Episode 279: Leslie Salas!

23 Saturday Sep 2017

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Craft of Fiction Writing, Creative Nonfiction, Editing, Episode, Flash Fiction

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Bethany Duvall, Burrow Press, David James Poissant, Denver Publishing Institute, leslie salas, Libretto of the Damned, Madison Strake Bernath, Other Orlandos, Ryan Rivas

Episode 279 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I talk editing and publishing and writing and the post-MFA malaise with Leslie Salas.

Leslie Salas

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Leslie Salas currently blogs for The Gloria Sirens, and is an editor at Sweet.

Episode 279 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 266: Shasta Grant!

24 Saturday Jun 2017

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Episode 266 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I talk to fiction writer Shasta Grant, the Kerouac House resident from the spring of 2017, about novel writing, planning and plotting, and finding the life in the words.

Shasta Grant

NOTES

Shasta’s chapbook is now available from Split Lip Press.

On June 16th, I am hosting a fundraiser for the S.A.F.E. Words poetry slam at Writer’s Atelier.

On July 28th, I am hosting a reading by Jaimal Yogis at the Kerouac House.

Episode 266 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 221: There Will Be Fan Fiction 2 (The Revenge)

27 Saturday Aug 2016

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Blog Post, Comic Books, Disney, Episode, Fan Fiction, Fantasy, Flash Fiction, Science Fiction

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A.C. Warner, Aura, Batman, Brontë Bettencourt, Fatal Attraction, Flash Gordon, Frozen, J. Bradley, Jason Todd, John King, Litlando, Ming the Merciless, Shauna Basques, The Mighty Ducks, There Will Be Fan Fiction, There Will Be Words

Episode 221 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week’s episode, I share There Will Be Fan Fiction 2, a special edition of Jesse Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will Be Words.

This installment features the fan fiction of Shauna Basques (Jason Todd-era Batman), J. Bradley himself (The Mighty Ducks/Fatal Attraction crossover, obviously), Brontë Bettencourt (Frozen), A. C. Warner (Star Trek: The Next Generation, as read by me), and me (Flash Gordon).

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Check out the first installment of There Will Be Fan Fiction, which featured Teege Braun writing Small Wonder, Jared Silvia writing King of the Hill, Stephanie Rizzo writing about a post-apocalyptic Lewis and Clarke, Genevieve Anna Tyrrell writing Dexter, and me, that is John King, writing a Benny Hill Show/Ace Frehley crossover that includes David Foster Wallace, Yoda, My Little Pony, and a hint of Cthulu.

Also check out J. Bradley’s latest book, Jesus Christ, Boy Detective, and here us talk about it back on episode 216.

Check out Brontë Bettencourt’s blog, 21st Century Brontë.

Episode 221 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 157: Shane Hinton!

13 Saturday Jun 2015

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Episode 157 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week’s episode, I talk to fiction writer Shane Hinton,

plus Sayantani Dasgupta writes about how Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea changed her life.

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Tuesday, June 16th, is Bloomsday. Celebrate wherever you are by listening again to a bang-up, in-studio, Bloomsdaying production on episode 104,

or if in NYC celebrate the day on which Ulysses is set in person with Colum McCann, Aedin Moloney, and quite probably Chris Booth at Ulysses Folk House.

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Episode 157 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 122: There Will Be Words Fourth Annual Flash Fiction Spooktacular!

18 Saturday Oct 2014

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Episode, Flash Fiction, Horror

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Brett Pribble, Jared Silvia, Jesse Bradley, John King, Karen Best, Matt Peters, Rebecca Swain Vadnie, Teege Braune, There Will Be Words, Whitney Hamrick

Episode 122 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week’s episode, I share a recording of a Halloween show in Jesse Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will Be Words, in which I was a reader.

The There Will Be Words Fourth Annual

Flash Fiction Spooktacular featured

KAREN BEST
~~KEITH GOUVEIA~~
MATT PETERS
REBECCA SWAIN VADNIE
JOHN KING
WHITNEY HAMRICK
BRETT PRIBBLE
TEEGE BRAUNE
JARED SILVIA

Karen Best (Photo by Leslie Silvia).

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Episode 122 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 110: Ryan Rivas and Nathan Holic!

26 Saturday Jul 2014

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Burrow Press, Florida Literature, Jonathan Kosik, Karen Best, Matt Peters, Nathan Holic, Orlando, Ryan Rivas

Episode 110 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I talk to Ryan Rivas and Nathan Holic about the publication of Forget How You Found Us: 15 Views of Orlando, Volume III,

plus I share readings from stories by Karen Best, Matt Peters, and Jonathan Kosik from the collection.

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Learn about the great youth programs offered by Page 15 in Orlando.

Amazon is having a bad quarter, according to The New York Times.

Next month, Third Man Books, the new print publishing wing of Third Man Records, will release an anthology called Language Lessons, Volume 1.

Quentin Tarantino will be filming The Hateful Eight after all, according to Kurt Russell and the L.A. Times.

Check out the amazing surf rock revival of The Bambi Molesters.

Episode 110 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 86: Kevin Sampsell!

22 Saturday Feb 2014

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode, Flash Fiction

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A Common Pornography, Burrow Press, Creamy Bullets, Flash Fiction, Future Tense Books, Kevin Bray, Kevin Sampsell, Men on Divorce: The Other Side of the Story, Powell's Bookstore, This is Between Us

Episode 86 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I talk to fiction writer and memoirist Kevin Sampsell,

Photo by Ellis Christopher.

Plus Kevin Bray writes about finding Men on Divorce.

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Find Burrow Press’s releases here, & check out the discounted subscription rate.

Episode 86 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.