Community of Writers Podcasts

This week I share an edited version of readings by two more contributors to the latest Santa Monica Review . Taped in front of a live audience at a spring issue launch celebration, writers Dawna Kemper and Miles Parnegg read their work. Kemper has been published widely, including in ZYZZYVA , Ecotone , and The Kenyon Review . She is a frequent SMR contributor. Parnegg’s work has appeared in Blue M...

Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here . Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not nece...

Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here . Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not nece...

Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here . Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not nece...

Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here . Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not nece...

Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here . Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not nece...

Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here . Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not nece...

Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here . Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not nece...

Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here . Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not nece...

Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here . Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not nece...

Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here . Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not nece...

Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here . Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not nece...

Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here . Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not nece...

Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here: https://communityofwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025-WW-Public-Events-Schedule-scaled.jpg Music: Hot Nights by Dr...

Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here: https://communityofwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025-WW-Public-Events-Schedule-scaled.jpg Music: Hot Nights by Dr...

Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here: https://communityofwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025-WW-Public-Events-Schedule-scaled.jpg Music: Hot Nights by Dr...

Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here: https://communityofwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025-WW-Public-Events-Schedule-scaled.jpg The views expressed in...

This week: L. Annette Binder , the author of the short story collection Rise , winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize, and the novel The Vanishing Sky .  Now she’s out with a small, personal, if emotionally, scientifically, poetically encyclopedic book, a meditation exploring her late mother’s dementia. Titled Child of Earth and Starry Heaven , it’s a biography of a person and of a disease, an investig...

This week: journalist and poet Adolfo Guzman-Lopez , out with a collection decades in the making. Published by Hinchas Press, he joins me this week to read from and talk about California Southern: Writing from the Road 1992-2025 . Longtime radio reporter for LAist (89.3 FM in Southern California), Guzman-Lopez is a chronicler of the personal and political, a civic witness and a cultural guide with...

Emily Greenberg joins us this week. She is the author of a debut short story collection, Alternative Facts , one of the most remarkable literary, political, and sociologically urgent --- not to mention funny and smart --- books I’ve read lately. Inspired in part by the writing of Thomas Pynchon, by what passes for reality, and offering a media and political critique of our post-truth moment, it’s...

This week: Acclaimed poet Amy Gerstler , author of 11 collections including Scattered at Sea , long-listed for the National Book Award and Creature , a New York Times Notable Book. Amy Gerstler’s newest book is out, a collection titled Is This My Final Form? , a funny, smart, polemical engagement or perhaps demand that we “keep walking,” keep living, keep noticing, keep evolving, keep celebrating....

This episode contains both parts of a two-part show featuring novelist and short story writer Sameer Pandya on his newest novel, Our Beautiful Boys .  It is receiving enthusiastic reviews as well as both popular and critical attention. Pandya’s cultural criticism has appeared widely, including in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Atlantic, Salon, and Sports Illustrated . Our Beautiful Boys is a...

My guest is Andrew Nicholls. He's written extensively for television print and stage, and produced both a memoir and a how-to comedy writing book. Now he’s out with a long poem on the making of filmmaker Werner Hertzog’s film Fitzcarraldo titled As Man is to God: A Poem on the Making of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo .  The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests,...

I welcome Dr. Nolan Higdon, a longtime media/civic literacy expert and critical media scholar, as well as activist and educator. The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the values of the Community of Writers or its Board of Directors.

I welcome back screenwriter and short story writer Janice Shapiro, out with her full-length graphic novel Honoria: A Fortuitous Friendship , a coming-of-age story about young women who discover their place in the world. The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the values of the Community of Writers or its Board of Directors.