111. The Challenge of Imagining Thrutopias with Jennifer Browdy, Pt. 2 of 2
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“I think maintaining our own individual health is a really important part of being able to contribute to broader social health.”
-- Jennifer Browdy
In this latest How To Write the Future podcast episode, host Beth Barany continues her conversation with Jennifer Browdy, PhD Professor of Comparative Literature & Media Arts, publisher of Green Fire Press, and award-winning author. Together they discuss Jennifer’s “Women Write the World” class where she shares why it’s important to maintain a positive outlook for the future and how seeing what we write could be beneficial to others.
About Jennifer Browdy
Jennifer Browdy PhD is a Professor of Comparative Literature & Media Arts at Bard College at Simon's Rock and the Open Society University Network. She is the publisher of Green Fire Press, specializing in “books that make the world better,” and the author of several award-winning books, including Purposeful Memoir as a Quest for a Thriving Future (Nautilus Gold Award winner, 2022); The Elemental Journey of Purposeful Memoir (Nautilus Silver Award, 2017), and the memoir, What I Forgot ...And Why I Remembered (International Books Awards finalist). Her current work-in-progress focuses on necessary transformations for education in the 21st century, ideas she is sharing on her Substack blog, the Spirit of Education. She co-hosts a vibrant online community for writers, Birth Your Truest Story, where she also offers live and on-demand courses in “writing to right the world” and purposeful memoir. For information on memoir writing workshops, author coaching and manuscript review visit: Jenniferbrowdy.com.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jenniferbrowdy / https://www.facebook.com/jbrowdy/
Subscribe to her Substack newsletter, Writing to Right the World: https://jenniferbrowdy.substack.com
RESOURCES
Free World Building Workbook for Fiction Writers: https://writersfunzone.com/blog/world-building-resources/
- SHOW PRODUCTION BY Beth Barany
- C0-PRODUCTION AND SHOW NOTES by Kerry-Ann McDade
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