6-minute Stories

Oral history, contemplative practices, and clowning inspire Karen Luke Jackson’s stories and poems, which have appeared in numerous journals, including Ruminate, Great Smokies Review, Kakalak, ONE, Emrys Journal, Friends Journal and moonShine review. A facilitator with the Center for Courage & Renewal, Karen resides in a cottage on a goat pasture in Flat Rock, North Carolina. There she writes and companions people on their spiritual journeys. GRIT, a chapbook chronicling her sister’s life as Clancey the Clown, is forthcoming in 2020. For more, visit www.karenlukejackson.com

Randell Jones is the author of “Before They Were Heroes at King’s Mountain” and “A Guide to the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail.” Since 2007, he has served as an invited member of the Road Scholar Speakers Bureau of the North Carolina Humanities Council speaking on American history and NC history across the state and region. He is the producer of “6-minute Stores” and editor/publisher of the Personal Story Publishing Project.