Hosted by Elise Mullen, Produced by Perrin Smith, Edited by Paige Mathieson, Image courtesy of Ariel R. Felton.
“Growing up, no one talked about writing as a thing you could do. It wasn’t until my senior year of high school that I took a yearbook class and I got to write a lot that I realized I can do this as a career,” Ariel R. Felton said. Felton is a SCAD grad, who earned her M.F.A. in writing in 2015.
Since then, Felton’s writing has been published in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Progressive and many, many more publications. Felton is also a teaching artist and publications manager at the Deep Center here in Savannah.
In this episode of “Bookmarked and Dogeared,” we sit down with Felton to discuss work, the impact racism has on creativity, how she stays inspired and on-track and how she got her work published in The New Yorker.
Felton also reads from two of her published works. Her humor piece, “To the Lady Who Shared Thirteen Pictures of Black Babies and White Babies Holding Hands on My Facebook Wall,” published in The New Yorker, and her essay “A Letter to My Niece,” published in The Progressive.
Stay tuned for episode six of “Bookmarked and Dogeared” with SCAD grad Kenneth R. Rosen premiering Friday, Feb. 12. Rosen is currently a senior editor at Newsweek and published a new book titled “Troubled: The Failed Promise of America’s Behavioral Treatment Centers.” Previously, Rosen served as a senior news assistant at The New York Times and had his journalism and nonfiction work published in WIRED, The New York Times Magazine and several other publications.
“Bookmarked and Dogeared” is a podcast about storytellers from a wide variety of majors at SCAD. Our goal is to share the passionate creative work issuing from the pens, paints and tools of students and recent alumni. We want to give up-and-coming storytellers the chance to share their voice and take part in an ongoing conversation about what the creative process means to them.
If you know a storyteller who would be a great fit for the podcast, regardless of major, email social@scaddistrict.com.
