EP 23: Susan Flanagan

It was high energy when I welcomed Susan Flanagan, author, to this episode of Let’s Get Writing. Her new book, Supermarket Baby, is a fun satirical read and it will put you off cart switches forever. Laughter aside, she is clearly an engaged author with a desire to support other writers along the way. Her dedication to her profession is commendable as is her commitment to The Writer’s Alliance of NL.   Susan Flanagan has worked as a freelance journalist (BJ, King’s College, NS, 1991) in St. John’s and Halifax for 30 years. Her non-fiction works have appeared in Canadian Geographic, Canadian Running, National Geographic (maps), Newfoundland Quarterly, The Hockey News, Doctors’ Review, Atlantic Progress, Atlantic Business, Saltscapes and Nelson Literacy’s high school textbook, Homegrown.  Susan has two novels hitting the shelves in 2021: Supermarket Baby, winner 2019 Percy Janes First Novel Award (Flanker Press), and her first YA novel, The Degrees of Barley Lick (Running the Goat Books & Broadsides). She is currently working on her third novel, Digital Detox, set in Battle Harbour, Labrador. Susan has also worked as a columnist for The Newfoundland Herald (48 Degrees, 2002-04) and The Telegram (The Kids are Alright, 2011-15), and has worked for CBC Radio and both NTV and CBC TV in Halifax and St. John’s as reporter, producer and researcher. She is married with five children.  Get in touch: https://www.susanflanaganauthor.com https://www.instagram.com/susanflanaganauthor https://twitter.com/SusanFlanagan48 https://www.facebook.com/susanflanaganauthor https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-flanagan-author   ********************************************************** www.kathryntaylor.ca   www.facebook.com/kathryntaylormedia www.youtube.com/kathryntaylortv