Off-Leash Arts: Conversations on Creativity

Host Tanya Shaffer talks with artists from a wide range of disciplines about their creative process: what excites them, ignites them, and helps them get to that free-flowing creative state where they feel they’ve slipped the leash.

Off-Leash Arts: Conversations on Creativity is a arts podcast hosted by Tanya Shaffer, with 20 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Tanya Shaffer hosts Off-Leash Arts: Conversations on Creativity, a arts show with 20 episodes published.

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  Episode #20

  Author Jennifer Steil

  Aug 5, 202555 minS0

  <p >Jennifer Steil is a British-American writer currently living in France. She’s the author of the novel Exile Music, which won Grand Prize in the Eyelands 2020 Book Awards and the Multicultural and Historical International Book Awards. It was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Lesbian Fiction Award. Previous books include the novel The Ambassador’s Wife and the memoir The Woman Who Fell From the Sky. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, New Orleans Review, Kenyon Review

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  Episode #19

  Writer and Writing Teacher Laurie Wagner

  Oct 1, 202343 minS0

  <p >Laurie Wagner has been publishing books and essays and teaching writing for the last 25 years. In her Wild Writing classes, she helps people unzip what’s inside them and get ink on the page. Laurie teaches online and takes people around the world to places like Kathmandu; San Miguel de Allende and Oaxaca, Mexico; and Taos, New Mexico. Her books include Living Happily Ever After: Couples Talk about Lasting Love, and Expectations: 30 Women Talk about Becoming a Mother. She was also a writer on the Oscar-nominated documentary For Better or For Worse. Laurie was a teacher and mentor of Of...

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  Episode #19

  Writer and Writing Teacher Laurie Wagner

  Oct 1, 202343 minS0

  <p >Laurie Wagner has been publishing books and essays and teaching writing for the last 25 years. In her Wild Writing classes, she helps people unzip what’s inside them and get ink on the page. Laurie teaches online and takes people around the world to places like Kathmandu; San Miguel de Allende and Oaxaca, Mexico; and Taos, New Mexico. Her books include Living Happily Ever After: Couples Talk about Lasting Love, and Expectations: 30 Women Talk about Becoming a Mother. She was also a writer on the Oscar-nominated documentary For Better or For Worse. Laurie was a teacher and mentor of Of...

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  Episode #18

  Writer-Translator Mara Faye Lethem

  Jun 22, 2023—S0

  <p >Mara Faye Lethem has received numerous international awards for her translations of contemporary Catalan authors, including the inaugural 2022 Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award for Max Besora’s The Adventures and Misadventures of Joan Orpí and the 2022 Joan Baptiste Cendrós International Prize for her contributions to Catalan literature. Her translation of Irene Solà’s When I Sing, Mountains Dance was shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Barrios Book in Translation Prize, and is currently longlisted for the 2023 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. In addition to many novels, she has translated shorter works that have appeared in The Guardian, Best American Non-Required Reading 2010, Granta, The Pa...

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  Episode #18

  Writer-Translator Mara Faye Lethem

  Jun 21, 2023—S0

  <p >Mara Faye Lethem has received numerous international awards for her translations of contemporary Catalan authors, including the inaugural 2022 Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award for Max Besora’s The Adventures and Misadventures of Joan Orpí and the 2022 Joan Baptiste Cendrós International Prize for her contributions to Catalan literature. Her translation of Irene Solà’s When I Sing, Mountains Dance was shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Barrios Book in Translation Prize, and is currently longlisted for the 2023 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. In addition to many novels, she has translated shorter works that have appeared in The Guardian, Best American Non-Required Reading 2010, Granta, The...

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