Between the Pages of WELL READ Magazine

INSIDE VOICES with Robert Gwaltney

This month’s INSIDE VOICES is a fun surprise as Jeffrey Dale Lofton along with guest author, Paulette Kennedy, interview this month’s featured author, Robert Gwaltney to talk about his newest novel, Sing Down the Moon. Robert Gwaltney, a graduate of Florida State University, was named 2023 Georgia Author of the Year for First Novel, and was recipient of the 2022 Pat Conroy Writers Residency. He resides in Atlanta Georgia where he is an active member of the Atlanta literary community serving as a board member for Broadleaf Writers Association. Robert’s work has appeared in such publications as Southbound Magazine, Southern Literary Review, The Blue Mountain Review, and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. His forthcoming novel, Sing Down The Moon, will be published by Mercer University Press on March 3, 2026.   #betweenthepagespodcast #onlineliterarycommunity #robertgwaltney #jeffreydalelofton #insidevoices #Paulettekennedy #wellreadmagazine #books #reading #bookrecs #review #reader #writingcommunity #author #bookworm #booklover  www.wellreadmagazine.com [http://www.wellreadmagazine.com]

INSIDE VOICES with Donna Everhart

Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Donna Everhart Donna Everhart is a USA Today bestselling author known for vividly evoking challenges of the heart and the complex heritage of the American South in her acclaimed novels When the Jessamine Grows, The Saints of Swallow Hill, The Moonshiner’s Daughter, The Forgiving Kind, The Road to Bittersweet, and The Education of Dixie Dupree. A finalist for the Southern Book Prize, she is the recipient of the prestigious North Carolina Society of Historians Award of Excellence, the SELA Outstanding Southeastern Author Award from the Southeastern Library Association, the Lucy Bramlette Patterson Award from the General Federation of Women's Clubs of North Carolina, and her novels have received a SIBA Okra Pick, an Indie Next Pick, and three Publishers Marketplace Buzz Books selections. Her latest novel, Women of a Promiscuous Nature, releases January 27, 2026. Born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, she now lives with her husband in the small town of Dunn, North Carolina where she is currently working on her next novel.

INSIDE VOICES with Susan Gregg Gilmore

Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Susan Gregg Gilmore. Susan Gregg Gilmore is the author of the novels The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen, The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove, and The Funeral Dress.  She has written for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the Los Angeles Times and the Christian Science Monitor. Born in Nashville, she lives in Tennessee with her husband. WELL READ MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2025 ISSUE NO. 40 www.wellreadmagazine.com

INSIDE VOICES with James Wade

Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce James Wade. James Wade is the award-winning author of Beasts of the Earth, All Things Left Wild, and River, Sing Out. He is the youngest novelist to win two Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America, and the recipient of the MPIBA’s prestigious Reading the West Award. James’s work has appeared in Southern Literary Magazine, The Bitter Oleander, Writers’ Digest, and numerous additional publications. James lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country with his wife and children. His lates novel, Narrow the Road, was released August 26, 2025 with Blackstone Publishing. WELL READ MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2025 ISSUE NO. 39 www.wellreadmagazine.com

INSIDE VOICES with Parul Kapur

Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Parul Kapur. Parul Kapur is a novelist, journalist, and literary critic. Her short fiction centers on the aftermath of colonialism in India and the lives of Indian immigrants. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Pleiades, Wascana Review, Prime Number, Midway Journal, and the anthology {Ex}tinguished & {Ex}tinct. As a journalist and critic, she has written for The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, ARTnews, Art in America, Guernica, Slate, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Paris Review.  Inside the Mirror, which is inspired by her encounters with art world figures in Bombay, won the AWP Prize for the Novel and was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Parul was recently named Georgia Author of the Year for First Novel by the Georgia Writers Association. WELL READ MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2025 ISSUE NO. 38 www.wellreadmagazine.com