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- Cabana Chats: Happy Half Hour LIVE with Tajja Isen and Matt Ortile
It's another live event episode of the Cabana Chats podcast! On May 31, 2023, we hosted a Happy Half Hour event via Zoom at the Resort, bringing together the wonderful writers and editors Tajja Isen and Matt Ortile to talk about writing and community. Tajja and Matt are friends and former colleagues of the wonderful Catapult magazine (which shuttered its doors unexpectedly in mid-February 2023, to much sadness amongst writers), as editor-in-chief and executive editor, respectively. On this episode of the Cabana Chats podcast, they have a wide-ranging discussion about the transition of their primary public identity from editor to writer, and what they are working on now. They also provide some stellar wine and food reviews.
Join the Resort online community to check out more of our Happy Half Hour events!: https://community.theresortlic.com/
Tajja Isen and Matt Ortile are two of the guests who are participating in Ask Me Anything sessions for our 2023 group program, Summer of Support. Be sure to join the Resort's mailing list to find out about upcoming class and workshop opportunities, and visit the Resort website to learn more: https://www.theresortlic.com/
More about Tajja Isen: https://tajjaisen.com/
More about Matt Ortile: https://www.mattortile.com/
Purchase Tajja Isen's Some of My Best Friends here.
Purchase Matt Ortile's The Groom Will Keep His Name here.
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!
33 min - Cabana Chats: Sometimes You Need a Good Cry
We've just had a new moon, and the solstice is upon us. It's a great time for new projects, big energy, and joyful romping. But what if you feel like a good cry instead? On this episode, Resort founder Catherine LaSota shares some things about her past couple of wobbly weeks, and she offers a reminder that just letting go - with some tears or screams or yells - can not only be part of the natural cycles of life but also necessary to a healthy writing process.
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!
11 min - Cabana Chats: Lexi Beach, owner of Astoria Bookshop
Happy Pride! We are thrilled to bring you a conversation with the owner/founder of a beloved, queer woman owned bookstore in New York City.
Resort founder Catherine LaSota sits down for a chat with friend and literary event collaborator Lexi Beach, owner of the Astoria Bookshop in Queens, NYC. They talk about loving books, following new career paths, and how special bookstore communities are.
The Astoria Bookshop recently celebrated ten years and a move into a new space -- bigger and better and beautiful! If you are in New York City, check them out at 36-19 30th Street, Astoria, NY 11106.
Learn more about the Astoria Bookshop: https://astoriabookshop.com/
Check out upcoming events at the bookshop: https://astoriabookshop.com/events
Follow the bookshop on social media:
Instagram: @astoriabookshop
Twitter: @astoriabookshop
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!
28 min - Cabana Chats: Happy Half Hour LIVE with Greg Mania and Denne Michele Norris
It's a live event episode of the Cabana Chats podcast! On May 30, 2023, we hosted a Happy Half Hour event via Zoom at the Resort, bringing writers and friends Greg Mania and Denne Michele Norris in conversation together around writing and community. Greg and Denne Michele talk about what's going on in their professional lives, the importance of meeting up with other writers in real life, and much more.
Join the Resort online community to check out more of our Happy Half Hour events!: https://community.theresortlic.com/
Greg Mania and Denne Michele Norris are two of the guests who are participating in Ask Me Anything sessions for our 2023 group program, Summer of Support. Be sure to join the Resort's mailing list to find out about upcoming class and workshop opportunities, and visit the Resort website to learn more: https://www.theresortlic.com/
More about Greg Mania: https://www.greg-mania.com/
More about Denne Michele Norris: https://www.dennemichele.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!
33 min - Cabana Chats: Where's Your Inspiration?
Sometimes writing inspiration comes from the most unexpected places. Resort founder and Cabana Chats host Catherine LaSota shares a story about a recent experience that led to some writing inspiration, and then she challenges you to attune to your senses that are most evocative for you. How can you build a relationship with your receptors for the world around you, to pay attention in a way that feeds your writing practice?
Season Three has just begun! Get ready for a bunch of interviews with awesome guests, alongside solo episodes offering inspiration, prompts, tips, and encouragement for writers.
Are you looking to have fun, meet some writing goals, and build your community this summer? Writers of all genres and experience levels -- whether or not you have a writing project in mind for the summer -- are invited to join us in SUMMER OF SUPPORT, our 11-week online group program. We start June 5, 2023, with weekly group coaching, workshops, and guest Q&As with amazing authors and editors.
Find out more about SUMMER OF SUPPORT and sign up here: https://www.theresortlic.com/summer-of-support
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!
10 min - Cabana Chats: Celebrate Yourself
It's another solo episode from Resort founder and Cabana Chats host Catherine LaSota! In this episode, Catherine gives you an assignment: what is one thing in your writing practice over the last six months that you are proud of? And how can you celebrate this accomplishment?
It's too easy to stay on the treadmill of always looking to the next goal on your list -- don't forget to take a moment to take stock of how far you've come! And celebrate yourself.
Season Three has just begun! Get ready for a bunch of interviews with awesome guests, alongside solo episodes offering inspiration, prompts, tips, and encouragement for writers.
Are you looking to have fun, meet some writing goals, and build your community this summer? Writers of all genres and experience levels -- whether or not you have a writing project in mind for the summer -- are invited to join us in SUMMER OF SUPPORT, our 11-week online group program. We start June 5, 2023, and a payment plan is available for sign ups before May 24, 2023.
Find out more about SUMMER OF SUPPORT and sign up here: https://www.theresortlic.com/summer-of-support
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!
12 min - Cabana Chats: Permission Slips
We are kicking off Season Three of Cabana Chats with a solo episode from Resort founder and Cabana Chats host Catherine LaSota. In this episode, Catherine offers a series of permission slips for writers and encourages you to treat yourself well when you are working on a big project. And, as always, community is essential to the writing process!
Season Three has just begun! Get ready for a bunch of interviews with awesome guests, alongside solo episodes offering inspiration, prompts, tips, and encouragement for writers.
Are you looking to have fun, meet some writing goals, and build your community this summer? Writers of all genres and experience levels -- whether or not you have a writing project in mind for the summer -- are invited to join us in SUMMER OF SUPPORT, our 11-week online group program. We start June 5, 2023, and a payment plan is available for sign ups before May 24, 2023.
Find out more about SUMMER OF SUPPORT and sign up here: https://www.theresortlic.com/summer-of-support
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!
20 min - BONUS: Coming up in 2023!
We may be between seasons, but Resort founder Catherine LaSota misses you and wants to say hi. Hello!
Have a listen to this short bonus episode to remember some highlights from seasons 1 and 2 of Cabana Chats, and get excited for season 3, plus more great stuff coming your way in 2023 from the Resort writing community!
Need some ideas for a great book to pick up? Check out the Resort's Bookshop storefront, where you can purchase books from all of our Cabana Chats guests, plus books by Resort writing teachers and even some special recommendations from Catherine: https://bookshop.org/shop/TheResortSeason Three of Cabana Chats will launch in 2023, stay tuned! Subscribe so you don't miss an episode.
Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin.
FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network.Follow us on Instagram! @CabanaChatsPodcast and @TheResortLIC
5 min - Cabana Chats: Lydia Conklin
In this last episode of season two of Cabana Chats, writer Lydia Conklin talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about fostering dogs, writing a story versus making a comic, and the places we can't bring our cell phones (thank goodness), among many other fascinating topics.
Lydia Conklin is an Assistant Professor of Fiction at Vanderbilt University. Previously they were the Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Fiction at the University of Michigan. They’ve received a Stegner Fellowship in Fiction at Stanford University, a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, three Pushcart Prizes, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, a Creative & Performing Arts Fulbright to Poland, work-study and tuition scholarships from Bread Loaf, and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Djerassi, Hedgebrook, the James Merrill House, the Vermont Studio Center, VCCA, Millay, Jentel, Lighthouse Works, Brush Creek, the Santa Fe Art Institute, Caldera, the Sitka Center, and Harvard University, among others. They were the 2015-2017 Creative Writing Fellow in fiction at Emory University. Their fiction has appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere, and is forthcoming from The Paris Review. They have drawn graphic fiction for Lenny Letter, Drunken Boat, and the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago and cartoons for The New Yorker and Narrative Magazine. Lydia's story collection, Rainbow Rainbow, was recently published by Catapult in the US and Scribner in the UK.Find out more about Lydia Conklin here: https://lydia-conklin.comPurchase RAINBOW RAINBOW by Lydia Conklin here: https://bookshop.org/a/83344/9781646221011Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/
More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/You can find books for purchase by all of our Cabana Chats guests here: https://bookshop.org/lists/cabana-chats-podcastCabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin.
Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro.
FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC
34 min - Cabana Chats: Leslie Shipman
In our next to last episode for season two of Cabana Chats, Leslie Shipman, founder of the The Shipman Agency, talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about her long career in the literary world, how her love of poetry has guided her, and her latest adventures as the founder of a speaking agency for writers that has turned into a full-service organization for writers, offering classes, editing services, and more, in just a few short years.
Leslie Shipman has spent 30 years promoting writers, and creating and managing literary events in New York City. She spent over a decade at the National Book Foundation (which presents the National Book Award), where she was instrumental in creating events and programs such as 5 Under 35, a prize for promising young novelists, the National Book Awards After Party, Eat, Drink, and Be Literary at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Innovations in Reading, a prize that promotes community organizations working at the grassroots level to encourage reading across constituencies, and BookUp, an afterschool program for middle school age students, as well as assembling awards juries. She consulted at PEN America, a leading advocate for free expression, and worked on the PEN Literary Awards, and the PEN World Voices Festival.A poet with an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, her work can be found in the Kenyon Review, BOMB, Tinderbox, Mid-American Review, Cosmonauts Avenue and elsewhere. She lives in Ridgewood, Queens with her husband, musician Paul Pimsler, and their dog Junie.Find out more about The Shipman Agency: https://www.theshipmanagency.com/Latest classes in The Work Room at The Shipman Agency: https://www.theshipmanagency.com/theworkroomJoin our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/
More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/You can find books for purchase by all of our Cabana Chats guests here: https://bookshop.org/lists/cabana-chats-podcastCabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin.
Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro.
FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC
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About Cabana Chats
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Cabana Chats is a podcast about writing and community, hosted by Catherine LaSota, founder of The Resort writing community.