Explore " writerlife" with insightful episodes like "Deployments are Like a Katy Perry Song...", "Don't Sleep on the MWR!", "Can I Take Your ORDERS?", "23 Authors reveal: Do they Google Themselves? How vain are they?? | The Write Project" and "Back-to-School UNpacking List" from podcasts like ""Stationed with Stories", "Stationed with Stories", "Stationed with Stories", "The Write Project" and "Stationed with Stories"" and more!
On this episode, host Kelicia Hollis Jessie reviews The Theater of War by Bryan Doerries, talks the topsy turvy life of deployments, and shares a flash fiction piece entitled "The Mail Carrier." You can skip around as long as you stick around! #bookreview 0:58, #topic 10:45, #story 19:08.
On this episode, host Kelicia Hollis Jessie reviews Nowhere for Very Long by Brianna Madia, talks sumo wrestling and other adventures with MWR trips and programs, and shares a flash fiction piece entitled "Unwelcomed Silence." You can skip around as long as you stick around! #bookreview 0:52, #topic 9:24, #story 17:24
On this episode, host Kelicia Hollis Jessie reviews One Step Too Far by Lisa Gardner, talks the love-hate relationship with military orders, and shares a flash fiction piece entitled "Life at Five Twenty-two on a Friday Night." You can skip around as long as you stick around! #bookreview 0:58, #topic 10:07, #story 18:50
On this episode of Write Project, 23 Authors Admit Their Great Shame: They Google Themselves! And we have on an all-star cast of authors to answer!
From Engen Books Ltd.:
Jon Dobbin, author of The Starving
Jennifer Shelby, author of Plague of the Dreamless
Teresita E. Dziadura, author of Corporate Invasion
Lisa M Daly, author of Navigating Stories
Matthew Daniels, author of Interstitches
Lily McCarthy, author of Quick Bright Things
Erin Vance, author of Exposure
Ali House, author of Variety Show
From Marvel Comics:
Jed MacKay, author of Moon Knight and Death of Doctor Strange
Heather Antos, editor at IDW Publishing
From Breakwater Books Ltd.:
Rebecca North, author of Nanny's Kitchen Party
Susan MacDonald, author of Edge of Time
TzuHao Hsu, contributor to Us, Now
Dr Richard Elcock, contributor to Us, Now
Paul David Power, contributor to Us, Now
Olivia Robinson, author of Blue Moth Motel
Kerri Cull, author of Rock Paper Sex
Also featuring:
Tanith Frost, author of Vines and Vices
Jon Haas, author of The Reluctant Barbarian
Josh Connors, author of Small Town Queer
Amanda Labonte, author of Call of the Sea
Jen Winsor, executive director of WritersNL
and Alisha Morrissey, copywriter at Rogue Penguin Creative!
Originally broadcast on August 22, 2022 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country.
Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BAB
It's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history!
Listen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/
This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks
Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/
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On this episode, host Kelicia Hollis Jessie reviews Awaken, 90 Days with the God Who Speaks by Priscilla Shirer, talks the value of "unpacking lists", and shares a flash fiction piece entitled "The Hope Garden." You can skip around as long as you stick around! #booktalk 0:55 #topic 5:40 , #story 12:57.
On this episode, host Kelicia Hollis Jessie reviews Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton, talks the Navy's physical readiness test (PRT) along with her own vision for industry-specific PRTs, and shares a white space poem entitled "Downpour." You can skip around as long as you stick around! #booktalk 1:36, #topic 6:26 , #story 17:08.
Laura Bell (@littleLo) chats about her Ashwood series and revisits the writing of A Simple Deception—a historical romance that totally made me cry.
If you listen close enough, you can hear my necklaces clank as I press my hand to my heart with all the feels. Literally clutching my pearls over here. :)
Topics include the troubles of historical fiction. Slavery in the 1800s and today. Freedom. The vulnerability of writing. A romance writer’s high standards. Fighting against a whitewashed genre. The vulnerability of writing. Dating apps. Justice in fiction.
LittleLo's Ashwood Series:
And a Wattpad shout out to @Kassilassie for her killer western historical fiction on Wattpad and all the other writers spinning the stories we want far better than we ever could.
This is the last episode of this season! I hope to be back in September and if you’d like to hear from someone in particular, email me at orangeinkpodcast@gmail.com.
If you have a sec, here’s a brief feedback questionnaire on this season. Let me know any and all thoughts. Like, how was your breakfast? Have any pets? Lol ;)
On this episode I review Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, I discuss humble people and entities that deserve way more credit and respect than they're given, and share an original flash fiction piece that I just got published entitled "Open Flame." You can skip around so long as you stick around! #booktalk 1:01, #topic 9:40, #story 20:00
Interview with Prajwala Dixit, author of The Tales of Dwipa, published through Breakwater Books!
Through a framework of traditional tales, fantastic creatures struggle with issues of marginalization, opening discussion for parents and children in an accessible form.
The Tales Of Dwipa is a collection of short stories adapted from the Panchatantra, a collection of simple, engaging, and interrelated animal tales penned by Pandit Vishnu Sharma in the hopes of awakening the dim intelligence of a powerful Indian king’s idle sons. The ancient stories of the Panchatantra still find meaning in today’s world despite originating in India before 300 BCE. These stories are set in a Canadian context with topical themes, bringing together two distinct cultures—Indian and Canadian—for the most impressionable minds of our society.
Pick up The Tales of Dwipa using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3T8VjUU
Originally broadcast on June 06, 2022 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country.
Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BAB
It's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history!
Listen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/
This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks
Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/
The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OT
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This recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew
Interview with Kevin Major author of the new book Three for Trinity published through Breakwater Books, as well as Hold Fast, Blood Red Ochre, and more!
Kevin is an author from Newfoundland. After graduating from Memorial University in 1972, he worked as a teacher before turning to writing full-time in 1989. While he now writes for an adult readership, he is also known as an author of children’s literature, work for which he has been widely awarded and praised. He received the Vicky Metcalf Award for an outstanding body of work in 1992.
Pick up Three for Trinity using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3F8gpNj
Originally broadcast on December 6, 2021 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country.
Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BAB
It's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history!
Listen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/
This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks
Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/
The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OT
Engen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8Yemr
Fantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zL
Engen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5Jmg
This recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew
From Simcoe Ontario, Timpf is a storied author and poet with over thirty speculative fiction stories published to her credit in a variety of venues, including "Roxy," "Roxy's Rule," and "Gone" in New Myths; "The Disconnect" in Third Flatiron's Brain Games anthology; "The Caller" in the anthology Future Days, and "It's All Good," published in the anthology Enter the Rebirth. She has two novelettes coming in 2021 from JMS Books. Her speculative poem "No Fairy Tale World" was included in the 2020 Rhysling Anthology, which included all nominees for the Rhysling Award. She was also one of ten finalists in the 2015 Rhyme Zone contest, with the poem "His Hands, and a Question." Previous Engen Books publications include her story ‘The Messenger's Mission’ in Mythology from the Rock.
Pick up Mythology from the Rock using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3L5CLTv
Originally broadcast on July 05, 2021 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country.
Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BAB
It's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history!
Listen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/
This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks
Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/
The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OT
Engen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8Yemr
Fantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zL
Engen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5Jmg
This recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew
How did one of the shining cities on the hill in mid-century North America become the poster child for de-industrialization? In this All Write in Sin City, you’ll hear Part Two of a presentation by Anna Clark, talking about her award-winning book, The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy. Anna continues her commentary about the Flint water crisis, and takes a look at possible structural causes, with additional insight provided by Flint-based writer and former journalist Robert Campbell. You’ll also hear additional questions and commentary from moderator and Windsor community organizer, Steve Green.
Anna Clark is a journalist in Detroit. The Poisoned City was named one of the year’s best books by the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Kirkus Reviews, Audible, Amazon, the New York Public Library, and others. It is the winner of the Hillman Prize in Book Journalism and the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, and more.
Anna’s writing has appeared in Elle, the New York Times, Politico, the Columbia Journalism Review, Next City, and other places. She has been a Fulbright fellow in Nairobi, Kenya, and a Knight-Wallace journalism fellow at the University of Michigan. She received the Excellence in Environmental Journalism award from the Great Lakes Environmental Law Council. You can find out more about the book and Anna’s writing on her website, annaclark.net.
When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city’s water supply to a source that corroded Flint’s aging lead pipes.
Anna Clark is a journalist in Detroit. The Poisoned City was named one of the year’s best books by the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Kirkus Reviews, Audible, Amazon, the New York Public Library, and others. It is the winner of the Hillman Prize in Book Journalism and the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award.It was also named a Michigan Notable book, won a State History Award, and it was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and it was also a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.
Anna’s writing has appeared in Elle, the New York Times, Politico, the Columbia Journalism Review, Next City, and other places. She has been a Fulbright fellow in Nairobi, Kenya, and a Knight-Wallace journalism fellow at the University of Michigan. She received the Excellence in Environmental Journalism award from the Great Lakes Environmental Law Council. You can find out more about the book and Anna’s writing on her website, annaclark.net.
This podcast features two award-winning speculative fiction authors reading to a live audience at Windsor’s Phog Lounge. Coming to us from London Ontario, Timothy S. Johnston is an award-winning writer of futuristic and contemporary mystery/thrillers. He has won multiple awards including the CYGNUS, the CLUE , and the Science Fiction Epic Award. In this episode, he reads from his lates award-winning novel, The War Beneath.
Next is the Detroit-based author of over a dozen novels and countless short stories, Kathe Koja. She has been a major voice in genre fiction for many years. Her stories frequently concern characters who have been in some way marginalized by society. She has also won many awards, including the Bram Stoker Award and the Locus Award for her first novel, The Cipher, and the Deathrealm Award for Strange Angels. Kathe has since branched off into other genres, including young adult and multi-media projects, and she shares some of her work with our ChiZine Series audience at the Phog.
Find out more about these authors:
https://timothysjohnston.com/
https://kathekoja.com/blog/
Part Two of last week's podcast, a live recording of a recent interview with award-winning fiction author Casey Plett, recorded at Biblioasis bookstore. Windsor poet Vanessa Shields is the interviewer.
Casey Plett is the author of the short story collection A Safe Girl to Love and the novel Little Fish, which won this year's Amazon Canada First Novel Award and the Lamda Literary Award. It was also short-listed for the 2019 Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award and Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers.
Casey's also co-editor of the anthology Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers. She wrote a column on transitioning for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Maclean’s, The Walrus, Plenitude, and the Winnipeg Free Press. She is the winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Fiction, a finalist for this year’s Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and a was a past finalist for the 2015 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers. She lives in Windsor, Ontario.
Check out Little Fish on the publisher's website: arsenalpulp.com/Books/L/Little-Fish
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