Writer's Therapy

Joseph Hunter

Thinking about writing, talking about writing, and getting writing out of my system. I'm Joseph Hunter: fiction writer, Creative Writing PhD candidate, and teacher. This podcast sees me reflect on the writing process, why we write, and how we can write better.

  1. 12/23/2025

    The place the beginning seems to be

    Home for Christmas; wonderful family news; the eternal in the everyday. Reading: 'Walking Home' (Merion West, 2025), by Joseph Hunter

    21 min

  2. 12/14/2025

    Sunlight is a gift

    J.W. Turner knew about the sun. Thoughts on anhedonia, and seeing the way out. The daily exercise of the mind; new YouTube follows. A new poem. An old play. Readings: speech from Hamlet, by William Shakespeare; 'The Fighting Temeraire (1838), by Joseph Hunter (unpublished).

    16 min

  3. 12/07/2025

    It's how you shape it

    Learning the piano is a lesson in craft and art, and forces you to be humble. There is no writing/piano playing analogy, you imagined it. Reading: 'Dream piano' (unpublished), by Joseph Hunter

    17 min

  4. 11/30/2025

    Babies, books, and Knausgård

    I visit baby-raising friends, am enchanted, reflect on child-rearing as a creative process and an exercise in the unreliability of time/perception, and re-read some Knausgård. Reading: extract from A Man in Love (2009), by Karl Ove Knausgård.

    19 min

  5. 10/10/2025

    Life is a performance

    Marina Abramovitch reminds me that there is a fine line between 'real' life and performance art. And that, sometimes, going out and getting drunk with the one you love is what life is about. Reading: extract from The Birds that are Caught (unpublished), by Joseph Hunter.

    18 min

  6. 09/28/2025

    You're building a cathedral

    New cat. Same writer. More positive? Trying. Reading: 'Her lost children', by Joseph Hunter.

    16 min

  7. 10/21/2024

    Write Your Worries, Don't Let Your Worries Write You

    Almost a year has passsed; I have published; I am older; no beauty without mortality; birthday DVD marathons; poetry. Reading: 'History Among the Rocks' (from Kentucky Mountain Farm), by Robert Penn Warren.

    14 min

  8. 12/08/2023

    The Unifying Spirit of Intent

    A dark night of the soul has me questioning many things: my life, my writing, and my output – but not necessarily in that order. Reading: 'WHITES WASTE PAPER' (unpublished), by Joseph Hunter

    12 min
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Thinking about writing, talking about writing, and getting writing out of my system. I'm Joseph Hunter: fiction writer, Creative Writing PhD candidate, and teacher. This podcast sees me reflect on the writing process, why we write, and how we can write better.

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  • Creator
    Joseph Hunter
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodes
    35
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Joseph Hunter
  • Show Website
    Writer's Therapy