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Writing Class Radio is for people who love true, personal stories and want to learn how to write their own stories. There's no better way to understand ourselves and each other than by writing and telling our stories. Everyone has a story. What's yours?
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212: Summer Echoes: My Abortion at 11 Wasn’t a Choice. It Was My Life
We flashback to the final story in a 7-part series in support of reproductive rights. The stories in the series were told live on stage in front of 40...
211: Summer Echoes: Is It Rape If You Were Blackout Drunk?
Originally published on April 2 of 2024, we bring you a story by Morgan Sutton that embodies everything a story should embody. The story uses no extra...
210: Summer Echoes: Birds Will Be Birds
Andrea and Allison continue their sabbatical and have left behind some of their favorites.
Christopher Blackwell co-founded Look 2 Justice, an...
209: Summer Echoes: How to Write about Life When Everyday Is a Reminder of Death?
Originally published in November of 2023, we are talking about hot topic/cold prose and when and why to write in the present tense vs. past. The story...
208: Summer Echoes: The Most Unique Essay We've Ever Aired
Today we continue the Summer Echoes Series with a story by Kimberly Elkins. Kimberly is the author of the novel, WHAT IS VISIBLE, which was a New York...
207: Summer Echoes: A Psychiatric Hospital Nearly Ruined My Life
This episode is about how to write a near perfect essay. The story was written by Banning Lyon who writes about a harrowing childhood experience in a...
206: Does Anyone Care About Saving Fossil Creek? Learn How Your Writing Can Build Trust
Today we bring you another story told live on stage at the Flagstaff Festival of Science in September 2024. This story is by Dr. Jane Marks. Her story...
205: How Are Jumping Rope and Tornadoes Related? A Braided Essay
Today on our show, we bring you a story by Andrea Askowitz called A Numbers Game. This story was previously published in Memoirland, a curated compila...
204: I Wish I Had Been Nicer to You Before You Died
On this episode, we’re going to talk about using the letter form (epistolary) and specifically not telegraphing. If you don’t know what telegraphing i...
203: I Lied About My Birth Experience. Writing Helped Me Work Out My Sh*t and Get to the Truth.
Today on our show, we bring you a story by Rachel Perse, who had severe anxiety after giving birth to her first child, but pretended she was having th...
202: When Anxiety is a Superpower
Today we bring you another story told live on stage at the Flagstaff Festival of Science in September 2024. This story is by Emma Lathrop and is about...
201: What Can You Learn by Watching How Trees Recover from Fire?
Today we bring you a story told live at the Flagstaff Festival of Science in September 2024. We’re talking about making a connection from your persona...
200: When is a Gift More than a Gift?
Today on our show, we are re-running a story by Emily Henderson titled After Our Son Died, My Husband Gave Me The Most Meaningful Christmas Gift Of My...
199: The Passing of Sorrow
Today on our show, we bring you a story by Dana Shavin, who submitted her essay to the podcast. When it came in, we were blown away. The writing is so...
198: Why Do We Love Stories That Remind Us of Ourselves?
Today on our show, we bring you a story by Rachel Kramer Bussel. Her story was so relatable, that we realized sometimes we choose stories so we can ju...
197: Shut the F*ck up, Please
Today on our show, we bring you a story by Sarena Neyman. Sarena is in Allison’s 2nd Draft class, which contains writers who come together to share a...
196: My Abortion at 11 Wasn’t a Choice. It Was My Life
This is the final story in a 7-part series in support of reproductive rights. On election day, Floridians will have the opportunity to vote Yes on 4 ...
195: Florida’s Abortion Law Almost Killed My Wife
This is the sixth story in a 7-part series in support of reproductive rights. On election day, Floridians will have the opportunity to vote Yes on 4 ...
194: A Physician's Duty
This is the fifth story in a 7-part series in support of reproductive rights. On election day, Floridians will have the opportunity to vote Yes on 4 ...
193: Another Try at a Better Life
This is the fourth story in a 7-part series in support of reproductive rights. On election day, Floridians will have the opportunity to vote Yes on 4...
192: A Letter to My Son About His Abortion
This is the third story in a 7-part series in support of reproductive rights. On election day, Floridians will have the opportunity to vote Yes on 4 ...
191: The Shade of Our Grandmothers’ Trees.
This is the second story in a 7-part series in support of reproductive rights. On election day, Floridians will have the opportunity to vote Yes on 4...
190: Then and Now and Back to Then
Today, we are starting a new series in support of reproductive rights–specifically Yes on 4 here in Florida to get rid of a near-total abortion ban an...
Our Abortion Stories: Seven Storytellers on Heartbreak, Health, and Hope
On September 18, 2024, we are launching a new series in support of a family’s reproductive rights--specifically Yes on 4 here in Florida to get rid of...
189: I Found Connection Through a Tattoo of a Bee
Today on our show, we bring you a story by Jennifer Sizeland, who lives in Manchester, England. Her story, I found connection through a tattoo of a be...
188: Making Room for Hope after My Daughter Died
Today on our show, we bring you a story by Farida Taha. Farida writes about losing her daughter to cancer and how she’s moving forward. We talk a lot...
187: How I Lost My Husband But Gained a Bigger Family
Today on our show, we bring you a story by Sarena Neyman. Sarena is in Allison’s 2nd Draft class, which is made up of writers who come together to sha...
186: Something Beautiful Happened When I Shared My Writing with My Family
Today on our show, we bring you a story by Janet Funk. Janet writes about her experience sharing an essay she wrote with her family prior to submittin...
185: Am I Turning into My Mother
Today on our show, we bring you a story by Bonnie Shor, who we call Blee. Blee has been a student of Writing Class Radio for two years. We love the sh...
184: Just Tell Us How it Went Down
Today on our show, we bring you a story by Alison Colwell. At age 8, Alison was responsible for making sure her mother’s epileptic seizure didn’t kill...
183: If You Don’t Want to Know, Don’t Snoop on Your Daughter’s Instagram Account
This episode focuses on how to tell a story out loud. In May 2024, our own Andrea Askowitz made her way to a Moth storytelling competition and for the...
182: A Story is Like a Thesis. You Gotta Make Your Point.
Today on our show, we bring you a story by Emma Lathrop, a PhD student at The Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (ECOSS) at Northern Arizona Uni...
181: What Do I Do if I Have Nothing Left to Write About?
Today on our show, we bring you a story by our own Allison Langer. Her essay is called My Mom And I Fought For 55 Years. Now Battling My Son Is Making...
180: The Forest Raised Me Better than My Father
Today on our show, we bring you a story by Darby Bergl, a PhD student at The Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (ECOSS) at Northern Arizona Univ...
179: How to Use Science to Create an Emotional Connection to Place.
Today on our show, we bring you a story by Keven Griffen, a PhD student at The Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (ECOSS) at Northern Arizona Un...
178: Is it Rape if You Were Blackout Drunk?
Today on our show we bring you a story by Morgan Sutton that embodies everything a story should embody. The story uses no extra words; the narrator lo...
177: How to See Beauty in Small Things
Today on our show, we bring you a story by Jasmine Anenberg, a PhD student at The Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (ECOSS) at Northern Arizona...
176: Flying Home or Someplace Better
Today on our show, we bring you a story by Jennifer Byrne, who conjures the courage to leave her husband after she's faced with removing a bird that f...
175: Fighting Fire with Aspen and Birch
Today on our show, we bring you a story by Nick Link, a PhD student in the Mack Lab and part of the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (ECOSS) a...
174: For the Love of Science
Happy Valentine’s Day. Today on our show, we bring you a story that was originally performed on stage at the Flagstaff Festival of Science in October...