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LISTEN UP * LISTEN INWelcome to the Gertrude literary podcast, bringing engaging and honest conversations with amazing LGBTQ writers about touring, inspirations, setbacks, stories, and the writing life - in the many ways that looks.
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Hosted by Sylvia Rodemeyer, a queer femme journalist, writer, and podcaster living in Portland, Oregon. She’s a Scorpio and introvert. These traits often compete for dominance. She can be found as @not_plath on various corners of the internet.
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Our premiere episode is in conversation with Cave Canem fellow, Arisa White, who won the inaugural Per Diem Poetry Prize, was a finalist for the 2013 Wheatley Book Awards and the 82nd California Book Awards, and nominated for a 44th NAACP Image Awards. In this ep. we learn what Arisa does when she’s nervous, life in Maine after being born and raised in Brooklyn then living in the Bay area, coming from a working class family and how that has helped her map out her own care, balancing writing and teaching, and what inspires her.
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Carter Sickels, Lambda- and Oregon Book Award finalist, chats with us about how teaching has changed his approach to his own work, the importance of indie presses—especially given that his first novel was with a larger press and his second book out this month, THE PRETTIEST STAR, with HubCity, surprises teaching in Eastern Kentucky, how it is going to be releasing a book, a movie, and teaching in the same year, and the process of having THE EVENING HOUR brought to film (it premiered at Sundance this year).
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Pulitzer-prize winning poet Jericho Brown, is also the recipient of both a Guggenheim and an NEA grant, winner of the Whiting Award, the American Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Paterson Poetry Prize and finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He sat down to chat with us about his one-word bio, how he has embraced the word queer ("to say that I am gay seems unfair to the people I've made love to"), good eats and how to find him... LISTEN ALSO ON APPLE PODCASTS HERE.
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Spend the lockdown catching up with award-winning author and dog trainer Sassafras Lowrey, whose books have been honored by organizations from the American Library Association to the Dog Writers Association of America. Sassafras has toured widely, giving readings, workshops, and keynotes at colleges, conferences, bookstores, festivals, and squats, is an All Star Trainer Of The Year Certified Trick Dog Instructor, and has taught creative writing at LitReactor and the NYC Center For Fiction, and is a two-time AWP Writer to Writer Mentor. LISTEN ALSO ON APPLE PODCASTS HERE.
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Karen Tongson is a professor and author of Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries and Why Karen Carpenter Matters (nominated for a 2020 Lambda Literary Award). Her writing has appeared in NPR, The Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, L.A. Weekly, BuzzFeed Reader, The Washington Post, as well as in the academic journals Public Culture, Social Text, GLQ, American Quarterly, and Nineteenth-Century Literature, among others. In 2019, Tongson received the Lambda Literary Jeanne Córdova Award. Here she talks about lockdown life and podcasting. You can also hear Karen talk about pop culture, the arts, and entertainment on the weekly podcast, Waiting to X-Hale...
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Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth: A Novel and the NYT-bestselling novel Mostly Dead Things (finalist for the Lambda), was awarded Ninth Letter's Literary Award in Fiction, has been a columnist for Literary Hub, and was a Spring 2020 Shearing Fellow at Black Mountain Institute. Her work has appeared at The NYT, Oprah Magazine, North American Review, The Normal School, Buzzfeed, Electric Literature, McSweeneys, PBS Newshour, The Guardian, Salon, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She has a Masters in Library and Information Science and lives in Miami. Here she talks about Olive Garden, Alexander Chee, Karen Russell, and learning how to take out an eyeball. @Kristen_Arnett
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