writing class radio
Writing Class Radio is for people who love true, personal stories and want to learn how to write their own stories. There's no better way to understand ourselves and each other than by writing and telling our stories. Everyone has a story. What's yours?
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 212
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
113: I Was the Real Life's Queen's Gambit
How to frame an essay for publication.
00:21:30 |
Wed 06 Oct 2021
112: Voice Isn't Everything, Is It?
Today on our show, we’re talking about voice in a new way. We always say, write like you speak. That’s one of the most important writing tenets, because if you write like you speak, you’re writing in…
00:18:47 |
Wed 22 Sep 2021
111: It’s a Matter of Time
Today on our show, we are featuring an essay by former student Sharon Rothberg. Sharon uses a philosophical concept to work out her feelings about the death of her daughter-in-law. Sharon's use of t…
00:21:33 |
Wed 08 Sep 2021
110: How to Write About Death: Use an Obsession.
For the month of August, 2021, we’re bringing back four of our listeners’ favorite episodes. Writing Class Radio brings you personal stories and tips on how to write your own stories. This episode or…
00:24:20 |
Wed 25 Aug 2021
109: Show and Tell.
For the month of August, 2021, we’re bringing back four of our listeners’ favorite episodes. Writing Class Radio brings you personal stories and tips on how to write your own stories. This episode or…
00:26:43 |
Wed 18 Aug 2021
108: How to Write Your Story with Joyce Maynard.
For the month of August, 2021, we’re bringing back four of our listeners’ favorite episodes. Writing Class Radio brings you personal stories and tips on how to write your own stories. This episode or…
00:23:23 |
Wed 11 Aug 2021
107: Can You Hear Me if I Can’t Hear You?
For the month of August, 2021, we’re bringing back four of our listeners’ favorite episodes. Writing Class Radio brings you personal stories and tips on how to write your own stories. This episode or…
00:26:41 |
Wed 04 Aug 2021
106: How Do You Know if Your Story Sucks?
How to get a story published, even if the topic is written about often.
00:25:23 |
Wed 28 Jul 2021
105: Teach Us Something We Don't Know
This episode is about teaching the reader/listener something they don’t know anything about. Teaching can be done in two ways. One, by taking the reader into a world foreign to most people and two, b…
00:20:24 |
Wed 14 Jul 2021
104: Sleep Left Me for a Younger Woman
This episode is about commitment. Not commitment to love, exactly, but commitment to a concept. Listener Lucie Frost writes a satirical essay where sleep is her lover. She never slips from the concep…
00:16:19 |
Wed 30 Jun 2021
103: Is it Ok to Write the Same Story Over and Over?
On this episode, we bring you a story that the narrator has returned to and will probably return to all her life. Everyone has their themes and it’s okay to return to them at different points in our …
00:24:38 |
Wed 16 Jun 2021
102: A Boyhood Brush With Breast Cancer
On this episode, we bring you a story that is not one you hear too often but addresses a very serious situation: breast cancer in men. Kevin Wood shares his essay, A Boyhood Brush with Breast Cancer.…
00:26:30 |
Wed 02 Jun 2021
101: I Own Seven Vibrators and I Still Worry About What to Say at a Cocktail Party
This episode is about writing like you speak, which is the best way to tell a true, authentic story. Andrea and Allison discuss why bringing your voice into a written essay makes the story so much be…
00:34:07 |
Wed 19 May 2021
100: Happy F*ing Mother's Day
This episode features an extreme mother story by Diana Kupershmit who is honest and vulnerable. Diana tells the truth about a very tough decision she and her husband made when their daughter Emma was…
00:42:32 |
Wed 05 May 2021
96: How to Hit Your Editors in the Heart
This episode is about secrets, a mom/daughter relationship, and donor-conception, a subject that hit both Andrea and Allison in the heart. When Amanda Serenyi’s friend gets pregnant using donor sperm…
00:37:21 |
Wed 03 Mar 2021
95: What Did it Take to Finally Get Published?
Get out of your own way and submit your stories already.
00:32:16 |
Wed 17 Feb 2021
94: Crafting a Story is Like Solving a Puzzle
Crafting stories well requires both sides of the brain.
00:14:11 |
Wed 03 Feb 2021
93: Brave Listener Gets Hard Edits
Everyone needs an editor or two, so we asked you to send us your unfinished essays for some hard edits.
00:21:18 |
Wed 20 Jan 2021
92: Taking the Long Road, Writing About Transformation
This episode is about showing a narrator's transformation.
00:28:50 |
Wed 06 Jan 2021
91: Bye Bye 2020
On today’s episode hosts Andrea and Allison say goodbye to a shit year. They each took the prompt: Bye Bye 2020. Andrea got nothing and explains that the story she kept coming to--about her daughter …
00:27:39 |
Wed 23 Dec 2020
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