{"id":67466,"date":"2018-05-02T21:49:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T21:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oglethorpe.edu\/news\/writing-the-south-class-featured-on-literary-podcast\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T15:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:33:23","slug":"writing-the-south-class-featured-on-literary-podcast","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/oglethorpe.edu\/news\/writing-the-south-class-featured-on-literary-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"“Writing the South” class gets shout-out on literary podcast featuring OU professor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jessica Handler’s WRI 290 course, “Writing the South,” recently got a mention on the preeminent Atlanta bookish podcast.<\/p>\n

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Host of the Literary Atlanta<\/a> podcast,\u00a0Alison Law<\/strong>, was a guest speaker in Handler’s class and then had her as a guest on the podcast.<\/p>\n

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Jessica Handler is author of the books Braving the Fire and Invisible Sisters.<\/a><\/h4>\n

Jessica Handler is the author of Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing About Grief and Loss and Invisible Sisters: A Memoir. She talked with Alison Law about her experience attending the funeral for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the 50th anniversary of King’s death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Students from “Writing the South” presented “Tell About the South: Three Contemporary Voices Address the Meaning of Their South” as part of the recent\u00a0Liberal Arts and Sciences Symposium<\/a>. Handler moderated the panel which included\u00a0Shalonda Cash, Justine Blandine Tchouaffe <\/strong>and Jake Van Valkenburg<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Handler is author of the books Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing About Grief and Loss,\u00a0<\/em>Invisible Sisters: A Memoir, <\/em>and the forthcoming\u00a0The Magnetic Girl. <\/em>In addition to her writing,\u00a0Handler talked with Alison Law about her experience attending the funeral for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the 50th anniversary of the civil rights leader’s death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":67467,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"categories":[4554],"tags":[],"news_category":[],"class_list":["post-67466","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n"Writing the South" class gets shout-out on literary podcast featuring OU professor - 好色先生TV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/oglethorpe.edu\/news\/writing-the-south-class-featured-on-literary-podcast\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\""Writing the South" class gets shout-out on literary podcast featuring OU professor - 好色先生TV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jessica Handler’s WRI 290 course, “Writing the South,” recently got a mention on the preeminent Atlanta bookish podcast. 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