Podcast Episode

135: When it’s messy and we must: creative process with the poet Hokis

Artist Soapbox begins the year with Hokis, poet and deep thinker. Listen in and find encouragement and support, practical tips to guide your creative process, great vulnerability, and a generous sprinkling of inspiration. This is a grownup and roving conversation that touches on grief, the death of a parent, adoption, sexual trauma, identity, creative evolution …

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134: Goodbye 2020. (Onwards to 2021!)

It’s the last podcast episode of the year for Artist Soapbox! As I record this, I have an over-abundance of feelings and not all of them are getting along. Some are in down-right conflict. What a year. What a productive, frustrating, hopeful, disappointing, infuriating, tender, tragic, hilarious, inspiring, bittersweet sh!tshow of a year…personally and professionally. …

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133: Collaborative Writing 2: The Last Glacier Hotel

Under the right circumstances and with the right people for me, creative collaboration is my happiest happy place.  This is the second of two ASBX episodes about writing scripted audio fiction collaboratively. You’ll hear from the Soapbox Audio Collective Writing Team 2 that includes Allan Maule, Ian Finley and me, Tamara Kissane. Together we’re writing The …

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132: Collaborative Writing 1: Jesus Pancake

Have you ever written with other people? I don’t mean in the same room all quietly chipping away at your individual writing — I mean have you ever collaborated during the creation phase, writer’s room-style where you’re together breaking the story, pitching ideas, fleshing out characters, debating storylines on a shared project?  If you have …

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131: Stillness and kindred support. A conversation with NC Poet Laureate, Jaki Shelton Green

“And this is one of those times where I feel like I need to give myself permission to stand still, looking from one side to the other, up and down, looking at my neighbors. And I mean that in a very global sense, experiencing what people are going through, asking myself, is there a place …

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Stretchy Shorts: Declaration of Love Episode 9

The Declaration of Love Project is an anthology of 11 short audio pieces written by North Carolina playwrights all inspired by the same writing prompt — “declaration of love.” Episode 9, written by Tori Grace Nichols is titled Stretchy Shorts. Stretchy Shorts is a speculative fiction piece calling in the preparation, organization, and care humans …

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