The Writing University Podcast
The Writing University podcast features recordings of illuminative craft talks from the renowned writers, novelists, poets, and essayists who present at the Eleventh Hour Lecture Series during the University of Iowa's Iowa Summer Writing Festival.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 128
- Years Active
- 2007 - 2023
Episode 48: Stephen Lovely—Marathon Training for the Fiction Writer: Conditioning Your Mind and Body to Go the Distance
There are innumerable workshops you can take to help you write your first novel or book of stories, workshops in which you’ll focus on developing characters and plot and structure, establishing narra…
01:02:11 |
Wed 25 Jun 2014
Episode 47: Michael Morse -- Rebel With a Clause: The Prose Poem
In this Eleventh Hour presentation, poet Michael Morse will discuss the prose poem, a literary hybrid with evocative potential. We’ll look at a brief history of the form, some model examples of writi…
00:57:42 |
Mon 23 Jun 2014
Episode 45: Hilary Plum -- Approaching Fact in Fiction
This lecture will explore recent moments and new possibilities in the age-old relationship between nonfiction and fiction. We’ll discuss contemporary works of fiction built around documentary materia…
00:39:13 |
Tue 10 Jun 2014
Episode 44: The Art of Juxtaposition | Carol Spindel
Creative nonfiction is an art of selection, omission, and juxtaposition. Decisions, decisions, decisions… Not only what to leave in and what to take out, but also how to artfully arrange the parts. W…
00:56:50 |
Mon 09 Jun 2014
Episode 43: Stephen Lovely—Marathon Training for the Fiction Writer: Conditioning Your Mind and Body to Go the Distance
00:58:02 |
Thu 25 Jul 2013
Episode 41: Mary Allen—Working with Time, the Key to Writing
One of the biggest challenges, and imperatives, of writing is finding time—making time—to sit down and do it. It’s something like that moment in the movie Field of Dreams, where a mysterious voice sa…
01:01:23 |
Wed 10 Jul 2013
Episode 40: Susan Taylor Chehak—Going Graphic: What the Storytelling Secrets of Comics Can Tell Us About Narrative Technique
In this Eleventh Hour, Susan Taylor Chehak will use Powerpoint to take a graphic look at comic book storytelling conventions and how they can be applied to your own written narratives. Through exampl…
00:55:33 |
Tue 09 Jul 2013
Episode 39: Robert Siegel—Haiku for Prose Writers: Exploring the Power of the Image
One of the key elements in successful fiction is imagery—the word-pictures that directly transmit what the writer sees. But while writing students get a lot of help with things like plot and structur…
01:00:05 |
Mon 08 Jul 2013
Episode 38: Robert Fernandez -- The Language of Music, the Music of Poetry
As part of the free, weeklong 2012 MusicIC Festival (featuring art music inspired by literature), poet Robert Fernandez and MusicIC chamber musicians will discuss the musical works that inspired Marc…
00:25:53 |
Thu 13 Jun 2013
Episode 37: Juliet Patterson & BK Loren -- Poetry as Foundation of Fiction and Nonfiction
In addition to being omnipresent on the planet (every culture has a conception of lyric) poetry appears to have been written and composed in every ancient and historical cultural we’ve been able to i…
00:58:59 |
Tue 11 Jun 2013
Episode 36: Timothy Bascom—Sudden Riches: The Surprising and Satisfying Role of Research in the Personal Essay
In this Eleventh hour, Timothy Bascom will discuss the personal essay in order to demonstrate the ways in which this form, typically focused on autobiographical events, can be driven by research inst…
01:01:00 |
Mon 10 Jun 2013
Episode 35: Sands Hall—Into the Woods, Down to the Underworld
In the simplest of fairy tales or the grandest of myths—“Snow White,” say, or the Odyssey—both Snow White and Odysseus must spend time in the woods, or the underworld. Those of us writing fiction und…
00:52:48 |
Thu 26 Jul 2012
Episode 34: Kathryn Rhett & Jessica Handler—The Tough Stuff: Write Well, Feel Better
Kathryn Rhett, author of Survival Stories: Memoirs of Crisis, and Jessica Handler, author of the forthcoming Writing Through Grief, talk about how writing the tough stuff well can be good for you, an…
00:47:23 |
Wed 25 Jul 2012
Episode 33: Christine Hemp—Yikes: A Deadline! Limitation as Liberation
This talk explores the beauty of limitation, whether it be something as simple as a deadline or a self-imposed structure for a scene, a poem, or an essay. Even the constraints of our lives (time! job…
01:00:40 |
Tue 24 Jul 2012
Episode 32: Amber Dermont, Blueberry Morningsnow, Nick Twemlow, & Vinnie Wilhelm—Influence & Inspiration
In this panel discussion Dermont, Morningsnow, Twemlow, and Wilhelm will discuss poetry and fiction in conjunction with specific and intimate outside influences, inspirations, imitations, and inquiri…
00:57:39 |
Thu 19 Jul 2012
Episode 31: Cheryl Fusco Johnson—Shy Writers Do It, Too: Enlivening Writing by Harnessing the Power of Effective Interviewing Techniques
Enrich poetry, fiction, nonfiction and blog posts by unleashing people’s innate desire to share what they know. Don’t be afraid to ask questions! This presentation will help you identify potential in…
00:58:14 |
Wed 18 Jul 2012
Episode 30: Kate Aspergren -- Playwriting: from Page to Stage
Do you need to have a background in theatre to write plays? What’s the difference between a playwright and a screenwriter? How is it possible to develop characters and tell a story without passages o…
00:55:57 |
Mon 16 Jul 2012
Episode 29: Susan Taylor Chehak -- Storytelling and Time
What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I wish to explain to him who asks, I know not. –Augustine of Hippo, Confessions In this hour I’ll explore the possibilities and the limitations of s…
01:01:25 |
Thu 12 Jul 2012
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