Podcasts about writer's center

Con Lehane has published stories in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Over the years, he has been a college professor, union organizer, labor journalist, and has tended bar at two-dozen or so drinking establishments. He teaches fiction writing and mystery writing at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Visit him at his website, www.conlehane.com Kerry Schafer is the author of the Shadow Valley Mystery series, writes bestselling family drama and women's fiction under her pen name Kerry Anne King, and is also a mind, body, spirit & creativity evangelist for writers. More about Kerry at www.writeattheedge.com Tell Me Your Secrets is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network

Slush Pile is back in the studio! For this episode’s micro editorial meeting, Kathleen and Joseph recorded from the studio for the first time since… June? April? A long time! Marion called from her office at NYUAD, looking out over a dark campus with a giant new microphone! For this episode, we discuss three poems by Michele Wolf. We were, in fact, early adopters of Michele! She was published way back in Issue 63, just one issue before our first print annual! Check out what she wrote, but because we’re rebuilding our archives, you’ll only find it here (along with access to Issue 63, if you’re up for some digging).   Michele Wolf had a friend in Painted Bride Quarterly early on, when we first published her poems and her chapbook, The Keeper of Light, in 1995. Little did she know then that an Amazon rare-book seller would now offer this special booklet for $75 (!). Note to the world: Michele would be delighted to make one yours for $5.   Fun fact: Michele was raised in Florida, and she loves not only the ocean but also Disney World—almost as much as PBQ editor Kathy Volk Miller does.   On the poetry front, Michele has gone on to publish two full-length collections—Immersion (Hilary Tham Capital Collection, The Word Works) and Conversations During Sleep (Anhinga Prize for Poetry, Anhinga Press). Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, The Hudson Review, North American Review and many other literary journals and anthologies, as well as on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. A contributing editor for Poet Lore, she teaches at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland. She lives with her husband and daughter in Gaithersburg, Maryland.   You can read more of Michele's work on Poets.org; on Poetry Foundation; and on her website. Listen in on our discussion of Michele’s poems, and check them out below! Our conversations brought up whether or not man landed on the moon (which we could debate, we suppose), deer’s bedtimes (7:00 PM, right?), and poems that make you go “WOWZA!” Our engineer, Joe, shared a story about finding a paper crane on his windowsill with “as if you could kill time without injuring eternity,” by Henry David Thoreau, but attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson. He recognized the handwriting, and thinks he might know who left the mysterious missive. Listen in to hear all about this “beautiful world” sort of story, then Kathleen and Joseph have a mini cook-off on air. Tell us what you like to bake! Is baking better than cooking? Let us know your thoughts, and, as always, keep reading!   Present at the Editorial Table: Kathleen Volk Miller Marion Wrenn Joseph Kindt   Production Engineer: Joe Zang ------------------------------- Michele Wolf To Orbit the Earth                                           The steel capsule, ridged and riveted—an oversize Can—rests suspended at street level, docked Inside the Air and Space Museum’s entrance. A bounty of white lilies mingled with spider mums, Placed yesterday, honors the trail of pilot John Glenn, Dead at ninety-five. In ’62, even a second grader, Gripped by the grainy blastoff in black and white, Knew that the compact can was a bleak conveyance, That that helmeted dad, a human Superman laced up In a silver suit, could at any moment be lost in flames. And yet we launch from terra firma, compelled to behold The blue orb—its panorama of oceans as they curve From continent to continent. It knocks you down, This vision, your ache to enfold the globe in your arms. It is that child who slips into the darkness, sounding A cry you cannot ease, although you circle round and round.   Expecting Snow Against a sky and lake bleached icy gray, the solid Surface edged with snow and spindly bones Of leafless trees, four silhouettes, a single file Of ash-brown deer—two adults, two adolescents— Halt their slow-mo synchrony of steps At the middle of the lake, its top layer hardened To host weightlessness, not illusion on elegant legs.     Beauty is no help. The starving deer, weary of feeding On bark and road salt, resume their lake-top trek.    From spring through fall, the white-tailed locals feast On roses, carry ticks. One after another, they meet Your eyes, and yet they leap onto the road— At the same bend where that drunk teen driver Bashed the fence, then flipped. Nature Holds you. When it drifts, it breaks your heart.   Zebras in a Field The younger woman—hollowed out, reduced To a shadow wrapped in skin—allowed The older one, nearly her duplicate, To enfold her. They had both seen the knife, A small, glinty blade with a pearlized handle, When it was set beside the younger woman’s Thigh. “But you are not dead,” the older woman, Unable to speak, had wanted to say, “although It may seem so. You will live an abundant life. Someday you will drive, after seventeen hours Aloft, along a paved road edging a clutch Of tumbledown farms when a herd of zebras Will race to meet the wooden fence—whinnying, Tails flapping—oscillating your vision, the total scroll Of what you know, with the whirl of their stripes.”  

Writer Tyrese Coleman talks hip-hop, metaphors, and how a trick ending doesn't cut it in flash. We go in depth about her story, "They Reminisce Over You," originally published in Hobart. Read the story here: http://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/they-reminsce-over-you Tyrese L. Coleman is a writer, wife, mother, attorney, essayist, and fictionist. She is also the fiction editor for District Lit, and an associate editor at SmokeLong Quarterly. A 2016 Kimbilio Fiction Fellow, her flash pieces have appeared in several publications, including PANK, Brevity, Tahoma Literary Review, upstreet, Hobart, and listed in Wigleaf's Top 50 (very) short fictions. She also leads flash writing workshops for the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD. Contact her at tyresecoleman.com or on Twitter @tylachelleco. This episode was produced by Tyler Barton. The music was also produced by Tyler Barton, under his musical moniker, yungpamp.

Join me in chatting with Stephanie Kuehnert, author of BALLADS OF SUBURBIA and I WANNA BE YOUR JOEY RAMONE and a forthcoming memoir of her teen years. We talk about promises made to cats, heart cities, and Riot Grrl. Stephanie Kuehnert Show Notes Richard Hugo House Story Studio (Chicago, IL) The Replacements Laura Ingalls Wilder Riot Grrl Girl Power! by Hillary Carlip Stephanie’s essays on Rookie Sleater-Kinney Francesca Lia Block   Joe Meno, HAIRSTYLES OF THE DAMNED Susie X, illiustrator The Writer's Center, Bethesda, MD Pete Holmes’ podcast, You Made It Weird  

From a panel discussion on writing historical fiction, American Independent Writers Conference 2011, held at the Writer's Center, Bethesda MD (just outside Washington DC). For more resources for writers, visit http://www.cmmayo.com/workshop-resources-for-writers.htmlwww.cmmayo.com

Advice from the author of the novel The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire (Unbridled Books). For more about C.M. Mayo's other books, as well as more resources for writers and information about upcoming workshops at the Writer's Center and in Mexico, visit the workshop page at www.cmmayo.com.  My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-a515e1e2e43fe7bdbe752c9104a39bb6}

Panel discussion "The Writing Life: Report from the Field" featuring documentary film maker David Taylor; novelist C.M. Mayo; journalist Alan Elsner; and memoirist Kevin Quirk, in a lively discussion about their lives as professional working writers, moderated by Jessie Seigel. Recorded live at Lit Artlantic, a regional three-day festival celebrating cross-currents in the arts, on May 22, 2010 at the Writer's center in Bethesda MD (just outside Washington DC). The panel was sponsored by the American Independent Writers Association (AIW). For more about the Writer's Center, visit www.writer.org and for more about AIW visit www.amerindywriters.org Visit C.M. Mayo's workshop page at www.cmmayo.com