Write Now Podcast at the Writers' Colony
Since opening its doors to writers in 2000, The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow has made a lasting impact on the arts and literary communities providing uninterrupted residency time for novice and accomplished writers of all genres, including culinary, composers, and artists, without discrimination. Our podcast features some of the over 1,400 writers from 48 states and 12 countries who have stayed at The Writers' Colony, and it delves into their lives and what writing means to them.
Episodes
10 episodes
Letting Go and Living Fully with Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, the 2009-2013 Kansas Poet Laureate, is a writer, teacher, facilitator, coach, and consultant who explores how the spoken, written, and sung word can help us live more vibrant lives. For over thirty years she has facilita...
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23:38
Esme Weijun Wang Coaches How to Write Beyond Limitations
Esmé Weijun Wang, a New York Times-bestselling and award-winning author of The Collected Schizophrenias and The Border of Paradise, shares her personal journey after being diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and several ph...
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30:30
Haints for Halloween with Gotham Writers Workshop Instructor Lyndsey Ellis
Lyndsey Ellis is a writer, editor, and teaching artist who crafts speculative fiction and longform essays that explore regional history as well as intergenerational dynamics in the Midwest. She is author of Bone Broth, a story about Ju...
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13:44
Journalist Lisa Braxton's New Memoir
Lisa Braxton shares poignant moments behind writing her memoir, Dancing Between the Raindrops. She is author of The Talking Drum (set in 1971 Massachusetts), a novel that explores the profound impact gentrification has on comm...
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16:03
David Newcomer IV Discusses His WWII Memoir, MAIL CALL
Retired Navy Officer David Newcomer goes behind the scenes of his debut memoir, MAIL CALL, a remembrance of his father's war experiences and the domestic front during the Pacific Theater during WWII.
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Phyllis Unterschuetz Discusses Writing Challenging Memoirs
Creative nonfiction writer and storyteller Phyllis Unterschuetz discusses co-authoring Longing: Stories of Racial Healing, a collection of true narratives about the journey of awakening to the effects of racism, as well as the challeng...
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23:11
Cathie English Shares Her Tribute Memoir with WCDH
Dr. Cathie English, Professor of English at Missouri State University and formerly an English and language arts high school teacher, shares the inspiration and meaning behind penning her tribute memoir, Dear Ruth: A Book of Grief.<...
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20:24
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Tiffany Mi, Poet and Curator of Collective Memory
WCDH interviews Tiffany Mi on site during her residency about her poetry as well as her interest in collective memory and the archive. Tiffany is currently completing her Masters at Brown University. Her work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, N...
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14:18
A 'Ja Lyons Shares About Survival
A ’Ja Lyons—writer, historian, poet, actress, and currently a Creative Nonfiction PhD student at Oklahoma State University—discusses her second book (to be taken from her dissertation), working title “House: A Memoir of a Home Built by Fragment...
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25:50
RESERVATION DOGS, THE LOWDOWN, and a Room of One’s Own: A Conversation with Liz Blood
Tulsa journalist and essayist Liz Blood talks about working as a writer’s assistant to director Sterlin Harjo's “Reservation Dogs,” as well as her first TV credit for co-writing the season finale of a new FX Network's series coming out this fal...
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