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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 30
- Years Active
- 2025
Breaking Barriers in the Wild: Bridget Crocker on RIVER’S DAUGHTER & Cassidy Randall on THIRTY BELOW
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This episode of Writer’s Voice brings you two powerful stories of women adventurers who…
Covid Wars & How to Submit: Ronald Gruner on Pandemic Lessons + Dennis Sweeney on Getting Published
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In this episode of Writer’s Voice, two authors offer vital insights—one about surviving…
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on MISBEHAVING AT THE CROSSROADS & Catherine Coleman Flowers on Environmental Justice
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Award-winning author Honorée Fanonne Jeffers joins Writer’s Voice to talk about her bol…
David Bollier on Why The Commons Could Save Us
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This week on Writer’s Voice, we speak with David Bollier about the newly updated editio…
From Limp Bizkit to Reality TV: How 1999 Changed Everything
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This week, Ross Benes joins us to talk about his book 1999: The Year Low Culture Conque…
Russell Shorto on the Origins of New York & Chris Pavone’s Thriller of Class, Money, and Morality
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This week on Writer’s Voice, we explore New York from two perspectives: its dramatic col…
Exposing Hidden Agendas: Will Potter on Factory Farm Secrecy & Project Censored on Press Freedom Under Siege
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Today, a double episode on press freedom under siege.
Investigative journalist and au…
Michael German on POLICING WHITE SUPREMACY: THE ENEMY WITHIN
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In this episode of Writer’s Voice, former FBI agent, scholar, and author Michael German …
Lizzie Wade on APOCALYPSE: What Collapse Reveals About Human Possibility
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On this episode of Writer’s Voice, we speak with science journalist Lizzie Wade about he…
Retreat, Resilience & Return: Jess Walter on SO FAR GONE and Marguerite Holloway on TAKE TO THE TREES
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On this episode of Writer’s Voice, two authors share stories of retreat and re-engagemen…
Laura Lippman on MURDER TAKES A VACATION: Art, Age, and a Woman’s Right to Reinvent Herself
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This week: Grandmaster of crime fiction Laura Lippman joins us to talk about her deligh…
AI, Autocracy, and Afterlife: Sci Fi Novelists Ray Nayler & Tim Weed
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This week on Writer’s Voice, two authors of speculative fiction explore what it means t…
Laura Spinney & Tonya Todd on Language, Myth & Resistance
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In this episode of Writer’s Voice, we explore how language shapes history—and how stori…
The New Face of Homelessness: Brian Goldstone on THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US
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This week: journalist Brian Goldstone joins us to talk about his powerful new book, The…
Jennifer Haigh on RABBIT MOON and L. Annette Binder on CHILD OF EARTH AND STARRY HEAVEN
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Novelist Jennifer Haigh joins us to talk about Rabbit Moon, her atmospheric and emotion…
Kingdoms Lost & Myths Undone: Dolen Perkins-Valdez on HAPPY LAND and Nancy Reddy on THE GOOD MOTHER MYTH
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In this episode of Writer’s Voice, we speak with two authors who excavate buried truths…
Muse, Myth & Murder: Michèle Gerber Klein on Gala Dalí and Anthony Horowitz on THE MARBLE HALL MURDERS
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Michèle Gerber Klein discusses Surreal, her revelatory biography of Gala Dalí, the for…
Borders and Backlashes: Boris Fishman, THE UNWANTED & Sophie Gilbert, GIRL ON GIRL
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Novelist Boris Fishman talks about The Unwanted, a novel of migration, betrayal, and su…
Stories for Survival: Eiren Caffall, ALL THE WATER IN THE WORD and Ishion Hutchinson, FUGITIVE TILTS
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Today’s episode brings together two extraordinary voices in literature—each grappling w…
Seeds, Symphonies, and Survival: Leningrad’s Resistance in Science and Music
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Two riveting accounts from the Siege of Leningrad during WWII: In the first half, Simon…