The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life

In this week's episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about Margaret Atwood's In Other Worlds and The Handmaid's Tale.

In this week's episode, I shut up and let Ephraim Scott Sommers, Vanessa Blakeslee, and David James Poissant discuss how to get published in lit mags, plus Tiffany Fussell discusses how The Secret Garden changed her life.

In this week's episode, I talk to fiction writer Holly Tavel about the urge to experiment in fiction, the need to subvert grand narratives, and the joys of the avant-garde and children's schlock and obsessions of all kinds,

Plus I chat with Michael Martin about the fascinating ways poetry finds itself entering Miami during the month of April.

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Learn more about the O Miami Poetry Festival, including its schedule of events, here.

On this week's show, David James Puissant and I offer words of advice for new writers and answer some of their questions, in the equivalent of our 8th mailbag episode, almost 2 years after the 7th...

plus Ramona Pojoga writes about a book that changed her life!

In this week's episode, I talk to animator Barry Temple about his extraordinary professional experience in show business. We cover career highlights like The Mouse and His Child, Ralph Bakshi's animated version of The Lord of the Rings, and the arc of Disney animation in the 1980s (from Don Bluth's defection to the renaissance of Disney filmmaking). We discuss the role that perseverance and adaptation play in a successful career, and what it is like to create animation before a theme park audience.

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On April 15th, check out this amazing fundraiser for Exodus United at The Geek Easy.

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In this week's episode, I talk to Gary Evans, Brian Crum, and Adam Watson of The Intoxicators about writing music, working collaboratively, fast tempos, and staying fired up!

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In this week's episode, I talk with the poet Ephraim Scott Sommers.

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Litlando 2017 will take place on March 25th at The Gallery at Avalon Island. Buy tickets now here.

Check out Ephraim's music here.

Come to Ephraim's book launch, if you are in Orlando.

Episode 219 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week's episode, I share a recording of Loose Lips, the monthly current events literary thing hosted by the inestimable Tod Caviness, with special guests Josh Dull, Racquel Henry, Darlyn Finch Kuhn, and me.

In this week's episode, I talk with the poet Ashley Inguanta, plus Daniela Chamorro writes about how Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street changed her life.

In this week's episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about E. L. Doctorow's Creationists.

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I'll be appearing at

• Lil Indies, in Loose Lips on March 7,
• the Henao Contemporary Center, in the Second Saturday reading series ($5 cover), on March 11th,
• a new Modular Collective Art show on March 23rd,
• and at the Gallery at Avalon Island in Litlando on March 25th.