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49 Writers Active Voice Podcast
by Katie Bausler
In the 49 Writers Active Voice Podcast, writers and artists reflect on how current issues shape their works. The ongoing series is hosted and produced by Katie Bausler from Juneau, Alaska for 49 Writers, a support and networking organization for Alaskan writers. Guests include Ernestine Hayes, Susan Orlean, Tommy Orange, Kim Heacox and Pam Houston.
Episodes
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Eowyn Ivey, Author, "Black Woods, Blue Sky"
Our latest episode was recorded with the keynote speaker for the 2025 North Words Writers Symposium in Skagway, Alaska. Pulitzer prize nominee Eowyn Ivey talks with guest host Summer Christiansen about her writing discipline, the challenges and joys of writing from rural Alaska and why her latest...
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Shauna Potocky, Poet, "Sea Smoke, Spindrift and Other Spells"
Shauna Potocky is a poet and painter who spent a decade as park ranger in Yosemite National Park. She is now a devoted resident of the community of Seward, Alaska. Along with the Kenai Peninsula, it is the inspiration for her second collection of poems and artwork, Sea Smoke, Spindrift and Other...
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Josh Fortenbery, Writer-Musician, "No Such Thing as Forever"
Katie’s guest Josh Fortenbery plays live tracks and reflects on the writing of his debut album. Southeast Alaska grown and produced, No Such Thing as Forever is getting strong reviews in Americana circles from across the country to across the pond. Fortenbery’s songwriting is informed by both his...
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Kate Troll, Author "All in Due Time"
Katie's guest for this episode is Kate Troll, author of a memoir with an unusual focus. It chronicles, as she entered her seventies, meeting two siblings for the first time. And how these discoveries both challenged and strengthened her newfound family and her relationships with the siblings she...
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Lucian Childs, Author, "Dreaming Home"
In this episode, host Katie Bausler chats with Lucian Childs, author of Dreaming Home, a powerful collection of six linked short stories on the outing of a gay teenager by his younger sister, his father’s violent reaction and how that trauma ripples through the course of four decades. The…
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Annie Bartholomew, Writer-Musician, "Sisters of White Chapel"
In her debut album, Sisters of White Chapel, Alaskan writer and musician Annie Bartholomew brings a fresh approach to traditional folk music, channeling the under told stories of some of the working women of Alaska's Gold Rush. And as she tells 49 Writers Active Voice producer and host Katie...
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Beth Ann Mathews, Author, "Deep Waters"
Beth Ann Mathews, her husband Jim and nine year old son Glen were living a full and vibrant life in Alaska’s capital Juneau, which, as she describes lies, “between the ocean and a retreating glacier, a dynamic landscape that challenged and nurtured us.” She could not have imagined the challenges...
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Melinda Moustakis, Author, "Homestead"
Acclaimed author Melinda Moustakis on her debut novel, Homestead. In this first 49 Writers Active Voice Podcast taped LIVE, we go back in time to the last years before Alaska became a state, and the tumultuous relationship of unlikely homesteaders. Inspired by the story of the author's...
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Tommy Orange, Author, "There, There"
Tommy Orange on his commended debut novel "There, There", which tells the intertwining stories of Native Americans en route to a pow wow in Orange's hometown of Oakland, California. He discusses what to expect from the highly anticipated sequel, the current reckoning of the past genocide of…
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Linnea Lentfer, Author, "Hold the Tide"
Linnea Lentfer discusses and reads passages from her debut novel. "Hold the Tide" is told by a young girl raised like Lentfer, hunting deer and gathering berries in remote and wild Southeast Alaska. Unlike the author, her protagonist grew up in a prior century, the child of a shunned and…
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Bonnie Proudfoot, Author, "Goshen Road"
Ohio author Bonnie Proudfoot discusses and reads passages from her debut novel with Active Voice host and producer Katie Bausler. Goshen Road is told through the alternating voices of a working class family in rural Appalachia over the course of a generation. The book holds stories of a far from...
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Erin Heist, Singer-Songwriter, "Another Rainy Day"
Thanks to writer and musician Erin Heist for sharing her creative journey on the 49 Writers Active Voice podcast, an audio forum on the role of writers and artists in these challenging times. Learn more about Erin and where to hear her EP, Another Rainy Day at erinheist.com Please subscribe and...
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Emily Wall, Poet, Professor of English and Creative Writing
In conversation with Active Voice host and producer Katie Bausler, Emily Wall touches on her current project, chapbooks in the personas of three renowned women, the difference between good and bad poetry, the annual literary journal she oversees, her meeting with esteemed poet William Stafford…
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Kathryn H. Ross, Writer, Author of "Black Was Not a Label"
Writers and artists discuss their work in these challenging, changing times with host and producer Katie Bausler on the 49 Writers Active Voice podcast. Episode 15 guest Kathryn H. Ross is the author of Black Was Not A Label, a memoir collection of essays and poetry chronicling her life from…
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Vered Mares, Writers Block Bookstore and Cafe'
We’ve reached a last straw in the struggle for justice for black people in this country. Add to that mass inequality magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic. What’s an artist, writer or activist to do? Writer’s Block co-owner Vered Mares and Active Voice host Katie Bausler discuss elevating the voices...
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Bathsheba DeMuth, Environmental Historian
Environmental Historian and author Bathsheba DeMuth explores the past to better understand the present. As the COVID-19 pandemic settles in for the foreseeable future, the Brown University Professor and host Katie Bausler look back to the flu pandemic of 1918, and infectious diseases brought by...
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Jackie Venson, Songwriter and Guitar Ripper
Tired of division, strife and the feeling that half the country just doesn’t get it? Want more joy in your life? In the world? Then you might like to meet our first guest songwriter, Jackie Venson. Host Katie Bausler caught up with the Austin based guitarist and vocalist on her latest visit to...
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Susan Orlean, Writer for the New Yorker, Author
Susan Orlean is best known for her books The Orchid Thief, Saturday Night, Rin Tin Tin, and most recently, The Library Book, published in October, 2018. Now out in paperback, it’s a story she was compelled to tell about the largest library fire in US history and how it renewed a lifelong love and...
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Annie Boochever, Author, "Fighter in Velvet Gloves"
Author Annie Boochever on Fighter in Velvet Gloves: Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich. Boochever collaborated with this story of Elizabeth Peratrovich's life for young readers with her son, Roy Peratrovich Jr. This highly recommended work arrives at a time when issues of race and...
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Andromeda Romano-Lax, Writer, Author, "Plum Rains"
49 Writers co-founder and author Andromeda Romano Lax has published her fourth novel, Plum Rains. Andromeda lives for a while in the places where her novels are set, for this one in Japan and Taiwan. The book takes place a decade from now and takes on several issues, including robots…
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Kim Heacox, Author, Activist, Columnist
Gustavus based writer Kim Heacox sounds a warning bell and gives hope for the future in this packed exchange with host Katie Bausler. Kim's wilderness activism has infused his writing and photography of than a dozen books over the past twenty-five years. His novel, Jimmy Bluefeather, won the 2015...
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Ernestine Hayes
State Writer Laureate Ernestine Hayes has spent a good part of her life bearing witness. The author of the American book award winning, Blonde Indian and the Tao of Raven, Hayes is known for bringing out the connections between all things. She is also a member of the faculty at the University of...
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Pico Iyer
Travel writer and author of the acclaimed Global Soul, Pico Iyer is an eternal optimist in a seemingly pessimistic world. Pico Iyer is also a contributor to major news publications, the author of two novels and nine works of nonfiction. His latest effort is The Art of Stillness, Adventures in…
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Pam Houston
When not spending time in endangered and beautiful places or teaching writing, Pam Houston lives with horses, goats and dogs in her cherished home of almost 30 years, an off the grid ranch in the high country of Colorado. In this episode, Pam tells host and producer Katie Bausler that it is...
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Joanna Lilley
Beauty-of fauna, flora and most of all-place is part of everything she writes, says Joanna Lilley. The author of a short story collection and two books of poetry, Lilly grew up in the UK and lives in Whitehorse Yukon, Her first novel, Worry Stones, published in late 2018, is set in in Canada,...
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Nancy Lord
Former commercial fisherman and Alaska writer laureate Nancy Lord’s work’s been infused with the political and the environmental since well before the 2016 election. Her 2011 book Early Warming showed Alaska on the front lines of climate change. Her latest novel, PH, tells the story of ocean...
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Vivian Faith Prescott
In this installment 49 Writers audio series with Alaskan writers, Southeast Alaskan Vivian Faith Prescott discusses her original stories and poems with Active Voice host Katie Bausler. Prescott utilizes multi media, including print, spoken word, video, audio and her blog, Planet Alaska. Her first...
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Hank Lentfer
In this initial Active Voice podcast, 49 Writers board member Katie Bausler interviews Alaskan writer and Faith of Cranes author Hank Lentfer. The Gutavus, Alaska resident discusses his upcoming biography of fellow Southeast writer Richard Nelson, and a light outlook in dark times. Original music...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
In the 49 Writers Active Voice Podcast, writers and artists reflect on how current issues shape their works. The ongoing series is hosted and produced by Katie Bausler from Juneau, Alaska for 49 Writers, a support and networking organization for Alaskan writers. Guests include Ernestine Hayes, Susan Orlean, Tommy Orange, Kim Heacox and Pam Houston.
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In the 49 Writers Active Voice Podcast, writers and artists reflect on how current issues shape their works. The ongoing series is hosted and produced by Katie Bausler from Juneau, Alaska for 49 Writers, a support and networking organization for Alaskan writers. Guests include Ernestine Hayes,...
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