Community of Writers

Community of Writers Podcasts

Arts EN ↓ 102 episodes

Stay abreast of our summer workshops in Fiction, Nonfiction and Memoir by following to hear panels, and craft talks from esteemed agents and editors. Later in the year we will be adding selected craft talks from previous summers. Year-round, we also host Bibliocracy Radio , a weekly half-hour books discussion and interview program hosted by Santa Monica Review editor Andrew Tonkovich featuring writers of literary fiction and nonfiction, poetry, memoir and cultural criticism.

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Bibliocracy Episode 2: Reid Sherline on Rapture 23.02.2024 29:15

In his prizewinning novella Rapture , debut writer Reid Sherline has with a very small book made an outsized contribution to the literature of dark, weird Southern California, a place (and moment) where the recklessness, confusion, disengagement of adults turns their ignored or innocent children into perversely exaggerated walking, talking, misbehaving monster versions of themselves. Set in the V...

Bibliocracy Episode 1: Kelly Sather on Small in Real Life 21.02.2024 29:22

This week my guest is Drue Heinz Literature Prize-winner KELLY SATHER . Her collection, Small in Real Life , features stories which are darkly funny, what I’d call a sort of Southern California feminist noir, but with sincerely and politically insightful portraits of women, as girls, as wives, as friends, as enemies. They are often set in real or comically dangerous settings, sometimes hard to tel...