Posts Tagged ‘Anastamos’
WRITERS’ BLOCK EPISODE 24: CATALYST CROSSOVER!
So aside from hosting Writers’ Block and panelist-ing on the Super Hero Hour Hour, Mike produces non-Pop Filter podcasts as well. One of which is Catalyst: A Creative Industries podcast from Chapman University. In this special crossover episode, Taryn and Shannon from Catalyst ask Mike about his podcasting past and Mike fires right back about…
Read MoreWRITERS’ BLOCK EPISODE 23: REBECCA SKLOOT
Rebecca Skloot is the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Her award- winning science writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine; O,; Discover; and many other publications.The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks took more than a decade to research and write, and instantly hit the New…
Read MoreWRITERS’ BLOCK EPISODE 22: MEGAN PRAZ AND MOLL GREEN
Megan Praz and Moll Green have been collaborating as an artist/writer duo for years–first on the ultimate frisbee webcomic, Contested Strip, and followed by the sci-fi space opera pseudo-parody, Space Heroines of El-Andoo. They continue to work on both series, and took time out of working together (and on their individual projects) to sit down with…
Read MoreWriters’ Block Live! with Andrew Wessels and Fisayo Adeyeye
This episode of Writers’ Block Live! was recorded October 21, 2017 in celebration of the book release of Cradles by Fisayo Adeyeye. He and Andrew Wessels read to a packed house at the 1888 Center, and were interview by Julianne Berokoff. Fisayo Adeyeye is an MFA candidate at San Francisco State University. He is the former Poetry Editor…
Read MoreWRITERS’ BLOCK LIVE! with GRANT HIER, JULIA WALTON, AND JONATHAN ALEXANDER
Writers’ Block Live! is here for your ears! We’ve been recording a live version Writers’ Block about once a month at the 1888 Center in Orange, California. This means get ready for a whole slew of live interviews, dropping in-between the in-depth conversations you’re used to! And some of your favorite guest show up again! We…
Read MoreWRITERS’ BLOCK EPISODE 19: VICTORIA CHANG
Today’s guest is Victoria Chang! Awhile back, Victoria stopped by Mike’s house and the two sat on the living room floor for some reason and chatted about why Victoria doesn’t like doing readings, the benefits of a writer keeping a day job, and why she’s drawn to poetry “projects.” If you’re in the Southern California…
Read MoreWRITERS’ BLOCK EPISODE 18: ANNA LEAHY
Anna Leahy is a poet, nonfiction writer, and professor. She is the author of the nonfiction book Tumor, and co-author of Conversing with Cancer, Generation Space, and What We Talk about When We Talk about Creative Writing. Her poetry collections are Aperture and Constituents of Matter. Her essays won the top prizes from Ninth Letter…
Read MoreWRITERS’ BLOCK EPISODE 17: EMILY BEAVER
Emily Beaver is a triple threat: writing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Emily is obsessed with people. She handles this by writing about them, and has done so ever since the age of eight. Since then she’s gone on to be published in various magazines and collections, including Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book, and…
Read MoreWRITERS’ BLOCK EPISODE 16: RICHARD BAUSCH
Writers’ Block returns from winter hiatus with a master storyteller–Richard Bausch. Richard is a novelist and short story writer with twelve novels, eight short story collections and a volume of poetry and prose under his belt. He has won two National Magazine Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lila-Wallace Reader’s Digest Fund Writer’s Award, the…
Read MoreWRITERS’BLOCK EPISODE 15: CAROLYN FORCHE
Mike got to sit down with Chapman Presidential Fellow and living legend Carolyn Forche! Carolyn Forche is a poet, editor, translator, human rights activist, professor, and all around badass. Her poetry collections include Blue Hour, The Angel of History, The Country Between Us, Gathering the Tribes, and the forthcoming, In the Lateness of the World.…
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