HANNAH JENKINS and 8 other pros reveal when they learned language has power! | The Write Project

It can be a lightbulb moment for an author: that moment when we learn that language can do things: change minds, tell stories, get us things. Today on Write Project, our guests offer their own stories of how it happened for them.Featuring, from Engen Books:Hannah Jenkins, contributor to The Birds Come Back in the SpringAJ Ryan, author of SlipstreamersFrom Breakwater Books Ltd.:Rebecca Rose, President and PublisherMichelle Porter, author of Approaching FireShelley Kawaja, author of The Raw Light of MorningFrom Marvel and IDW comics:Heather Antos, editor on Star Wars and GwenpoolFrom Anstruther Press:Daze Jefferies, author of Water/WeptFrom Running the Goat,Susan Flanagan, author of The Degrees of Barry LickAlso featuring the amazing talents of Nicole Smith!Originally broadcast on September 8, 2025 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BABIt's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history! Support the showProduced and recorded at CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, Newfoundland. Listen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​This program is sponsored by:Engen Books: Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​Or sign up for their newsletters at: The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OTEngen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8YemrFantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zLEngen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5JmgThis recording copyright © 2026 Matthew LeDrew