Latest 49 writers Podcast Episodes
Josh Fortenbery, Writer-Musician, "No Such Thing as Forever"
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - April 23, 2024 06:09 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsKatie’s guest Josh Fortenbery plays live tracks and reflects on the writing of his debut album. Southeast Alaska grown and produced, No Such Thing as Forever is getting strong reviews in Americana circles from across the country to across the pond. Fortenbery’s songwriting is informed by both hi...
Kate Troll, Author "All in Due Time"
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - December 13, 2023 08:22 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsKatie's guest for this episode is Kate Troll, author of a memoir with an unusual focus. It chronicles, as she entered her seventies, meeting two siblings for the first time. And how these discoveries both challenged and strengthened her newfound family and her relationships with the siblings she...
Lucian Childs, Author, "Dreaming Home"
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - November 18, 2023 00:14 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this episode, host Katie Bausler chats with Lucian Childs, author of Dreaming Home, a powerful collection of six linked short stories on the outing of a gay teenager by his younger sister, his father’s violent reaction and how that trauma ripples through the course of four decades. The storie...
Annie Bartholomew, Writer-Musician, "Sisters of White Chapel"
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - July 10, 2023 17:35 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn her debut album, Sisters of White Chapel, Alaskan writer and musician Annie Bartholomew brings a fresh approach to traditional folk music, channeling the under told stories of some of the working women of Alaska's Gold Rush. And as she tells 49 Writers Active Voice producer and host Katie Baus...
Beth Ann Mathews, Author, "Deep Waters"
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - June 07, 2023 05:09 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsBeth Ann Mathews, her husband Jim and nine year old son Glen were living a full and vibrant life in Alaska’s capital Juneau, which, as she describes lies, “between the ocean and a retreating glacier, a dynamic landscape that challenged and nurtured us.” She could not have imagined the challenge...
Melinda Moustakis, Author, "Homestead"
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - April 13, 2023 23:46 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAcclaimed author Melinda Moustakis on her debut novel, Homestead. In this first 49 Writers Active Voice Podcast taped LIVE, we go back in time to the last years before Alaska became a state, and the tumultuous relationship of unlikely homesteaders. Inspired by the story of the author's grandpa...
Tommy Orange, Author, "There, There"
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - September 09, 2022 21:30 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTommy Orange on his commended debut novel "There, There", which tells the intertwining stories of Native Americans en route to a pow wow in Orange's hometown of Oakland, California. He discusses what to expect from the highly anticipated sequel, the current reckoning of the past genocide of Nat...
Linnea Lentfer, Author, "Hold the Tide"
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - June 24, 2022 08:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsLinnea Lentfer discusses and reads passages from her debut novel. "Hold the Tide" is told by a young girl raised like Lentfer, hunting deer and gathering berries in remote and wild Southeast Alaska. Unlike the author, her protagonist grew up in a prior century, the child of a shunned and threat...
Bonnie Proudfoot, Author, "Goshen Road"
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - March 11, 2022 08:23 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsOhio author Bonnie Proudfoot discusses and reads passages from her debut novel with Active Voice host and producer Katie Bausler. Goshen Road is told through the alternating voices of a working class family in rural Appalachia over the course of a generation. The book holds stories of a far from...
Erin Heist, Singer-Songwriter, "Another Rainy Day"
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - July 16, 2021 15:56 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThanks to writer and musician Erin Heist for sharing her creative journey on the 49 Writers Active Voice podcast, an audio forum on the role of writers and artists in these challenging times. Learn more about Erin and where to hear her EP, Another Rainy Day at erinheist.com Please subscribe an...
Emily Wall, Poet, Professor of English and Creative Writing
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - April 22, 2021 15:58 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn conversation with Active Voice host and producer Katie Bausler, Emily Wall touches on her current project, chapbooks in the personas of three renowned women, the difference between good and bad poetry, the annual literary journal she oversees, her meeting with esteemed poet William Stafford (...
Kathryn H. Ross, Writer, Author of "Black Was Not a Label"
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - August 27, 2020 00:16 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWriters and artists discuss their work in these challenging, changing times with host and producer Katie Bausler on the 49 Writers Active Voice podcast. Episode 15 guest Kathryn H. Ross is the author of Black Was Not A Label, a memoir collection of essays and poetry chronicling her life from ea...
Vered Mares, Writers Block Bookstore and Cafe'
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - July 02, 2020 16:28 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWe’ve reached a last straw in the struggle for justice for black people in this country. Add to that mass inequality magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic. What’s an artist, writer or activist to do? Writer’s Block co-owner Vered Mares and Active Voice host Katie Bausler discuss elevating the voice...
Bathsheba DeMuth, Environmental Historian
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - June 09, 2020 19:40 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsEnvironmental Historian and author Bathsheba DeMuth explores the past to better understand the present. As the COVID-19 pandemic settles in for the foreseeable future, the Brown University Professor and host Katie Bausler look back to the flu pandemic of 1918, and infectious diseases brought by...
Jackie Venson, Songwriter and Guitar Ripper
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - January 17, 2020 20:53 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTired of division, strife and the feeling that half the country just doesn’t get it? Want more joy in your life? In the world? Then you might like to meet our first guest songwriter, Jackie Venson. Host Katie Bausler caught up with the Austin based guitarist and vocalist on her latest visit to S...
Susan Orlean, Writer for the New Yorker, Author
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - October 19, 2019 05:08 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsSusan Orlean is best known for her books The Orchid Thief, Saturday Night, Rin Tin Tin, and most recently, The Library Book, published in October, 2018. Now out in paperback, it’s a story she was compelled to tell about the largest library fire in US history and how it renewed a lifelong love an...
Susan Orlean
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - October 19, 2019 05:08 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsSusan Orlean is best known for her books The Orchid Thief, Saturday Night, Rin Tin Tin, and most recently, The Library Book, published in October, 2018. Now out in paperback, it’s a story she was compelled to tell about the largest library fire in US history and how it renewed a lifelong love an...
Annie Boochever
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - August 24, 2019 20:36 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAuthor Annie Boochever on Fighter in Velvet Gloves: Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich. Boochever collaborated with this story of Elizabeth Peratrovich's life for young readers with her son, Roy Peratrovich Jr. This highly recommended work arrives at a time when issues of race and r...
Annie Boochever, Author, "Fighter in Velvet Gloves"
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - August 24, 2019 20:36 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAuthor Annie Boochever on Fighter in Velvet Gloves: Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich. Boochever collaborated with this story of Elizabeth Peratrovich's life for young readers with her son, Roy Peratrovich Jr. This highly recommended work arrives at a time when issues of race and r...
Andromeda Romano-Lax
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - August 24, 2019 20:31 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings49 Writers co-founder and author Andromeda Romano Lax has published her fourth novel, Plum Rains. Andromeda lives for a while in the places where her novels are set, for this one in Japan and Taiwan. The book takes place a decade from now and takes on several issues, including robots, immigrati...
Andromeda Romano-Lax, Writer, Author, "Plum Rains"
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - August 24, 2019 20:31 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings49 Writers co-founder and author Andromeda Romano Lax has published her fourth novel, Plum Rains. Andromeda lives for a while in the places where her novels are set, for this one in Japan and Taiwan. The book takes place a decade from now and takes on several issues, including robots, immigrati...
Kim Heacox, Author, Activist, Columnist
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - August 24, 2019 20:27 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsGustavus based writer Kim Heacox sounds a warning bell and gives hope for the future in this packed exchange with host Katie Bausler. Kim's wilderness activism has infused his writing and photography of than a dozen books over the past twenty-five years. His novel, Jimmy Bluefeather, won the 2...
Kim Heacox
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - August 24, 2019 20:27 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsGustavus based writer Kim Heacox sounds a warning bell and gives hope for the future in this packed exchange with host Katie Bausler. Kim's wilderness activism has infused his writing and photography of than a dozen books over the past twenty-five years. His novel, Jimmy Bluefeather, won the 2...
Ernestine Hayes
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - August 24, 2019 20:25 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsState Writer Laureate Ernestine Hayes has spent a good part of her life bearing witness. The author of the American book award winning, Blonde Indian and the Tao of Raven, Hayes is known for bringing out the connections between all things. She is also a member of the faculty at the University ...
Pico Iyer
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - August 24, 2019 20:15 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTravel writer and author of the acclaimed Global Soul, Pico Iyer is an eternal optimist in a seemingly pessimistic world. Pico Iyer is also a contributor to major news publications, the author of two novels and nine works of nonfiction. His latest effort is The Art of Stillness, Adventures in G...
Pam Houston
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - August 24, 2019 20:07 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWhen not spending time in endangered and beautiful places or teaching writing, Pam Houston lives with horses, goats and dogs in her cherished home of almost 30 years, an off the grid ranch in the high country of Colorado. In this episode, Pam tells host and producer Katie Bausler that it is meta...
Joanna Lilley
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - August 24, 2019 20:04 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsBeauty-of fauna, flora and most of all-place is part of everything she writes, says Joanna Lilley. The author of a short story collection and two books of poetry, Lilly grew up in the UK and lives in Whitehorse Yukon, Her first novel, Worry Stones, published in late 2018, is set in in Canada, B...
Nancy Lord
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - August 24, 2019 19:57 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFormer commercial fisherman and Alaska writer laureate Nancy Lord’s work’s been infused with the political and the environmental since well before the 2016 election. Her 2011 book Early Warming showed Alaska on the front lines of climate change. Her latest novel, PH, tells the story of ocean ac...
Vivian Faith Prescott
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - August 24, 2019 19:49 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this installment 49 Writers audio series with Alaskan writers, Southeast Alaskan Vivian Faith Prescott discusses her original stories and poems with Active Voice host Katie Bausler. Prescott utilizes multi media, including print, spoken word, video, audio and her blog, Planet Alaska. Her f...
Hank Lentfer
49 Writers Active Voice Podcast - August 24, 2019 19:43 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this initial Active Voice podcast, 49 Writers board member Katie Bausler interviews Alaskan writer and Faith of Cranes author Hank Lentfer. The Gutavus, Alaska resident discusses his upcoming biography of fellow Southeast writer Richard Nelson, and a light outlook in dark times. Original mus...
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