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May 6, 2022

Spunk on a Stick! L. Diane Wolfe Talks Insecure Writers Support

The Insecure Writer’s Support Group is a website media business with affiliates to enhance our service to visitors.  It is a home for writers in all stages; from unpublished to bestsellers.  Their goal is to offer assistance and guidance.  IWSG wants to help writers overcome their insecurities, and by offering encouragement we are creating a community of support.
April 29, 2022

NaNoWriMo! The Writing Motivation You Seek with Letitia Jones

Start with an idea and end as a novelist -- NaNoWriMo has a proven track record with creating authors! What Is NaNoWriMo? National Novel Writing Month began in 1999 as a daunting but straightforward challenge: to write 50,000 words of a novel in thirty days. Now, each year on November 1, hundreds of thousands of people around the world begin to write, determined to end the month with 50,000 words of a brand-new novel.
April 22, 2022

Writers Happiness Movement & Thriving as a Writer! w/ Lori Snyder

The Writers Happiness Movement is based on two unwavering beliefs:  1) Kindness, inclusion, and joy matter  2) The written word is one of the most powerful ways to promote courage, empathy, and ferocity of the heart.  The goal of the movement is to create more happiness for every writer while making the world a better place for all writers.
March 25, 2022

Rayna Nielsen of Blue Cypress Books NOLA: Indie Bookstores Rule!

Listen on VoiceAmerica.com Episode Description Enter the world of your local Indie bookseller and find yourself again! Bookstores have become a hub in your community, a […]
November 26, 2021

Encore Messenger: A Novel @ 16 Podcast Episodes by Liz Keller Whitehurst

Listen on VoiceAmerica.com Episode Description MESSENGER is the story of a mysterious old woman who delivers life-changing messages to seemingly random people all over New York […]
August 20, 2021

Silent Winds, Dry Seas: Vinod Busjeet on Colonialism, ID, & Place

Listen on VoiceAmerica.com Episode Description Come with us as we travel to Mauritius, to look at a beautiful turbulent country through the lens of a you […]
June 25, 2021

Identity Adoption & Belonging: A Panel With Jacob Taylor-Mosquera

Listen on VoiceAmerica.com Episode Description Julie Ryan McGue, Author of Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family & Belonging and Jacob Taylor-Mosquera, Author of I […]
May 28, 2021

Hood Feminism: Mikki Kendall on Women that The Movement Forgot

Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues.
April 23, 2021

When You Look Like Us: Pamela N. Harris & Being Black in America

From debut author Pamela N. Harris comes a timely, gripping teen novel about a boy who must take up the search for his sister when she goes missing from a neighborhood where black girls’ disappearances are too often overlooked.