JULIE CANTRELL is a multiple award-winning, New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author, editor, creative writing instructor, TEDx speaker, and ghostwriter.

She went from someone who was told by her teacher "Whatever you do, do not waste your scholarship on writing you will never make it as a writer." Julie had to rediscover the gift within herself and the desire to be a writer.

Today, her readers contact her to let her know that Julies novels have changed or saved their lives.

So, what gift do you have that you are robbing the rest of us? Maybe the negative voices shut down your confidence of becoming who you were called to be.

In this episode, Julie also shared her writing processes, her favorite authors and how we can develop our gifts and calling to share with the world.

Julie also, served as editor-in-chief of the Southern Literary Review and has received the Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Arts Fellowship, the Rivendell Writers Colony Mary Elizabeth Nelson Fellowship, the Pat Conroy Writer’s Residency Fellowship, and the Fairhope Center for Writing Arts Residency.

Her novels have earned starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal and have been featured in Top Reads lists by LitHub, Redbook, Southern Living Magazine, REAL SIMPLE, BookBub, HuffPost, USA TODAY (HEA), and more. As a novelist, she’s received two Christy Awards, two Carol Awards, and the Mississippi Library Association Fiction Award. She was named a short-list finalist twice for the Mississippi Arts & Letters Fiction Award as well as a two-time short-list finalist for the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize.

In addition to her work with survivors of abuse and her service as a literacy advocate, she’s a member of the Tall Poppy Writers, an organization that promotes the power of story and elevates female voices. With published works across a diverse range of genres and numerous languages, Julie currently writes, teaches, and edits fulltime from her home in Houston, Texas where she finds great pleasure in helping to shepherd other people’s stories to shelves.


You can find Julie Cantrell at:

Juliecantrell.com

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