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The Writing University Podcast

The Writing University podcast features recordings of illuminative craft talks from the renown writers, novelists, poets, and essayists who present at the Eleventh Hour Lecture Series during the Unive... Read more

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Episode 128: Poetry and Questions of Peace - Zach Savich

Episode 128: Poetry and Questions of Peace - Zach Savich

Is peace the absence of conflict or a state that can exist within conflict? How can writing cultivate, reveal, practice,... Read more

14 May 2020

45mins

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Episode 127: Writing the Elegy - Challenges and Approaches - Suzan Aizenberg

Episode 127: Writing the Elegy - Challenges and Approaches - Suzan Aizenberg

Most of us who write feel the need to remember our dead in elegies, memoir, or fiction, a task that can be more difficul... Read more

21 Apr 2020

47mins

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Episode 126: Me, Myself and I - The Transformative Power of Reflection in Nonfiction - Juliet Patterson

Episode 126: Me, Myself and I - The Transformative Power of Reflection in Nonfiction - Juliet Patterson

We often think about the tool of reflection in writing as a mode of thought or tone of voice we employ when we ruminate,... Read more

13 Mar 2020

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Episode 125: Better Talky Talky - The Art and Craft of Strong Dialogue - Kelly Dwyer

Episode 125: Better Talky Talky - The Art and Craft of Strong Dialogue - Kelly Dwyer

Many book editors and agents say that they read the first paragraph of a manuscript, and if they like it, they skip ahea... Read more

12 Feb 2020

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Episode 124: Notan - How Visual Art Informs Writing - Sandra Scofield

Episode 124: Notan - How Visual Art Informs Writing - Sandra Scofield

As a painter, I am constantly recognizing ideas about composition in art that speak directly to what I do as a writer. O... Read more

5 Feb 2020

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Episode 123: Writing From the Central Channel - Diana Goetsch

Episode 123: Writing From the Central Channel - Diana Goetsch

The “central channel,” a somatic and energetic space well-known for centuries in contemplative disciplines, is rarely d... Read more

21 Jan 2020

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Episode 122: The Memory Curve and Transitions - Anna Bruno

Episode 122: The Memory Curve and Transitions - Anna Bruno

The memory curve, on a most basic level, means the reader’s attention is highest at the beginning, dips in the middle, ... Read more

18 Dec 2019

42mins

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Episode 121: Writing and the Power of Now - Mary Allen

Episode 121: Writing and the Power of Now - Mary Allen

"The present moment is all you have,” as author and spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle says, and nowhere is this more the c... Read more

11 Nov 2019

26mins

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Episode 120: Revising Like a Hack - Screenwriting "Rules" as a Guide for Rewrites - Kerry Howley

Episode 120: Revising Like a Hack - Screenwriting "Rules" as a Guide for Rewrites - Kerry Howley

No one wants your story, essay, or poem to read like Fast and the Furious 9. But Hollywood formulae reflect a kind of sc... Read more

28 Oct 2019

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Episode 119: The Writing Life - Christine Hemp

Episode 119: The Writing Life - Christine Hemp

We’re all voyeurs when it comes to the habits and practices of other writers. Do they churn out a certain number of page... Read more

30 Sep 2019

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