Venita Blackburn's guest appearances

Venita Blackburn

KQED's Forum

The Paris Review

Limited Engagement

Spillers

Tennessee Williams

Matt Bell

David Sedaris

Toni Morrison

Jericho Brown

George Saunders

Sam Lipsyte

Joey Burns

Paul HeeSang Miller

Salman Rushdie

Caleb Crain

Robert Frost

Marc Maron

Philip Roth

James Baldwin

OwlTail

Molly McCully Brown

Monica Youn

George Saunders, in an excerpt from his Art of Fiction interview, explains how his teenage job delivering fast food prepared him to write fiction; Monica Youn reads her poem “Goldacre,” which tells the truth about Twinkies; Molly McCully Brown reads her essay “If You Are Permanently Lost,” in which she confesses that “space makes no sense”; and Venita Blackburn reads “Fam,” a very short story about self-love and social media. This episode was sound designed and mixed by Helena de Groot, and mastered by Justin Shturtz.

George Saunders, in an excerpt from his <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7506/the-art-of-fiction-no-245-george-saunders__;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!Ih4NSODKsvbQD7eG-61tLHFGy4ztakXVLc0abad88V4l4mWjpx9pXyU518wxpg$" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Art of Fiction interview</a>, explains how his teenage job delivering fast food prepared him to write fiction; Monica Youn reads her poem “<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/6592/goldacre-monica-youn__;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!Ih4NSODKsvbQD7eG-61tLHFGy4ztakXVLc0abad88V4l4mWjpx9pXyWTVvFG1Q$" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Goldacre</a>,” which tells the truth about Twinkies; Molly McCully Brown reads her essay “<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theparisreview.org/letters-essays/7505/if-you-are-permanently-lost-molly-mccully-brown__;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!Ih4NSODKsvbQD7eG-61tLHFGy4ztakXVLc0abad88V4l4mWjpx9pXyWQXgIqDA$" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If You Are Permanently Lost,</a>” in which she confesses that “space makes no sense”; and Venita Blackburn reads “Fam,” a very short story about self-love and social media. This episode was sound designed and mixed by Helena de Groot, and mastered by Justin Shturtz.

20. A Gift for Burning (with Monica Youn, Molly McCully Brown, Venita Blackburn, George Saunders)

On this edition of Limited Engagement, Jared talks with writer and professor Venita Blackburn. Family, religion, politics, art, Star Trek--you know, the big stuff. Venita's first book, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes, is an outstanding collection of short fiction that explores the human condition. The book was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Did we mention it's her first book?Venita will be reading from and signing copies of Black Jesus and Other Superheroes this Thursday, March 22nd at 7 pm at the Tempe location of Changing Hands.--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.  https://anchor.fm/app

On this edition of Limited Engagement, Jared talks with writer and professor Venita Blackburn. Family, religion, politics, art, Star Trek--you know, the big stuff. Venita's first book, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes, is an outstanding collection of short fiction that explores the human condition. The book was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Did we mention it's her first book? Venita will be reading from and signing copies of Black Jesus and Other Superheroes this Thursday, March 22nd at 7 pm at the Tempe location of Changing Hands. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. <a href="https://anchor.fm/app" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/app</a>

LE 73 - Venita Blackburn

Venita Blackburn talks about the struggles for a writer of color and her workshop on the subject, and reads her story Chew, featured in her upcoming collection, Black Jesus and Other Superhero Stories, out in September 2017.Works by Venita Blackburn have appeared in American Short Fiction, the Georgia Review, Pleiades, Madison Review, Bat City Review, Nashville Review, Smoke Long Quarterly, Café Irreal, Santa Monica Review, Faultline, Devil’s Lake Review, Nat.Brut., Bellevue Literary Review, audio download through Bound Off, and others. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship in 2014 and three Pushcart prize nominations. In 2016 she received the Prairie Schooner book prize in fiction 2016, which will result in the publication of her collected stories, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes, in 2017. Her home town is Compton, California, but she now lives and teaches in Phoenix, Arizona. She earned her MFA from Arizona State University in 2008, and is finishing a new novel, Guts.

Venita Blackburn talks about the struggles for a writer of color and her workshop on the subject, and reads her story Chew, featured in her upcoming collection, Black Jesus and Other Superhero Stories, out in September 2017. Works by Venita Blackburn have appeared in American Short Fiction, the Georgia Review, Pleiades, Madison Review, Bat City Review, Nashville Review, Smoke Long Quarterly, Café Irreal, Santa Monica Review, Faultline, Devil’s Lake Review, Nat.Brut., Bellevue Literary Review, audio download through Bound Off, and others. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship in 2014 and three Pushcart prize nominations. In 2016 she received the Prairie Schooner book prize in fiction 2016, which will result in the publication of her collected stories, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes, in 2017. Her home town is Compton, California, but she now lives and teaches in Phoenix, Arizona. She earned her MFA from Arizona State University in 2008, and is finishing a new novel, Guts.

Venita Blackburn: Chew