Arts Calling

Comments and suggestions welcome: Send Jaime a message! -- Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling novelist and poet Anne Leigh Parrish! About our guest: Anne Leigh is the author of twelve books with her latest poetry collection,  If The Sky Won’t Have Me , published in April 2023 by Unsolicited Press. Her next novel,  A Summer Morning , arrives in October 2023, also from Unsolicited Press...

Hi there, We're trying something different today: Today I'm thrilled to bring you an Arts Calling Q&A! Friend of the show Shahab Zargari stops by to help me process the first 100 episodes of the podcast and some lessons along the way. Hope you enjoy!! About our Guest: Shahab Zargari is an award-winning Iranian-American filmmaker and administrative faculty member of the UNLV College of Fine Art...

Weekly shoutout: My Bad Poetry Podcast ! Comments and suggestions welcome: Send Jaime a message! -- Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling musician Jim Clayton! ( jimclaytonjazz.com ) About our guest: DownBeat Magazine called Jim Clayton’s music “ warm, happy, and soulful. ” He calls it a blend of bebop and New Orleans, the city he considers a second home. His repertoire is a mix of jazz...

Weekly shoutout: A Word? Hosted by Kellie Scott-Reed, from Roi Fain éa nt Press! *Some episodes of arts calling may feature strong language or discuss difficult subjects. Comments and suggestions welcome: Send Jaime a message! -- Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling writer and educator Anna Dickson James! ( whiskeytit.com/authors/anna-dickson-james ) About our guest: Anna Dickson James...

Weekly shoutout: switchyardtulsa.com Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling poet Elizabeth M. Castillo! ( elizabethmcastillo.net ) About our guest: Elizabeth M Castillo is a multilingual poet, writer, teacher and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. She lives in Paris with her family and two cats, where she writes a variety of different things, in a variety of different languages, and under...

Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling wonderful writer Catherine (Cathy) Shields! ( www.cathyshieldswriter.com ) About our guest: Catherine (Cathy) Shields writes about parenting, disabilities, and self-discovery. She is a retired educator with an M.S. Ed in Exceptional Education. Her experience includes networking and dealing with children and families of persons with disabilities. Cath...

Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling the phenomenal fiction writer Terena Elizabeth Bell! ( terenabell.com ) About our guest: Terena Elizabeth Bell is a fiction writer. Her debut short story collection,  Tell Me What You See  (Whiskey Tit), publishes Holiday 2022. Short fiction, poetry, and journalism work have published in more than 100 publications internationally, including  The Atla...

Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling the brilliant author, yogi, and writing teacher Jennifer Lang! ( israelwriterstudio.com/about ) About our guest: Born in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jennifer Lang lives in Tel Aviv, where she runs Israel Writers Studio. Her essays have appeared in  Baltimore Review, Crab Orchard Review, Under the Sun, Ascent , and elsewhere. A Pushcart Prize, Best of...

Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling the incredibly inspiring and multi-talented author and musician Carlos Baker! ( ckbakerband.com ) About our guest: Having spent his entire life saturated both in music and writing, Carlos Baker's band C.K. Baker Bands has released their sophomore album, Find Your Way. Carlos’s gift as a songwriter comes alive as an alternative rock sound, a compellin...

Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling the exceptional novelist Bill Blume! { https://www.billblume.net } About our guest: Bill Blume's love for the written word started back in high school with an addiction to comic books that was later hijacked by novels such as Frankenstein and Dragonflight. The first book in his young adult, vampire hunter series, Gidion's Hunt, was published back in...

Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling audio creative extraordinaire and composer Marisa Ewing! (hemlockcreekprod.com) About our guest: Marisa Ewing is a dialogue editor, sound designer, and mixing/mastering engineer based in Chicago, IL. She has edited audio for podcasts, film, and video games, and is the creator of the horror audio drama "Liars & Leeches." In 2020, Marisa...

Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling playwright, screenwriter, and novelist David Scott Hay! About our Guest: DSH is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. As a novelist, he is a 2x Kirkus Prize nominee. He currently lives with his wife and son and dog and chickens and a dozen typewriters in a valley between the ocean, the mountains, and the desert. [NSFW] is his second novel....

Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling playwright and writing coach Sarah Congress! About our Guest: Sarah Congress is a Playwright/TV writer. Most recently, her comedy Overdose received 2nd place for BEST SHORT in the 2023 Downtown Urban Arts Festival at Playwright's Horizon. Her play Dracula...in Denver! will be receiving its fifth production this September at the Burgdorff Center fo...

Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling author and writing coach Mary Adkins! ( www.thebookincubator.com ) About our Guest: Mary Adkins is a writing coach and founder of The Book Incubator, a 12-month program to write, revise, and pitch your novel or memoir. She is author of the novels When You Read This (Indie Next Pick, “Best Book of 2019” by Good Housekeeping and Real Simple), Privil...

Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling Jan Stinchcomb! ( janstinchcomb.com ) About our Guest: Jan Stinchcomb is the author of Verushka (JournalStone, 2023), The Kelping (Unnerving), The Blood Trail (Red Bird Chapbooks) and Find the Girl (Main Street Rag). Her stories have appeared in Bourbon Penn, SmokeLong Quarterly and Menacing Hedge, among other places. A Pushcart nominee, she is fe...

Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling Bronwyn Harris! ( bronwynharris.com ) About our Guest: Bronwyn Harris began her teaching career in East Oakland in January 2000, teaching first-graders who had already gone through one teacher and six substitutes during that school year. In the first five minutes of teaching, one student threw a book at her head and she realized she had no set cur...

Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling Maria C. Palmer! ( mariacpalmer.com ) About our Guest: Maria Costanzo Palmer is a writer and Page Turner Award Finalist for her co-authored book  On the Rocks   (Koehler Books 8/8/23). She is also a regular co-moderator for the  Food Is Religion Club _on _Clubhouse . She was a former host on_ L.A. Talk Radio_. Maria was recently featured on  Food...

Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling Rosemary Richings! ( www.rosemaryrichings.com ) About our Guest: Rosemary Richings is a writer , editor , and public speaker specialising in disability and neurodiversity-related subject matter and the author of Stumbling Through Space and Time: Living Life With Dyspraxia . Rosemary's writing has been featured in Travel + Leisure, Broken Pencil Ma...

Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling Martha Engber! ( www.marthaengber.com ) About our Guest: Martha Engber is the author of  WINTER LIGHT , the 2021 IPPY Gold Medal Winner in Young Adult Fiction. Her other books include  THE WIND THIEF , a literary novel, and  GROWING GREAT CHARACTERS FROM THE GROUND UP . Her memoir,  BLISS ROAD , will be published by  Vine Leaves Press  June 6, 202...

Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling Suzan Palumbo! ( suzanpalumbo.wordpress.com ) About our Guest: Suzan Palumbo is a Nebula finalist, active member of the HWA, Co Administrator of the Ignyte Awards and a member of the Hugo nominated FIYAHCON team. She is also a former Associate Editor of “Shimmer” magazine. Her debut dark fantasy/horror short story collection “Skin Thief: Stories”...

Hi there, Today I am thrilled to be arts calling Dr. Sarah Etlinger for round two! (sarahetlinger.com ) About our Guest: Sarah A. Etlinger holds a BA in English from Skidmore College, an MA in English from Syracuse University, and a Ph. D. in Rhetoric and Composition (English) from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Scholarly interests include new media studies, first-year composition, feminis...

Hi there, Today I am overjoyed to be arts calling Exodus Oktavia Brownlow! ( https://www.exodusoktaviabrownlow.com ) About our Guest: Exodus Oktavia Brownlow is a writer, editor and creator currently residing in the enchanting pine tree forest of Blackhawk, Ms. She is a budding beekeeper, a rising seamstress who has perfected the French Seam by hand, and the future author of two book collections—a...

Hi there, Today I am psyched to be arts calling Matthew McGuirk! ( http://linktr.ee/McGuirkMatthew ) About our Guest: Matt McGuirk teaches and lives with his wife and two daughters in Vermont. He was a BOTN 2021 nominee, is now a regular contributor at Fevers of the Mind and has poems and stories published in over 75 literary magazines with over 100 accepted pieces. His debut collection, "Day...

Hi there, Today I am ecstatic to be arts calling Chloe N. Clark! ( https://www.chloenclark.com ) About our Guest: Chloe N. Clark has never met an Oreo she wouldn’t try. She writes poetry and fiction, and some essays about food, mostly, but also does critical scholarship in the history of horror, gender and science fiction, monstrosity and othering, and inclusive practices in pedagogy. She is the f...

Hi there, Today I am ecstatic to be arts calling playwright/librettist/activist Catherine Filloux! ( www.catherinefilloux.com ) For the past three decades, award-winning artist, playwright, and librettist  Catherine Filloux  has been traveling to conflict areas creating art that addresses human rights and U.S. complicity. As a French and American artist, Catherine brings a unique perspective to he...