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On my Living the Writing Life podcast, my guest Casie Bazay shares the long road she followed from pitching to publication, and how she handled the rejection process.

Here’s some background on Casie: she’s a former middle school teacher whose debut novel, Not Our Summer, was released in the spring of 2021 by Running Press Kids.

A freelance writer and editor, Casie lives on a hay farm in Oklahoma with her husband and two children, and in her spare time, enjoys exploring the great outdoors, spending time at the barn with her horses and goats, reading, and watching movies.

Casie also loves traveling to new and exciting destinations whenever she can.

For more about Casie, visit her website and follow her on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Listen to the episode here.

On my Living the Writing Life podcast, my guest Dana Spiotta and I discuss the impact of gender and age on writing—in terms of the types of topics covered, the depictions of female characters, and on creativity itself. Listen to the episode here.

Dana is the author of five novels: Lightning Field (2002), Eat the Document (2006), Stone Arabia (2011), Innocents & Others (2016), and her most recent, Wayward (2021) that was called by the New York Times a “virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity and purpose in a world gone mad.”

Dana has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize, the St. Francis College Literary Prize, and the John Updike Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

On my Living the Writing Life podcast, my guest Deborah Tobola and I discuss the role the arts can play in the lives of those who are incarcerated, what led her to become involved with prisoners, and her goal in writing her memoir.

Listen to the episode here.

Deborah's work has earned four Pushcart Prize nominations, three Academy of American Poets awards and a Children’s Choice Book Award.

Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men’s Prison, A Memoir won a Next Generation Indie Book Award in Social Justice, a Nautilus Silver Book Award in Heroic Journeys, a Readers’ Favorite bronze medal in Non-Fiction – Social Issues, and first place in Chanticleer International’s HEARTEN Awards. It was also a finalist in the Willa Literary Awards’ Women Writing the West in Creative Nonfiction.

Deborah has worked as a journalist, legislative aide and adjunct English faculty member in Alaska and California. She began teaching creative writing in California prisons in 1992, taking the job of Institution Artist Facilitator at the California Men’s Colony in 2000, before retiring at the end of 2008.

In 2014, Deborah returned to prison as a contract artist, where she currently teaches creative writing and theatre at the California Men’s Colony.

In 2009, she founded the Poetic Justice Project, a program of the William James Association, the country’s first theatre company created for formerly incarcerated actors, where she serves as artistic director.

Poetic Justice Project’s pandemic miracle, the play Terms of Confinement is now on YouTube, written by her, is based on writings from her students who had been incarcerated.

On my Living the Writing Life podcast, my guest Kathryn Schulz and I discuss the concepts of loss and discovery, both from the personal perspective and from that as a creative.

Listen to the episode here.

Kathryn Schulz is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Being Wrong and her most recent book, Lost & Found—an insightful and moving exploration of grief and love, and how those two emotions have the power to change us, transform us, and expand our concept of who we are and how we can live.

You can catch my review of her book here.

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In this episode from my Living the Writing Life podcast
my guest Corie Adjmi and I discuss the various challenges women face when pursuing the writing life: time constraints, family responsibilities, financial issues and their own self-doubts about their right to write.

Listen to the episode here.

Corie Adjmi is the author of the short story collection Life and Other Shortcomings, which won an International Book Award, an IBPA Benjamin Franklin award, and an American Fiction Award, and the forthcoming novel, The Marriage Box, named a Must-Read New Book of 2022 that is due out in 2023.

Her prize-winning essays and short stories have appeared in dozens of journals and magazines, including HuffPost, North American Review, Indiana Review, Medium, Motherwell and Kveller, and she has been featured in Travel and Leisure, New York Magazine, The Hollywood Times, Parade and BuzzFeed.

This month's guest on my Living the Writing Life podcast is author, editor and journalist Deborah Kalb.

Deborah is the author of the forthcoming adult novel Off to Join the Circus (available on Bookshop, Barnes & Noble and Amazon) as well as three novels for kids: Thomas Jefferson and the Return of the Magic Hat, John Adams and the Magic Bobblehead, and George Washington and the Magic Hat.

Together with her father, Marvin Kalb, she co-authored Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama and she also has published other books on politics and government as well as working as a journalist for more than two decades covering Congress and politics.

Deborah’s book blog, Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb, which she started in 2012, features hundreds of interviews she has conducted with a wide variety of authors. For more about Deborah, visit her website and follow her on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Goodreads and Instagram.

In today’s conversation, we’ll be talking about stepping out of the safe zone: the challenges and benefits of exploring a new genre. Listen to the episode here: https://livingthewritinglife.podbean.....