Cabana Chats

In this special between-seasons episode of Cabana Chats, we bring you PART TWO of the recording of a live event held on September 26, 2023, with writers ⁠Greg Mania⁠, ⁠Denne Michele Norris⁠, and ⁠Matt Ortile⁠ in conversation with Resort founder Catherine LaSota.

This episode is part two of the event "What's Community Got to Do With It?", which was an Official 2023 Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend event held at LIC Bar in Queens, NYC. Listen in to hear Greg, Denne Michele, and Matt in a panel conversation with host Catherine LaSota, on the topic of how community has played a role in their writing lives. There is a lot of great stuff to learn in this entertaining discussion!

Check out our previous episode for part one of this live event, which includes anecdotes and readings from Greg, Denne Michele, and Matt.

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IN-PERSON RETREAT in NYC!:

Are you craving some time to reconnect to your creative practice, take good care of yourself, and build your writing community? Check out our very first IN-PERSON retreat for writers, called ⁠Come to Your Senses⁠, taking place November 18-19, 2023. This retreat is open to anyone who wants to write, no matter your genre of interest or experience level. Registration closes on November 3, 2023.

Learn more and register here: ⁠https://www.theresortlic.com/come-to-your-senses⁠

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Thank you to our podcast editor Jade Iseri-Ramos, and thank you to Pat Irwin for our music.

Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: ⁠https://www.theresortlic.com/

In this special between-seasons episode of Cabana Chats, we bring you the recording of a live event held on September 26, 2023, with writers Greg Mania, Denne Michele Norris, and Matt Ortile in conversation with Resort founder Catherine LaSota.

This episode is part one of the event "What's Community Got to Do With It?", which was an Official 2023 Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend event held at LIC Bar in Queens, NYC. Listen in to hear Greg, Denne Michele, and Matt each share an anecdote about the role that community has played in their writing lives, and then share a brief reading of their work.

Check out our next episode for part two of this live event: the awesome panel discussion!

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IN-PERSON RETREAT in NYC!:

Are you craving some time to reconnect to your creative practice, take good care of yourself, and build your writing community? Check out our very first IN-PERSON retreat for writers, called Come to Your Senses, taking place November 18-19, 2023. This retreat is open to anyone who wants to write, no matter your genre of interest or experience level. Registration closes on November 3, 2023.

Learn more and register here: https://www.theresortlic.com/come-to-your-senses

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Want to hear more about what's coming up at the Resort? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

Thank you to our podcast editor Jade Iseri-Ramos, and thank you to Pat Irwin for our music.

Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/

On this final episode of season three, Resort founder Catherine LaSota shares five things she has learned and re-learned about the process of writing over the past several months, via group programs at the Resort and her 1-on-1 work with writers.

Catherine also shares information about some exciting things coming up at the Resort this Fall! You can find out more about these below:

Sep 18-Oct 6, 2023 online: Commit to Your Practice coaching project -- sign up for one of 20 one-hour, individual coaching sessions that Catherine is gifting to writers this Fall. http://catherinelasota.com/commit-to-your-practice

Oct 7-8, 2023 in NYC: The Resort is hosting its first in-person retreat, Come to Your Senses. This two-day experience is open to writers of all genres and experience levels. Limited to eight participants. https://www.theresortlic.com/come-to-your-senses

Oct 18, 2023 in NYC: Join our in-person 2 1/2 hour workshop with Eleanor Whitney, called Build a Writing Career on Your Own Terms. Workshop registration includes a copy of Eleanor's newest book, Promote Your Book: Spread the Word, Find Your Readers, and Build a Literary Community. Join us: https://little-math-115.myflodesk.com/

Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/

Hosted by Catherine LaSota: http://catherinelasota.com/

Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos.

Our music is by Pat Irwin.

Join the Resort mailing list for an awesome weekly newsletter, full of opportunities for writers!

It's our first (non-live event) episode with TWO guests! Nancy K. Miller and Tahneer Oksman, co-editors of Feminists Reclaim Mentorship: An Anthology (SUNY Press, 2023), are in conversation with Catherine LaSota about what we mean we identify as a mentor or a mentee, and how the nature of mentorship is changing -- and what that means as we build communities together.

Nancy K. Miller is a feminist author, memoirist, and teacher who has authored or edited over a dozen books. She is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Learn more about Nancy K. Miller on her website: https://nancykmiller.com/

Pick up a copy of Nancy K. Miller's My Brilliant Friends here: https://bookshop.org/a/83344/9780231190558

Tahneer Oksman is a writer, teacher, and scholar. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Language, with a joint appointment in the Department of Communication and Media Arts, at Marymount Manhattan College.

Learn more about Tahneer Oksman on her website: https://www.tahneeroksman.com/

Read more about and pick up a copy of Feminists Reclaim Mentorship: An Anthology here: https://sunypress.edu/Books/F/Feminists-Reclaim-Mentorship

Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/

Hosted by Catherine LaSota: http://catherinelasota.com/

Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos.

Our music is by Pat Irwin.

Join the Resort mailing list for an awesome weekly newsletter, full of opportunities for writers!

Coming up soon:

Sep 18-Oct 6, 2023: Catherine is gifting 20 one-hour coaching sessions to 20 individual writers! Find out more: https://catherinelasota.com/commit-to-your-practice

Oct 7-8, 2023: in-person writing retreat at the Resort! Find out more: https://www.theresortlic.com/come-to-your-senses

2023 has been kind of a strange year energetically, and this summer alone has been...a bit of a doozy at times.

On this near-season-end episode of the Cabana Chats, host Catherine LaSota checks in to ask: How are you doing?

If you've been feeling out of sorts, a calendar review and some intentional future planning can be super helpful. Catherine walks you through this process using her own exhausting 2023 calendar as an example!

Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/

Hosted by Catherine LaSota: http://catherinelasota.com/

Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos.

Our music is by Pat Irwin.

Join the Resort mailing list for an awesome weekly newsletter, full of opportunities for writers!

Coming up soon:

Sep 18-Oct 6, 2023: Catherine is gifting 20 one-hour coaching sessions to 20 individual writers!

Oct 7-8, 2023: in-person writing retreat at the Resort!

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This episode features the wonderful Randy Winston, lover of milkshakes and Director of Writing Programs at the Center for Fiction, in conversation with Resort founder Catherine LaSota.

Randy and Catherine talk about the importance of demystifying literary ecosystems, the ways that building relationships form the cornerstones of a writing life, and New York City diner portions (especially the Lumberjack Special).

Find out more about the Center for Fiction here: https://centerforfiction.org/

Follow Randy Winston on social media:

Twitter: @_rwinstonsworld

Threads: @_rwinstonsworld

Instagram: @_rwinstonsworld

Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/

Hosted by Catherine LaSota: http://catherinelasota.com/

Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos.

Our music is by Pat Irwin.

Join the Resort mailing list for an awesome weekly newsletter, full of opportunities for writers!

It's a conversation with the one and only Ariel Gore!

In this episode of the Cabana Chats podcast, Resort founder Catherine LaSota is thrilled to be in conversation with a writer she admires not only for the various zines and books she's put out into the world, but also for the ways she helps other writers to find their path by integrating their creative practice with the fullness of life and forging a way that works for them.

Ariel and Catherine talk about the helpful permissions we give ourselves, the ways that life impacts writing output, and tricks for getting back into the writing flow, among other topics.

Ariel Gore is a journalist, memoirist, novelist, and nonfiction author. She is the founding editor and publisher of Hip Mama, an Alternative Press Award-winning publication covering the culture and politics of motherhood, and she leads writing workshops at Ariel Gore's School for Wayward Writers.

Pick up a copy of Ariel Gore's The Wayward Writer: Summon Your Power to Take Back Your Story, Liberate Yourself from Capitalism, and Publish Like a Superstar here: https://bookshop.org/a/83344/9781648411847

More in Ariel Gore's world:

https://arielgore.com/

http://literarykitchen.net/

https://readingandtraveling.net/

Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/

Hosted by Catherine LaSota: http://catherinelasota.com/

Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos.

Our music is by Pat Irwin.

Join the Resort mailing list for an awesome weekly newsletter, full of opportunities for writers!

We just had a new moon (new beginnings!), and it's Cancer season (lots of emotions!). How can we combine the theme of new beginnings, plus a mid-summer season that can be full of big feelings, into some helpful writing prompts for our journal? Resort founder Catherine LaSota shares some thoughts about the season and encourages a reinvigorated journal practice, including writing prompt suggestions.

Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/

Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos.

Our music is by Pat Irwin.

Join the Resort mailing list for an awesome weekly newsletter, full of opportunities for writers!

It's our first episode with a second-time guest! Cabana Chats is thrilled to welcome back Brian Gresko, who sits down to chat with Catherine LaSota about the lessons and labor of parenthood and writing, the ways that we define community, and the exciting things that are happening at Writing Co-Lab, the teaching cooperative he helped to organize and launch in January 2023.

More about Brian Gresko: https://www.briangresko.com/

Learn more about Writing Co-Lab: https://www.writingco-lab.com/

Follow Writing Co-Lab on social media:

Instagram: @writing.colab

Twitter: @thewritingcolab

Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/

Hosted by Catherine LaSota: http://catherinelasota.com/

Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos.

Our music is by Pat Irwin.

Join the Resort mailing list for an awesome weekly newsletter, full of opportunities for writers!

All writers feel stuck sometimes. What can you do when you feel like you are hitting a wall in your writing, or when you are simply feeling low about the whole process and practice of being a writer? Resort founder and Cabana Chats host Catherine LaSota offers some suggestions for things to try when you hit those inevitable sticky seasons in your writing.

Cabana Chats is brought to you by The Resort: https://www.theresortlic.com/

Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos.

Our music is by Pat Irwin.

Join the Resort mailing list for an awesome weekly newsletter, full of opportunities for writers!