Podcasts about midwest book awards

B.J. Hollars is the author of several books, most recently Wisconsin for Kennedy: The Primary That Launched a President and Changed The Course of History, Year of Plenty: A Family's Season of Grief, Go West Young Man: A Father and Son Rediscover America on the Oregon Trail, Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians and the Weird in Flyover Country.Visit his website here: http://www.bjhollars.com/He and his film partner, Steve Dayton, have also completed a documentary: When Rubber Hit The Road,Hollars is the recipient of the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Nonfiction, the Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize, the Council of Wisconsin Writers' Blei-Derleth Award, the Society of Midland Authors Award, and received a 2022 silver medal from the Midwest Book Awards. His work has been featured on C-SPAN, Lit Hub, Washington Post, Inside Edition, Star-Tribune, The Millions, and Wisconsin Life.B.J. vists with Talking Weird to chat about his research into the strangest tales of the American midwest, which he chronicles in his fantastic book MIDWESTERN STRANGE: HUNTING MONSTERS, MARTIANS, AND THE WEIRD IN FLYOVER COUNTRY: From Werewolves and Mothman, through the Hodag and giant turtles, to UFOs and strange Viking relics.The book is available at all good book stores, and at Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Midwestern-Strange-Hunting-Monsters-Martians/dp/1496215605This is a fun show, jam-packed with midwestern weirdness!

Welcome to Teacher Tom's Podcast, which is all about taking play seriously. In each episode, Teacher Tom inspires early childhood educators, parents, and other listeners with information, techniques, and best practices to provide children an authentic play-filled childhood.Lisa Murphy is the founder and CEO of Ooey Gooey, Inc., a frequent lecturer, and the author of five books. She has been involved in early childhood education for more than 35 years.“A lot of younger adults didn't get open-ended, process-oriented art in early childhood experiences. Many of them are reporting to me that they're not getting creative art, music, finger play, songs, classes in college.”— Lisa MurphyLisa Murphy has been involved in early childhood education for more than 35 years. She has written five books, produced numerous training videos, serves on several early childhood advisory boards, lectures both domestically and internationally, is a frequent guest on various early childhood podcasts, and is the founder and CEO of Ooey Gooey, Inc.In 2013 she received a Masters in Early Childhood Education from Champlain College; in 2018 she received the Patricia Monighan Nourot Award for Play Advocacy; in 2020 her book, Lisa Murphy On... Being Child Centered, was nominated for “Best in Education” by Midwest Book Awards; and in 2022 she was awarded the “Doctor of Play” award by the U.S. affiliate of the International Play Association. She is currently awaiting notice of acceptance from Hollins University to begin her second Master's degree, this time in Children's Literature.Lisa presents hundreds of workshops a year and is forever grateful knowing her presentations have been called humorous, energetic, content rich, and inspiring. She currently resides in Central Florida where she continues to be an outspoken advocate who is committed to protecting a child's right to play.“Teacher Tom” Hobson is an early childhood educator, international speaker, education consultant, teacher of teachers, parent educator, and author. He is best known, however, for his namesake blog, Teacher Tom's Blog, where he has posted daily for over a decade, chronicling the life and times of his little preschool in the rain-soaked Pacific Northwest corner of the USA.For nearly two decades, Teacher Tom was the sole employee of the Woodland Park Cooperative School, a parent-owned and operated school knit together by Teacher Tom's democratic, progressive play-based pedagogy. Teacher Tom came into teaching through the backdoor, so to speak, having enrolled his own child in a cooperative preschool, where he began working daily in his daughter's classroom as an assistant teacher under the tutelage of veteran educators — although he'll be the first to tell you that most of what he learned came from the children themselves. When it was time for his daughter to move on, he “stayed behind.”Today, Teacher Tom shares his play-based pedagogy through online e-courses for early childhood educators; produces online early childhood conferences; consults with organizations about his "Family Schools" program; and inspires early-years audiences around the world (Greece, UK, Iceland, Australia, China, Vietnam, New Zealand, Canada, and across the US) both virtually and in-person with his engaging views on early childhood education, play, and pedagogy.He was pressured by his blog readers into authoring his first book, aptly named Teacher Tom's First Book, and is thrilled about the 2023 release of Teacher Tom's Second Book.Resources, people, and websites mentioned in this episode:MiraseeTeacher Tom's website: TeacherTomsWorld.comLisa's website: OoeyGooey.comAn Immense World (book) by Ed Yong: Goodreads.com/book/show/59575939-an-immense-worldbell hooks (educator and author): Wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooksAntonia Damaso's TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/speakers/antonio_damasioFor show notes, visit Mind-Body Learning in Kids (Lisa Murphy)Credits:Host: Teacher Tom HobsonProducer: Michi LantzSupervising Producer: Cynthia Lamb Audio Editor: Marvin del RosarioExecutive Producer: Danny InyMusic Soundscape: Chad Michael SnavelyMaking our hosts sound great: Home Brew AudioMusic credits:Track Title: Blueberry Jam JamArtist: Simen AndreasWriter: Simen KnudsenPublisher: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONTrack Title: Childlike WonderArtist: ReveilleWriter: Brendan St. GelaisPublisher: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONTrack Title: Tick TockArtist: Ivy BakesWriter: Erick PenaPublisher: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONSpecial effects credits:24990513_birds-chirping_by_promission used with permission of the author and under license by AudioJungle/Envato Market.To catch the great episodes coming up on Teacher Tom's Podcast, please follow us on Mirasee FM's YouTube channelor your favorite podcast player. And if you enjoyed the show, please leave us a comment or a starred review. It's the best way to help us get these ideas to more people.Episode transcript: Mind-Body Learning in Kids (Lisa Murphy)

This week we talk with Maggie Ginsberg (Still True, Univ of Wisconsin Press, September 2022). Maggie, a journalist and magazine editor, always thought the novelists she admired were born with “magic author brains”, that ideas simply flowed out of their fingers onto the page. It was only after she decided to write a book herself that she discovered the similarities with er non-fiction interviews—the characters were actually “real people” and all she had to do was ask the right questions so she could understand their story. We discuss the pluses and challenges of publishing with an academic press, how the key to a major character was buried in her own personal history, and how her award-winning book unabashedly claims “Midwestern Lit” as its genre.   Maggie Ginsberg is a writer, editor and author in Wisconsin. Her debut novel, Still True, was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in September 2022 and is one of three finalists in this year's WFWA STAR Award for Outstanding Debut. It was also the honorable mention selection for the 2022 Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award and a 2023 Midwest Book Awards silver medal winner in the Literary/Contemporary/Historical Fiction category. Maggie is now a senior editor at Madison Magazine after freelancing for city, regional and national magazines since 2006, and her nonfiction work has earned numerous honors from the City Regional Magazine Association, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the Milwaukee Press Club. She lives with her bicycle mechanic husband and a revolving door of kids and pets.  To learn more about Maggie, click here.

Oct. 3rd your host Barnaby Jones welcomes Tea Krulos Tea is an American author based in Milwaukee and the host of the Milwaukee paracon. Krulos' second book, Monster Hunters: On the Trail with Ghost Hunters, Bigfooters, Ufologists, and Other Paranormal Investigators (Chicago Review Press, 2015), involved joining cryptozoologists on their various searches for the unknown. The book was nominated as a finalist in the 2015 Midwest Book Awards for the Social Science, Political Science, and Culture categories. Join in on their discussion LIVE at 12:00 PM CST on your favorite social network or at wltkdb.com

Tea Krulos To talk about many different conspiracy's is the author of three non-fiction works, and often travels during his research and embeds himself with his subjects in order to provide a neutral portrait of events that unfold. Krulos' work falls in the categories of non-fiction, social science, ethnography, and occasionally gonzo journalism.Krulos' first book, Heroes in the Night: Inside the Real Life Superhero Movement (Chicago Review Press, 2013), involved shadowing self-proclaimed real-life superheroes. This project started when a real-life superhero began patrolling Krulos' native Milwaukee neighborhood Riverwest. Writing the book eventually took him across the country to cities like Seattle, Minneapolis, Detroit and New York. Notable figures interviewed include Richard McCaslin, known as "the Phantom Patriot," as well as Phoenix Jones. Krulos was shadowing Jones in Seattle for his book Heroes in the Night when they encountered what Jones claimed was a street brawl. Jones deployed pepper spray, leading to his subsequent arrest.Krulos' second book, Monster Hunters: On the Trail with Ghost Hunters, Bigfooters, Ufologists, and Other Paranormal Investigators (Chicago Review Press, 2015), involved joining cryptozoologists on their various searches for the unknown. The book was nominated as a finalist in the 2015 Midwest Book Awards for the Social Science, Political Science, and Culture categories

I know that for most couples, as they are navigating a divorce and separation, one of their biggest worries is the effect it will have on their children. Most modern research on divorce is showing that the negative effects on children can usually be attributed to the negative conflict in the years leading up to the divorce, rather than the divorce itself, and can actually be minimal when the couple divorces and then co-parents in a "healthy" way (see last week's episode for how!). We actually have very few accounts from the child's perspective on the effects of divorce and how to make it easier on kids. As parents committed to honoring children's emotions & experience, doesn't it just make sense then that we would seek to understand divorce from a child's perspective? So when an author reached out to me with a book filled with first-hand accounts of adults who reflect on their parent's divorce & guidance to parents navigating these waters, I knew I had to share them with you! And so for the second episode of the Divorce Series, we are going to focus on the child' experience. And to have this conversation, I'm bringing in a colleague, expert, and a former analyst, Kimberly Ewertz. After experiencing divorce, she witnessed the devastating effect it had on her child. She got support and with the help of a therapist realized that some of what she had been doing in an attempt to protect her son was actually making things worse. She very bravely details these mistakes and how she went about repairing with her son, and her insights and suggestions actually apply to ALL parent-child relationships! To learn more about a child's perspective on divorce, get Kim's book Family Redefined: Childhood Reflections on the Impact of Divorce. It's available on Amazon.com and her website www.familyredefinedbook.com. Her book has been nominated for several prestigious awards and won first place in the Midwest Book Awards for the non-fiction Family/Parenting category. And to be updated on Kim's work, follow her on Facebook @FamilyRedefinedBook. Find show notes for this episode here: www.laurafroyen.com/podcast

In this episode, Faces of TBI founder and podast host, Amy Zellmer, shares her top 10 concussion misconceptions and myths. Amy Zellmer is an award-winning author, speaker, and traumatic brain injury survivor. Addtitionally she is Editor-in-chief of The Brain Health Magazine. She is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post and also produces a podcast series for survivors and caregivers called Faces of TBI (available on iTunes). Her first book, Life With a Traumatic Brain Injury: Finding the Road Back to Normal received a silver medal award at the Midwest Book Awards.  She travels the country to help raise awareness about this silent and invisible injury that affects 3.8 Million Americans each year. Find her book on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2gUjU1J Episode brought to you by: Integrated Brain Centers 

Cynthia Kraack is an author of fiction, short stories and nonfiction. 40 Thieves on Saipan was released by Regnery History in 2020 and received Best Book in Military History from the American Book Festival. The High Cost of Flowers won two 2014 Midwest Book Awards taking first in Literary Fiction and Contemporary Fiction. Her debut work, Minnesota Cold, won the 2009 Northeastern Minnesota Book Award for Fiction. She also wrote the Ashwood trilogy, a speculative fiction family saga. The Saturday Evening Post, Glimmer Train, Big Muddy Literary Journal and the Hal Prize competition have published or recognized her short stories. She has an MFA from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast Program in Creative Writing. She is a founding board member of Write On, Door County. Cynthiakraack.com Facebook Joseph Tachovsky is the son of Lieutenant Frank Tachovsky, commanding officer of the 40 Thieves. Tachovsky knew nothing of his father’s heroic past beyond that he was a Marine in the Pacific until his father’s funeral in 2011. A eulogy was given in which a man recounted a story a wherein Lieutenant Tachovsky “saved every man in our unit” from a Japanese tank. This set him on a journey to discover everything he could about his father and the 40 Thieves. Tachovsky is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and currently resides in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. 40thievessaipan.com Facebook Cynthia and Joseph's Readings: Four Woodpeckers – 13:48 Arello and Duley – 29:48 Pacts & Premonitions – 41:59 Michael’s Beer Pairings:  Coastal Sunshine Fruited Sour, Humble Forager Brewery (paired to Four Woodpeckers) – 10:00 Budweiser, Anheuser-Busch InBev (paired to Arello and Duley) – 25:56 Old Rasputin, North Coast Brewing Company (paired to Pacts & Premonitions) – 40:31 Interview Highlights:  The hardest part of writing such a book – 23:09 Why does it matter to tell the story of the 40 Thieves? – 24:52 Origins of the name “40 Thieves” – 35:18 Rivalry and stereotypes among the branches – 36:30 The Thieves as old men – 38:00 Do you believe in premonitions? – 47:42 What gives a 21-year-old the courage to face death? – 50:27 Lingering impacts of war – 52:58 COMING NEXT MONTH: Philip Watling: The car hit me....I died.... UPCOMING EVENTS: Gabriel's Horn is accepting submissions for its anthology Our theme music is from www.bensound.com.

In The Moment … July 10, 2020 Show 856 Hour 1 Twenty-two regional experts take on the challenge of defining and exploring the "Interior Borderlands" in a new book by the same title. Where does the Midwest fade and the Great Plains begin? Is the West a geographic distinction or a cultural one? How does where we live define who we are? The book was honored this month at the Midwest Book Awards as one of the region's best. Today we welcome the book's editor and publisher, Jon Lauck and Harry Thompson. Find us on: Apple , Spotify , and Google Play

Wednesday, June 24, 2020 - One of the finalists for the Midwest Book Awards is “Stringing Rosaries: The History, the Unforgivable, and the Healing of Northern Plains American Indian Boarding School Survivors” by Denise Lajimodiere and published by the North Dakota University Press. The book is built around the stories of sixteen people who attended an Indian boarding school. It also takes a hopeful look toward a future. In a conversation from last year, she speaks with Ashley Thornberg about the boarding school experience. ~~~ Commentary from Bruce Berg: “Blow-by-Blow.” ~~~ Farmers in the Great Plains are in the middle of cutting their wheat crops. Even as more people bake during the pandemic, Harvest Public Media’s Seth Bodine reports some wheat farmers may need help to break even. ~~~ Helping Native Americans thrive is the mission of the Native American Development Center, and they recently received an important grant to assist in that effort. Bill Thomas visits with founder and

Laura Theodore is a nationally recognized television personality, podcast radio host, celebrity PBS vegan chef, renowned jazz singer and award-winning author of five plant-based cookbooks, including Jazzy Vegetarian’s Deliciously Vegan, which won silver medals at the 2018 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, Midwest Book Awards and the 2019 Living Now Book Awards. Her highly-anticipated new cookbook Vegan for Everyone; 160 Family Friendly Recipes with a Delicious Modern Twist was released by Scribe Publishing Company in March, 2020. Season Eight of the Jazzy Vegetarian television show airs nationally every Sunday at 9:30am EST on the Create Channel (check local listings) and Laura’s new podcast, Jazzy Vegetarian Radio airs live every Thursday on Unity Online Radio. Learn more at: www.jazzyvegetarian.com

Kicking off Brain Injury Awareness Month, Cristabelle welcomes guest Amy Zellmer for a conversation about living with TBI (traumatic brain injury), things that are often misunderstood about concussions/TBI, and why awareness is so important! Amy also shares her personal journey of a TBI that changed her life, and how it inspired her to become an advocate and fight to help others. •CONNECT & MORE INFO• Hosted by Cristabelle Braden IG/FB: @declarationlife http://cristabellebraden.com/declarationlife •ABOUT AMY• Amy Zellmer is an award-winning author, keynote speaker, Editor-in-chief of The Brain Health Magazine, and advocate of traumatic brain injury (TBI). She is a frequent contributor to Huff Post and Thrive Global, and has created a private Facebook group for survivors (Amy's TBI Tribe) and also produces a podcast series (Faces of TBI). She travels the country with her Yorkie, Pixxie, to help raise awareness about this silent and invisible injury that affects over 3.5 million Americans each year. In November, 2015 she released her first book, “Life With a Traumatic Brain Injury: Finding the Road Back to Normal” which received a silver award at the Midwest Book Awards in May, 2016. Her second book, “Embracing the Journey: Moving Forward After Brain Injury” was released March 2018. She is addicted to Starbucks Coffee and Miss Me jeans, and lives all things glittery and sparkly. •CONNECT WITH AMY• Faces of TBI: http://facesoftbi.com The Brain Health Magazine: http://thebrainheathmagazine.com The Brain Health Online Summit (happing throughout March!): https://thebrainhealthonlinesummit.com/ IG: @amyzellmer Podcast: “Faces of TBI”

Who would’ve thought that an accident will not only change your life but a thousand more? How would the painful experiences lead you to a mission to spread awareness and help others? Amy Zellmer is an award-winning author, speaker, and traumatic brain injury survivor. She is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post and Thrive Global; and also produces a podcast series and TBI TV for survivors and caregivers. In November 2015, she released her first book, Life with a Traumatic Brain Injury: Finding the Road Back to Normal which received a silver award at the Midwest Book Awards. She sits on the Brain Injury Advisory Council for the Brain Injury Association of America and is a Citizen's Advocate with the Minnesota Brain Injury Alliance. She travels the country with her Yorkie, Pixxie, for her #NOTINVISIBLE awareness campaign -- bringing awareness about this invisible injury that affects over 3.5 million Americans each year.In this episode, Amy shares her mission to be the voice for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and bring awareness to the world. She hopes to educate survivors, caregivers, friends, and family, as well as the medical community and break the stigma surrounding TBI and concussions.“Having gone through what I've gone through, it has changed my perspective. And well-being to me means just being well...there's always something that can make you feel well and just knowing that even when you're having a really crummy day, you can still be well.” – Amy ZellmerGet Amy's BooksLife with a Traumatic Brain Injury: Finding the Road Back to Normal Embracing the Journey: Moving Forward After Brain InjuryTimestamps:02:42 – Amy narrates her personal experience that led her to start Faces of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)04:00 – The adverse effects on her body after suffering from traumatic brain injury 05:53 – The road to recovery: finding her calling and purpose in writing and sharing her story14:08 – The challenges encountered with doctors16:53 – Difference of treatments with a functional neurologist and mainstream medicine25:40 – Best ways to offer support and help to persons with TBI27:41 – Sharing how she manages her time for work, family, and self-care33:48 – Her perspective on well-beingKey Takeaways“TBI has survivors that are moms, in particular, can't stop being a mom. You might not be able to go back to work, but still, you have to be a mom...As a mom, you spend so much time making sure everybody else is taken care of, but you have to take care of yourself because if you burn yourself out and overdo it, you can't, stay up with Susie and help her with her homework. You have to allow yourself to take that nap or straight up.” – Amy Zellmer“You can find wellness, even in the bad moments, even when you're really not well.” – Alex MorrallConnect with Amy Zellmer: facesoftbi.comListen to Amy’s Faces of TBI podcastsFacebookLinkedInYoutube

The chances of you having experienced or someone that you know having experienced a concussion or "TBI" are higher than you think!  Join Sam and Amy as they share insight, stories and solutions to help brain injury survivors and their loved ones!  With many myths and societal limiting beliefs around concussions, Sam and Amy will help break down the stigma and replace it with current facts, research and hope! Sam Black is a Master Coach, Speaker, Trainer and International Psychic Medium.  Sam is also a Brain Injury Survivor!  In 2013, she was hit by an impaired driver and her life would change forever.  Determinded to not be a statistic, Sam regained control over her live through positive thinking, gratitude and being flexible in building a new future with what was possible, rather than focusing on what was not working.  Sam now extends that learning to her clients through coaching for transitions and rebuilding their lives following trauma, injury and change!  She has a passion for helping others to find the gems that they have inside and shine to their fullest potential! Amy Zellmer is an award-winning author, speaker, and traumatic brain injury survivor. She is a frequent contributor to Thrive Global and also produces a podcast series for survivors and caregivers and is the creator of the #NOTINVISIBLE brain injury awareness campaign, and is the author of Life With a Traumatic Brain Injury: Finding the road Back to Normal which received a silver award at the Midwest Book Awards. She sits on the Brain Injury Advisory Council through the Brain Injury Association of America and is also involved with the Minnesota Brain Injury Alliance's "citizen advocates."     

Matt Geiger’s debut book, “The Geiger Counter: Raised by Wolves & Other Stories” was published in 2016. It won First Prize in the Midwest Book Awards and was named as a Finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and the American Book Fest. He is also the winner of numerous journalism awards. He lives in Wisconsin with his wife, his daughter, ten animals, and several metaphysical questions. http://www.geigerbooks.com

We speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston about the new edition of his book The Making of Donald Trump. He has reported for the Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The New York Times, and he has written several bestselling books, including Free Lunch, Perfectly Legal and The Fine Print.  We also talk with our own Steve McEllistrem about his new novel The Man Who Found His Moniker. He has written four previous novels in the Susquehanna Virus series and has been chosen as a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award, two Midwest Book Awards and four International Book Awards in Science Fiction.

MEGAN Bearce, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice with over 12 years of experience providing support and assistance to super commuter couples, overwhelmed career women, “supermoms,” and gifted girls. MEGAN authored the book “Super Commuter Couples: Staying Together When A Job Keeps You Apart, a Midwest Book Awards finalist that has been receiving media attention across the US and Internationally. Megan is a sought-after speaker and writer on topics including workplace trends, relationships, gifted girls, and women’s issues. With a professional career spanning two decades as a writer, speaker, psychotherapist, and former CPA in addition to being a mother of two and wife of a super commuter, Megan brings a wide range of knowledge and experience to her work. For more in formation, visit www.supercommutercouples.com or www.MeganBearce.com See her beautiful infographic show notes, plus her top tips and advice for entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs at www.TodaysLeadingWomen.com or by clicking here!