Lifewriting: Write for Your Life!

By: Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due | Realm
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  • Authors and screenwriters Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due (and guests!) on writing, the writer's life, Hollywood, the work/family balance and relationships - the tools writers need to make themselves the heroes/heroines of their own story. - LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL at https://www.speakpipe.com/LifewritingPodcast (We might play your message!) - Join our MAILING LIST at www.lifewritingweekly.com
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Episodes
  • On Writing Through Pain - Guest Nadine Pinede! (When the Mapou Sings)

    On Writing Through Pain - Guest Nadine Pinede! (When the Mapou Sings)
    Nov 20 2024
    In this episode, Tananarive talks to author, poet and scholar Nadine Pinede about her difficult journey bringing her debut novel to life, WHEN THE MAPOU SINGS - a novel about a young girl's experiences in historical Haiti, including encounters with Zora Neale Hurston. And the novel is entirely in verse! National Book Award winner Edwidge Danticat calls the book "a stunning revelation." They talk about managing a writing practice through pain and how the novel transformed over the years. The author requests donations to the Claudette Pinede Memorial Scholarship Fund to support Haitian women in STEM: https://helpdonors.donorsupport.co/page/FUNNJGKWUCZ LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL at https://www.speakpipe.com/LifewritingPodcast (We might play your message!) Join Tananarive's mailing list at https://tananarivelist.com Join Steve's mailing list at https://stevenbarneslist.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    54 mins
  • Best of Lifewriting - Stephen Graham Jones!

    Best of Lifewriting - Stephen Graham Jones!
    Nov 11 2024
    In this episode, Steve and Tananarive talk to Bram Stoker Award winner Stephen Graham Jones. He shares his writing process, his love for slashers, his exploration of father-son relationships in his stories, and how his own personal promise to an elk he hunted gave birth to his bestselling novel The Only Good Indians. (Latest novels: My Heart is a Chainsaw and I Was a Teenage Slasher.) LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL at https://www.speakpipe.com/LifewritingPodcast (We might play your message!) Join Tananarive's mailing list at https://tananarivelist.com Join Steve's mailing list at https://stevenbarneslist.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • On Claiming Your Personal Power! (Kristin Iris Johnson - Wicked City)

    On Claiming Your Personal Power! (Kristin Iris Johnson - Wicked City)
    Nov 3 2024
    In this episode, Steve and Tananarive talk to Wicked City television series creator Kristin Iris Johnson about her journey to Hollywood as a queer Black woman with disabilities -- and how she claimed her personal power to thrive as a writer and producer in such a competitive industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    55 mins

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Great content from 2 of my favorite authors!

Just finished listening to the episode with Reginald Hudlin. They have the coolest guests . The conversation let's us see behind the showbiz curtain but also gives good advice for aspring writers/artists. Love it!

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