Podcasts about mfa writing

This week, tune into the panel discussion Making Up True Stories: Novels and Books About Real People. Our featured writers are Amanda Flower, Sarah James, Brianna Labuskes, and Brianna Madia. Moderated by Dipika Mukherjee. This conversation originally took place May 19, 2024 and was recorded live at the 2024 American Writers Festival. AWM PODCAST NETWORK HOME About the writers: AMANDA FLOWER is the USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award–winning mystery author of over twenty-five novels, including the nationally bestselling Amish Candy Shop Mystery Series, the Amish Matchmaker Mysteries, the Emily Dickinson Mysteries, the Katharine Wright Mysteries, and several series written under the name Isabella Alan. An organic farmer and former librarian, Amanda lives in Northeast Ohio and can be found online at AmandaFlower.com. SARAH JAMES is the international bestselling author of The Woman with Two Shadows and Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen. Her work has appeared in Baseball Prospectus, Pittsburgh City Paper, Reductress, and more. Sarah is a graduate of the MFA Writing for Screen and Television program at USC and currently lives in Los Angeles. BRIANNA LABUSKES is the Washington Post bestselling author of The Lost Book of Bonn, The Librarian of Burned Books as well as eight thrillers. For the first decade of her career, Brianna worked as a journalist for national news organizations covering politics and policy. BRIANNA MADIA has lived a life of relentless intention, traveling the deserts of the American West in an old Ford van. She made a name for herself on social media with her inspiring captions-cum-essays about bravery, identity, nature, and subverting expectations. She lives in Utah with her four dogs. Her first book, Nowhere for Very Long, was a New York Times bestseller. Never Leave the Dogs Behind is her second book. DIPIKA MUKHERJEE'S collection of travel essays, Writer's Postcards (Penguin), was published in October 2023. Her work is included in The Best Small Fictions 2019 and appears in World Literature Today, Asia Literary Review, Del Sol Review, and Chicago Quarterly Review, Newsweek, Los Angeles Review of Books, Hemispheres, Orion and more, and she has been translated into French, Portuguese, Bengali and Mandarin Chinese. She is the author of the novels Shambala Junction (Aurora Metro, winner of the Virginia Prize for Fiction) and Ode to Broken Things (Repeater Books, longlisted for the Man Asia Literary Prize), and the story collection, Rules of Desire (Fixi).

Weekly Shoutout: Nighthawks Podcast! Like the podcast? Thoughts/concerns? Jaime would love to hear from you, send him a message! -- Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling writer and educator Kate Brandt! https://katebrandt.net About our Guest: Kate Brandt is a graduate of the MFA Writing program at Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has appeared in literary anthologies, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Literary Mama, Ginosko, and Redivider, among other publications. Hope for the Worst, her first novel, is informed by her experiences with Tibetan Buddhism, magic, self-delusion, desire, despair, and healing, as well as her travels through Europe, Africa, and Asia. Kate is also a teacher and teacher trainer in adult literacy in New York City. In this role, she is privileged to work with a community of smart, dedicated educators in service to adult students who, despite difficult circumstances, continue to pursue an education in the hope of improving their lives. Twitter: @kbrandtwriter | Insta: @kbrandtwriter HOPE FOR THE WORST, now available from Vine Leaves Press! https://www.vineleavespress.com/hope-for-the-worst-by-kate-brandt.html About Hope for the Worst: At twenty-seven, Ellie Adkins doesn't have all that much going for her–a dead-end job at a New York City nonprofit; a boyfriend who has left her; distant and divorced parents. But it is the suffering caused by Calvin, her Buddhist teacher, that she can't get past. A year ago, Calvin seduced her, and his Buddhist teachings became her world. Now, he has dropped her, and Ellie struggles to reconcile his teachings—the idea that nothing has inherent reality; that the way to salvation is through abandonment of the self–with the intense pain in her heart. Ellie's devotion to Calvin will lead her to undertake an expedition to Tibet on his behalf; there, injured and in danger on a solo trek, she will have to choose between devotion and her own life. Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Kate! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro (cruzfolio.com). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love, j https://artscalling.com

We are grateful to have spoken with Guleraana Mir during today's episode. Guleraana is a British award-winning writer, applied-theatre practitioner, and one half of The Thelmas, a female-led theatre company devoted to empowering women to redress the equality imbalance in the arts. She is passionate about telling authentic stories that celebrate, not stereotype. Guleraana regularly facilitates playwriting masterclasses in schools, community groups, and for emerging writers. She is leader of the National Theatre's Writing for Theatre programme for 16-21 year olds, and VAULT Festival's New Writers Programme. She mentors on the MFA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Writing credits include: ALL THE SMALL THINGS (short, BBC Children's) 2020, MISFITS (co-writer) Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch 2020, Recipient of an OnComm Commendation, SANTI & NAZ (co-writer), VAULT Festival 2020, Winner of an Origins Award for Outstanding New Work & Finalist for Best Stage Production at Asian Media Awards, THE BIGGER PICTURE (audio), commissioned by Tamasha and SOAS, WE'RE JUST GETTING STARTED, Royal Exchange Theatre Young Company 2019, MAKE NOISE (audio) as part of Forgotten Women 2018, MANO'S Mulberry School & RichMix 2018, and COCONUT, Ovalhouse and national tour 2018, nominated for two OFFIE Awards including most promising new playwright. Information about Guleraana's Theatre Company, The Thelmas can be found at: https://www.thethelmas.co.uk Tree Speech's host, Dori Robinson, is a director, playwright, dramaturg, and educator who seeks and develops projects that explore social consciousness, personal heritage, and the difference one individual can have on their own community. Some of her great loves include teaching, the Oxford comma, intersectional feminism, and traveling. With a Masters degree from NYU's Educational Theatre program, she continues to share her love of Shakespeare, new play development, political theatre, and gender in performance. Dori's original plays have been produced in New York, Chicago, and Boston, including: The Great Harvest, The Principal Stream, Name of a Woman, Six Wings to One, and most recently The Elm Tree with Alight Theater Guild. More information at https://www.dorirobinson.com This week's episode was recorded in Massachusetts on the native lands of the Wabanaki Confederacy, Pennacook, Massa-adchu-es-et (Massachusett), and Pawtucket people, and was produced by Jonathan Zautner and Alight Theater Guild, a 501(c)(3) created to advance compelling theatrical endeavors that showcase the diversity of our ever-changing world in order to build strong artists whose work creates empathy, challenges the status quo and unites communities. Alighttheater.org. Logo design by Mill Riot. Learn more about the podcast at: www.treespeechpodcast.com, and IG: treespeechpodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/treespeech/message

Today we go inside the mind of screenwriter Neil Landau (Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead). Neil Landau serves as Assistant Dean of Dean’s Special Programs at UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television. He's also a Professor and Associate Director of the MFA Writing for Television Program at UCLA TFT where he’s taught Screenwriting for more than 20 years.

Janet Desaulniers, co-creator of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)'s MFA Writing program, received a contract to publish a short story collection at the ripe old age of 25. The book, titled What You've Been Missing, ended up taking 20 years to publish. We talk with Janet about the thrills and perils of early success — of making it before you've made yourself.

photo by Carly Ann Faye Philip Matthews is a poet from eastern North Carolina. He is the author of Witch, forthcoming from Alice James Books in April 2020, and Wig Heavier than A Boot, a collaboration with photographer David Johnson, forthcoming from Kris Graves Projects in October 2019. Anchored by site-specific meditation and performance, his practice investigates spiritual, queer power, ecological shift, and questions of home. Philip is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Peaked Hill Trust, Hemera Foundation, and Wormfarm Institute. He has taught at Washington University in St. Louis and the Kansas City Art Institute, and from 2013-16, he organized public programs at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, emphasizing artist-driven thinking, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and community-directed action. He holds an MFA Writing from Washington University in St. Louis and BA English from Tulane University. David Johnson, "N.C. 012," Wig Heavier than a Boot (Kris Graves Projects, 2019) Philip Matthews, "Self-portrait" (handwritten), Wig Heavier than a Boot (Kris Graves Projects, 2019)  

Host Bill Goodman is joined by author Katy Yocom. She is the Associate Director of Spalding University’s MFA Writing program and is a board member of the Kentucky Women Writer’s Conference. Her knowledge of and fascination with tigers influenced her most recent novel, "Three Ways to Disappear." Today, she treats us by reading an excerpt of the novel. Learn more and pre-order your copy today at www.katyyocom.com

Heidi Reszies A poem from her series titled "Illusory Borders." School Dose reading of “Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle Received from a Friend Called Felicity," by John Tobias. Heidi is a multidisciplinary artist living in Richmond, VA, and a graduate of the MFA Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She teaches letterpress printing at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts, and manages Artifact Press, an independent micropress that publishes limited edition poetry chapbooks. Her poetry has recently appeared in literary journals including BOAAT, Daily Gramma, LEVELER, Fog Machine, Forklift Ohio, FORTH Magazine, Kelsey Street, La Vague Journal, SUSAN/the Journal, and Queen of Cups. Her chapbook "Recollections & Reenactments" was published by Zoo Cake Press in 2017.

Timeline of Caroline Goodwin's readings: Peregrine (2:53-18:30); "Storyteller" by Ishmael Hope (36:55-39:18); "Afternoon at the Coffeeshop" (43:33-44:44). Born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, Caroline Goodwin received her MFA in Poetry from the University of British Columbia and was awarded the Wallace Stegner fellowship in Poetry at Stanford University in 1999. Today, while fulfilling her role as the first appointed Poet Laureate in San Mateo County, Calif., Caroline teaches in the MFA Writing and the undergraduate Writing and Literature programs at California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA, and also at the Stanford Writer’s Studio. Concerning Peregrine, poet Louise Mathias writes: "Both a charm against, and a love song to the fleeting... this work is lovely and terrifying, singular and true."

Today is a monumental day on the Me Myself and I Radio Podcast. I talk today with poet and author, Jason Stocks about the benefits of writing in our lives. I have also completely reformatted the layers of the show and polished up my editing skills. Please enjoy this episode as much as we did!Show notes: https://memyselfandiradio.wordpress.com/2015/05/01/writing-with-guest-jason-stocks-2/For more information please visit: http://www.memyselfandiradio.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/memyselfandiradioMe Myself and I Radio Blog: https://memyselfandiradio.wordpress.com/Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ahayes_mmiTo connect with Jason Stocks visit: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007481328530&fref=tsTopics of discussion include Personal Development, Habits, Fear, Failure, Mindset, Meditation, Productivity, Mindfulness, and Self Awareness. Keep on Flowing, Just be...For more information on the Me Myself and I Radio Podcast or host Anthony Hayes, please visit http://www.memyselfandiradio.com

Today is a monumental day on the Me Myself and I Radio Podcast. I talk today with poet and author, Jason Stocks about the benefits of writing in our lives. I have also completely reformatted the layers of the show and polished up my editing skills. Please enjoy this episode as much as we did!Show notes: https://memyselfandiradio.wordpress.com/2015/05/01/writing-with-guest-jason-stocks-2/For more information please visit: http://www.memyselfandiradio.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/memyselfandiradioMe Myself and I Radio Blog: https://memyselfandiradio.wordpress.com/Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ahayes_mmiTo connect with Jason Stocks visit: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007481328530&fref=tsTopics of discussion include Personal Development, Habits, Fear, Failure, Mindset, Meditation, Productivity, Mindfulness, and Self Awareness. Keep on Flowing, Just be...For more information on the Me Myself and I Radio Podcast or host Anthony Hayes, please visit http://www.memyselfandiradio.com

Caroline Goodwin was born and raised in Anchorage. Her first poem was published in the Anchorage Daily News in 1971. She moved to California from Sitka in 1999 to attend Stanford University as a Wallace Stegner fellow in poetry. Currently, she serves as the first Poet Laureate of San Mateo County, CA and also teaches in the MFA Writing program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her first collection of poetry featured here, Trapline, was published by JackLeg Press in 2013.

Here's the segment from this week's show with poet and professor Kwame Dawes. He's on faculty at Pacific University's MFA Writing program, and makes regular visits to Forest Grove. We caught with him to talk about the poetic line, and the composition of MFA programs. Photo by Eliza Griffiths.