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, and advance personal and shar...
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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 University of Iowa's Iowa Summer Writing Festival.
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 difficult than we at first expect. Oft...
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, meditate, contemplate or expl...
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 ahead to read some dialogue. If th...
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. One concept that is especially ...
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 discussed in connection with wri...
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, and goes up again at the end. W...
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 case than in writing. Successfu...
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 science of narrative satisfactio...
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 pages each week? Do they have a da...