Spoken Words 29: Dale Dunn—The Big Heartless
The Big Heartless tackles the intersection of humans and wolves, family and freedom, in a remote corner of the Mountain West. The play premiered in La...
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Spoken Words tells the origin stories of storytelling. Produced in collaboration with the University of Wyoming MFA in Creative Writing program, the show features novelists, poets, non-fiction writers, and more writing from the West or writing about the West from around the world.
Spoken Words 28: Cate Cabot— Uncharted: A Journey Along The Edge Of Time And Survival
Uncharted: A Journey Along the Edge of Time and Survival traces the evolution of Cate Cabot’s life in the aftermath of a hitchhike that nearly cost th...
Spoken Words 27: Katrina Carrasco—The Best Bad Things
Feminist, queer, fun, The Best Bad Things is an historical crime novel whose main character, Alma, is an ex-detective who goes undercover to infiltrat...
Spoken Words 26: Adrian Shirk—And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy
This new hybrid-memoir explores the lives and stories of American women prophets and mystics, outliers and outcasts of the American religious story. T...
Spoken Words 25: Alyson Hagy—Scribe
Alyson Hagy’s new novel Scribe is about the power—and dangers—of storytelling. Amid a population decimated by civil war and disease that relies on a b...
Spoken Words 24: John Hausdoerffer—Wildness: Relations Of People And Place
In Wildness , John Hausdoerffer and his co-editor Gavin Van Horn bring together authors from a variety of landscapes, cultures, and backgrounds to sha...
Spoken Words 23: Kevin Powers—A Shout In The Ruins
In his new novel A Short in the Ruins , Kevin Powers explores the dark history of slavery in this country, using one plantation near his home in Virgi...
Spoken Words 22: Sara Dant—Losing Eden: An Environmental History Of The American West
Sara Dant grew up in the American West and deeply loves its culture, history, and landscape. In Losing Eden , she traces the environmental history and...
Spoken Words 21: Jeffrey Lockwood—Murder On The Fly
Jeffrey Lockwood continues his “Riley the Exterminator” mystery series, this time as Riley tries to solve a missing person case at the same time Calif...
Spoken Words 20: Diane Les Becquets — Breaking Wild
In times of trauma and sorrow, Diane Les Becquets turned to the wilderness for solace. Now, as an award-winning author, she sets her books back in tho...