Behind The Circulation Desk

English faculty member and poet Kelli Allen gives us some tips on overcoming writer's block, fear, and a little writing pep talk as we prepare for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). 

Kelli Allen’s work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies in the US and internationally. Allen is the co-Founding Editor of Book of Matches literary journal. She is an award-wining poet, editor, and dancer. Her fiction has appeared in The Best Small Fictions 2022 and she is the recipient of the 2018 Magpie Award for Poetry. Her chapbook, Some Animals, won the 2016 Etchings Press Prize. Her chapbook, How We Disappear, won the 2016 Damfino Press award. Her collections include, Otherwise, Soft White Ash, ( John Gosslee Books 2012), Imagine Not Drowning, (C&R Press 2017),Banjo’s Inside Coyote ( C&R Press 2019). Allen’s latest book is Leaving the Skin on the Bear, C&R Press, 2022. She currently teaches writing and literature in North Carolina.

In this episode, we'll talk to librarians Jennifer Mincey and Todd Nuckolls, who are in charge of the college's archives which are housed at the Scott Northern Wake Campus Library. Then, we'll delve into a discussion about one of our newest young adult books, A Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi with Jasmine Smith, Library Technical Assistant (and avid young adult literature reader!) at the Scott Northern Wake Campus.