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Between the Pages of WELL READ Magazine

Hear interviews and readings from some of today’s hottest authors and learn more about the stories behind the stories you’ll find in each issue of WELL READ Magazine - THE online magazine for readers, writers, and booklovers of all genres.

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28:23

INSIDE VOICES with Susan Gregg Gilmore

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2025/11/01

Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Susan Gregg Gilmore.Susan Gregg Gilmore is the author of the novels The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen, The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove, and The Funeral Dress. She has written for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the Los Angeles Times and the Christian Science Monitor. Born in Nashville, she lives in Tennessee with her husband. WELL READ MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2025 ISSUE NO. 40

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36:39

INSIDE VOICES with James Wade

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2025/11/01

Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce James Wade. James Wade is the award-winning author of Beasts of the Earth, All Things Left Wild, and River, Sing Out. He is the youngest novelist to win two Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America, and the recipient of the MPIBA’s prestigious Reading the West Award. James’s work has appeared in Southern Literary Magazine, The Bitter Oleander, Writers’ Digest, and numerous additional publications. James lives and writes in the Texas Hill

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38:43

INSIDE VOICES with Parul Kapur

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2025/11/01

Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Parul Kapur. Parul Kapur is a novelist, journalist, and literary critic. Her short fiction centers on the aftermath of colonialism in India and the lives of Indian immigrants. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Pleiades, Wascana Review, Prime Number, Midway Journal, and the anthology {Ex}tinguished & {Ex}tinct. As a journalist and critic, she has written for The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, ARTnews, Art in

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40:38

INSIDE VOICES with Lo Patrick

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2025/11/01

Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Lo Patrick. Lo Patrick is a former lawyer and current novelist living in the suburbs of Atlanta. Her debut, The Floating Girls, earned a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly, was a finalist for the Townsend Prize for Fiction, and was a Reader’s Digest Editor’s Pick. It was named by the Georgia Center for the Book, a book all Georgians should read. She is also the author of The Night the River Wept. Her latest novel, Fast Boys and Pretty Girls was

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37:57

INSIDE VOICES with Andie Burke & Lindsay Hameroff

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2025/11/01

Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Andie Burke & Lindsay Hameroff. Andie Burke writes romantic comedies in between her pediatric RN shifts. She lives in Maryland with an alarming number of books, ultra-fine point pens, dehydrated houseplants, and two small humans. Her debut Fly with Me was listed as one of POPSUGAR’s Best Romance Books of 2023 and AUTOSTRADDLE’s Best Queer Books of the Year. Her latest book is Fall for Him and came out in Fall of last year. Andie has another

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34:07

INSIDE VOICES with Flannery Buchanan

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2025/11/01

Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Flannery Buchanan. Flannery Buchanan moved to Crozet with her family in 2018 from the Chicago area. She was trained and worked briefly as a school librarian until she began having children and then she stayed home for 15 years raising her four kids. When Flannery was ready to go back to work, she opened Bluebird Bookstop out of a vintage trailer and took it around to vineyards, festivals, coffee shops, anywhere that had people gathering. It was a

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23:35

INSIDE VOICES with Valerie Nieman

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2025/11/01

Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Valerie Nieman Valerie Nieman is the author of novels and short story and poetry collections. Her novel In the Lonely Backwater won the Sir Walter Raleigh Award and was a Foreword Indies Book of the Year finalist. Her critically acclaimed work includes To the Bones and Blood Clay. She has held a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship. She is a professor emerita at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

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28:36

INSIDE VOICES with Jeffrey Blount

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2025/04/23

Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Jeffrey BlountJeffrey Blount is the award-winning author of four novels. Almost Snow White, winner of the 2013 USA Best Book Awards, Hating Heidi Foster, winner of the 2013 Readers Favorite Book Award for young adult literature, The Emancipation of Evan Walls, winner of the 2020 National Indie Excellence Award for African American fiction and other awards, and Jeffrey's latest novel is Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way, winner of the 2024 Next

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29:14

INSIDE VOICES with Emily Carpenter

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2025/03/07

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Emily CarpenterEmily Carpenter is the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of suspense novels, Burying the Honeysuckle Girls, The Weight of Lies, and Every Single Secret. After graduating from Auburn with a Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communication, she moved to New York City. She’s worked as an actor, producer, screenwriter, and behind-the-scenes soap opera assistant for the CBS shows, As the World Turns and Guiding Light. Born and raised in

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35:19

INSIDE VOICES with Shastri Akella

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2025/03/07

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Shastri Akella Shastri Akella’s debut novel, The Sea Elephants, was published by Flatiron Books in the USA and Canada and by Penguin in India. He was a writing resident at the Fine Arts Works Center and the Oak Springs Garden Foundation. He is the winner of the 2022 FracturedLit Flash Fiction Contest and the 2023 Best Microfiction Contest. His writing has appeared in Guernica, Fairy Tale Review, CRAFT, The Masters Review, Electric Literature, World

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28:04

INSIDE VOICES with Mary Martha Greene

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2025/03/07

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton interview The Biscuit Queen! Mary Martha Greene is a South Carolina native and government relations consultant who perfected her entertaining skills for making friends and engaging clients during her forty-year career. She divides her time between Beaufort and Columbia, SC. She is the author of the bestselling book, The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All and the sequel, The Cheese Biscuit Queen, Kiss My Aspic!: Southern Recipes, Saucy Stories, and More

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INSIDE VOICES with Kalela Williams

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2025/03/07

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton interview Kalela Williams Kalela Williams is an author, a proud auntie, a cat mama, and a "Black History Maven." She is the Director of the Virginia Center for the Book and directs the Virginia Festival of the Book and other events. She has created and produced literary events for the Philadelphia library system, a youth writing non-profit, a university poetry center, and other institutions. Kalela grew up in Atlanta, but now she calls the cute, artsy town of

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39:05

INSIDE VOICES with Kimberly Brock

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2025/03/07

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Kimberly Brock Kimberly Brock is the bestselling author of The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare, which was shortlisted for the prestigious Townsend Prize for Fiction, and The River Witch, recipient of the Georgia Author of the Year Award. She is the founder of Tinderbox Writers Workshop and has served as a guest lecturer for many regional and national writing workshops including at the Pat Conroy Literary Center. A native of North Georgia, she now lives

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29:18

INSIDE VOICES with Federico Eribia

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2025/03/07

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton interview Federico Eribia Federico Erebia received the 2024 Lambda Literary Exceptional New Writer Award. His debut novel, Pedro & Daniel, follows two gay, neurodivergent, Mexican American brothers, over a twenty-four year span, who experience joy and laughter, despite years of abuse and oppression. Pedro & Daniel has won numerous awards, starred reviews, and other accolades, including Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews and Bank Street. It was a

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37:29

INSIDE VOICES with James Wade

Between the Pages of WELL READ Magazine ·

2024/10/26

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce James Wade James Wade is the award-winning author of Beasts of the Earth, All Things Left Wild, and River, Sing Out. He is the youngest novelist to win two Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America, and the recipient of the MPIBA’s prestigious Reading the West Award. James’s work has appeared in Southern Literary Magazine, The Bitter Oleander, Writers’ Digest, and numerous additional publications. James lives and writes in the Texas Hill

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33:35

INSIDE VOICES with Piper G. Huguley

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2024/10/26

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Piper G. Huguley Piper G. Huguley’s biographical historical fiction, By Her Own Design: a novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register (William Morrow Publishing) tells the inspiring story of the Black fashion designer of Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress. By Her Own Design was a Booklist top 100 Editor’s Choice selection for 2022 and was named one of the top 100 books of 2022 in Canada by the Globe and Mail newspaper. She is also the

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35:23

INSIDE VOICES with Mimi Herman

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2024/10/26

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Mimi Herman. Mimi Herman is a Kennedy Center teaching artist and codirector of Writeaways writing workshops in France, Italy, Ireland, and New Mexico. She serves as vice-chair of the Board of Directors for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, and has taught in the Masters of Education programs at Lesley University, served as the North Carolina Piedmont Laureate and been an associate editor for Teaching Artist Journal. Since 1990, she

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28:05

INSIDE VOICES with Curtis Chin

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2024/10/26

Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Curtis Chin A co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City, Curtis Chin served as the non-profits’ first Executive Director. He went on to write for network and cable television before transitioning to social justice documentaries. Chin has screened his films at over 600 venues in twenty countries. He has written for CNN, Bon Appetit, the Detroit Free Press and the Emancipator Boston Globe. A graduate of the University of

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INSIDE VOICES with Clay Smith

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2024/10/26

Clay Smith is the literary director at the Library of Congress. In that role, he curates the lineup of the National Book Festival and oversees the Library’s ambassador-ships, which include the United States Poet Laureate and the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Previously, he was the editor-in-chief of Kirkus Reviews and the literary director of the San Antonio Book Festival and the Texas Book Festival and worked for Sundance Film Festival.

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27:43

INSIDE VOICES with Gwydion Suilebhan

Between the Pages of WELL READ Magazine ·

2024/10/26

Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce essayist, playwright, and cultural critic, Gwydion Suilebhan. “…for me, the process I rely on is deeply entwined with my subject matter, and I’m never following a formula when I make art.” Gwydion Suilebhan is a cultural critic, essayist, and play-wright. A lifelong arts advocate, he serves as both the Ex-ecutive Director of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and the Project Director of the New Play Exchange for the Nation-al New Play Network. A founding

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