Story Culture Live Podcast

It's not a game, ya'll. Black storytelling is a calling, a balm, but it is also a career. In this episode, we learn more about the essential role of black storytelling from tellers Len Cabral and Valerie Tutson. For Len, storytelling breathes life in a lush Cape Verdean family legacy that goes back as far as the 1800s. To Val, who identifies as a biracial, storytelling was the deliberation space of her childhood, the place where she engaged her embattled family legacies. Le...

“Horror” is the search term that yields the most results for this Afro-futurism novelist , screenwriter, and documentarian. Tananarive Due has contributed to increasing the African American presence in a genre that, for decades, killed us off early if we made it to the big screen at all. To this end, she’s partnered with Jordan Peele (Nope, Get Out, Us) and her husband Steve Barnes. Story Culture Live podcast was blessed by her wit, her talent, and her personal story of actionable anti-racism...

Here's to our powerful storytelling lineage and legacy! Story Culture Live Podcast celebrates the craft of storytelling and honors its tellers. In this episode, I will share details about the birth of Story Culture Live Podcast: In Augusta, Georgia on the front porch of an Eighth Street shotgun house. And, how a lamp made of popsicle sticks lit the way.

This year, Marvel Cinematic Universe writers gave us a story of an African king and part-time superhero, a story first introduced 1960s. In this episode, we discuss what this story and several others can teach us about audience and the "anchor questions" of our own writing process. We are a community of new and seasoned writers building our arsenal of writerly moves to defeat the block!

Whether you write college essays, fiction or the narrative backdrop for the Shadow of Colossus video game, research (the "R" Word) is important for every writer. In episode 2, we talk about how this neglected, unsexy practice could save a writer's neck.

In our inaugural podcast, we talk about writing as a process with freeing "formulas" that will allow you to jump into and bask in the story of your work. This, instead of painfully wringing out one uncontrolled sentence after another.