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Brushwood Media NetworkBeating Overwhelm With A Giant Sandwich | Classics with Tonya KuboWhat happens when millions of wasps invade your village?
Community expert Tonya Kubo is back to discuss kids’ classic, The Giant Jam Sandwich + what it teaches about solving problems you can't tackle alone.
We discuss why overwhelm is really about isolation, how courage looks when you suggest a ridiculous idea + why communities need clear purpose combined with a big promise to actually work.
Look for more Classics episodes where we take stories that definitely aren't business books + treat them as full-on business texts.
Books discussed in this episode:
T...
2026-01-1728 min
The Biz Book BroadcastBeating Overwhelm With A Giant Sandwich | Classics with Tonya KuboWhat happens when millions of wasps invade your village?
Community expert Tonya Kubo is back to discuss kids’ classic, The Giant Jam Sandwich + what it teaches about solving problems you can't tackle alone.
We discuss why overwhelm is really about isolation, how courage looks when you suggest a ridiculous idea + why communities need clear purpose combined with a big promise to actually work.
Look for more Classics episodes where we take stories that definitely aren't business books + treat them as full-on business texts.
Books discussed in this episode:
T...
2026-01-1728 min
Canada Reads American StyleHidden Gems with Garnett Kilberg CohenWelcome to the podcast's first Hidden Gems episode of 2026! This is a special feature Rebecca and Tara offer in which they invite guests to recommend authors or titles that may be new to their listeners. Today’s guest is author and retired professor Garnett Kilberg Cohen from Chicago, IL.
Garnett is the author of four short story collections: Cravings; Lost Women, Banished Souls; How We Move the Air; and Swarm to Glory. Her chapbook, Passion Tour, was published by Finishing Line Press. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker online, Rumpus, The Gettysburg Review, Witness, The Literary...
2026-01-1420 min
Turn the Page PodcastTurn The Page – Episode 375E – Janet Burroway
Janet Burroway discusses SIMONE IN PIECES, a kaleidoscopic vision of the fractured life of an orphaned World War II refugee, reflecting her piecemeal understanding of self across multiple points of view.
2025-11-0619 min
New Books in LiteratureJanet Burroway, "Simone in Pieces" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)Simone Lerrante is a Belgian orphan whose memory is damaged by the trauma of her father being shot by Nazis and her subsequent escape to England. From 1940 to 2000, we see 9-year-old Simone standing through the long voyage and later through various perspectives of those whose lives she touches. From Sussex, she reaches New York and ends up across the states, married, divorced, and alone. She falls in love with literature, experiences new traumas, but cannot remember her early years. Over the years, she recalls snippets of the parents she loved, the life she escaped, and the people who saved...
2025-11-0326 min
Books Up Close: The PodcastEp. 13. Okechukwu Nzelu, Here Again NowIn this episode, we read a passage from Okechukwu Nzelu's Here Again Now (p.47 of the UK paperback). You can buy this book and Nzelu's previous novel from your local bookshop or at Bookshop.org.Dr Okechukwu Nzelu FRSL won a Northern Writers' Award from New Writing North in 2015. His debut novel, The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney (Dialogue Books, 2019), won a Betty Trask Award; it was also shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Polari First Book Prize, and longlisted for the Portico Prize. In 2021, it was selected for the Kingston University Big Read and...
2025-08-0843 min
Write Your Heart OutHot Takes on the Writers' LuncheonThis week, we attend a virtual "lunch and learn" hosted by the Women’s National Book Association and featuring legendary San Francisco literary agent Andy Ross—and yes, we actually lunched. While the rest of the Zoom played it cool, we munched focaccia and dished about querying, rejection, and whether you can ever send your manuscript to another agent at the same agency (spoiler: the answer was… confusing).We share the best and weirdest advice from the talk (a query letter in Q&A format?!), plus our own rollercoaster querying journeys, writing struggles, and revelations about the myster...
2025-07-3047 min
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 67: Creative Spark Series - Moving Through the World with a Creative Eye with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this installment of our Creative Spark mini-episodes, we discuss what it means to move through the world with a creative eye, to be a creative traveler, as it were, and how this approach can help us stay connected to our creativity in every moment. It can also help us find the humor, the beauty, and the story in everyday situations, including the good, the bad, the ugly, and the bizarre, like when we got shaken down in the bayous of Louisiana while rescuing Melinda’s mom and her cat after a hurricane. This episode, like the mini-episodes that pr...
2024-12-1912 min
Fuse 8 n' KateEpisode 342 - The Giant Jam SandwichYou may have recollections of this book so vague you almost wondered if it was a fever dream you had a child. Well, wonder no longer! Today we're taking a trip to Itching Down where four million wasps cause all kinds of trouble. Like a surreal combination of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and maybe Who Needs Donuts?, join us as we determine whether or not it truly deserves to be remembered as a classic or not. Today we discuss the long forgotten Good Witch of the North, the location of this story, and how, for my generation, this...
2024-12-0930 min
Edwina DuncanPDF [Download] Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (8th Edition) By Janet Burroway (Author), Full Episodehttps://yuandipro.firebaseapp.com/?GASS=0205750346 . Click This Link To Access Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (8th Edition) by Janet Burroway (Author), Book Supports all formats, Such as: EPUB, PDF , AZW3, MOBI, IBA, & RTF Book Title: Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (8th Edition) Book Author: Janet Burroway (Author), Book Rating: 9+ ratings Powered by Firstory Hosting
2024-10-2400 min
The Script Reader Pro PodcastSpecial Guest: William AkersScott and Desiree sit down with special guest William Akers, screenwriter and author of one of the best screenwriting books out there, Your Screenplay Sucks. They discuss a wide variety of topics, from the most important element to screenwriting, to breaking in, to how to avoid common mistakes. Whether you're new to screenwriting or looking to sharpen your skills, this episode provides a ton of valuable insights. Below are links to all the books referenced in their conversation:Your Screenplay Sucks - William AkersThe Creative Act - Rick RubinThe Writer's J...
2024-10-1643 min
Geoffrey Porter[PDF EPUB] Download Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (8th Edition) By Janet Burroway (Author), Full Episodehttps://yuandipro.firebaseapp.com/?GASS=0205750346 . Click This Link To Access Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (8th Edition) by Janet Burroway (Author), Book Supports all formats, Such as: EPUB, PDF , AZW3, MOBI, IBA, & RTF Book Title: Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (8th Edition) Book Author: Janet Burroway (Author), Book Rating: 9+ ratings Powered by Firstory Hosting
2024-10-1400 min
Dogs Are Smarter Than People: Writing Life, Marriage and MotivationPot Plants Invade Wisconsin and Alternate That Plot StructureLast week, maybe a week ago, maybe 82 years ago, who knows, we talked about alternative plot structures.Much of American film and novels is built on what's considered to be the classic three-act structure, which basically goes beginning-middle-end, and there's this rising line of the plot. It ends up looking like a bit of a triangle. As readers, we can sort of anticipate and feel that structure happening. In a rom-com, we almost always know how far into the book or movie it will be when the couple breaks up and then someone...
2024-05-3024 min
Story TunesThe Giant Jam SandwichMelinda sings "The Giant Jam Sandwich" by John Vernon Lord and Janet Burroway.
2023-11-1805 min
#AmWritingFlashback Friday: Episode 288 with Joni ColeHow do I find a writing group and what if they’re mean?That’s a question we get asked a lot, and we always encourage writers to reach out in our Facebook group or boldly throw it out there anywhere else online that you hang out and see what happens. You don’t even have to trade pages to be a writing group. You look for the kind of support and camaraderie you need.But if you’ve ever thought of hying yourself off to your local version of Grub Street or our local spot for...
2023-05-261h 01
#AmWritingFlashback Friday: Episode 288 with Joni ColeHow do I find a writing group and what if they’re mean?
That’s a question we get asked a lot, and we always encourage writers to reach out in our Facebook group or boldly throw it out there anywhere else online that you hang out and see what happens. You don’t even have to trade pages to be a writing group. You look for the kind of support and camaraderie you need.
But if you’ve ever thought of hying yourself off to your local version of Grub Street or our local spot for in-p...
2023-05-261h 01
Grab The High-Impact Full Audiobook Experience!From Where You Dream by Robert Olen Butler, Janet Burroway - editor, Janet Burroway - introductionPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/19976to listen full audiobooks.
Title: From Where You Dream
Author: Robert Olen Butler, Janet Burroway - editor, Janet Burroway - introduction
Narrator: Robert Olen Butler
Format: mp3
Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
Release date: 03-21-23
Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 3 ratings
Genres: Words, Language & Grammar
Publisher's Summary:
Robert Olen Butler, author of Perfume River, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, and A Small Hotel, teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University—his version of literary boot camp. In From Where You Dream, Butler reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual and te...
2023-03-218h 01
Joyful Climate Writing12. Letting go of indecision and getting startedI used to say 'I don't know' a lot. And I've started to ban that statement from my vocabulary because it often stops me from moving forward and trusting myself.
In this episode, I talk about how to let go of all the energy and time wrapped up in indecision and the value of getting started, trusting yourself, trusting there is not one right path, and cultivating a mindset of experimentation and learning.
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2022-12-2020 minJoyful Climate Writing9. Embracing FailureFailing is so good for us.
It can feel terrible TO BE a failure.
But it's possible to find so much fun in the act of failing.
If you aren't willing to show up as a newbie, to embrace being really really terrible, then how are you going to learn?
In this episode, I want to talk about how to reframe failure as a good thing and as an opportunity for growth. Fast failure = fast learning.
RESOURCES:
Will Storr - The Science of Storytelling
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2022-12-0412 min
Lit Local PodcastHorror Retellings with Adam McOmberWelcome to the Indie Writer Podcast where we talk about all things writing and indie publishing. Today, hosts Jacqui Castle and Becca Spence Dobias are excited to talk about HORROR RETELLINGS with Adam McOmber.
Adam McOmber is the author of three novels, The White Forest (Simon and Schuster), Jesus and John (Lethe), and The Ghost Finders (JournalStone), as well as three collections of short stories: My House Gathers Desires, This New & Poisonous Air (BOA) and Fantasy Kit (Black Lawrence). He is a core faculty member in the Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts as well...
2022-10-3142 min
Ann Kroeker, Writing CoachTry This Writing Prompt to Get the Creative Juices Flowing!
Writers working on projects that are destined to be published—to be read—can struggle with nerves.
We edit our words before they have a chance to breathe on the page.
We hold back our true feelings and opinions.
We forget to play with language.
Serious Writers Need to Play
I tend to encourage my clients to move toward practical goals, to create work that is going to be published.
But at the same time, I also encourage writers to play, to get past the gates we put in fron...
2022-08-2504 min
How Writers Write by HappyWriterEpisode 112 - How Janet Burroway WritesWe're back with Episode 112 - How Janet Burroway Writes Janet Burroway is the author of eight novels as well as short fiction, plays, poetry, essays, texts for dance, and children's books. She is also the author of "Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (tenth edition)," which is the one of the most widely used creative writing text in America, as well as her multi-genre Imaginative Writing is out in a fourth edition. Support the show
2022-07-0742 min
#AmWritingNon-Toxic Feedback: Building workshops and writing groups. Episode 288 with Joni ColeHow do I find a writing group and what if they’re mean? That’s a question we get asked a lot, and we always encourage writers to reach out in our Facebook group or boldly throw it out there anywhere else online that you hang out and see what happens. You don’t even have to trade pages to be a writing group. You look for the kind of support and camaraderie you need. But if you’ve ever thought of hying yourself off to your local version of Grub Street or our local spot for...
2021-11-0558 min#AmWritingNon-Toxic Feedback: Building workshops and writing groups. Episode 288 with Joni ColeHow do I find a writing group and what if they’re mean?
That’s a question we get asked a lot, and we always encourage writers to reach out in our Facebook group or boldly throw it out there anywhere else online that you hang out and see what happens. You don’t even have to trade pages to be a writing group. You look for the kind of support and camaraderie you need.
But if you’ve ever thought of hying yourself off to your local version of Grub Street or our local spot for in-per...
2021-11-0558 min
First Draft: A Dialogue on WritingRobert Olen ButlerRobert Olen Butler has published seventeen novels: Late City, The Alleys of Eden, Sun Dogs, Countrymen of Bones, On Distant Ground, Wabash, The Deuce, They Whisper, The Deep Green Sea, Mr. Spaceman, Fair Warning, Hell, A Small Hotel, The Hot Country, The Star of Istanbul, The Empire of Night, Perfume River and six volumes of short fiction, Tabloid Dreams, Had a Good Time, Severance, Intercourse, Weegee Stories, and A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, which won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Butler has published a volume of his lectures on the creative process, From Where You Dream, edited...
2021-09-1357 min
The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society: 2015-2021Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft with JANET BURROWAY - Highlights“There’s a lot of controversy about that idea at the moment, about whether fiction is truly empathic and how much freedom the imagination should have because, as one of my friends says, the imagination is not free. It comes from all of the places that we come from. So it’s a controversial notion, but I am firmly on the side of literature is empathic. In fact, I think that all the arts are empathic because all the arts basically say, ‘Wait a minute. Look at it this way.’ And they allow us to see from some other vantage po...
2021-07-0900 min
The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society: Books, Film, Music, TV, Art, Writing, Creativity, Education, Environment, Theatre, Dance, LGBTQ, Climate Change, Social Justice, Spirituality, Feminism, Tech, SustainabilityWriting Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft with JANET BURROWAY - Highlights“There’s a lot of controversy about that idea at the moment, about whether fiction is truly empathic and how much freedom the imagination should have because, as one of my friends says, the imagination is not free. It comes from all of the places that we come from. So it’s a controversial notion, but I am firmly on the side of literature is empathic. In fact, I think that all the arts are empathic because all the arts basically say, ‘Wait a minute. Look at it this way.’ And they allow us to see from some other vantage po...
2021-07-0910 min
The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society: 2015-2021JANET BURROWAY - Novelist, Playwright & Author of Most Widely Used Creative Writing Text in USAJanet Burroway is the author of plays, poetry, esssays, children’s books, and nine novels including The Buzzards; Raw Silk, Opening Nights, Cutting Stone (all Notable Books of The New York Times Book Review), Bridge of Sand and Simone in Transit. Plays include Parts of Speech, Sweepstakes, Boomerang, and Medea With Child, which have received readings and productions in Chicago, New York, London, San Francisco, Hollywood, and various regional theatres; Her Writing Fiction, now in its tenth edition, is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and Imaginative Writing is in its fourth edition. She is author of...
2021-07-0900 min
The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society: Books, Film, Music, TV, Art, Writing, Creativity, Education, Environment, Theatre, Dance, LGBTQ, Climate Change, Social Justice, Spirituality, Feminism, Tech, SustainabilityJANET BURROWAY - Novelist, Playwright & Author of Most Widely Used Creative Writing Text in USAJanet Burroway is the author of plays, poetry, esssays, children’s books, and nine novels including The Buzzards; Raw Silk, Opening Nights, Cutting Stone (all Notable Books of The New York Times Book Review), Bridge of Sand and Simone in Transit. Plays include Parts of Speech, Sweepstakes, Boomerang, and Medea With Child, which have received readings and productions in Chicago, New York, London, San Francisco, Hollywood, and various regional theatres; Her Writing Fiction, now in its tenth edition, is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and Imaginative Writing is in its fourth edition. She is author of...
2021-07-091h 00
The Yoga Writer PodcastYour Story, Your Self Image, Your Ego.Get the Free 7 Writing Secrets Masterclass hereJoin The Holy Shift 7-Week Writing Series!The beloved book mentioned is Imaginative Writing by Janet Burroway This episode explores the power of language and how you view yourself impacts your life (either as Alan Watts puts it, "an isolated ego inside a bag of skin" or a wave in the ocean of consciousness). Melissa also explores what communication and yoga have in common, and the #1 Creative Writing Technique to bring your stories to life.www.TheYogaWriter.com
2021-03-1925 min
The One Percent ProjectEpisode 13: Vikram Chandra- Decoding a Writer’s MindAbout Vikram Chandra:My next guest on The One Percent Project is the world-renowned author, professor and tech entrepreneur Vikram Chandra. His first book Red Earth and Pouring Rain, published in 1995 was received with outstanding critical acclaim. It won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book and the David Higham Prize for Fiction. In 2006, he published Sacred Games, which won the Hutch Crossword Award for English Fiction and a Salon Book Award. In 2016, Sacred Games was chosen by Netflix to be their first original series from India. Vikram has been teaching creative writing for 25+ ye...
2020-08-231h 10
Discover the Top 100 Audiobooks in Mysteries & Thrillers, SuspensePoison Girls Audiobook by Cheryl L. ReedPlease visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1450 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Poison Girls Author: Cheryl L. Reed Narrator: Natasha Soudek Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins Language: English Release date: 09-12-17 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense Publisher's Summary: It's the summer of 2008. Chicago's Hyde Park senator is running for the White House, the city is vying to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, and "Poison", a lethal form of heroin, has killed more than 250 people, including dozens of suburban girls from prominent families. Natalie Delaney, a crime reporter...
2017-09-1304 min
Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of AgeOnce, in Lourdes: A Novel by Sharon SolwitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291749 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Once, in Lourdes: A Novel Author: Sharon Solwitz Narrator: Phoebe Strole Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 29 minutes Release date: May 30, 2017 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: In the turbulent summer of 1968, four high school friends make a pact that will change their lives forever. As the Vietnam War rages overseas, four friends make a vow. For the next two weeks, they will live for each other and for each day. Then, at the end of the two weeks, they will sacrifice themselves on the altar of their friendship...
2017-05-3110 min
Unlock Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+Once, in Lourdes: A Novel by Sharon SolwitzPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291749to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Once, in Lourdes: A Novel
Author: Sharon Solwitz
Narrator: Phoebe Strole
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Release date: May 30, 2017
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
In the turbulent summer of 1968, four high school friends make a pact that will change their lives forever. As the Vietnam War rages overseas, four friends make a vow. For the next two weeks, they will live for each other and for each day. Then, at the end of the two weeks, they will sacrifice themselves on the altar of their friendship. Loyal Kay, our...
2017-05-3010h 29Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, HistoricalOnce, in Lourdes: A Novel by Sharon SolwitzPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291749to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Once, in Lourdes: A Novel
Author: Sharon Solwitz
Narrator: Phoebe Strole
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Release date: May 30, 2017
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
In the turbulent summer of 1968, four high school friends make a pact that will change their lives forever. As the Vietnam War rages overseas, four friends make a vow. For the next two weeks, they will live for each other and for each day. Then, at the end of the two weeks, they will sacrifice themselves on the altar of their friendship. Loyal Kay, our...
2017-05-3010h 29
Content Content podcast with Ed MarshNapoleons and Shakespeares featuring Teresa Meek – Content Content podcast episode 14Content Marketer Teresa Meek has had a varied career path in journalism, real estate, and more, but always focused on writing. She is currently based in Seattle, Washington, from where she talked about how content marketing and technical writing have similarities, her brief career in technical writing, how to transition to content marketing, and more.
Content marketer Teresa Meek
Mentioned in this episode:
Teresa's web site
Teresa on Twitter
Teresa's personal blog - Domesticus
Teresa's book - Say it with feeling! Business Writing in the Internet Age
Quora
Content Marketing World
Content Marketing Institute
Flo - Progressive Insurance
Top 10 questions...
2017-02-1400 min