Dr. Charles Monlezun returns to make his Fresh Ink Theater debut reading a chapter from his memoir Becoming Charlie titled Life Around Dad's OfficeIf you want to know more  about Chew Rouge, Squirt, Airos and the rest of the Monlezu...

Season 2 of Fresh Ink kicks off with a special interview-theater episode.  Lui & Des interview Baton Rouge STEM librarian Jordan Courtney who gives the Fresh Inkers how his path of creative writing and love of the library crossed paths...

The Fresh Inkers conclude the season with the first of a pair of reading by Lui and Des.  First up is the gothic short story The Beautiful Dead Man written and read by Lui Campos

The Fresh Inkers, Lui & Des, interview Kayla Min Andrews, the force responsible for bringing the final novel of her mother, Katherine Min, to publication.  Kayla tells the Fresh Inkers on how writing has, was, and is an important aspec...

Lui & Des interview civil engineer Courtney Kelly of Dallas, Texas.  Mrs. Kelly tells the Fresh Inkers of her journey from her childhood home of New Orleans to Dallas & Southern Methodist University.  Also how the tragedy of H...

Des & Lui interview Mary Flint author of the Hunter Trial series.  The Fresh Inkers get a history of Mary's journey from Anchorage, Alaska to Corpus Christi, Texas and how that along with her musical background helps with her writing

Des reads past guest Caitlyn Bender's short story Love in the Time of Aliens

Lui & Des host Stephen Rea, reader, writer, teacher and the best looking Irishman around New Orleans.  Tune in as Stephen discusses finding comradery and soccer in Finn McCool's, a local Irish pub in the City That Cares Forgot.  A...

The initial episode of Fresh Ink Theater kicks off with John Biguenet reading his One Story Press published short story: The Third Birdhouse. After which John, Lui, and Des discuss the story and bits on its creation process and inspiration.

Lui & Des welcome back One Book, One New Orleans Director Megan Holt.  Dr. Holt discusses with the Fresh Inkers the two panels she moderated at the Louisiana Book Festival that featured acclaimed writer Maurice Carlos Ruffin and his ne...

Lui & Des each give a Halloween reading to celebrate Halloween and give listeners a taste of a new aspect of Fresh Ink: Fresh Ink Theater which will be coming to Thursday on a podcast near you.

Lui & Des host Tammy Moore Harrison, writer, teacher and current owner of the trailblazing women's basketball team: The All American Red Heads.  For the next thirty minutes Mrs. Harrison gives the Fresh Ink duo a history of the trailbl...

Lui & Des interview Baton Rouge by way of Minnesota writer Laura K. Riley (also known as Emily Cogburn)  Ms. Riley gives the duo a refreshing take on how her life experiences shape the core story of her characters and gives a reading f...

Lui & Des interview John Biguenet, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Loyola University, New Orleans.  This award-winning author and playwright gives our Fresh Ink duo and audience the details on his writing and teaching jour...

Lui & Des interviews Anna Lauten of Canberra, Australia who discusses with the duo when she first fell in love with writing, how writing helped in her becoming the person she wanted to be and how she applies rules to the magic within her fa...

Lui & Des interview award winning New Orleans author Bill Loehfelm who describes how his love of writing and love of a city led this native of the Big Apple to the Big Easy.  Also Mr. Loehfelm reads the chapter that send readers accomp...

Lui & Des interview Baton Rouge writer Caitlyn Bender who offers the duo insight in writer's group and their workings as well as gracing our listeners with a reading of a short story excerpt and a piece of flash fiction

Lui & Des interview Australian turned Baton Rouge writer Kerry Eastwick who shares with them her experiences in self publishing as well as the writing tricks she's learned and discovered that enables her to do that difficult thing: complete...

Lui & Des interview e-publish author Lynn Shurr and are taken on some zany but important observations on the traditional, self-publishing, and e-publishing landscape.  Oh and a tad bit on the zaniness of life itself 

Lui and Des interview One Book One New Orleans Executive Director Megan Holt to find out just how much work goes into not only selecting a One Book One New Orleans book but just how much of  a difference the right book at the right time ca...

Lui and Des welcome Dr. Charlie Monlezun to talk about writing his book Becoming Charlie and the effect he hopes the stories within will have not just on his granddaughter but on those who have, do, and will live in the southwest part of Louisi...

 How a book comes about. What inspires a book to be written is just as important as the writing of the book itself.  In this episode Lui and Des interview Cherie Monlezun to find out what inspired future guest Charlie Monlezun to writ...

The premiere episode of a new podcast called Fresh Ink.  Join Lui Campos and Des Stevens as they interview various writers and organizers giving an introspect into the creative writing process, the difficult battle of getting publish, as w...