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Today's Podcast from Spoken Label (Author / Artist / Writer Podcast) is another special, this time from Old Scratch Press, a new press featuring a cooperative of poets and short-form authors who have come together to promote the publication and appreciation of poetry and short-form writing.
This Podcast features the following writers:
Ellis Elliott is the creator of Bewilderness Writing, and she received her MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University. She has also been a high-school English teacher, was a ballet teacher for over 30 years, and a yoga teacher. She lives in Juno Beach with her husband and they have six sons in their blended family. Ellis was on the editorial staff of QU literary magazine at Queens University, and is currently a contributing writer for The Southern Review of Books and on the editorial staff of The Dewdrop online digest. Her latest literary adventure is writing her first cozy mystery novel. Ellis’ collection BREAK IN THE FIELD is the first collection to be published by the Old Scratch Press collective.
Robert Fleming lives in Lewes, DE. Published in United States, Canada, England, Ireland, and Australia. Member of the Rehoboth Beach and Horror Writer’s Association. Wins: 2022 San Gabriel Valley CA-1 poem, 2021 Best of Mad Swirl poetry; Nominations: 2 Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net.
He is the author of the poetry collection "White Noir'.
Anthony Doyle was born in Dublin and raised in Wicklow Town, Ireland. In 1999 he moved to São Paulo, Brazil, where he works as a translator of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and screenplays from Portuguese to English. Anthony is a member of the Old Scratch Press short-form collective and writes fiction for adults, teens and children. His first novel, HIBERNACULUM, a futurist exploration of human hibernation technologies, was published in 2023. He is also the author of the children’s books O LAGO SECOU (The Lake Ran Dry) and the forthcoming LIVRO DAS SEREIAS SURPREENDENTES (Book of Unusual Mermaids), which he also illustrated.
More details about the press can be found here: https://oldscratchpress.com/catalog/
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Can be streamed/downloaded from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tasEYNBwXc&t=114s (Chat)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6V1Bst5WWQ&t=8s (Reading)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6tp5ajmnzKgIM4YIS1MiM8
