
Hi Everyone,
So glad to be back after a short hiatus!
I’m grateful to the Grosse Pointe Public Library for allowing me to use their recording studio for these next few episodes. It was fantastic, however there was a little bit of a learning curve…I apologize for a couple of staticky moments during this podcast. Luckily, it only happened when I was talking! Julie sounds fantastic–and that’s all that really matters…but I will add that I am producing this podcast on my own with no money for editing unfortunately. If you like it and would appreciate some better editing (as I would!) please feel free to donate. The donation button is featured in the right hand column on this page.
Before you listen, please read Julie’s story “The Ending” here.
Also, please read her blog spot here.
We will be discussing both!
This coming year I will be alternating podcasts with Q and A’s. The next Q and A will feature Michigan short story writer, Kevin Fitton, on February 15th.
I hope you enjoy this episode.
Listen on:
Thanks so much everyone.
Kelly
Books Julie mentioned
Black Milk: On the Conflicting Demands of Writing, Creativity, and Motherhood
In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens by Alice Walker

Julie Ann Stewart earned an MFA from Spalding University and has published stories in Good River Journal, Litro Magazine, PoemMemoirStory and Punch Drunk Press. In Sophie Speaks (http://julieandsophiespeak.blogspot.com/ ), Stewart explores the challenge of balancing creative and family life as she recopies Anna Karenina by hand as did Sophia Tolstoy for her husband. Now that their seven kids have flown the coop, she and her husband migrate between Indiana and Michigan.
Purchase Water and Blood from Dzanc here or on Bookshop here or Amazon here.