On this episode, Benjamin Gorman gabs with Laura Stanfill, author of SINGING LESSONS FOR THE STYLISH CANARY and publisher at Forest Avenue Press, about great books she’s looking forward to, sharing fruit from her trees with the Portland Food Forest Initiative and Portland Fruit Tree Project, the Oregon Humane Society finding homes for animals from Maui, and building community even when she’s a dragon. 

Today’s secret word is: Heirloom

Find Laura here: https://laurastanfill.com/

Social media as LHStanfill and forestavenuepress

Check out all the wonderful books available at Forest Avenue Press: https://www.forestavenuepress.com/

Get your copy of SINGING LESSONS FOR THE STYLISH CANARY here:

https://lanternfishpress.com/shop/singing-lessons-for-the-stylish-canary

You can still support our Writing Against the Darkness team and help us fight Alzheimer’s Disease by donating here

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Check out the merch store at Not a Pipe Publishing, and get 10% off your whole order when you use the coupon code ShowFan

https://not-a-pipe-publishing.square.site/s/shop

Mentioned on the show:

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

https://www.amazon.com/Tom-Lake-Novel-Ann-Patchett/dp/006332752X

SOUL JAR: 31 Fantastical Tales by Disabled Authors by Annie Carl (Editor), Nicola Griffith (Foreword)

https://www.forestavenuepress.com/bookshop/p/j82ly8pt9lia2x1dbc7tbp26l3gp4y

King of the Armadillos by Wendy Chin-Tanner 

https://www.amazon.com/King-Armadillos-Wendy-Chin-Tanner/dp/1250843006

Good Night by Luis Alberto Urrea

https://www.amazon.com/Good-Night-Irene-Alberto-Urrea/dp/0316265853

Plums for Months by Zaji Cox

https://www.forestavenuepress.com/bookshop/p/plums-for-months

NO GOD LIKE THE MOTHER by Kesha Ajose-Fisher

https://www.forestavenuepress.com/bookshop/p/no-god-like-the-mother

Oregon Humane Society

https://oregonhumane.tfaforms.net/23

Portland Fruit Tree Project 

https://www.portlandfruit.org/

Portland Food Forest Initiative

https://www.pdxfoodforest.com/