friends and film crew
A graduate of Florida State University, Robert Gwaltney resides in Atlanta, Georgia. By day, he serves as Vice President of Easter Seals North Georgia, Inc., a non-profit organization that strengthens children and their families during the most critical times in their development. Through his non-profit work, he is a champion for early childhood literacy. Robert also serves as Fiction Editor for The Blue Mountain Review. In all the hours between, he writes. The Cicada Tree is his debut novel. DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: ✨how Robert makes time for his passion for writing even with a busy life and demands of a day job ✨the importance of finding support and community ✨leaving room for your intuition to speak to you throughout the writing process ✨behind-the-scenes of Robert's award-winning debut novel THE CICADA TREE RESOURCES: Robert's website: https://robertlgwaltney.com/ Follow Robert on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robertgwaltneyjr/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dallas-woodburn/support
Second time's a charm! In this episode, Hananah Zaheer--author of the flash collection LOVEBIRDS--chats flash fiction, reveals a secret about her chapbook, and offers timeless parenting advice. Hananah is a writer, editor, improvisor and photographer. She is the author of a flash chapbook Lovebirds (Bull City Press, 2021). Other writing has appeared or is forthcoming in places such as The Cut, Kenyon Review, Best Small Fictions 2021, Waxwing, AGNI, Pithead Chapel, Smokelong (Pushcart nomination), Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, South West Review, Alaska Quarterly Review (with a Notable Story mention in Best American Short Stories 2019) and Michigan Quarterly Review, where she won the Lawrence Foundation Prize for Fiction. She was awarded a Tennessee Williams Scholarship in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers' Conference for 2019, was a finalist for the Smoke Long Fellowship 2019, the Doris Betts' Fiction prize 2014 and a recipient of residencies and fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Rivendell Writers' Colony and the Ragdale Foundation. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart prize. She serves as a Fiction Editor for Los Angeles Review, and as senior editor for SAAG: a dissident literary anthology—a project that seeks to make space for radical and experimental South Asian art and writing. She is the founder of the Dubai Literary Salon, an international prose-reading series and a guest editor for SmokeLong Quarterly for Winter 2021-22. Currently, she is working on a novel.Hananah is represented by Kent D. Wolf of Neon Literary. You can reach him at kent (at) neonliterary (dot) com. Website: http://www.hananahzaheer.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/HananahZaheerInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/hananahzaheerLovebirds (Bull City Press): https://bullcitypress.com/product/lovebirds-by-hananah-zaheer/Sayaka Murata wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayaka_MurataThank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress
Dawson Wohler is 22 years old but already one of the smartest people I know! He is a writer, published in the likes of Terror House Press, and is Fiction Editor of Apocalypse Confidential, the psyop sleaze rag. He joins me for a wonderful conversation about writing, reading, climate change, and more! Dawson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/dawtismspeaks Apocalypse Confidential: https://apocalypse-confidential.com/
Rachana Kolli is currently learning about how humans work (physically and biochemically) and has always been interested in understanding how humans work (emotionally and metaphorically). When she's not having a blast as the Fiction Editor of Masalazine, she is organizing her absurdly large Spotify library and resisting the urge to ballroom dance in a pandemic.order a copy of the mag for yourself @ zindabadzine.bigcartel.com Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jamie Lyn Smith is a writer, editor, and teacher. She earned her BA in English and Theatre from Kenyon College, her Masters in Education from Fordham University, and her MFA in Creative Writing from Ohio State University. Jamie Lyn is the Fiction Editor at BreakBread Magazine and a Consulting Editor for The Kenyon Review. Her work has appeared in The Pinch, Mississippi Review, The Kenyon Review, American Literary Review, Yemassee, Bayou, and others, and she is the recipient of a 2020 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in fiction.
On the latest episode of Now, Appalachia, Eliot speaks with author Jamie Lyn Smith about her latest book TOWNSHIP. Jamie Lyn Smith is a writer, editor, and teacher. She earned her BA in English and Theatre from Kenyon College, her Masters in Education from Fordham University, and her MFA in Creative Writing from Ohio State University. Jamie Lyn is the Fiction Editor at BreakBread Magazine and a Consulting Editor for The Kenyon Review. Her work has appeared in The Pinch, Mississippi Review, The Kenyon Review, American Literary Review, Yemassee, Bayou, and others, and she is the recipient of a 2020 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in fiction. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/eliot-parker/support
Jamie Lyn Smith is a writer, editor, and teacher. She earned her BA in English and Theatre from Kenyon College, her Masters in Education from Fordham University, and her MFA in Creative Writing from Ohio State University. Jamie Lyn is the Fiction Editor at BreakBread Magazine and a Consulting Editor for The Kenyon Review. Her work has appeared in The Pinch, Mississippi Review, The Kenyon Review, American Literary Review, Yemassee, Bayou, and others, and she is the recipient of a 2020 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in fiction.
Max Thrax is my friend, my colleague at Apocalypse Confidential (where he is Fiction Editor) and an author. His novella God Is A Killer comes out in May on Close To The Bone. In this amazing episode Max & I get into it regarding the mob, New England, writing, music… the whole meal deal. Enjoy it! Max on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThraxMaximilian Apocalypse Confidential: https://apocalypse-confidential.com/
Slice Magazine's Fiction Editor and Writing Programs Manager at the Center for Fiction, Randy Winston discusses working as a groundskeeper after withdrawing from junior college, hosting poetry slams in a chicken coop turned event space, pivoting to a degree in English after returning to college to study architecture, and building an academic and professional career as a writer and editor.
Jared's taking this week off to focus on finishing his thesis, so enjoy this rerelease with Vanessa Chan who recently signed a fabulous deal for two books, THE STORM WE MADE, and THE UGLIEST BABIES IN THE WORLD. Regular programming will resume in two weeks. Do we write because we understand or do we write to reach understanding? Jared and Vanessa Chan of The New School unpack this question. Along the way, they discuss writing about home while living in a foreign country, the long arm of colonialism, and the pros and cons of studying in the literary capital of the world. Vanessa Chan is a Malaysian writer who writes about race, colonization, and women who don't toe the line. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published or are forthcoming in Electric Literature, Conjunctions, The Rumpus, Pidgeonholes, Porter House Review, and more. Vanessa is a Fiction Editor at TriQuarterly Magazine, an Assistant Fiction Editor at Pithead Chapel, and an MFA candidate in fiction at The New School, class of 2021. This follows a 12-year career in public relations, including most recently as director of communications for Facebook in California. Her writing has received support from Tin House, Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference, Aspen Words, and Disquiet International. She can be found at her website vanessajchan.com or on Twitter @vanjchan. MFA Writers is hosted by Jared McCormack and produced by Jared McCormack and Hanamori Skoblow. New episodes are released every two weeks. You can find more MFA Writers at MFAwriters.com. BE PART OF THE SHOW — Leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, or Podcast Addict. — Submit an episode request. If there's a program you'd like to learn more about, contact us and we'll do our very best to find a guest who can speak to their experience. — Apply to be a guest on the show by filling out our application. STAY CONNECTED Twitter: @MFAwriterspod Instagram: @MFAwriterspodcast Facebook: MFA Writers Email: mfawriterspodcast@gmail.com
My Dropping Keys co-conspirator is Erica Dixon Erica Jasmin Dixon (she/her) is a writer, screenwriter, poet, and artist. Erica formerly served as Fiction Editor of QU Literary Magazine, Copy Editor for Brave Voices Magazine, and Co-Chair of the Queens University of Charlotte MFA Professional Development Weekend. She currently serves as Art Director for Southern Review of Books and Staff Writer of an upcoming animated comedy web series. Additionally, she is presently serving as Guest Editor for Genre: Urban Arts' Prose and Script Anthology. Erica holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Queens University of Char She is originally from the rural South (Raeford, NC) and is an avid adventurer, having lived in Italy and traveled extensively throughout much of Europe, Asia, the United States, and South America. She is also a devoted fan of Star Wars, DC comics, and anime. Prior to writing, Erica worked as a preschool teacher and a Registered Behavioral Technician. In addition to writing, Erica also works as an actress and is an ardent lover of improv. Her work often reflects on her life experiences as a Black woman from the South, a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, a social observer/activist, and her knowledge of the psychological.In this episode, we discuss:walking for flow,patience,meditation,andgoing for it!You can find Erica onTwitter: @TheEricaJasminInstagram: @TheEricaJasminWebsite: https://www.ericajasmin.com
Claire Messud is the author of seven works of fiction, including the bestselling books The Emperor's Children, The Woman Upstairs and The Burning Girl, as well as a book of essays, Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write. She has received Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships, and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters among many other accolades.Claire is also, one of the first writers published under new literary imprint Tablo Tales. Her novella A Dream Life, written in The American Library in Paris, launched Tablo Tales' short book series of great women writers from around the world. Helen Garner described A Dream Life as ‘A perfect frolic of a book, puffed on breezes of beauty and wit: it waltzes you through a little fear, a little darkness, and tips you out, refreshed and laughing, into the sun'. Fiction Editor of Kirkus Reviews, Laurie Muchnick chose A Dream Life as her pick on the Fully Booked podcast saying: ‘It's just so delightful to be back reading the voice of Claire Messud with its x-ray vision and her really precise writing…It's a real comedy of manners and really sharp and funny.' A Dream Life published by Tablo Tales and distributed by IPG in the US, Manda Group in Canada, Gazelle Book Services in the UK and New South Books in ANZ.
BLURB: Robert Gwaltney, an author of Southern fiction, resides in Atlanta Georgia, where he is an active member of the local literary community and serves as Fiction Editor for The Blue Mountain Review. By day he helps leads a national non-profit. By night he is author, author-supporter, and a bit of a Facebook maverick. His debut novel, The Cicada Tree, will be released by Moonshine Cove Publishing, February 25, 2022. To learn more about Robert, visit his website: robertlgwaltney.com The Storytellers hosted by Grace Sammon, focuses on individuals who choose to leave their mark on the world through the art of story. Each episode engages guests and listeners in the story behind the story of authors, artists, reporters and others who leave a legacy of storytelling. Applying her years of experience as an educator, entrepreneur, author, and storyteller herself, Grace brings to listeners an intimate one-on-one experience with her guests. The Storytellers is a copyrighted work © of Grace Sammon and Authors on The Air Global Radio Network. Visit Grace at her website www.gracesammon.net. Contact Grace about being a guest on the show, email her at grace@gracesammon.net Follow Grace: On Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GraceSammonWrites/ On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/GraceSammonWrites/ On Twitter https://www.twitter.com/GSammonWrites On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-sammon-84389153/ #TheStorytellers #Storyteller #Storytellers # Storytelling #AuhtorInterview #LetsTalkBooks #LeaveYourMark #Legacy #AuthorLife #StorytellerLife #ArtofStory #debutnovel #southernfiction #fiction #debut #novel #cicada #cicadatree #moonshinecovepublishing #naturalevents #supernaturalrepercussions #repercussions #piano #pianoprodegy #thebluemountainreview #debutauthor #AuthorsOnTheAirGlobalRadioNetwork
BLURB: Robert Gwaltney, an author of Southern fiction, resides in Atlanta Georgia, where he is an active member of the local literary community and serves as Fiction Editor for The Blue Mountain Review. By day he helps leads a national non-profit. By night he is author, author-supporter, and a bit of a Facebook maverick. His debut novel, The Cicada Tree, will be released by Moonshine Cove Publishing, February 25, 2022. To learn more about Robert, visit his website: robertlgwaltney.com The Storytellers hosted by Grace Sammon, focuses on individuals who choose to leave their mark on the world through the art of story. Each episode engages guests and listeners in the story behind the story of authors, artists, reporters and others who leave a legacy of storytelling. Applying her years of experience as an educator, entrepreneur, author, and storyteller herself, Grace brings to listeners an intimate one-on-one experience with her guests. The Storytellers is a copyrighted work © of Grace Sammon and Authors on The Air Global Radio Network. Visit Grace at her website www.gracesammon.net. Contact Grace about being a guest on the show, email her at grace@gracesammon.net Follow Grace: On Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GraceSammonWrites/ On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/GraceSammonWrites/ On Twitter https://www.twitter.com/GSammonWrites On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-sammon-84389153/ #TheStorytellers #Storyteller #Storytellers # Storytelling #AuhtorInterview #LetsTalkBooks #LeaveYourMark #Legacy #AuthorLife #StorytellerLife #ArtofStory #debutnovel #southernfiction #fiction #debut #novel #cicada #cicadatree #moonshinecovepublishing #naturalevents #supernaturalrepercussions #repercussions #piano #pianoprodegy #thebluemountainreview #debutauthor #AuthorsOnTheAirGlobalRadioNetwork
Find out about 4 key things you need to know if you want to become a non-fiction editor. Listen to find out more aboutThe main types of non-fiction editing and the kinds of things a non-fic editor needs to look out for Working on complex materials The move to digital content and the role of the editor· Ethical issues the editor or proofreader needs to be aware of Denise and LouiseDenise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing Denise's courseHow to Mark Up PDF Page Proofs: https://courses.denisecowleeditorial.com/product/how-to-mark-up-pdf/ Music credit‘Vivacity' Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Find out about 4 key things you need to know if you want to become a fiction editor. Listen to find out more aboutThe main types of fiction editing and the kinds of things a fiction editor needs to look out for What additional training you might need The market and client expectations The need for a flexible hand How to become a fiction editor (booklet): harnby.co/become-a-fiction-editor Switching to Fiction (course): harnby.co/switching-to-fiction Denise and LouiseDenise Cowle: denisecowleeditorial.com Louise Harnby: harnby.co/fiction-editing Music credit‘Vivacity' Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
On this episode of Now, Appalachia, Eliot interviews author James Tate Hill about his new memoir BLIND MAN'S BLUFF. James Tate Hill is the author of Academy Gothic, winner of the 2014 Nilsen Prize for a First Novel, coming in fall 2015 from SMSU Press. He serves as Fiction and Reviews Editor for the literary journal Monkeybicycle, an imprint of Dzanc Books. His short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Story Quarterly, Sonora Review, The South Carolina Review, The Laurel Review, The Texas Review, and elsewhere. He holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from Hollins University and an M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he served as Fiction Editor of The Greensboro Review. Currently he lives in Greensboro with his wife, Lori. Learn more at www.jamestatehill.com
On this episode of Now, Appalachia, Eliot interviews author James Tate Hill about his new memoir BLIND MAN'S BLUFF. James Tate Hill is the author of Academy Gothic, winner of the 2014 Nilsen Prize for a First Novel, coming in fall 2015 from SMSU Press. He serves as Fiction and Reviews Editor for the literary journal Monkeybicycle, an imprint of Dzanc Books. His short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Story Quarterly, Sonora Review, The South Carolina Review, The Laurel Review, The Texas Review, and elsewhere. He holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from Hollins University and an M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he served as Fiction Editor of The Greensboro Review. Currently he lives in Greensboro with his wife, Lori. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/eliot-parker/support
On this episode of Now, Appalachia, Eliot interviews author James Tate Hill about his new memoir BLIND MAN'S BLUFF. James Tate Hill is the author of Academy Gothic, winner of the 2014 Nilsen Prize for a First Novel, coming in fall 2015 from SMSU Press. He serves as Fiction and Reviews Editor for the literary journal Monkeybicycle, an imprint of Dzanc Books. His short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Story Quarterly, Sonora Review, The South Carolina Review, The Laurel Review, The Texas Review, and elsewhere. He holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from Hollins University and an M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he served as Fiction Editor of The Greensboro Review. Currently he lives in Greensboro with his wife, Lori. Learn more at www.jamestatehill.com
Ellen Datlow has been editing sf/f/h short fiction for four decades. She was fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and SCIFICTION and currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com and Nightfire. She has edited numerous anthologies for adults, young adults, and children, including The Best Horror of the Year annual series, Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles. Forthcoming are When Things Get Dark: Stories inspired by Shirley Jackson and the reprint anthology Body Shocks. She's won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre,” was honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.Ellen DatlowKGB BarBody Shocks, Ellen Datlow, editorWhen Things Get Dark, stories inspired by Shirley Jackson, Ellen Datlow, editorEllen Datlow, Awards ListEllen Datlow, BooksTOR.COMWilliam GibsonElizabeth HandJonathan CarrollBruce Sterling on The Bookshop Podcast, episode 28 Support the show (https://paypal.me/TheBookshopPodcast?locale.x=en_US)
This is Blind Date With a Book, the podcast that matches guests up with their literary soulmates using dating app questions. In each episode, hosts Kristen Evans, Rachel Mans McKenny, and Elena Nicolaou go head-to-head to give the best recommendation. The guest: Chris Gonzalez, author of the forthcoming collection I'm Not Hungry but I Could Eat The picks: The End by Fernanda Torres Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor Stay Up with Hugo Best by Erin Somers Ayoade on Top by Richard Ayoade Cars on Fire by Monica Ramon Rios We Eat Our Own by Kea Wilson You can order all of these by contacting Two Dollar Radio HQ directly! https://twodollarradiohq.com/contact/ They also have a book subscription service for “blind date” style books! https://twodollarradiohq.com/memberships/ Where to find us: Find our show online at blinddatewithabookpod.com and @bookmeetcute on Twitter and Instagram. Please follow and tell us all the books you've fallen in love with recently.
July 2021 Dante's Old South David Shaw: Acclaimed singer, songwriter, musician, and producer David Shaw's first-ever solo album (Yokoko Records/C3 Records) finds The Revivalists frontman following the direction of his own internal compass, riling up his raw rock ‘n' roll impulses as he opens up like never before as a lyricist, poet, and storyteller. The journey of David's solo artistry began as he placed a renewed focus on self-care and personal growth, noticing something within himself that, as he says, he “needed to water.” Natalia Anciso: (Weslaco, TX, 1985). Chicana-Tejana visual artist, educator, and Rio Grande Valley native. Anciso earned her BA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin, her MFA from the California College of the Arts, and her MA in Education from the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Education. Anciso has exhibited her work throughout the United States and internationally, including the San Jose Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California, and the National Museum of Mexican Art. Her work focuses primarily on Identity, as well as human rights, race, class and education. Arts integration and social justice are paramount to her work as an urban educator. Her contributions as an artist have been acknowledged by The Huffington Post, Latina Magazine, Elle Magazine, and TVyNovelas, as well as by former United States Secretary of Education, John King, Jr. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Robert Gwaltney: A graduate of Florida State University, Robert Gwaltney resides in Atlanta Georgia. By day, he serves as Vice President of Easter Seals North Georgia, Inc., a non-profit organization strengthening children and their families at the most critical times in their development. Through his non-profit work, he is a champion for early childhood literacy. In all the hours between, he writes and works as Fiction Editor for The Blue Mountain Review. His work has appeared in the The Signal Mountain Review, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, and The Blue Mountain Review. His debut novel, The Cicada Tree, will be released January 21, 2022 and has been selected by the International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club as its selection for February 2022. Music: “Disrepair” David Shaw “On the Run” Turkuaz "Esala Rien" Rey Sapienz Special Thanks: Autism Speaks - www.autismspeaks.org Red Phone Booth – www.redphonebooth.com Linden Row Inn- www.lindenrowinn.com Office Evolution of Roswell, Georgia - www.officeevolution.com/locations/roswell To purchase books written by the show's host, please visit www.cliffbrooks.com for more details. His major collections of poetry are available anywhere books are sold.
Riz Ahmed stars in Sound of Metal as a rock drummer who loses his hearing. The actor and rapper discusses learning American sign language, working with culturally Deaf actors as well as learning about addiction for his Oscar nominated performance. So far, 2021 has seen a large number of novels with a climate change theme being published. Toby Lichtig, Fiction Editor at the Times Literary Supplement, reports on some of the new releases and shifting attitudes in publishing towards avowedly-politicised fiction. Concerts and plays with a live audience have been taking place in Israel for over a month now, with audience members required to show a vaccination certificate known as a “green pass”. Allison Kaplan Sommer from the Haaretz Newspaper in Tel Aviv reports. Paul Ritter has died aged 54. Perhaps best known for playing the dad Martin in Friday Night Dinner, we speak to the show's writer Robert Popper about Paul's life and career. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Oliver Jones Sound Engineer: Matilda Macari
Do we write because we understand or do we write to reach understanding? Jared and Vanessa Chan of The New School unpack this question. Along the way, they discuss writing about home while living in a foreign country, the long arm of colonialism, and the pros and cons of studying in the literary capital of the world. Vanessa Chan is a Malaysian writer who writes about race, colonization, and women who don't toe the line. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published or are forthcoming in Electric Literature, Conjunctions, The Rumpus, Pidgeonholes, Porter House Review, and more. Vanessa is a Fiction Editor at TriQuarterly Magazine, an Assistant Fiction Editor at Pithead Chapel, and an MFA candidate in fiction at The New School, class of 2021. This follows a 12-year career in public relations, including most recently as director of communications for Facebook in California. Her writing has received support from Tin House, Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, Aspen Words, and Disquiet International. She can be found at her website vanessajchan.com or on Twitter @vanjchan. MFA Writers is hosted by Jared McCormack and produced by Jared McCormack and Hanamori Skoblow. New episodes are released every two weeks. You can find more MFA Writers on social media. Twitter: @MFAwriterspod Instagram: @MFAwriterspodcast Facebook: MFA Writers Email: mfawriterspodcast@gmail.com
John is the Fiction Editor for Deep Wild Journal. He's also a teacher of college English and writing. And, he's so much more... John's Website Deep Wild Journal --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dean-krosecz/message
Christine Ha lost her vision over the course of a few years in her early twenties due to a neurological condition called neuromyelitis optica, which affects the optic nerves and spinal cord. Hosts, Jeff and Erik, speak with Christine about the challenges she faces as a blind Chef, and through their conversation, they discover that her tenacity and strength has been a mainstay of her personality since childhood. Christine’s resume is impressive: she is the first-ever blind contestant and season 3 winner of the competitive amateur cooking television show “MasterChef” with Gordon Ramsay. She defeated over 30,000 home cooks across America to secure the coveted MasterChef title, a $250,000 cash prize, and a cookbook deal.She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the nationally acclaimed Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston, where she served as Fiction Editor for Gulf Coast literary journal, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from The University of Texas at Austin. She is currently working on her memoir and second cookbook. Christine’s first cookbook, Recipes From My Home Kitchen: Asian and American Comfort Food, was a New York Times best-seller. She has been featured on NPR, the BBC, and CNN International, and travels around the globe to give keynote addresses and TEDx talks. Christine has also spoken about disability advocacy at the United Nations and served as a culinary envoy overseas for the American Embassy as part of cultural diplomacy programs in Jordan, Serbia, Bosnia/Herzegovina, and Croatia. She was a co-host on the Canadian cooking show “Four Senses” and a judge on “MasterChef” Vietnam. Christine received the 2014 Helen Keller Personal Achievement Award from the American Foundation for the Blind, a recognition formerly bestowed upon Ray Charles, Patty Duke, and Stevie Wonder among others. Christine’s first restaurant, The Blind Goat, is now open in Houston.Resources: theblindcook.comFacebook: facebook.com/theblindcook Twitter: @theblindcook Instagram: @theblindcookYoutube: YouTube.com/ChristineHaTube
Diana Pho and I continue our conversation about steampunk from her unique vantage point as an editor with more than a decade of experience at Tor and elsewhere. Also, I loved her insight on steampunk as a movement in 2020 and beyond. You definitely don't want to miss it. www.BeyondVictoriana.com www.DianaMPho.com www.Twitter.com/WriterSyndrome www.Instagram/Diana.M.Pho -- www.Storypunks.World
Fiction editor Joshua Essoe gives his best tips for writing fight scenes (hint: it's not about the fighting). And he describes how he got his first editing gig, which has led to a solid career as a freelance fiction editor. Get Joshua's book, Essoe's Guides to Writing: Action Sequences. Read the transcript. Use the hashtag #WhereIListen to show me where you listen to the Grammar Girl podcast. Subscribe to the newsletter for regular updates. Watch my LinkedIn Learning writing course. Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Grammar Pop iOS game. Peeve Wars card game. Grammar Girl books. HOST: Mignon Fogarty VOICEMAIL: 833-214-GIRL (833-214-4475) Grammar Girl is part of the Quick and Dirty Tips podcast network. Links: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/ https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/subscribe http://twitter.com/grammargirl http://facebook.com/grammargirl http://pinterest.com/realgrammargirl http://instagram.com/thegrammargirl https://www.linkedin.com/company/grammar-girl
A live session from #JaipurLitFest2020. Shashi Tharoor is a politician, public intellectual, award-winning author of 19 books of fiction and nonfiction, avid follower of cricket and author of Shadows Across the Playing Field: 60 Years Of India-Pakistan Cricket. Gideon Haigh is an eminent sports journalist and author of Crossing the Line: How Australian Cricket Lost Its Way and From Flock to Baggy Green. Acclaimed news anchor, writer and senior journalist Rajdeep Sardesai is the author of Democracy's XI: The Great Indian Cricket Story. Author Keshava Guha is Fiction Editor of Juggernaut Books and a sports enthusiast.
When we provide safe and open environments for writers, #creativity can flow. Offering space for progression and permission to fail is key to cultivating the power of young #writers in particular. How do we collaborate with and listen to the voices of the next generation in #writing? What does the future of words look like? We answer these questions and gain insight from our guests this week. Adrienne Burris is the Executive Director of Greenville Wordsmiths and the ARMES Writing Instructor at the Fine Arts Center. She has degrees from Clemson University (BA English) and Goldsmiths, University of London (MA Writer/Teacher). Adrienne is also a Moth StorySlam winner, two-time TEDx presenter, and Fiction Editor of Emry's Journal. Andre Sullivan is a 27-year-old best-selling author, illustrator, and motivational speaker from Greenville, SC. He recently co-founded the nonprofit Young Brothers Academy. Andre hopes to take his message of “connectedness” to a global audience. He has been awarded the Creative Brilliance award by TV, film, and Broadway actress Cee-Cee Michaela Floyd and been featured on 96.3 The Block as a Black History Maker and Upstate Parent Magazine.
Zipper Boy and the Girl Made of Light by J.N. Powell. Narrated by J.S. Arquin. Featuring an afterword recorded by J.N. Powell. The overhead light in his room flickered sickly. The carpet smelled moldy. Elliot sighed and looked out his window at the parking lot, which also merged into the pool deck and served as a courtyard picnic area, all overgrown and unkempt. He heard bubbles of laughter somewhere out there, but didn't see who it came from. J.N. Powell is an English and Creative Writing instructor in Midland, Texas. She serves as Fiction Editor and Submissions Editor for Clockhouse literary journal. She learned most of what she knows from two places: writing workshops at the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at KU and her graduate creative writing program at Goddard College in Port Townsend, WA. Her work has appeared in such publications as The Future Fire, Typehouse, and Space Squid, as well as the Transcendent anthology from Transmundane Press. Find her online at jalynfiske.wixsite.com/jpowellwriter Please help support The Overcast. Become a Patron today! Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher so you never miss an episode. While you're there, don't forget to leave a review!
To say that Christie Stratos is a literary fiction editor, is to just be getting warmed up in describing her accomplishments. We first met Christie as a fellow panelist on the Writer's Imperfect show hosted by another iCreateDaily guest, Joshua Robertson. Christie Stratos is a podcaster and award-winning writer, author, and literary fiction editor where she puts her degree in English Literature to good use. Christie is the author of two fiction books to date, and working on another. She enjoys researching and writing Victorian-era fiction, which she calls her Dark Victoriana Collection. Dark Victoriana Collection by Christie Stratos includes:Anatomy of a Darkened Heart Brotherhood of Secrets Christie has also had short stories and poetry published in: Ginosko Literary Journal, Andromedae Review, 99Fiction, and various anthologies. An avid reader of all genres and world literature, Christie reads everything from bestsellers to classics to indies. Christie is also the host of two podcasts! One is called The Creative Edge Author Showcase where she interviews authors about their work, stories, and writing advice. And… The Writer's Edge which features discussions from various author panels. Non-Fiction and Fiction Editor of All GenresChristie's editing company is Proof Positive Pro where she serves as nonfiction and fiction editor. In fact, Christie edits all genres of fiction and nonfiction. However, her favorites include: contemporary literary experimental memoirs cultural fantasy chick lit young adult (YA) humor romance light erotica psychological We were so immersed in the conversation that we forgot to ask about her daily creative habits During the interview. But Christie graciously emailed us an account of how she overcame some writing blocks that prevented her from daily writing, which we've posted below the interview. Topics Discussed in the Interview:Christie's story Corporate editing vs freelance editing The stress of Christie's full time job How Christie started her editing business Struggling with self-doubt The road from being an amateur to turning pro Writing her first full-length novel Methodically planning your full-time creative career Financial strategies before leaving your job The journey of being a “successful” creator How NaNoWriMo helped Christie publish her first book How Christie became a literary fiction editor How she edits her own book before sending it someone else The ideal time to announce a publication date The toughest part of being an editor What to be aware of when hiring an editor Christie's partnership with Owl City Press How to contact Christie for editing services Why hiring a proofreader is so important Pros and cons of freelance platforms Why sample work is important Christie's current published books Her future writing and publishing plans Christie's two podcast shows! We thoroughly enjoyed our time with Christie Stratos, and think that you will as well. “Doing what you love is always less stressful, no matter what that means.” ~Christie Stratos, editor, author, entrepreneur Christie's Daily Creative HabitsChristie: “Here's my answer to the question about when I write in the day.”“I can write any time of day and in almost any location—but I wasn't always that way. In fact, I used to be so inflexible that it had to be a certain time of night with certain music and a font that I felt fit what I was writing, and…and… (This is not an exaggeration, believe it or not!)” “It got in my way, but really it was me getting in my own way. What a great way to avoid putting my creativity down on the page!” “So I forced myself to write “uncomfortably”—at least, it was uncomfortable at first. I went to restaurants and had lunch by myself, which forced me to write in order to avoid feeling awkward. I used that same idea to write in downtown areas, cafes, and libraries, and I tried morning, noon, and night...
Karen Stefano is Fiction Editor for Connotation Press. Her stories have appeared in The South Carolina Review, Tampa Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, Epiphany, and elsewhere. She was nominated for the XXXVIII Pushcart Prize. To learn more about her work, please visit www.stefanokaren.com. Nancy Stohlman's books include The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories (2014), The Monster Opera (2013), Searching for Suzi: a flash novel (2009), Live From Palestine (2003), and Fast Forward: The Mix Tape (2010), an anthology of flash fiction that was a finalist for a 2011 Colorado Book Award. She is a founding member of Fast Forward Press, the creator of FlashNano, the founder and curator of The F-Bomb Flash Fiction Reading Series in Denver, and her work has been recently nominated for The Best of the Web. Kathy Fish teaches for the Mile High MFA program at Regis University in Denver. Her short fiction has appeared in Indiana Review, The Denver Quarterly, New South, Quick Fiction, Guernica, Slice, BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING 2018, edited by Sheila Heti. THE LIST: 25 PROVOCATIVE WOMEN WRITERS (Black Lawrence Press, 2014), and BEST SMALL FICTIONS, 2016, 2017, 2018. She is the author of four collections of short fiction: a chapbook of flash fiction in the chapbook collective, A PECULIAR FEELING OF RESTLESSNESS; FOUR CHAPBOOKS OF SHORT SHORT FICTION BY FOUR WOMEN (Rose Metal Press, 2008), WILD LIFE (Matter Press, 2011), TOGETHER WE CAN BURY IT (Lit Pub, 2012), and RIFT, co-authored with Robert Vaughan (Unknown Press, 2015).
Liz talks with Scott Holliday about his new book Punishment in the Detective Barnes Series. Scott J. Holliday was born and raised in Detroit. In addition to a lifelong love of books and reading, he’s pursued a range of curiosities and interests, including glassblowing, boxing, and much more. His two previous novels are Stonefly and Normal, the latter of which earned him recognition in INKUBATE.com’s Literary Blockbuster Challenge. He loves to cook and create stories for his wife and two daughters. Conor interviews Sheila O'Connor about her latest book Until Tomorrow, Mr. Marsworth. Sheila O’Connor is a multi-genre writer whose novels for both adults and young people include Where No Gods Came and Sparrow Road. She is a professor in the MFA program at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she also serves as Fiction Editor for Water~Stone Review. In fall 2019, her new hybrid novel for adults, V, will be published by Rose Metal Press.
Adam Marsh was an editor and agent at Reece Halsey North Literary Agency, and brings to his work a passion for storytelling and the knowledge of what it takes to publish in today's competitive market. Adam has taught classes and delivered presentations at numerous writers conferences and universities, including the Maui Writers Conference, Santa Barbara Writers Conference, San Diego State University Writers Conference, Willamette Writers Conference, San Francisco State University, Academy of Art University, University of Nevada in Las Vegas, Book Passage, and Writers Retreat Workshop in Erlanger, Kentucky. Alex Dolan is the author of The Euthanist and The Empress of Tempera. He is also the host of the "Thrill Seekers" show on the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network. He was an executive committee member of the San Francisco Bay Area's Litquake festival, and is a member of International Thriller Writers and Sisters in Crime. He holds an MS in strategic communications from Columbia University. This is a trademarked copyrighted podcast solely owned by the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network LLC.
Derek McFadden is a fiction editor, a former March Of Dimes Ambassador, the author of the poetry collection Prose From A Grandson To A Senior Fellow, and a contributor to the short-story anthology Cast No Shadows (Curiosity Quills Press). His novel What Death Taught Terrence awaits its agent, publisher, and readers. Alex Dolan is the author of The Euthanist and The Empress of Tempera. He is also the host of the "Thrill Seekers" show on the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network. He was an executive committee member of the San Francisco Bay Area's Litquake festival, and is a member of International Thriller Writers and Sisters in Crime. He holds an MS in strategic communications from Columbia University. This is a trademarked copyrighted podcast solely owned by the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network LLC.
Today we're connected with Jensen Beach, Fiction Editor and Web Editor at Green Mountains Review, Web Editor at Hobart Literary Journal, author of the short story collections For Out Of The Heart Proceed (Dzanc Books and Dark Sky Books) and the forthcoming Swallowed By The Cold (Graywolf), and Assistant Professor of Writing and Literature at Johnson State College. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Jensen Beach
Nathaniel is a writer, editor, historian, journalist, and the author of five books, including the novel Everything is Borrowed, forthcoming in May 2018 from New Door Books. He’s the co-editor of Who Will Speak for America?, a literary anthology in response to the American political crisis, also forthcoming, in June 2018 from Temple University Press. He’s the fiction review editor of Cleaver Magazine, as well as a prolific book critic focusing on literary fiction and works in translation. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Public Books, The Rumpus, Tablet Magazine, LitHub, The Millions, and the Kenyon Review, among other publications. Nathaniel and I sat down, he in his office in Philadelphia where he lives and works, and me in my office in Seattle, and talked about why literary criticism is important, and what makes for good criticism. Interview by Ryan Evans, producer of On the Edge. Music by @simon-aspinall01
Deborah Treisman, Fiction Editor of The New Yorker, discusses the life and work of American museum director and curator of modern art, Walter Hopps, with visiting professor of American Art, Miguel De Baca
Deborah Treisman, Fiction Editor of The New Yorker, discusses the life and work of American museum director and curator of modern art, Walter Hopps, with visiting professor of American Art, Miguel De Baca
Tyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry, Leadbelly and Olio. Olio won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The Midland Society Author's Award in Poetry, and received an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN Jean Stein Book Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Leadbelly was a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series. The Library Journal and Black Issues Book Review both named it one of the “Best Poetry Books of 2005.” Jess, a Cave Canem and NYU Alumni, received a 2004 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and was a 2004–2005 Winter Fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Jess is also a veteran of the 2000 and 2001 Green Mill Poetry Slam Team, and won a 2000–2001 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry, the 2001 Chicago Sun-Times Poetry Award, and a 2006 Whiting Fellowship. He presented his poetry at the 2011 TedX Nashville Conference and won a 2016 Lannan Literary Award in Poetry. Jess is Poetry and Fiction Editor of African American Review and Professor of English at College of Staten Island. Jess' fiction and poetry have appeared in many journals, as well as anthologies such as Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, Beyond The Frontier: African American Poetry for the Twenty-First Century, Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Power Lines: Ten Years of Poetry from Chicago's Guild Complex, and Slam: The Art of Performance Poetry.
In today's episode of Signal Boost, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry and Dominik Parisien join Paul to talk about the Uncanny Magazine Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction and Year Four Kickstarter. Elsa is the Non-Fiction Editor and Dominik is the Fiction Editor for the special edition of Uncanny Magazine focusing on disability representation in Science Fiction and Fantasy. […]
Mercedes is the author of the chapbook In the Garden of Broken Things (Flutter Press, 2016, available at www.Lulu.com) and winner of the Langston Hughes Creative Writing Award for Poetry. Her writing has appeared in New Orleans Review,Curbside Splendor, Paper Darts, The Chicago Tribune’s Printers Row Journal, The Pinch, Heavy Feather Review, and Whitefish Review among others. She is a recent Glimmer Train “Short Fiction Award” Finalist and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is currently the Fiction Editor of Beecher’s and curates a collection of works dedicated to the experiences of autism and developmental disabilities through the online literary magazine, Spectrum Extract. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University and is currently pursuing her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Kansas. Follow her work on Twitter @loose_arrow and at www.MercedesLucero.com
I'm joined this week by Katrina Ostrander, Fiction Editor for Fantasy Flight Games Fiction and Story Team Member for Fantasy Flight Games. She talks about her early experiences in gaming, which were mostly comprised of play-by-post games. She speaks about the benefits of her play-by-post games, and how she started to play in tabletop sessions. Katrina describes her experiences playing in gaming groups comprised of all-men and all-women, and how those groups tend to approach RPGs in different ways. She discusses her method for running quality games that engage player emotions, and offers advice for how to deal with the anxiety that comes with the duties of gamemastering. She details her roles over the years with Fantasy Flight Games, including her work on highly-scrutinized intellectual properties such as Star Wars and Legend of the Five Rings. She closes the interview by discussing potential future projects, including designing a game that would connect with the younger version of herself.
Rachel Hochhauser is a writer and strategist living in Los Angeles. Her fiction and non-fiction work has appeared in the likes of Per Contra, Connu, Foliate Oak, Selfish, Daily Beast, Inc. Magazine and The Date Report. A recipient of the Pillsbury Foundation Creative Writing Award, Rachel also studied creative writing at NYU and has a Masters in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California, where she taught undergraduate writing and served as Fiction Editor for the Southern California Review. Recently, she completed her first novel. As a strategist and planner, Rachel has worked on projects for a variety of top tier clients such as Proct [...]
Kitchens of the Great Midwest (Pamela Dorman Books) From one of our favorite local authors comes a hotly anticipated debut--about a young woman with a once-in-a-generation palate who becomes the iconic chef behind the country's most coveted dinner reservation. When Lars Thorvald's wife, Cynthia, falls in love with wine--and a dashing sommelier--he's left to raise their baby, Eva, on his own. He's determined to pass on his love of food to his daughter--starting with pureed pork shoulder. As Eva grows, she finds her solace and salvation in the flavors of her native Minnesota. From Scandinavian lutefisk to hydroponic chocolate habaneros, each ingredient represents one part of Eva's journey as she becomes the star chef behind a legendary and secretive pop-up supper club, culminating in an opulent and emotional feast that's a testament to her spirit and resilience. Each chapter in J. Ryan Stradal's startlingly original debut tells the story of a single dish and character, at once capturing the zeitgeist of the Midwest, the rise of foodie culture, and delving into the ways food creates community and a sense of identity. By turns quirky, hilarious, and vividly sensory, Kitchens of the Great Midwest is an unexpected mother-daughter story about the bittersweet nature of life--its missed opportunities and its joyful surprises. It marks the entry of a brilliant new talent. Praise for Kitchens of the Great Midwest: "Kitchens of the Great Midwest is a big-hearted, funny, and class-transcending pleasure. It's also both a structural and empathetic tour de force, stepping across worlds in the American midwest, and demonstrating with an enviable tenderness and ingenuity the tug of war between our freedom to pursue our passions and our obligations to those we love." --Jim Shepard, author of Project X and National Book Award finalist for Like You'd Understand, Anyway "Tender, funny, and moving, J. Ryan Stradal's debut novel made me crave my mother's magic cookie bars...and every good tomato I've ever had the privilege of eating. Kitchens of the Great Midwest manages to be at once sincere yet sharply observed, thoughtful yet swiftly paced, and the lives of its fallible, realistic, and complicated characters mattered to me deeply. It's a fantastic book."-- Edan Lepucki, bestselling author of California "In Kitchens of the Great Midwest, a charming, fast-moving round robin tale of food, sensuality and Midwestern culture, Mr. Stradal has delivered one extremely tasty, well-seasoned debut in what is sure to be a long and savory career."--Janet Fitch, author White Oleander "From the quite literally burning passions of a lonely eleven-year-old girl with an exceptional palate, to the ethical dilemmas behind a batch of Blue Ribbon Peanut Butter Bars, J. Ryan Stradal writes with a special kind of meticulous tenderness--missing nothing and accepting everything. A superbly gratifying debut."--Meg Howrey, author of The Crane's Dance "An impossible-to-put-down, one-of-a-kind novel. The prose is beautiful, the characters memorable, and the plot is surprising at every turn. I have never read a book quite like this--and neither, I'll bet, have you. This stunning debut announces J. Ryan Stradal as a first-rate voice in American fiction. This is a wildly creative, stunningly original, and very moving novel. I can't wait to see what Stradal does next."-- Rob Roberge, author of The Cost of Living "A Great American Novel in the fullest sense of the term. Everything you want a book to be."--Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day J. Ryan Stradal is the author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest. Born and raised in Minnesota, he now lives in Los Angeles, where he is Acquisitions Editor at Unnamed Press and the Fiction Editor at The Nervous Breakdown. Julia Ingalls is primarily an essayist. Her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Salon, Guernica, and KCRW, among others. From David Mitchell to Alan Ball to Amelia Gray, she's had the pleasure of conversing with the world's finest imaginative writers, a tradition she continues tonight with J. Ryan Stradal.
The Fine Art of Fucking Up (Unnamed Press) Your archenemy taunts you with clandestine bacon frying. Your boss feverishly cyberstalks an aging romance novel cover model. Your husband unexpectedly takes in a wayward foreign national. Your best friend reveals a secret relationship with your longstanding workplace crush. Welcome to the life of Nina Lanning, lone and floundering administrator of a prestigious Midwestern art school. When once-a-century flooding threatens to destroy the art building, and the priceless Jackson Pollock trapped inside, Nina and her ragtag band of faculty members undertake to rescue the early work of the splatter master. Propelled by disasters both natural and personal, Nina must confront her colleagues, her husband, and most importantly, herself. Cate Dicharry'sdebut novel is a painfully hysterical examination of what is truly worth saving, and mastering the art of letting go. Praise for The Fine Art of Fucking Up "Cate Dicharry's comic timing is unimpeachable and though her characters are idiosyncratic and quirky, they are deeply dimensional and exceptionally real. A richly complicated and rewarding novel."-- Jill Alexander Essbaum, author of Hausfrau "Cate Dicharry has an unwaveringly merciless eye for the bogus aspects of art school. But you don't need a BA in Painting or Performance Studies to enjoy the screwball comedy of The Fine Art of Fucking Up. An affectionate yet unsparing view of how easy it is to lose one's way."-- Sara Levine, author of Treasure Island!!! "How thoroughly The Fine Art of Fucking Up sucked me in, and how, like good books tend to do, this novel operated by some kind of clairvoyant book magic: This is exactly the book you need to read right now; this is your life, but enough not your life to see it clearly. Good job. Keep reading." -- Kailyn McCord in Quaint Magazine Cate Dicharry has an MFA in Creative Writing from the Low Residency Program at the University of California, Riverside. Cate lives in Iowa City with her husband and two small sons. The Fine Art of Fucking Up is her first novel. J. Ryan Stradal is the author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest (Viking, July 2015). Born and raised in Minnesota, he now lives in Los Angeles, where he is Acquisitions Editor at Unnamed Press and the Fiction Editor at The Nervous Breakdown.
So You Want To Be A Writer with Valerie Khoo and Allison Tait: Australian Writers' Centre podcast
Why Valerie can't go past a good typewriter, author-approved writing implements, student successes, Cory Doctorow's novel pulled from school reading programme, where to find book recommendations, the eight stages of writing a first draft, Writer in Residence freelance fiction editor Nicola O'Shea, the questions you must ask your editor or proofreader, how to check for plagiarism and more! Read the show notes. Connect with Valerie, Allison and listeners in the podcast community on Facebook Visit WritersCentre.com.au | AllisonTait.com | ValerieKhoo.com
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
Host David Naimon speaks with Junot Diaz, who the New Yorker calls one of the top 20 writers for the 21st century. He’s the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a Creative Writing professor at MIT, the Fiction Editor at the Boston Review, and a founding member of Voices of […] The post Junot Diaz : This Is How You Lose Her appeared first on Tin House.
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