This Week on Friday Live: Cheryl Wollner, Angela Caravan, and Patti Jeane Pangborn

I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together

‘Cause it makes me feel like I belong. Those words, you may remember, are from The Carol Burnett Show, sung every week to close the show. A bittersweet parting, likely on my mind as this week marks our penultimate episode of Friday Live, and next week, the final installment. (We can hardly believe it ourselves!) 

Host Jennifer Landels and technical coordinator Mel Anastasiou have, with grace and enthusiasm, brought authors, poets, artists, and literary light into our COVID-shadowed homes. The series has been a source of connection and comfort. Like Ms. Burnett, Jen and Mel helped us feel like we belong. And next week they will be stepping from behind the scenes to join us on air for readings and revelry!

At times these quarantine days have felt like a marathon — a marathon with a shifting finish line. And, at other times, like a sprint — as in, grab the shopping list, zip through the grocery store, and get outta there! But marathon or sprint, the pandemic proceedings are a little exhausting. For fifteen weeks, the virtual readings have been a lovely escape and soothing balm.

There’s a time you put aside for dreamin’, and a time for things you have to do. For the writers among us, the readings have also served as inspiration to lace up our own literary sneakers. We’re wont to dream, and from that dreamin’ we get, well, writin’. It’s the thing we have to do. Which (to keep the racin’ theme goin’) leads inevitably to the writer’s triathlon: getting words down, getting them right, and getting them published. 

Whether plotter or pantser, wordsmith or wrangler, to survive a journey of a hundred rejections, all it takes is one yes. Do the thing you have to do: Write. Grab a fortifying swig of whatever you carry in your hip sack, and keep going. Get the words down. Swirl and sift and slay them until just right. Click ‘Submit’. You belong in this race.

Join us on 10 and 17 July at 10am Pacific for the final two Friday Live episodes, then keep the party going on 19 July at 2pm as we launch Pulp Literature Issue 27, Summer 2020! Publishing a quarterly magazine feels a little like running four mini-marathons a year, so celebrate with us and together we can cross this finish line!

Friday’s live line-up

Every Friday, from 10:00-10:30am Pacific, we are livestreaming readings featuring three authors who will read their work and answer questions from the audience. This week on Friday Live, we bring you Cheryl Wollner, Angela Caravan, and Patti Jeane Pangborn.

Cheryl Wollner

Cheryl Wollner’s fiction and nonfiction appear in the anthologies Today, Tomorrow, Always; Hashtag Queer, Volume 3; and The Best of Loose Change Anthology; as well as in additional print and online venues. Their short story ‘Girls Who Dance in the Flames’ won Pulp Literature‘s 2018 Raven Short Story contest and appeared in Issue 22. They are pursuing their MFA in fiction at Florida Atlantic University where they are the managing editor of Swamp Ape Review. Currently, they are writing an alternate history novel about Bess and Harry Houdini.

Angela Caravan

Angela Caravan lives in unceded Coast Salish territory in Vancouver, BC, and writes both poetry and fiction. She is the author of the micro-chapbook Landing (post ghost press). Her poem ‘My desk’ was a runner-up in the Pulp Literature 2018 Magpie Award for Poetry and appeared in Issue 20. Her work has also appeared in Broken Pencil, Cascadia Rising Review, SAD Mag, and more. You can find her on Twitter at @a_caravan.

Patti Jeane Pangborn

Patti Jeane Pangborn holds a PhD in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her poem ‘The Safest Place in a Trailer During a Tornado Is the Bathtub‘ appeared in Pulp Literature Issue 26. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in OCCULUM, NightBlock, and the Columbia Poetry Review. Patti’s chapbook Adrift (Space Cowboy Books) features a lonely astronaut who pines for Earth. Her dissertation examines the occult poetics of WB Yeats, Jack Spicer, and CAConrad. Her poetry explores the roles of ritual, memory, and technology in her speaker’s search for new spiritual experiences. She will be joining the faculty at the La Lumiere School in the fall as an Upper School English teacher.

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