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Novelist Cat Scully met her agent, Carrie Howland, at the 2012 Crossroads Writers Conference when Cat attended on a scholarship. A little while after that, Carrie took Cat on and now Cat is going full-time as a writer and illustrator. Here, on the Wordy South Social Hour, they talk about that relationship and how theirs came to be

Macon-born novelist Tina McElroy Ansa tells us what she learned from the late John Oliver Killens, the Macon-born co-founder of the Harlem Writers Guild and author of “Youngblood,” in whose honor we named our conference Crossroads. We re-visit NaNoWriMo founder Chris Baty’s keynote at the 2012 Crossroads Writers Conference to be reminded why we write (and who will have faith in our ability we we don't).  Then a brand new interview with award-winning screenwriter Max Adams who joins Phillip Ramati for a conversation about telling stories with moving pictures.