Between the Pages of WELL READ Magazine

INSIDE VOICES with James Wade

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce James Wade
 
James Wade is the award-winning author of Beasts of the Earth, All Things Left Wild, and River, Sing Out. He is the youngest novelist to win two Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America, and the recipient of the MPIBA’s prestigious Reading the West Award. James’s work has appeared in Southern Literary Magazine, The Bitter Oleander, Writers’ Digest, and numerous additional publications. James lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country with his wife and children. His forthcoming novel, Hollow Out the Dark, releases August 20, 2024.

INSIDE VOICES with Piper G. Huguley

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Piper G. Huguley
Piper G. Huguley’s biographical historical fiction, By Her Own Design: a novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register (William Morrow Publishing) tells the inspiring story of the Black fashion designer of Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress. By Her Own Design was a Booklist top 100 Editor’s Choice selection for 2022 and was named one of the top 100 books of 2022 in Canada by the Globe and Mail newspaper.
She is also the author of Sweet Tea by Hallmark Publishing and the author of two historical romance series: “Migrations of the Heart”, about the Great Migration and “Home to Milford College”. Her next historical fiction book, American Daughters (2024), is the story of the decades-long interracial friendship between Alice Roosevelt and Portia Washington, the rebel teenage daughters of President Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington, respectively. She is a literature professor at Clark-Atlanta University and blogs about the history behind her novels at http://piperhuguley.com. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and son.

INSIDE VOICES with Mimi Herman

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Mimi Herman.
Mimi Herman is a Kennedy Center teaching artist and codirector of Writeaways writing workshops in France, Italy, Ireland, and New Mexico. She serves as vice-chair of the Board of Directors for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, and has taught in the Masters of Education programs at Lesley University, served as the North Carolina Piedmont Laureate and been an associate editor for Teaching Artist Journal. Since 1990, she has engaged over 25,000 students and teachers with her warm and intuitive teaching style. Her novel, The Kudzu Queen, was selected by the North Carolina Center for the Book for the 2023 Library of Congress “Great Reads from Great Places” and has been longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award.

INSIDE VOICES with Curtis Chin

Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Curtis Chin A co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City, Curtis Chin served as the non-profits’ first Executive Director. He went on to write for network and cable television before transitioning to social justice documentaries. Chin has screened his films at over 600 venues in twenty countries. He has written for CNN, Bon Appetit, the Detroit Free Press and the Emancipator Boston Globe. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Chin has received awards from ABC Disney Television, New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and more. His memoir, "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant" was published by Little, Brown in Fall 2023. His essay in Bon Appetit was selected for Best Food Writing in America 2023.

INSIDE VOICES with Clay Smith

Clay Smith is the literary director at the Library of Congress. In that role, he curates the lineup of the National Book Festival and oversees the Library’s ambassador-ships, which include the United States Poet Laureate and the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Previously, he was the editor-in-chief of Kirkus Reviews and the literary director of the San Antonio Book Festival and the Texas Book Festival and worked for Sundance Film Festival.

INSIDE VOICES with Gwydion Suilebhan

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce essayist, playwright, and cultural critic, Gwydion Suilebhan.
“…for me, the process I rely on is deeply entwined with my subject matter, and I’m never following a formula when I make art.”
Gwydion Suilebhan is a cultural critic, essayist, and play-wright. A lifelong arts advocate, he serves as both the Ex-ecutive Director of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and the Project Director of the New Play Exchange for the Nation-al New Play Network. A founding member of The Welders, a Helen Hayes Award-winning playwrights collective in Washington, DC, Suilebhan previously held the position of Director of Brand and Marketing for Woolly Mammoth. Earlier in his career, he worked as a brand and communications consult-ant for arts and culture organizations. Suilebhan currently serves on the board of the Alliance for Jewish Theatre. From 2017-2020, he was a member of the Council of the Dramatists Guild of America. He speaks widely on the intersection between the arts and technology in the 21st century.

ANNIE ASKS Vanessa Lillie

Annie McDonnell introduces Vanessa Lillie, author of the USA Today bestselling suspense novel, Blood Sisters.
 
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LAGNIAPPE - Once Upon a Friendship with Annie McDonnell, Eoin Dempsey, and Jeff Arch

With so many articles today about how hard it is for men to show affection towards each other, let alone maintain those relationships, how very interesting to discuss male friendship. Especially for the month of February. You can’t say the word February and not think “Valentine” which is mostly about couples, and it is about love, but it’s also about the most important relationship there is - friendship.
Of course these two friends came to mind - Jeff Arch and Eoin Dempsey.
 
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INSIDE VOICES WITH Karen Schwettman

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Karen Schwettman, owner of FoxTale Book Shoppe in Woodstock Georgia.
“…Attacks on books and freedom to read what one wants makes me more determined to be a welcoming place for all readers.” Karen Schwettman is the owner of FoxTale Book Shoppe in Woodstock, GA. She began her career as an interior de-signer and has worked with Sherwin Williams, House Parts, and her own design firm, Karen Schwettman Inter-iors. A series of fortunate events presented her with an opportunity to follow her true passion, books. As a life-long reader, the prospect of owning a bookshop was exciting and remains exciting today.
 
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ANNIE ASKS EOIN DEMPSEY

Eoin was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1977. He grew up in the beautiful Dublin suburb of Dalkey, where he and his friends would jump into the icy waters of the Irish Sea (during summertime) to prove their manliness. Eoin had a fantastic time attending Blackrock College, where he played rugby (poorly) and did his best to coast his way through. Eoin’s first ambition was to play rugby for Ireland. Due to a lack of talent, he soon abandoned that goal for the more reasoned path of the rock star. He played in bands through his teens and well into his twenties before harsh reality came calling, and his dreams of being the next Keith Moon faded...
 
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