by Shannon Turner | Feb 24, 2015 | Blog
She was made for a life in bed.Often she thought, she’d missed her callingas a prostituteor consumptive.Dying slowly over years,a public thing.Where friends and voyeurswould come and visit,sit vigil beside her bed.Or, in the case of the professional...
by Shannon Turner | Jan 21, 2015 | Blog
Recently I had the good fortune to go see the Indigo Girls for about the fourth or fifth time in my life. Their music is so timeless, so moving, so…everything. The poetry of their music just inspires me to want to writewritewrite and singsingsing. One of my...
by Shannon Turner | Jan 12, 2015 | Blog
Happy New Year! I hope this year brings all you hope for, that the challenges you find yourself facing turn into the learning moments you’re meant to have, and that you bravely dance with each new day. Today, I’m excited to bring you a great episode of...
by Shannon Turner | Dec 5, 2014 | Blog
This past Monday’s episode of North Avenue Lounge with The Walking Dead’s Daniel Thomas May & Synchronicity Theatre’s Rachel May. It is an intimate conversation about theatre, film, television, audio books, creative coupling, and cyber-stalking....
by Shannon Turner | Nov 25, 2014 | Blog
On Monday, November 10, I did an episode of North Avenue Lounge about Activism in Georgia where I interviewed two great women leaders here in Atlanta ~ Becky Rafter of Georgia WAND and Xochitl Brevera of the Racial Justice Action Center.At the time, the episode felt...
by Shannon Turner | Oct 27, 2014 | Blog
This is a story that I wrote for a fantastic writing class I’m taking with Suzanne Mozes. We had the challenge to write a short story in less than 1200 words. Copy of Spring Margaret sat on the park bench like she did most nice days at lunchtime. She tried to...
