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- 4 days ago59 min
Tim Weed’s The Gatepost + Farah Naz Rishi’s The Flightless Birds of New Hope
This week on Writer's Voice: Tim Weed explores psychedelics, Mesoamerican mythology, and consciousness in The Gatepost. Farah Naz Rishi talks grief, siblings, humor, and a runaway cockatoo in The Flightless Birds of New Hope.
- 1 weeks ago59 min
Caroline Bicks on Stephen King, Maria Adelmann on Adjunct Labor
Caroline Bicks joins Writer’s Voice to talk about Monsters in the Archives, her fascinating exploration of Stephen King’s private papers, creative process, and the deep emotional fears beneath his horror fiction. Then Marie Adelmann discusses Adjunct, her darkly funny and painfully real novel about precarious academic labor, student debt, and the exploitation built into today’s university system. Two compelling conversations about fear, power, and survival in contemporary American life.
- 2 weeks ago1h 15m
Women Who Changed Journalism + Nature’s Hidden Relationships
This week’s Writer’s Voice: Julia Cooke discusses Starry and Restless, her portrait of Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn, and Emily Hahn, women whose adventurous lives helped transform modern journalism. And Sophie Pavelle talks about To Have or To Hold, a deeply engaging exploration of symbiosis and the astonishing partnerships that make life possible.
- 3 weeks ago58 min
Bill McKibben on Solar’s Breakthrough, Anne Fadiman on the Hidden Life of Ordinary Things
For Earth Day on Writer’s Voice, Bill McKibben on why solar may be arriving faster than we realize. Then, Anne Fadiman on frogs, pronouns, and the hidden meanings inside ordinary things.
- Apr 17, 20261h 7m
Free Press 2026, Media Censorship & Daniel Ellsberg’s Moral Legacy
Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. In this episode of Writer’s Voice, Francesca Rheannon speaks with Andy Lee Roth of Project Censored about the State of the Free Press 2026, marking 50 years of tracking underreported stories. Then, Michael Ellsberg discusses Truth and Consequence, a powerful collection of writings by … Continue reading Free Press 2026, Media Censorship & Daniel Ellsberg’s Moral Legacy →
- Apr 9, 202659 min
Climate Fiction & Plastic Pollution: Stories of Survival and Solutions for a Warming World
What does climate survival look like—and what’s stopping us from getting there? This week on Writer’s Voice: Ellen Meeropol imagines communities rebuilding in a warming world. Then, Judith Enck reveals how the plastic crisis was engineered—and how we can fight back From empathy to action, this episode connects the dots between storytelling and systemic change.
- Apr 4, 202658 min
Philip Schultz’s ENORMOUS MORNING: Life, Poetry & Freedom
Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Philip Schultz joins Writer’s Voice to talk about his new collection Enormous Morning—a moving exploration of aging, memory, regret, and the possibility of beginning again. We also talk about poetry as a way of confronting suffering—and even finding joy.
- Mar 27, 20261h 6m
The Women Who Changed Journalism & A Novel of Extinction
This week on Writer’s Voice: Julia Cooke on the women who helped invent modern journalism—and why history forgot them. And Ida Turpeinen on extinction, memory, and the stories we fail to tell.
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About Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon
Writer's Voice features author interviews and readings, as well as news, commentary and tips related to writing and publishing. We also talk with editors, agents, publicists and others about issues of interest to writers. Francesca Rheannon is producer and host of Writer's Voice. She is a writer, an independent radio producer and a broadcast journalist.
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