Season 5 Episode #22 Channeling Authenticity in her Writing with Novelist Heather Colley!

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Season 5 Episode #22 Heather Colley is coming from London, England (inform, inspire, & transform)

You can find Heather via her website heathercolleyauthor.com

About our guest: Heather Colley is a PhD student in English Literature at the University of Oxford (Regents Park College). Her current research is focused on late 19th and early 20th century jazz and blues aesthetics in transatlantic modernist literature, with a particular emphasis on the impacts of musical forms and tropes on literary experimentation and cultural development. Heather completed her Master’s in Modern and Contemporary Literature with Distinction at St Andrews, where she studied lyric and form in the work of mid-twentieth century African American women novelists. She received her Bachelor’s in English Literature/Creative Writing and Sociology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Heather’s writing won The Oxford Review of Books Short Fiction Prize, the Hopwood Award, and inclusion in the Desperate Literature anthology. The Gilded Butterfly Effect is Heather’s debut novel.

Thanks for sharing your many gifts and creativity with the world, having the courage to take your gift and put it on paper and for being our guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients…welcome to the show.

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In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

What was your inspiration to study literature? And to go abroad…

50k students to use health services…what are some of the challenges that college students face in finding someone to talk to…

The importance of connection and where fraternities and sororities attempt to fill that gap…

The writing process…what is yours and how do you overcome the challenges and joys that come with it…

How great did it feel to finish your book and to receive the author’s copy…

October 21st…released your first book…Beautiful book cover…

Stella, Penny, Millie, Leah…Thoughts on substances to help with mental health challenges…

Study drugs that help enhance focus… what are your thoughts on the rewiring of our brain leading to needing drugs to help us focus, leading to emotional uncertainty…

What characteristics do college students need to be successful? What characteristics do colleges need to create success for their students?

What is the main takeaway you want the reader to take from your book? How do you want to be perceived as a writer?

Plans for book 2 and so on… dealing with the pressure or excited to get to writing…

Book you recommend?

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