Reimagining life through creativity and community
All of us long for joy, rest, beauty, and belonging—but finding them isn’t always simple or easy. Shelter in Place is an award-winning narrative nonfiction podcast blending open-hearted personal essays and intimate interviews. With musicians' ears, writers' pens, and voices that invite you in, we examine life's timely events and timeless questions.
In our early-pandemic season one (March-July 2020), we were “seeking sanity in a world that felt increasingly insane.” In season two (Sept ‘20-May ‘21), our “pandemic Odyssey,” we chronicled our physical and mental journey, with perspectives from those we met on the way. In season three (Sept ‘21-May ‘22), we searched for home, and a way to escape not out of life, but into it.
This just in — Shelter in Place made the “Top 10 creativity podcasts” list on Goodpods, in October 2023! See the full list here.
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Season three intro video
How can we feel at home in a world forever changed? Whether it’s our planet or our place of residence, all of us long for joy, rest, beauty, and belonging—but finding our way there isn’t always simple or easy. Join us for season three as we learn how to escape not out of life, but into it.
Laura Joyce Davis // writer & host
Shelter in Place was pandemic-born, an author’s way to chronicle and contend with a unique moment in history. Though a longtime fiction writer, Laura sensed that a daily podcast would better keep pace with current events, force her to grow creatively, and enable livelier and more inclusive conversation.
// Laura’s background //