Write Now Podcast at the Writers' Colony
Since opening its doors to writers in 2000, The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow has made a lasting impact on the arts and literary communities providing uninterrupted residency time for novice and accomplished writers of all genres, including culinary, composers, and artists, without discrimination. Our podcast features some of the over 1,400 writers from 48 states and 12 countries who have stayed at The Writers' Colony, and it delves into their lives and what writing means to them.
Write Now Podcast at the Writers' Colony
A 'Ja Lyons Shares About Survival
A ’Ja Lyons—writer, historian, poet, actress, and currently a Creative Nonfiction PhD student at Oklahoma State University—discusses her second book (to be taken from her dissertation), working title “House: A Memoir of a Home Built by Fragments.”
"House" is a personal narrative about surviving incest and childhood sexual abuse that also includes the history of slave plantation homes as dens for raping enslaved Black women and how such dynamics persist for African-American women, particularly in the home.