Outstanding interview today on Joy Radio with Bren McClain, an award-winning writer of fiction. Bren was named 2004 Fiction Fellow by South Carolina Commission, is a two-time winner of SC Fiction Project and has recently been named a Finalist in The Novel-in-Progress Category in the esteemed William Faulkner Writing Competition.

Bren read in her heartfelt, dynamic, and expressive voice an excerpt from her upcoming novel ONE GOOD MAMA BONE , a literary novel, set in the early 1950′s in rural upstate South Carolina. The novel is about the healing power of a mother cow’s love to save a fallen woman. The plot centers around a time-honored rite of passage for many young people even today, the 4-H tradition of “feeding out” a steer for the chance at Grand Champion.

With great compassion, Bren went on to talk about her main characters, Mama Red and Sarah Kramer; discussed how her novel feels like her life’s work; and shared how it wasn’t till she started writing about what is hers and hers alone that her writing unfolded.

“I’ve heard it said, Write what you know. Others say, Write what you don’t know. I say, Write what opens your heart.” ~ Bren McClain

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