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 28: Elizabeth Robinson—Giving a Good Reading and Why it Matters
Most often we encounter work on the page, but haven’t we all had the experience of being transported by hearing the author give a reading of his or her own work? What happens when we have the opportu…
00:48:47 |
Wed 27 Jun 2012
Episode 27: Michael Morse—Lost and Found: Reading and Writing the Elegy
The elegy offers one of poetry’s most appealing consolations: it can transform loss—and even the threat of loss—into an artful presence. This session will explore how reading contemporary elegies and…
00:50:14 |
Tue 26 Jun 2012
Episode 26: Eric Goodman—Place, Race, and History: Writing About Subjects That Compel and Terrify Us
00:56:08 |
Tue 26 Jun 2012
Episode 25: Diane Goetsch—The Three Poisons
The Three Poisons is a simple and elegant Tibetan Buddhist teaching that identifies three foundational emotions that underlie all others—passion, aggression, and ignorance—much the way the three prim…
00:53:41 |
Thu 21 Jun 2012
Episode 24: Karen Bender—How to Find the Short Story within your Novel
In this Eleventh Hour, Karen Bender will address a strategy that she found helpful while writing her first novel—finding a short excerpt within it and polishing it to send out. She will discuss the d…
00:39:54 |
Wed 20 Jun 2012
Episode 23: Robert Siegel—Flash Fiction
What is flash fiction? You’ve read it, perhaps even written it in class: super-short stories, anywhere from a paragraph to a couple of pages in length, sometimes zeroing in on a single moment of expe…
00:58:12 |
Mon 18 Jun 2012
Episode 22: Carol Spindel—The Art of Juxtaposition
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…
00:52:31 |
Thu 14 Jun 2012
Episode 21: Emily Pettit, Mark Leidner, Madeline McDonnell, & Bianca Stone—Influence & Inspiration
In this panel discussion Pettit, Leidner, McDonnell, and Stone will discuss their recent poetry, fiction, and comic publications in conjunction with specific and intimate outside influences, inspirat…
00:53:05 |
Tue 12 Jun 2012
Episode 20: Anjali Sachdeva—Step Away From the Desk: Experiential Writing
In this Eleventh Hour, Anjali Sachdeva will discuss the effect that getting out into the world and participating can have on your writing. This type of experiential preparation can take different for…
00:52:59 |
Mon 11 Jun 2012
Episode 18: Dara Wier—Chance, Risk, and “Getting Away With It”
Risk taking, risk evaluation, risk avoidance are all leaned up against when one decides to become a writer and decides how to write what one writes. We hear writers say to one another all the time: h…
00:49:38 |
Mon 13 Jun 2011
Episode 17: Marcos M. Villatoro: “Finding Inspiration from the Work Itself”
In this Writing University podcast, Marcos M. Villatoro discusses the advantages of writing without waiting for the elusive “muse” to strike. Villatoro claims that inspiration springs from a writer’s…
00:58:58 |
Fri 10 Jun 2011
Episode 16: Lon Otto: "Touchstones, Templates, & The Train Tracks Your Mule's On"
No one writes who hasn't read, and we all know, at least vaguely, that reading as a writer is a distinctive as well as essential part of the writing life. This Elevenses tries to sort out some of the…
00:45:42 |
Tue 29 Jun 2010
Episode 15: Katie Ford: "Ghost Forms: Using Traditional Form in Free Verse"
In this podcast, poet Katie Ford examines the usefulness of employing the “ghosts” of classical forms in crafting contemporary poetry. Ford advises writers to look to the sonnet and listen for the “i…
00:54:47 |
Sat 19 Jun 2010
Episode 14: Lon Otto: "Avoiding Literary Thin Ice"
In this podcast, Lon Otto leads a discussion on how to avoid “literary thin ice”- the insecurities resulting from insufficient originality, tension or authority in a work.
00:59:22 |
Fri 18 Jun 2010
Episode 13: Tim Bascom: "Picture That: Creative Nonfiction For The Visual Learner
Tim Bascom, using only lines and circles and an array of strange doodles, will attempt to describe the amazing structural options available within the genre of creative nonfiction. No, he won't work …
01:02:48 |
Thu 17 Jun 2010
Episode 12: Eric Goodman—Transforming Life Into Art
Through what alchemy do writers take lived life and transform it into art? We all have stories to tell, something from our own life or the life of a loved one, which we believe would make a great sho…
00:47:08 |
Tue 15 Jun 2010
Episode 9: David Hamilton: “A Baker’s (Half) Dozen Ways of Looking at a Literary Magazine”
01:13:42 |
Sat 20 Jun 2009
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