Write Now at The Writers' Colony
by WCDH
Since opening its doors to writers in 2000, The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow has made a lasting impact on the arts and literary communities providing uninterrupted residency time for novice and accomplished writers of all genres, including culinary, composers, and artists, without discrimination. Our podcast features some of the over 1,400 writers from 48 states and 12 countries who have stayed at The Writers' Colony, and it delves into their lives and what writing means to them.
Episodes
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featuring Melody Gee
Melody S. Gee is the author of three books of poetry, The Convert’s Heart is Good to Eat (Driftwood Press, 2022) runner-up for the Adrift Chapbook Prize; The Dead in Daylight (2016, Cooper Dillon Books), long listed for the Julie Suk Award; and Each Crumbling House (2010, Perugia Press), winner…
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featuring Deirdre Fagan
Deirdre Fagan is the award-winning author of the memoir, Find a Place for Me: Embracing Love and Life in the Face of Death (Pact Press, Regal House Publishing, November 1, 2022), a short story collection, The Grief Eater (Adelaide Books, 2020), and a chapbook of poetry, Have Love (Finishing Line...
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featuring Sean Fitzgibbon
Artist Sean Fitzgibbon explores unusual, real places and events through his work. He has an MFA in art and a passion for making art and visual storytelling. He is a 2021 Artists 360 recipient and a 2023 recipient of the Arkansas Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Award for graphic…
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featuring Martha Anne Toll
More Than Tutus and Pointe Shoes: A Reading List of Ballet Books Martha Anne Toll writes fiction, essays, and book reviews, and reads anything that’s not nailed down. Her debut novel, Three Muses, won the Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction. Toll brings a long career in social justice to…
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featuring Sallie Crotty
Out of the Ashes: A Story of Recovery and Hope is educator Sallie Crotty’s first book. Previously she has published poems, personal essays, and articles in The Dairy Hollow Echo (an anthology of best selections from The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow’s eMerge); The Drabble; eMerge; Resources to...
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featuring Lisa Braxton
Lisa Braxton is an essayist, short story writer, and novelist. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Southern New Hampshire University, her Master of Science in Journalism Broadcasting from Northwestern University and her Bachelor of Arts in Mass Media from Hampton University. Her debut...
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featuring Rosaleen Bertolino
Rosaleen Bertolino was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and is currently living in Mexico. She received her B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz and her M.A. in English/Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Her awards include a Marin Arts Council...
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featuring Helena Rho
Helena Rho is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominated writer and a former assistant professor of pediatrics. She received her Doctor of Medicine in 1992 and has practiced and taught at Top Ten Children’s Hospitals—the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and the…
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featuring Cheryl King
Cheryl King is an author who lives in Eureka Springs, Arkansas with her best friend and husband, Harland. Her first career was in publishing working as a proofreader for Doubleday and then later as an editor for a vanity press publishing firm. Life then intruded and sent her on a course where she...
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featuring Vicki Mayk
About Vicki Mayk in her own words: "I can still remember the first time I walked into a newsroom. I was 12 and it was early on a Sunday morning – probably one of the only times that it’s quiet in a place where the insanity of putting out a daily newspaper takes place. I was meeting one of the...
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featuring Jeremy Leon Hance
Jeremy Leon Hance is a writer and freelance environmental journalist, who also happens to cohabitate with mental illnesses. He has named his OCD Steve and his depression goes by the name of Malachi. He is the author of the memoir Baggage: Confessions of a Globe-Trotting Hypochondriac. As a...
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featuring Aaron East
Aaron East is a 2019 graduate of Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, where he majored in English and History. Originally hailing from Royse City, Texas, Aaron is now a graduate student of English at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. His research interests include...
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featuring Emily and Raymond of Melonlight
Emily and Raymond of Melonlight in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, are certified professional ballroom dance instructors. They have over 40 years of combined experience teaching, performing, and inspiring couples to make dance a part of their relationships. It's not a hobby for Emily and Raymond, it is...
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featuring Cynthia Sample
Cynthia Sample has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Vermont College and also holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Texas at Dallas. Her writing credits include stories in SLAB, Numéro Cinq, Summerset Review, Sleet, Wichita Falls Review of Literature and Art, Between the Lines, and Love...
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Featuring Jody Hobbs Hesler
Jody Hobbs Hesler has written ever since she could hold a pencil. She lives and writes at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Her work includes short stories, novels, feature articles, book reviews, essays, and other free-lance writing and editing. Growing up, Jody split her time between…
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featuring Morris McCorvey
Morris McCorvey has been nominated to become the Poet Laureate of Oklahoma. What an insightful conversation.
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featuring Wendy Whelan-Stewart
In her eleventh year of teaching both American and women’s literature, Wendy Whelan-Stewart is an associate professor of English at McNeese State University, where she also directs the Master of Arts in English program. She has published articles on Margaret Atwood, Sylvia Plath, H.D., and...
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featuring Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub is a poet, writer, and translator. His works of fiction are Beloved Comrades: a Novel in Stories (Quanah, Texas: Anaphora Literary Press, 2020) and Prodigal Children in the House of G-d: Stories (London; Cambridge; New York; Sharjah: Austin Macauley, 2018), winner of two CIPA...
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featuring Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is the 2009-13 Kansas Poet Laureate, a writer, teacher, and facilitator, and coach and consultant who explores how the spoken, written and sung word can help us live more vibrant lives. Founder of Transformative Language Arts at Goddard College, Caryn is the author or…
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featuring David Haynes
David Haynes is the author of seven novels for adults and five books for younger readers. He is an Associate Professor of English at Southern Methodist University where he directs the creative writing program. He also teaches regularly in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and has taught…
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featuring Zoe Fawkes
Zoe Fawkes is a fantasy novelist, world traveler, feminist and shameless geek.
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featuring Laura Parker Castoro
LAURA PARKER CASTORO is a best-selling author with thirty-nine (39) books published in the U.S. Her work has also been published in fifteen (15) foreign languages. "Being a writer is the best thing in the world. You spend your days working with characters you've created, making them do and say...
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featuring Molly Scroges
Molly Sroges is a linguist-poet who teaches English as a Second Language at Green Forest High School. She has been published in Scibendi and performed poetry all over Arkansas, as well as representing Northwest Arkansas at the Women of the World Poetry Slam in Albuquerque and Dallas. She is the...
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featuring Jackie Wolven
Jacqueline Wolven amplifies real places, people and work through the motto #DoGoodWork. Authenticity isn't just a buzzword in the Do Good Work Studio. I live it. Write about it. Push and pull it out of you and your company/project/idea. It is my highest goal in all the work I do to help you have...
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featuring Lonnie Whitaker with WCDH Executive Director Michelle Hannon
Lonnie Whitaker’s first novel, Geese to a Poor Market, was published September 2010 and was awarded the Ozark Writers’ League Best Book of the Year. His stories have appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul, Missouri Life, The Ozark Mountaineer, Echoes of the Ozarks, Cuivre River Anthology, and he…
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featuring Jane Elzey
Author Jane Elzey writes a modern-day cozy mystery about four audacious women and the games they play to win... while husbands die trying. As spirited in their middle-aged years as they were in their youth, Amy, Zelda, Genna and Rian manage to land in trouble wherever they go. Join these four...
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featuring Talya Tate Boerner
As the daughter of an Arkansas farmer, Talya Tate Boerner grew up playing in the cotton fields of Mississippi County while perfecting the art of making mudpies. After high school, she attended college at Baylor University, graduating with an economics degree primarily because her Daddy said, “If...
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featuring Allyn Lord
Although a Yankee by birth, Allyn Lord has called Northwest Arkansas home for more than half of her life and worked in its museums for more than thirty-five years. She has been active in numerous professional museum organizations in Arkansas, the Southeast, and the U.S. She serves as a peer...
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featuring Zev Benjamin
Science fiction writer, Zev Benjamin, talks about the book he has just completed.
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featuring Sanya Whittaker Gragg
Wife, Mom, Social Worker, and now Author, Sanya Whittaker Gragg has always had a passion for working with and inspiring kids. She holds degrees from the University of Memphis, Georgia State University, and the University of Southern California. She has worn many hats including 10 years in...
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featuring Harrie Farrow
Harrie Farrow grew up in the Virgin Islands and graduated summa cum laude from San Francisco State with a BA in Psychology and a minor in Human Sexual Studies. A brief career in freelance writing in the Virgin Islands was followed by a move to the Ozarks, where she opened and operated a fine…
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featuring Davina Kotulski
DAVINA S. KOTULSKI, PH.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, sought after speaker, and award-winning, best-selling author with a thriving private therapy practice in Los Angeles, California and an international life coaching practice. She’s worked with successful authors, HBO and syndicated...
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featuring Bill McCloud
Bill McCloud has been teaching American history since 1974 and is a three-time Teacher of the Year. Bill has been on-site at WCDH as a guest reader at Poetluck in November 2018 and again in April 2019 for National Poetry Month. He is a frequent contributor to WCDH’s eMerge Online Literary…
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featuring Kathy Martone
Dr. Kathy Martone is a Jungian Psychologist and healer in private practice since 1986. She has served as a company psychologist for a large corporation and has previously taught at Colorado Free University, Iliff School of Theology, Naropa University, and Jungian Ministries International. For the...
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featuring Doug Stowe
Doug Stowe began his woodworking career in 1976. In 1977 Doug founded the Eureka Springs Guild of Artists and Craftspeople. In 1995, he started writing books and articles about woodworking. In 1998, he was one of three founders of the Eureka Springs School of the Arts. In 2001 he started the…
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featuring Ruth Weinstein
Our beloved poet and writer, Ruth Weinstein, has published her memoir, "Back to the Land: Alliance Colony to the Ozarks in Four Generations" as a descendant of original settlers of the Alliance Colony in Pittsgrove Township, Salem County, New Jersey. It was the first successful Jewish farming...
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featuring Karen Salyer McElmurray
Karen writes both fiction and creative nonfiction. Her memoir, Surrendered Child, won the AWP Award Series for Creative Nonfiction and was listed as a “notable book” by the National Book Critics Circle. She is also the author of Motel of the Stars, Editor's Pick from Oxford American, and a Lit…
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featuring Jonathan Vatner
Jonathan Vatner is an award-winning journalist who has written for The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Poets & Writers; and many other publications. He has an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College and a BA in cognitive neuroscience from Harvard University. He lives in…
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featuring Wendy Reese Hartman
Wendy Reese Hartmann is a yoga and mindfulness mentor, author, speaker, host of The Whole Being Zone and a 500 Registered Yoga Teacher/200 private yoga hour eRYT with rs of teaching experience. Wendy considers yoga asana to be training for living whole off the mat. She infuses ancient wisdom with...
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featuring Zeek Taylor
An award-winning artist, Zeek Taylor has been the subject of many one-man-exhibits and juried shows. He is the recipient of the Arkansas Governor's Art Award for Lifetime Achievement, and his paintings have hung in the Arkansas Governor's Mansion. He received the 2018 Idle Class Magazine Black...
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featuring Eric Sasson
Eric Sasson is the author of the short story collection “Margins of Tolerance” (Livingston Press, 2012) and the forthcoming novel, “Admissions.” His stories have been nominated for the Robert Olen Butler Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and one is in The Best Gay Stories 2013. For three years, he wrote...
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featuring Hannah Bae
Hannah Bae is a freelance journalist and nonfiction writer who is at work on a memoir about family estrangement and mental illness. Her work has been published in books including “(Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation on Mental Health” (Algonquin Young Readers, 2018) and “The...
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featuring Ruth Mitchell
Ruth Mitchell has been writing non-fiction articles for many years. White Oak is her first work of fiction. Her articles have appeared in Art & Antiques, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, American History, Fodor’s USA Travel Guide and Fodor’s Great American Vacations, Watercolor, American Style,...
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featuring Dan Krotz
Dan Krotz After leaving the US Army, Dan worked various odd jobs while studying at the University of Minnesota. In 1983, he and a partner launched a software start-up and Dan hit the road to peddle it. That was the start of his life as a traveling man who's been in every state of the Union, along...
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featuring Ruth Nasrullah
Ruth Nasrullah I have a passion for learning people’s stories: the way we do things, individually and as a society; how we share our values and face our challenges; what motivates our interaction with the world. I have worked as a freelance journalist since 2003, focusing on religion and...
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featuring Philip Cioffari
Philip Cioffari grew up in the Bronx and received his B.A. from St. John's University and his Ph.D. from New York University. He teaches in the writing program at William Paterson University. His novels and story collections include: If Anyone Asks, Say I Died From The Heartbreaking Blues; The...
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featuring Crescent Dragonwagon
Called by the Chicago Tribune, “An earthy, red-headed yarn-spinning woman,” Crescent Dragonwagon is the much-published author of fifty books in five genres, numerous magazine articles, and two blogs. Presently, at 6:00 p.m. CST on Facebook Live, Crescent reads aloud each evening with tech/text...
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Featuring Charles Templeton
Charles Templeton, author of Boot: A Sorta Novel of Vietnam, was born in deep East Texas in 1946. So deep, they had to pipe in the sunshine. His parents were nomads in the Mojave Desert in the fifties where Chuck Yeager taught him how to crush beer cans on his forehead. After being dismissed from...
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Episode 6 - featuring writer, Martha Anne Toll
Martha Anne Toll's fiction has appeared in Catapult, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, eMerge, Slush Pile Magazine, Yale's Letters Journal, Inkapture Magazine, Referential Magazine, and Poetica E-Magazine. Her essays and reviews appear regularly on NPR and in The Millions; as well as in Washington Post's The…
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Episode 5 - featuring poet, Wendy Taylor Carlisle
Wendy Taylor Carlisle was born in Manhattan, raised in Bermuda, Connecticut and Ft Lauderdale, Florida and lives now in the Arkansas Ozarks in a house she built in 1980. She has an MA from The University of Arkansas and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is the author of The Mercy of...
About this show
Since opening its doors to writers in 2000, The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow has made a lasting impact on the arts and literary communities providing uninterrupted residency time for novice and accomplished writers of all genres, including culinary, composers, and artists, without discrimination. Our podcast features some of the over 1,400 writers from 48 states and 12 countries who have stayed at The Writers' Colony, and it delves into their lives and what writing means to them.
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