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If you've ever wondered how to begin your short story, this show is for you!
Melissa Palladino lives in New England and has been writing fiction for seven years. She came to short stories only recently, and this is where she has picked up speed. Her story, “Spring Cleaning,” which was a published finalist in Inkwell’s annual short story competition, was nominated by them for the 2009 Pushcart Prize. She has also been published online at Vocabula.com and was recently longlisted for the Fish Prize. She is an active workshop participant both in person and online at Zoetrope Virtual Studio and The Fiction Workhouse. In real life she’s a private chef; you can read about her adventures (and misadventures) in cooking at melissacooksgourmet.blogspot.com.
Randall Brown teaches at Saint Joseph's University. He holds an MFA from Vermont College. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cream City Review, Hunger Mountain , Connecticut Review , Saint Ann's Review , Evansville Review , Laurel Review , Dalhousie Review, upstreet , and others. He is the author of the award-winning collection Mad to Live (Flume Press, 2008).
Please join Melissa, Randall, and Paula B. as they explore:
Interviewees : Melissa Palladino and Randall Brown
Host : Paula B.
Date : August 17, 2008
Running time: 01:04:19
File size: 31 megabytes
Rating : A tiny bit of sex
Randall Brown's Web site : RandallDouglasBrown.blogspot.com
Melissa Palladino's Web site : MelissaCooksGourmet.blogspot.com
With short story writers Randall Brown and Melissa Palladino
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If you've ever wondered how to end your short story, this show is for you!
Randall Brown teaches at Saint Joseph's University. He holds an MFA from Vermont College. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cream City Review, Hunger Mountain , Connecticut Review , Saint Ann's Review , Evansville Review , Laurel Review , Dalhousie Review, upstreet , and others. He is the author of the award-winning collection Mad to Live (Flume Press, 2008).
Melissa Palladino lives in New England and has been writing fiction for seven years. She came to short stories only recently, and this is where she has picked up speed. Her story, “Spring Cleaning,” which was a published finalist in Inkwell’s annual short story competition, was nominated by them for the 2009 Pushcart Prize. She has also been published online at Vocabula.com and was recently longlisted for the Fish Prize. She is an active workshop participant both in person and online at Zoetrope Virtual Studio and The Fiction Workhouse. In real life she’s a private chef; and you can read about her adventures (and misadventures) in cooking at melissacooksgourmet.blogspot.com.
Please join Randall, Melissa, and Paula B. as they explore the possibilities, including:
Interviewees : Randall Brown and Melissa Palladino
Host : Paula B.
Date : May 25, 2008
Running time: 58:27
File size: 28 megabytes
Rating : G
Randall Brown's Web site : RandallDouglasBrown.blogspot.com
Melissa Palladino's Web site : MelissaCooksGourmet.blogspot.com
My name is Lisa. I'm a 37 year old woman with many interests, among which the main one is writing. In a close tie, dogs are my other main interest. Reaching at a close third is reading, and then drawing. I have a degree in behavior modification and I'm a certified counselor. I enjoy studying behavior. I’m known by a few nicknames depending on what part of my personality appeals to you most. I'm 5 ft; 105 lbs. and I've been the same height since high school. Friends call me smurf or smurfy because I'm smurf sized. About 15 yrs ago, my fiancé bought me a Doberman Pinscher puppy and sealed my love for all things dog. I was and still am DobyCrazy! When I write, it unleashes the most tenacious part of my nature. Like a Doberman, I am unquestionably loyal to my friends and family. I bark out my opinions on matters with full conviction and faith in my knowledge. When I need to catch someone's attention, I will MOOF! with an authority that brooks no argument. They call me Dober. I get my playful moods when I try to make others smile. Then they affectionately term me Doby.
I can't remember when I haven't written . Diaries, journals, napkins and scattered papers were all my muses. Some early memories of me at 4 years old include sitting on Pepe's lap while I read the newspaper to him en français, and english. When I was 12, I won the New England Young Author's contest. I still smile at my little home made book of box cardboard covered in rose striped shelf paper.
There was a child and young adult section in my local newspaper that I was a big fan of. My god. (Passive sentences, fragments, atrocious grammar and ending sentences with prepositions! My English Professor would hang me!) Gets another cup of coffee and resumes her typing. I 'write' better when I actually physically write and then transpose it to typing. For me, straight out typing is always sloppy. Exactly like this intro. Laughs. Anyway, I regularly submitted articles and pieces to the newspaper each week for an entire summer.
Since those charming childhood days, I've written everything from poems, short stories, sci-fi novels, and sports articles that remained unsent. I've always written because it's my addiction. My habit. My outlet. I haven't sent anything to a publisher, agent or newspaper since I was 14.
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She sips her coffee and looks at the white expanse that beckons to her to fill it with her mark. Her ebony eyes drift to the walnut paneling to look at the carving of a mare and foal that grace its stark simplicity. The cursor blinks at her, tapping it's foot impatiently, telling her to TYPE already! She cradles the white coffee mug in her hands and sips while looking at her typing. She sighs. My tense shifts are hideous. Honestly. An editor's nightmare. The woman debates re-typing the tiny amount she's already done and shakes her head no. It's my mood today so there's no fighting it. My Id, Ego and Superego will have to duke it out with each other and decide on today’s winner.
