Learn more about Kate Belew or how to write with her by visiting:

https://katebelew.com/

https://www.instagram.com/k8belew/

More about Kate’s book, Word Witch, can be found here:

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kate-belew/word-witch/9781668652107/?lens=balance

More about Kate Belew:

Kate Belew is an author, poet, and Witch. Her work exists at the crossroads of creativity and magic. She has taught and facilitated circles and workshops worldwide since 2017. She is dedicated to the spirit of poetry, the sacred wild of the planet, and seeks enchantment in all she does. She is a forever student of the plants and the stars. She has an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and is an initiated Green Witch. Her first book, Word Witch: How to Call Upon and Cultivate the Creative Magic Within You, was published in October 2025.

More about Behind The Project:

Behind the Project is a short run micropod that features conversations with creatives and professionals who share their lessons learned across their various projects. This show was inspired by the many lessons and self-discovery prompted by the many projects that Shanta Lee Honeycutt has led and implemented.

Original soundscape for the podcast, Behind The Project, is "Urban Dawn" composed by Damon Honeycutt.

Within the original trailer for this micropod, I did not go into details about the specific project that inspired this venture. Some years ago, I approached Philip Brady to pitch a project. Within this short episode, I am bringing everyone behind the curtain of what actually launched "Behind the Project." It involves becoming a co-editor of the critical anthology, Sign & Breath: Voice and the Literary Tradition (Etruscan Press, August 2025), doubt, and continuing to let this process unzip the lessons that I did not realize that I needed.

I hope you enjoy!

MORE ABOUT Sign & Breath

Also learn more here or by visiting the various Sign & Breath trailers on YouTube. To learn more about my co-editor for this anthology, Philip Brady, and his work, click here.

Sign & Breath is a new critical anthology that takes a different approach to exploring these questions: What is poetry? What defines voice? Featuring a range of contemporary artists, many of whom work across different mediums and genres, Sign & Breath introduces the reader to one page that sings in any genre – prose, fiction, poetry, spoken word, hybrid forms, and song – across diverse traditions. Within that work, we were in conversation with over 40 national writers and artists — including U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, 2 National BookAward Winners, an Ohio Governors’ Award Winner, NEA Fellowship Winners, the Poet Laureates of Virginia, Idaho and Vermont, and Guggenheim Fellows — who were all asked to contribute "the page that sings” from among their work.

More about Behind The Project:

Behind the Project is a short run micropod that features conversations with creatives and professionals who share their lessons learned across their various projects. This show was inspired by the many lessons and self-discovery prompted by the many projects that Shanta Lee Honeycutt has led and implemented.

Original soundscape for the podcast, Behind The Project, is "Urban Dawn" composed by Damon Honeycutt.

Learn more about Liz Rhaney by visiting:

https://www.lizr.art/

https://www.instagram.com/n19thwk/

Most recent project and performance that took place in March 2026 with the project, Vigorous Tenderness.

More about Liz Rhaney:

Liz Rhaney (she/they) is an installation and experiential artist. Their work includes education, filmmaking, writing, music, and DJing under the name BLK Plutoh. Liz is originally from Savannah, Georgia. She comes from a family of artists and musicians with Gullah and Geechee ancestry. They earned their BFA in Graphic Design from Armstrong State University (now Armstrong Campus of Georgia Southern University) and their MFA in Studio Art from Maine College of Art. Themes in her work include the intersection of science and art and connecting with cultural memory. They currently teach STEAM classes at Hyde School in Bath, Maine.

More about Behind The Project:

Behind the Project is a short run micropod that features conversations with creatives and professionals who share their lessons learned across their various projects. This show was inspired by the many lessons and self-discovery prompted by the many projects that Shanta Lee Honeycutt has led and implemented.

Original soundscape for the podcast, Behind The Project, is "Urban Dawn" composed by Damon Honeycutt.

Lauren is a creative at heart. Whether she is selling world antiques at her shop in Mendocino, California or singing her heart out at the local open mic in Vermont, she endeavors to bring authenticity and full expression to her work. She's been semi-nomadic for years, only recently settling down in a small seaside town on the windswept North Coast. Here she's dedicated her time to crafting community and a web of people who reflect her own deep dives into the joyous (and harrowing) journey that is life. You might call her an inside-out type of person; she is someone who moves from the cultivated quiet within to turn up the volume, full out. At the time that this is being posted, Lauren has hit the road. If you still want to check out ‘The Talisman Outpost' on Insta, click here.

You can still explore Lauren’s original music by visiting her SoundCloud.

Original soundscape for the podcast, Behind The Project is "Urban Dawn" composed by Damon Honeycutt.

Welcome to Behind the Project!

Behind The Project is a short run micropod that features conversations with creatives and professionals who share their lessons learned across their various projects. This show was inspired by the many lessons and self-discovery prompted by the many projects that Shanta Lee Honeycutt has led and implemented. This trailer introduces me, the host of this micropod and what you can expect with this show.

Original Composition "Urban Dawn" by Damon Honeycutt