Courage to Create
The Porchlight is brought to you by Bethany Hegedus, Creative Director at The Writing Barn in Austin, Texas. (thewritingbarn.com) Join us as we chat with authors, illustrators and other creatives in and outside of the kid-lit field.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 66
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2019
Courage to Create #8: Failure is Not Final
In this brand new episode of The Porchlight's popular installmentCourage to Create,author Bethany Hegedus talks about the F word. Yes you read me correctly. The dreaded F word: Failure. We've all bee…
The Porchlight: Episode 45 with Lindsay Leslie
Episode 44 (Courage to Create #7: Meaning or Happiness)
In this season 3 finale of The Porchlight Podcast, Bethany Hegedus caps off her newest series Courage to Create with an episode on
In this inspiring episode Bethany asks listeners to define what mea…
The Porchlight: Episode 43 with author Rob Sanders
Fourth grade teacher and author Rob Sanders joins Bethany for this inspiring episode of The Porchlight where they discuss everything from Rob's literary life to the importance of inclusion, social ju…
Episode 42 (Courage to Create #6: The Deeply Disciplined Half-Ass)
In episode six of Courage to Create, Bethany talks about how to become what writer Elizabeth Gilbert calls a deeply disciplined half-ass. Our own inner critic and perfectionism can stop us from even …
The Porchlight: Episode 41 with author Marcie Colleen
Episode 40 (Courage to Create #5 - Dark Night of the Soul)
The dark night of the soul. As writers, we've all been there. We've all had those moments where we feel like our work is not good enough. Will never be good enough. That we are not good enough. In Co…
The Porchlight: Episode 39 with Librarian + Podcast Host, Matthew Winner
On this episode of The Porchlight we flip the script and interview Matthew Winner, Librarian and Podcast Host of All The Wonders, a podcast that we here at The Writing Barn hold near and dear to us. …
Episode 38 (Courage to Create #4: Believing Your Book Into Being)
The Porchlight: Episode 37 with Author/Agent Alex Penfold
Episode 36 (Courage to Create #3: The Author/Agent Relationship)
In episode three of the new Courage to Create series, Bethany Hegedus takes us through the agent/client relationship, including what it should and should not be, how to make sure it's a fitting partn…
The Porchlight: Episode 35 with Lucia DiStefano
The Porchlight: Episode 34 (Courage to Create #2)
In episode two of The Porchlight's new series, Courage to Create, Writing Barn founder and author Bethany Hegedus asks listeners to answer the question why were you called to live this literary life?…
The Porchlight: Episode 33 with Cate Berry
The Porchlight: Episode 32
The Porchlight: Episode 31 with Jamie Swenson
Jamie A. Swenson, author of the newly released picture book A FALL BALL FOR ALL, joins Bethany on this episode of The Porchlight. Jamie has an MFA from Hamline University and is the author of four pi…
The Porchlight: Episode 30 with Samantha M. Clark
In this latest episode of The Porchlight Podcast, Writing Barn Founder, Bethany Hegedus, speaks with author, long-time friend, and Austin's own SCBWI Regional Advisor, Samantha M. Clark. Listen as th…
The Porchlight Podcast: Episode 29 with Carrie Fountain
In this newest episode of The Porchlight, Writing Barn Founder talks with poet and novelist Carrie Fountain about her debut novel I'm Not Missing (Flatiron Books 2018).
I'm Not Missing, is a coming …
Episode 28: Diane White
Dianne White is the award-winning author of Blue on Blue (S&S/Beach Lane Books), illustrated by Caldecott medalist, Beth Krommes. She holds an elementary bilingual teaching credential and a master’s…
The Porchlight: Episode 27 with Natalia Sylvester
Author Natalia Sylvester joins Bethany at The Writing Barn for this interview in which they discuss Natalia’s first novel, CHASING THE SUN, as well as her recently published second novel, EVERYONE …