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Community of Writers Podcasts — 127 episodes
Bibliocracy Radio: Irena Smith on Troika
Writers Workshops 2026 - Closing Talk by Peter Orner: "This is Not an Ending"
Writers Workshops 2026 - Panel: “Close Encounters of the Third-Person POV Kind” with Michelle Latiolais, Greg Spatz, Diana Wagman, Josh Weil Moderated by Tom Barbash
Writers Workshops 2026 - Craft Talk by Chris Feliciano Arnold: “Blending the Truth: Case Studies in the Fusion of Genres and Forms”
Writers Workshops 2026 - Panel: “The Single Moment: Crafting Powerful Short-Form Nonfiction” with Samuel Freedman, Julia Flynn Siler, Hector Tobar. Moderated by Blaise Zerega
Writers Workshops 2026 - Evening Event: Readings from Janet Fitch, Dylan Landis, Diana Wagman, Amy Tan. Introduced by Andrew Tonkovich
Writers Workshops 2026 - Panel: “Landscapes of Memory and Mis-Memory” with Samuel Freedman, Kelly McMasters, Keenan Norris, Greg Spatz with Panelist/Moderator Sands Hall
Writers Workshops 2026 - Panel: “The Short Story” with Lisa Alvarez, Tom Barbash, Dagoberto Gilb, Peter Orner. Moderated by Andrew Tonkovich
Writers Workshops 2026 - Craft Talk by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton: “The Motor of the Story: What Drives ‘Quiet’ Narratives”
Writers Workshops 2026 - Lunch Round Table: "Latinex in Publishing" with Lisa Alvarez, Francisco Goldman, Dagoberto Gilb, Hector Tobar, Oscar Villalon
Writers Workshops 2026 - Evening Reading: Francisco Goldman, Peter Orner, Shobha Rao, Bee Sacks
Published Alum Reading: Jean Carstensen, Vishwas Gaitonde, Annelise Hatjakes, Pamela Rorke Levy (In Memoriam), Daniel Pope, A.M. Sosa introduced by Julia Flynn Siler
Writers Workshops 2026 - Agents Panel with Michael Carlisle, Lucy Carson, Anna Ghosh, Michael Mungiello, BJ Robbins
Writers Workshops 2026 - Book Editors Panel: Lashanda Anakwah (Tiny Reparations Books), Todd Portnowitz (Knopf). Moderated by literary agent Michael Mungiello
Writers Workshops 2026 - In Conversation: Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Jason Roberts with his Agent Michael Carlisle
Writers Workshops 2026 - Evening Reading and Conversation: “Research as Revelation: How Unexpected Archival Finds and Creative Research Techniques Uncover the Human Texture that Transforms a Story — Fact or Fiction — into Compelling Narrative” with Jeanne
Writers Workshops 2026 - Panel: “Ethical Urgency: Writing Politics with Nuance” with Francisco Goldman, Jean Guerrero, Michelle Latiolais, Oscar Villalon with Panelist/Moderator Keenan Norris
Writers Workshops 2026 - Panel: “Hello Characterization, Meet Dialogue” with Leslie Daniels, Janet Fitch, Patricia Meyer, Bee Sacks with Panelist/Moderator Dana Johnson
Writers Workshops 2026 - Craft Talk by Katy Hays: “Foundations to Fixtures. How to Revise and Renovate a Novel (and Maybe Also a House)”
Writers Workshops 2026 - Literary Journal Roundtable: Alta Journal (Blaise Zerega), Santa Monica Review (Andrew Tonkovich), ZYZZYVA (Oscar Villalon)
Writers Workshops 2026 - Evening Reading: Staff Read and Discuss Their Work: Ananda Lima, Kelly McMasters, Greg Spatz. Introduced by Sands Hall
Writers Workshops 2026 - Panel: “Despicable Them: When Good People Write Bad People” with Janet Fitch, Dana Johnson, Dylan Landis, Ananda Lima. Moderated by Diana Wagman
Writers Workshops 2026 - Panel: “Scenes of the Crime: Setting and Plot” with Chris Feliciano Arnold, Tyler Dilts, Shobha Rao. Moderated by Andrew Tonkovich
Writers Workshops 2026 - Craft Talk by Francisco Goldman: “All You Need Is Love. Though Not Only.” Introduced by Borchard Foundation Executive Vice-President Michael Spurgeon
Writers Workshops 2026 - Opening Talk by Jason Roberts
Bibliocracy Radio: Irena Smith on Troika
Craft Talk Archives - Dana Johnson, Peter Orner, Andrew Tonkovich: Three Voices on Voice
Craft Talk Archives - Amy Tan: 'About the About'
Bibliocracy Radio: Lisa K. Richter on Fly, My Darling
Bibliocracy Radio: Higher Ed Union Victories
Christopher Mathias on To Catch a Fascist
Bibliocracy Radio: Terese Svoboda on Hitler & My Mother-in-Law
Bibliocracy Radio: Stephen Cooper on River of Angels
Bibliocracy Radio: Poet Gustavo Hernandez on Bachelor
Bibliocracy Radio: Maria Dolores Aguila on A Sea of Lemon Trees
Bibliocracy Radio: Tracy Rosenthal at Hammer and Hope
Bibliocracy Radio: Alvarez & Guzman-Lopez at Beyond Baroque
Bibliocracy Radio: Tom Zoellner- The Road Was Full of Thorns
Bibliocracy Radio: Vishwas Gaitonde - On Earth As It Is In Heaven
Bibliocracy Radio: John Bellamy Foster on Einstein's "Why Socialism?"
Bibliocracy Radio: Daniel Olivas on Waiting for Godinez
Bibliocracy Radio: Poet Abby Walthausen
Bibliocracy Radio: Nicholas Reiner of So Cal ACLU
Bibliocracy Radio: Nolan Higdon on All Things AI & Higher Ed
Bibliocracy Radio: Trevor Griffey on Corporate AI Teacher Training
Bibliocracy Radio: Robin Romm on Radical Empathy
Bibliocracy Radio: ALA Banned Books Week
Bibliocracy Radio: Oscar Villalon on ZYZZYVA’s Fortieth
Charles Hood on Double Hyenas and Lazarus Birds
Bibliocracy Radio: Dawna Kemper & Miles Parnegg
Bibliocracy Radio: Stephen D. Gutierrez & Sean Bernard in Performance
Writers Workshops 2025 - Special: Closing Talk by Sameer Pandya
Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel: "The Short Story" with Tom Barbash, Dana Johnson, Maceo Montoya, Gregory Spatz. Moderated by Andrew Tonkovich
Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel: "Bringing History to Life: Techniques, Challenges, and the Social Responsibility of the Writer" with Jamie Ford, Charlie Haas, Julia Flynn Siler, Amy Tan. Moderated by Sands Hall
Writers Workshops 2025 - "Oh What a World, What a World...! Worldbuilding - The Art of Creating and Sustaining a Fictional World" with Katy Hays, Rhoda Huffey, Brenda Lozano, Maceo Montoya. Moderated by Andrew Tonkovich
Writers Workshops 2025 - Craft Talk by Samuel Freedman: "Using Family History to Craft a Narrative." Introduced by Brian Eule
Writers Workshops 2025 - Special Event: Research Rx: How to Address Research Roadblock with Bernice Yeung and Julia Flynn Siler
Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel - Agents (1/2)Hour with Michael Carlisle, Annie Hwang, Michael Mungiello, Peter Steinberg. Moderated by Maya Ziv
Writers Workshops 2025 - "Demystifying Publishing - The Book Editor's Panel" with Jessica Case (Pegasus Books), Ben George (freelance, formerly Little, Brown), Alexander Star (Farrar Straus Giroux), Maya Ziv (Dutton). Moderated by Michael Mungiello
Writers Workshops 2025 - Special Event: Lunch with my Editor, with Rickey Fayne and Maya Guthrie (Assistant Editor at Little, Brown)
Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel - "Methods of Revealing - Which Form Best Serves my Material - Memoir, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction, or Some Hybrid" with Frances Dinkelspiel, Brian Eule, Robin Romm, Sands Hall. Moderated by Mary Melton
Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel: “And Then the Queen Died of Grief: on Plot” with Venita Blackburn, Kirsten Chen, Jamie Ford, Amy Waldman. Moderated by Katy Hays
Writers Workshops 2025 - Craft Talk by Sands Hall: “Hurling the Boot. Boarding the Dog: On Scene”
Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel: Literary Magazines with Andrew Tonkovich (Santa Monica Review), Oscar Villalon (ZYZZYVA), Mary Melton (Alta Journal), and Maceo Montoya (Huizache)
Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel - "What We Talk About When We Talking - On Dialogue" with Vanessa Hua, Dana Johnson, Lauren Markham, Patricia Meyer. Moderated by Sands Hall
Writers Workshops 2025 - Craft Talk by Rickey Fayne: "Show and Tell: How Objects and Images Reveal Character and Advance Plot"
Writers Workshops 2025 - Opening Talk by Robin Romm: Your Imagination is Not a Capitalist: Attention as Craft"
Bibliocracy Radio: L. Annette Binder on Child of Earth and Starry Heaven
Bibliocracy Radio: Adolfo Guzman-Lopez on California Southern
Bibliocracy Radio: Emily Greenberg on Alternative Facts
Amy Gerstler on Is This My Final Form?
Bibliocracy Radio: Sameer Pandya on Our Beautiful Boys
Andrew Nicholls: As Man is to God
Bibliocracy Radio: Janice Shapiro on Honoria: A Fortuitous Friendship
Bibliocracy Radio: Nolan Higdon on the Industrial Information Media Complex
Bibliocracy Radio: The Young Person’s Illustrated Guide to American Fascism
Bibliocracy Radio: Lisa Alvarez Reads "False Flag"
Bibliocracy Radio: Andrew Tonkovich on A Lovely Wallpaper
Bibliocracy Radio: Chuck Rosenthal on Awake For Ever in a Sweet Unrest
Bibliocracy Radio: David L. Ulin on Thirteen Question Method
Bibliocracy Radio: Gary Amdahl reads "The Breezeway"
Bibliocracy Radio: Brittney Corrigan on The Ghost Town Collectives
Bibliocracy Radio: Banned Books Week with ALA President Cindy Hohl
Bibliocracy Radio: Steve Wasserman: Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It’s a Lie
Bibliocracy Radio: Corey Robin on the Reactionary Mind
Bibliocracy Radio: Peter Carr: “Artist for Survival”
Bibliocracy Radio: Jackie Wu: On the Front Lines of Democracy
Bibliocracy Radio: Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terrain of California
Bibliocracy Radio: Larry Beinhart on Salvation Boulevard
Bibliocracy Radio: Victoria Patterson on Drift
Bibliocracy Radio: Luis Alberto Urrea on Into the Beautiful North
Bibliocracy Radio: Dylan Landis on Normal People Don’t Live Like This
Bibliocracy Radio: Mary Jones on the Goodbye Process
Bibliocracy Radio: Kevin Allardice on WEFT
Bibliocracy Radio: Suzanne Greenberg on Shopping for Dad
Bibliocracy Season 2 Episode 1 - THE BIG LISTEN: Journal of the Plague Years
Writers Workshops 2024 - Closing Talk by Gail Tsukiyama
Writers Workshops 2024 - Panel: ”Writing Beyond the Conference”
Panel: ”Narrative Voice & Dialogue”
Writers Workshops 2024 - Craft Talk by Rachel Howard - “Writing from the Heat of Moment: Improvisation in Fiction and Nonfiction Writing”
Writers Workshops 2024 - A Panel: “ Fact, Truth, and Imagination: Craft Choices for Different Genres”
Writers Workshops 2024 - A Panel: On Plot
Writers Workshops 2024: A Craft Talk by Tom Barbash: “What Doesn’t Break Us: The Art of the Story”
Writers Workshops 2024 - A Craft Talk by Martin J. Smith: “Difficult Interviews: Getting the Reluctant to Talk”
Writers Workshops 2024 - Literary Agents Panel
Writers Workshops 2024: Book Editors Panel
Panel: West Coast Literary Journals
Panel: The Short Story
Writers Workshops 2024 - A Craft Talk by Victoria Patterson:“Show, Tell, Show, Tell - Scene and Summary in Fiction & Nonfiction”
Writers Workshops 2024: Panel - “Reliably Unreliable First Person”
Writers Workshops 2024 - Panel: “Writing the Historical in Fiction and Nonfiction”
Writers Workshops 2024: Craft Talk by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton: "Writing a Life: A Character's Journey Across Generations"
Podcast Special: Gill Dennis's 2014 Opening Talk
Writers Workshops 2024: Opening Talk by Leland Cheuk: It's Not About You Until It Is
Bibliocracy Episode 13: Federico Finchelstein on Wannabe Fascists
Bibliocracy Episode 12: Joan Braune on Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements
Bibliocracy Episode 11: Molly Giles on Life Span
Bibliocracy Episode 10: Venita Blackburn on Dead in Long Beach, Califonria
Bibliocracy Episode 9: Julie Schumacher on The English Experience
Bibliocracy Episode 8: A Tribute to Dwight Yates (Part 2 of 2)
Bibliocracy Episode 7: A Tribute to Dwight Yates (Part 1 of 2)
Bibliocracy Episode 6: Amber A'Lee Frost on Dirtbag
Bibliocracy Episode 5: Theresa Bonpane on Sister Rebel
Bibliocracy Episode 4: Katherine Haake on What Books Press
Bibliocracy Episode 3: David Kipen on Dear California
Bibliocracy Episode 2: Reid Sherline on Rapture
Bibliocracy Episode 1: Kelly Sather on Small in Real Life