After having to take care of various technical and personal matters, I am happy to report that the first installment of the Personville Story Network podcast will be coming soon! (Definitely by the second week of May). After that, there should be regular installments coming every week or so).
More about Personville from the Online Handbook of Texas. It’s located in central Texas close to Waco.
I’ll be going to Dallas for the annual Tejas Storytelling Festival, so I might be able to stop by Personville (or at least what’s left of it) and take photos.
By sheer coincidence, Dashiell Hammett’s first novel was originally named Personville. The title was later changed to Red Harvest; Here’s a quotation:
Personville, or Poisonville, is an ugly city of forty thousand people, set in an ugly notch between two ugly mountains that had been all dirtied up by mining. Spread over this was a grimy sky that looked as if it had come out of smelters’ stacks.”
Actually Hammett had never heard of the Texas Personville; it was something he just made up. That’s probably for the best.
Wow, here’s a satellite map for Personville. Don’t laugh, Personville is located at the intersection of State highways 164 and 39 (pictured below), twelve miles southeast of Groesbeck in southeastern Limestone County). In this one photo you are seeing Personville in all its majesty.
Here’s a larger closeup of the same photo. If you’re curious, here are current weather condition in Personville. Sounds like a really happening place.
This podcast will begin in early May, with approximately one episode a week.
Check out this PDF describing content/structure and format guidelines for the Personville Story Network Podcast. (written last year and used the name Imaginary Planet Podcast, but still generally correct).
Also, check out my article about literary podcasting.
More information about the Personville Story Network Podcast (very general):
Editor/Producer/Contributor: Robert Nagle, (Read bio) email: idiotprogrammer a(t) fastmailbox.net (Houston)
Assistant Editor: : Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti is a prolific writer and poet who has worked in publishing (Read Bio). (Boston)
Assistant Editor: Millie Hesser. Millie is a poet and story writer who has peformed as a singer with various alternative music groups, most recently Waterplanet . She has a master’s degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins, teaches writing at Towson State University in Baltimore and frequently gives poetry readings around the Baltimore area. She is currently working on an autobiographical screenplay. (Baltimore)
Starting near the beginning of March, we’ll be trying to release one podcast a week.
Contact a staff member via email first with your idea (preferably Robert). idiotprogrammer a(t) fastmailbox.net More details will be provided soon.
Generally, none. But you receive a profile on this site (with photo), links to your personal website and your name listed on this site’s blogroll. If you are looking for exposure in Texas, or if you simply wish to build an online creative portfolio, this is a good way to do so.
I (Robert) will be in Austin for South by Southwest Interactive conference March 9- March 13. I will also be at Tejas Storytelling Festival March in Denton, Texas 29 through April 1. I also try to show up at monthly storytelling events put on by the Houston Storytellers’ Guild.
And where are you?
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