This Podcast Will Change Your Life - The AWP 2014 Edition Part II - Scorched Earth, starring the Justin Daugherty.

Truth. We are so Daugherty. And podcast. We are also Sundog Lit, AWP, VIDA, Cormac McCarthy, and much, much, more yo. So do hit it. It just might change your life.

Wherein there is much appreciated AWP 2014 “The Author’s Children: The Intersection of Art, Advocacy and Ethics in Writing About Your Kids" panel blog post at the Brevity.

There is, and it is, totally, all of it. Excerpt? Word.

"I thought this panel would offer advice for writing about our kids, and stop there. But it went well beyond that, offering advice for all memoirists. Some told anecdotes about their kids. Others read short excerpts of their work. All of them shared advice in a presentation that was both revelatory and intimate."

This Book - Badge - and Podcast - The AWP 2014 Edition Part I - Sitting On A Rug, by, and starring the Art Edwards - Will Change Your Life.

So that's the thing, or maybe, a thing, about the AWP, and meeting writers you only know online, or through their books. You only know what you know before you meet them. You have ideas or impressions, but to know much more than that involves conversation, maybe sitting on a rug together, or something of that nature. So we read Badge by the Art Edwards, a story about music and addiction, and how it all happens, cycles of redemption and loss, finding one's sound, and how when it happens it's a gift that must be cherished, and celebrated, before it's gone. Because it will be gone. It has to be. There's always someone new coming along. But we don't just read Badge, we also talk to the Art Edwards about Badge, and self-publishing, his time with The Refreshments, and King of the Hill. And after all of that we know why Badge feels so natural and lived-in. It's real life. It's rock and roll. And all of it is sure to change your life.

Panel notes there are.