100 Thousand Poets for Change Open Mic
The WH House 100 Thousand Poets for Change Global 2014 Event Reading was one of 650 events that occurred internationally on September 27th. At WH, a broad poetic spectrum of…[...]
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How to Speak to the Dead with Poet TJ Jarrett: Historical Narrative as Lyric
On December 13, 2013, award-winning poet TJ Jarrett discussed her book Ain't No Grave, and ways of entering the historical poem as means to a greater understanding of history, as…[...]
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WriterHouse: The Risks and Rewards of Writing What You Don’t Know with Josh Weil
On July 27, 2014, author Josh Weil talked to UVA Slavic studies professor Andrew D. Kaufman about the challenges, both internal and external, of breaking far away from yourself in…[...]
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Always a Stranger: The Poetry of Refugees and Others on the Margins
On May 22nd, 2014 Cecilia Llompart discussed her new book The Wingless and explored what it meant to be an artist, specifically that it may require feeling you're on the…[...]
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WriterHouse: From the Page to the Stage with James Magruder
[caption id="attachment_7429" align="alignleft" width="300"] James Magruder reading from his novel, Let Me See It, at WriterHouse[/caption] On June 26, 2014, James Magruder, who started his first short story in 2001…[...]
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WriterHouse: Finding the True Story Behind the Myth: Dean King on the Hatfields and the McCoys
On February 6, 2014, Dean King, author of The Feud, talked with Henry Wiencek (author of Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves) about the interaction of myth…[...]
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WriterHouse: The Business of Fiction Writing, with Author Chad Harbach
On Thursday, January 25, 2014 novelist Chad Harbach spoke with WTJU radio host Jordan Taylor about his novel The Art of Fielding and the MFA vs. NYC writing cultures. [audio…[...]
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WriterHouse: The Codex is not the Book
On Sunday, February 10, 2013, poet Mary Sherman Willis and her publisher Katherine McNamara discussed the two distinct publishing formats of an excerpt of her forthcoming book-length poem as "Cave…[...]
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WriterHouse: Is it a Story Collection? A Novel? It’s a Novel in Stories
On November 29, 2012, Clifford Garstang, author of What the Zhang Boys Know, discussed the literary form of "novel-in-stories" with editor and writer Katherine McNamara. [audio src="http://cvillepodcast.com/media/cvillepublicmedia/writerhouse/20121129-Clifford_Garstang.mp3"][...]
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WriterHouse: Writing the Cross-Genre Novel with Alma Katsu
What happens when your novel doesn't fit in one genre? What are the perils--and opportunities--of writing a book that defies categorization? Is there a marketplace for cross-genre books? On June…[...]
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WriterHouse: From Blog Posts to One-Woman Show
On Wednesday, June 13, 2012, playwright DeeDee Stewart and WriterHouse member Elizabeth Derby discussed Stewart's journey from blog posts about her southern childhood to the international premiere of her one-woman…[...]
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WriterHouse: Women in Poetry with Melanie Moro-Huber and Roselyn Elliott
As part of WriterHouse's celebration of National Poetry month, on Friday, April 20, 2012, 7pm, poet Melanie Moro-Huber read from her new book Axe in Hand (2012, New York Quarterly…[...]
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