Welcome to Emerging Writers Community Podcast,
a live podcast where emerging writers discuss writing life in a community round table discussion.
Season 2 Coming Fall 2023!
How it Works
Each month, I interview an EMERGING BIPOC WRITER on craft and writing life and audience members join the conversation. We use the interview as a jump off and I’ll have questions to keep the conversation going.
Audience members: be prepared to talk!
If you are an emerging writer, simply REGISTER to get the Zoom link to join.
The discussions are recorded and released on your favorite streaming platforms as a podcast to be shared as a resource for all.
Why?
I have found that craft discussions with fellow emerging writers are ENRICHING, DEEP, AND FULL OF WISDOM that I don’t often find elsewhere. I want to capture the gems of these discussions by welcoming emerging writers into open conversations that honor the process of writing while serving as a resource for the practical considerations of writing life.
This podcast makes use of COMMUNAL WISDOM.
Emerging writers— who I define as anyone who is fairly new to the process of taking their work seriously and seeking publication and/or has not published a book or has a book deal— are in the trenches! We gather information by attending classes and workshops, going to retreats and conferences, and reading as much as we can. Most importantly, we learn through COMMUNITY and the practice of our CRAFT.
These recorded conversations will strengthen the expansive community of emerging writers and also highlight the work of an emerging writer to watch.
The Host
Hi there,
My name is JOY NOTOMA. I am an emerging writer and educator based in Toulouse, France and I joyfully claim building community as a part of my purpose.
In addition to maintaining two writing groups, I founded the Europe chapter of Women Who Submit, and am an active member of three other writing communities.
My work (fiction, essays, and journalism) has been published by Epiphany, Longreads, Catapult, CNN, and Zora Mag, among other publications, and is forthcoming in Ploughshares. I was recently Longlisted for the 2022 Grindstone First Novel Prize and am a fiction fellow of Kimbilio (2022) and Roots.Wounds.Words (2023), as well as an alum of Tin House and The Hurston/Wright Foundation. As a facilitator, I lead workshops with The New York Writers Coalition and The Crow Collective.
Before moving to France, I lived in Brooklyn, NY (still the longest city I’ve called home!) where I worked as an actor for seven years and held down jobs as a barista, a server, a babysitter, a teaching artist, and an administrative assistant. After receiving an MA in international reporting from The Newmark School of Journalism at CUNY, I worked as a journalist in Benin Republic before moving to France and becoming a mother in 2020. I am currently writing a novel and a short story collection.
CONTACT Joy for more info.