30 episodes

Spoken Words tells the origin stories of storytelling. Produced in collaboration with the University of Wyoming MFA in Creative Writing program, the show features novelists, poets, non-fiction writers, and more writing from the West or writing about the West from around the world.

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Spoken Words tells the origin stories of storytelling. Produced in collaboration with the University of Wyoming MFA in Creative Writing program, the show features novelists, poets, non-fiction writers, and more writing from the West or writing about the West from around the world.

    Spoken Words 29: Dale Dunn—The Big Heartless

    Spoken Words 29: Dale Dunn—The Big Heartless

    The Big Heartless tackles the intersection of humans and wolves, family and freedom, in a remote corner of the Mountain West. The play premiered in Laramie, Wyoming in April 2018 with an upcoming production in the author’s home state of New Mexico in February 2019.

    • 15 min
    Spoken Words 28: Cate Cabot— Uncharted: A Journey Along The Edge Of Time And Survival

    Spoken Words 28: Cate Cabot— Uncharted: A Journey Along The Edge Of Time And Survival

    Uncharted: A Journey Along the Edge of Time and Survival traces the evolution of Cate Cabot’s life in the aftermath of a hitchhike that nearly cost the author and her friends their lives.

    • 12 min
    Spoken Words 27: Katrina Carrasco—The Best Bad Things

    Spoken Words 27: Katrina Carrasco—The Best Bad Things

    Feminist, queer, fun, The Best Bad Things is an historical crime novel whose main character, Alma, is an ex-detective who goes undercover to infiltrate a Port Townsend, WA smuggling ring. But what she’s really up to becomes one of the central mysteries of the book.

    • 11 min
    Spoken Words 26: Adrian Shirk—And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy

    Spoken Words 26: Adrian Shirk—And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy

    This new hybrid-memoir explores the lives and stories of American women prophets and mystics, outliers and outcasts of the American religious story. Through this personal journey, Adrian Shirk discovers new alternatives for spiritual truth seekers.

    • 13 min
    Spoken Words 25: Alyson Hagy—Scribe

    Spoken Words 25: Alyson Hagy—Scribe

    Alyson Hagy’s new novel Scribe is about the power—and dangers—of storytelling. Amid a population decimated by civil war and disease that relies on a barter system, a woman known as Scribe exchanges her skill in letter-writing to get what she needs. One day, a strange man shows up in need of a letter, setting off a series of terrible events that bring Scribe to a crossroads she can escape.

    • 12 min
    Spoken Words 24: John Hausdoerffer—Wildness: Relations Of People And Place

    Spoken Words 24: John Hausdoerffer—Wildness: Relations Of People And Place

    In Wildness, John Hausdoerffer and his co-editor Gavin Van Horn bring together authors from a variety of landscapes, cultures, and backgrounds to share their stories of what “wildness” looks like when people take an active role in becoming co-creators of well-being with the places they live, work, and play. In re-imagining the possibilities for wildness, Hausdoerffer discusses his hopes for creating communities attuned to the wild in their midst and able to work together across differences to care for these places.

    • 14 min

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