In this episode, host Carol Mitchell and Alicia Elkort discuss A Map of Every Undoing, Alicia's beautiful poetry collection; writing through trauma; and the importance of community in writing.

Carol Mitchell is a consulting editor with Stillhouse Press and a term professor in the English Department at George Mason University. She holds an MFA from George Mason and is the author of several books for children and one novel for adults: What Start Bad a Mornin'.

Alicia Elkort’s first book A Map of Every Undoing was published in 2022 by Stillhouse Press after winning our book contest. Her second book of poetry recently won the Two Sylvias Press Wilder Poetry Book Prize and will be published in 2026. Alicia's poetry has been nominated several times for the Pushcart, Best of the Net, and the Orison Anthology, and her work appears in numerous journals and anthologies. She reads for Tinderbox Poetry Journal where she also writes reviews. For more info or to watch her two video poems: https://aliciaelkort.mystrikingly.com/

A transcript of this episode is available here.

Patience as a Weapon: Moonshine Murmurs Podcast, Episode #10

In this episode, host Carol Mitchell and Sam Ashworth, author of The Death and Life of August Sweeney have a lively discussion about his fascinating novel and paths to success as a working author.

Carol Mitchell is a consulting editor with Stillhouse Press and a term professor in the English Department at George Mason University. She holds an MFA from George Mason and is the author of several books for children and one novel for adults: "What Start Bad a Mornin'."

This podcast was produced with assistance from Jon Miller.

SAMUEL ASHWORTH is a professor of creative writing at George Washington University and a former columnist at The Rumpus. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Longreads, Eater, and many others. He graduated from the George Mason Creative Writing MFA program, where he was one of the inaugural Cheuse Center fellows. He now lives with his wife and two sons in Washington, DC. The Death and Life of August Sweeney is his first novel.

A transcript of this episode is available here.

In this episode, host Carol Mitchell and Stillhouse author Amy Stuber discuss Amy’s new book, Sad Grownups, her journey to publication, the short story process, the process of submitting and writing.

Sad Grownups was released on October 5, 2024 from Stillhouse Press and is available for sale on our website at stillhousepress.org.

Carol Mitchell is a consulting editor with Stillhouse Press and a term professor in the English Department at George Mason University. She holds an MFA from George Mason and is the author of several books for children and one novel for adults: What Start Bad a Mornin'.

Amy’s short story collection, Sad Grownups was released on October 8, 2024 and is available on the Stillhouse Press website and pretty much wherever books are sold. Amy’s writing has appeared in the New England Review, Flash Fiction America, Ploughshares, The Idaho Review, Cincinnati Review, Triquarterly, American Short Fiction, Joyland, and elsewhere. She’s the recipient of the Missouri Review’s 2023 William Peden Prize in fiction, winner of the 2021 Northwest Review Fiction Prize, and runner-up for the 2022 CRAFT Short Fiction Prize. She has a PhD in English, has taught college writing, and worked in online education for many years.

For more news and press, check out Amy’s website.

A transcript of this episode is available here.