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Prompt to Page with Christopher Rowe

Each month, we interview a published writer who shares their favorite writing prompt. Whether you’re just getting started or have written for years, you’ll find ideas and advice to inspire you and help you become a better writer.

Prompt to Page is brought to you in partnership with the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.

Listen to Episode 25

For Christopher Rowe, author of The Navigating Fox, writing prompts can help generate work when he's feeling stuck. In fact, one of his first stories to be widely published, translated into a dozen different languages, and reviewed in The New York Times was based on a writing prompt.

Christopher's favorite prompt will challenge you to rethink some of the decisions you've already made in a piece of writing. "Because I think that if you're going to write from a prompt at all, in any circumstance," he says, "you should just go with it.... If you're going to trust the prompt, you have to trust yourself to work with it."

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Gothic Fiction

Books & Bites Podcast, Ep. 82

JCPL librarians bring you book recommendations and discuss the bites and beverages to pair with them.

For October, we discuss Gothic fiction, one of the prompts on the Books and Bites Bingo Reading Challenge. Our picks have all the creepy mansions, women in the attic, and brooding characters you could possibly want. Not to mention fungi!

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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

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Join us for our first annual Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration at Riney B. Park on Saturday, September 23, from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm.

We're teaming up with the Jessamine County Migrant Education Program for this celebratory afternoon of music, dance, live animals, family fun, and activities. All are welcome!

The band Appalatin will be headlining the event with a concert starting at 4:00 pm. They are based out of Kentucky, and their music is inspired by their Appalachian and Latin American heritage.

They use all acoustic instrumentation, featuring classical and steel string guitars, mandolin, harmonica, charango, congas, bongos, pan flutes, and more.

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Prompt to Page with Bryce Oquaye

Each month, we interview a published writer who shares their favorite writing prompt. Whether you’re just getting started or have written for years, you’ll find ideas and advice to inspire you and help you become a better writer.

Prompt to Page is brought to you in partnership with the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.

Listen to Episode 24

Comic artist, writer, and animator Bryce Oquaye considers mentorship to be "the most important part" of his journey, whether he's receiving feedback from other creators or working with young people.

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Prompt to Page with David Arnold

Each month, we interview a published writer who shares their favorite writing prompt. Whether you’re just getting started or have written for years, you’ll find ideas and advice to inspire you and help you become a better writer.

Prompt to Page is brought to you in partnership with the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.

Listen to Episode 23

For New York Times bestselling author David Arnold, reading with intention is a kind of writing prompt.

"I think the most important thing about reading a lot is letting yourself become a sponge and soak in the words and soak in the pacing and soak in the stories," he says.

"But...occasionally let's look at the mechanics of it, and what is it about this sentence or this paragraph or this book that I'm loving so much, and is there something there that I can intentionally be like, I love that. Let me see if I can apply that in my own writing."

David offers examples from three books he loves, discussing how these passages helped him try different techniques in his own writing.

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Adventure Awaits

Books & Bites Podcast, Ep. 80

JCPL librarians bring you book recommendations and discuss the bites and beverages to pair with them.

This month, we discuss adventure stories, one of the prompts on the Books and Bites Bingo Reading Challenge. Choose your own adventure, whether it's with a group of teens on a road trip, on top of Mount Everest, or on a pirate ship!

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