Surabhi Kaushik, Pam Turner and Landis Wade – Prose, Poetry, Essay and Season 4 Preview
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In today’s episode number 49, we preview what’s coming in Season 4, which starts September 3, 2019 and runs weekly through December 3rd. We also have prose and poetry readings from guests writers Pam Turner and Surabhi Kaushik, and consistent with our season preview tradition, we have a published essay by host, Landis Wade. All the readings explore truths in various forms.
Pam describes herself on Instagram as a “writer, meditator, library nerd, community builder taking one day at a time” and Surabhi describes herself as a “avid reader, nature lover and a compulsive writer, not necessarily in the same order.”
The Season 4 Line-Up
Sept 3 S4-01 Scott Fowler –Carruth, Panthers Rising+ Lost on the Road to Nowhere
Sept 10 S4-02 Grace Ocasio and Justin Hunt -Poetry and Memoir
Sept 17 S4-03 Martin Clark- LIVE at Park Road Books- The Substitution Order – Legal Thriller
Sept 24 S4-04 Marybeth Whalen –Only Ever Her– Women’s Psychological Fiction
Oct 1 S4-05 Philip Gerard –Cape Fear Rising – Historical Fiction, 1898 Wilmington
Oct 8 S4-06 Amber Smith- Something Like Gravity – Young Adult Relationships
Oct 15 S4-07 Scott Huler – LIVE at Charlotte Museum of History –A Delicious Country – Re-discovering John Lawson’s 1700 exploration of the Carolinas
Oct 22 S4-08 Barbara Johnson and Roger Colberg– Short Stories and Memoir
Oct 29 S4-09 Jon Buchan – Code of the Forest– Political Thriller
Nov 5 S4-10 Frank Morelli –No Sad Songs– Young Adult Alzheimer Author
Nov 12 S4-11 Tim Reinhardt –Jesus’s Brother James– Dramatic Comedy
Nov 19 S4-12 Laura King Edwards –Run to the Light – Memoir
Nov 26 S4-13 Charles Oldham –The Senator’s Son– True Crime on the Outer Banks
Dec 3 S4-14 Phillip Lewis –The Barrowfields– Literary Fiction
About Beautiful Truth and CharlotteLit:
The first two pieces that Pam Turner and Surabhi Kaushik read come from “Beautiful Truth, A Gathering of Voices From Charlotte, North Carolina.” It’s part of CharlotteLit’s 2019 Beautiful Truth Initiative, which is discussed on the show, along with writing opportunities offered at Charlotte Mecklenburg Library.
Here’s a link to the website to access the Beautiful Truth publication:
https://www.charlottelit.org/beautifultruth/
For all class opportunities for the 2019-2020 CharlotteLit, check out this link:
About the Personal Essay Publishing Project Edited by Randell Jones
Host Landis Wade’s essay “Two Good Swings,” was published in the anthology “Exploring” and is the subject of the first episode in the “6-Minute Stories” podcast.
There are two books in the Personal Essay Publishing Project edited by Randell Jones, “Bearing Up,” and “Exploring,” and both can be found at this link:
https://www.randelljones.com/books-and-dvds
Information about how to participate in the 2020 Personal Essay Publishing Project can be found here:
https://www.randelljones.com/personal-essay-publishing-project
The episodes in the “6-Minute Stories” podcast, which contain essays that appear in the Personal Essay Publishing Project, are available at Apple Podcasts and this link:
https://www.randelljones.com/6minutestories
About Pam Turner:
Pam Turner works for Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, writes poetry and leads “Write Like You Mean It,” a weekly creative writing group at the Main Library. She published a book of poetry, “Come walk with me,” with a grant from the Arts and Science Council and is working on what’s next.
She shares poetry and thoughts on Instagram at this link:
https://www.instagram.com/pmt_poetry/
About Surabhi Kaushik:
Surabhi Kaushik worked for more than 10 years in the Indian Advertising Industry as a copywriter but now draws much of her energy from writing poetry, personal essays and fiction and conducting Fiction Writing Workshops with Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. She graduated with a Masters Degree in Mass communication from Bangalore University.
Links to her published work appear at: www.surabhiwritersmind.blogspot.com
About Library Writing Groups and Workshops
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library has a number of writing groups for writers of all ages, exploring poetry and prose. Click here for link to the upcoming schedule:
For writing workshops, events and related information for writers, check out this link:
https://www.cmlibrary.org/resources-writers
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