Matt and his wife Danielle sit down with children's author Danielle Hitchens about her new book, "Sacred Seasons: A Family Guide to Center Your Year around Jesus."
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Matt, Mandy, and Evangeline discuss both the struggles of finding comps and discuss some possible redeeming qualities of comps.
Nicholas Kotar joins Matt at the Anselm Society digital pub table to discuss the origins of so many of the fairy tales and folk stories we know and love.
Matt, Mandy, and Evangeline try to define what "voice" is in writing.
Matt, Evangeline, and Christina talk about how alien stories have captured the modern imagination and (according to Matt, at least) fall into 3 different categories.
Matt sits down at the Anselm digital pub with children’s author Alice Faye Duncan to talk about her new book and the history and importance of spirituals.
What is up with all the bad boys in literature? Why have girls throughout the centuries fallen for bad boys? Matt, Mandy, and Evangeline try to untangle the conundrum of the appeal of literary bad boys.
Matt, Mandy, and Evangeline discuss the importance of "voice" in writing stories.
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Author and singer-songwriter Andrew Peterson joins Matt and Christina at the Anselm Society digital pub table to talk about Andrew’s creative process and his Wingfeather Saga books.
How do you approach creating a story when it seems too big for you? Matt and Mandy welcome fellow guild member, Gianna Soderstrom, to the Anselm Society digital pub to talk about what to do with a spark of inspiration that seems too big to tackle.
Terry Glaspey describes how C.S. Lewis's intellect and imagination worked together to bring Christianity alive for so many.
Matt and Mandy talk with Anselm Society Arts Guild member Jane Scharl, a poet and playwright. They discuss Jane's recently published and produced play, an imaginative encounter between St. Ignatius of Loyola, John Calvin, and François Rabelais.
Evangeline and her brother, Dr. John Case Tompkins, voyage from the Emerald Isle to Middle Earth via J.R.R. Tolkien’s obscure poem “The Death of Saint Brendan.”
KJ Ramsey and the cohosts also discuss how grief can be a gateway that helps us connect our own stories to the Great Story.
Mandy and Evangeline talk with author and pastor Eric Schumacher about his various projects (fiction, nonfiction, devotional, musical, and more).
What can worldbuilding add to a story? What happens when it is done well? What about when it is not done well?
We all know the powers of words, written and spoken. But, images speak too - very, very powerfully. This is why small children’s literature most often includes illustrations alongside text. What should we do with the now-very-popular wordless picture books?
Matt, Mandy, and Christina sit down at the digital pub table to discuss Susanna Clarke's 2020 novel, Piranesi.
Matt and Christina sit down with SD Smith, author of the popular Green Ember series, and JC Smith to talk about what it's like to write your first successful story.
Brian Wight tells the story of how he went from a teenage musician living out of his car to a successful musician and producer. He also shares his compulsion to compose music, and discusses why he’d still create if he was alone in the wilderness.