Category: Writers Forum

Writers?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ Forum is hosted by Dr. Betty Parker Duff and is a new program at WERU designed to bring you the voices of Maine writers from all over the state but especially from the coastal region.

Writers Forum 8/8/13

Producer/Host: Ellie O’Leary
Engineer: Amy Browne

Program Topic: Maine Writers

Key Discussion Points:
a) young adult fantasy literature
b) Irish mythology
c) animal rescue
d) Kickstarter
e) memoir

Guests:

A) Ellen Booraem, ellenbooraem.com, evb9@myfairpoint.net

B) Gail Van Wart, Out of the Blue LLC, www.schooljunglesafari.com, peakedmtfarm@me.com

Writers Forum 6/13/13

Producer/Host: Ellie O’Leary
Engineer: Amy Browne

Program Topic:

Key Discussion Points:

a)The Frost Place, http://frostplace.org,
b)The Iota Conference of Short Prose, http://www.cclc.me/iota
c)The Cobscook Community Learning Center, http://www.cclc.me
d)Off the Coast, Maine’s International Poetry Journal, http://off-the-coast.com,
e)Pyramid Life Center, www.pyramidlife.org,

Guests:
A) Dawn Potter, ironduke@tdstelme.net, The Frost Place, frostplace.org
B) Penny Guisinger, penny@thecclc.org, The Iota Conference of Short Prose,
C) Valerie Lawson, valerie_lawson1@hotmail.com, The Cobscook Community Learning Center and Off the Coast

Writers Forum 5/9/13

Producer/Host: Ellie O’Leary
Engineer: Amy Browne

Program Topic: the writing life

Key Discussion Points:
a) Being fat.
b) Using the word fat.
c) island schools
d) island life

Guests:
Cheryl Fuller, Jungian therapist from Belfast reading from her work in progress tentatively titled “The Fat Chronicles”. www.JungAtHeart.com
Eva Murray of Matinicus, author of “Well Out to Sea—Year-round on Matinicus Island” and “Island Schoolhouse—One room for all,”

Writers Forum 4/11/13

Producer/Host: Ellie O’Leary
Engineer: Amy Browne

Program Topic: the writing life

Key Discussion Points:
a) Using photos as writing prompts
b) Free verse/ poetic forms
c) National Poetry Month
d) Place-based writing

Guests:

A) Carol-Lynn Rossel, Rossel@fairpoint.net, multi-media artist, author of two poetry books, Russian Journey and Tea and Symphony
B) Deborah Cummins, www.DeborahCummins.com, author of three poetry collections: Counting the Waves, Beyond the Reach, and From the Road It Looks Like Paradise. She also has a memoir of linked essays Here and Away:Discovering Home on an Island in Maine.

Writers Forum 3/14/13

Producer/Host: Ellie O’Leary
Engineer: Amy Browne

Issue: Writing

Program Topic:
Key Discussion Points (list at least 3):
a) sexual abuse, pedophilia
b) writing helpful to both writer and audience
c) the life of a game warden
d) deer poaching
e) wildlife preservation

Guests:
Carl Russell, author of No Telling Aloud, NoTellingAloud@yahoo.com
John Ford, author of Suddenly the Cider Didn’t Taste So Good, jonnylaw@fairpoint.net

Writers Forum 2/14/13

Producer/Host: Ellie O’Leary
Engineers: Matt Murphy & Amy Browne

Issue: Writing

Program Topic:
Key Discussion Points:
a) cooking in Antarctica – hoosh, pemmican
b) Shackleton expedition
c) Maine cooking
d) gathering recipes

Guests
:
Jason Anthony author of Hoosh: Roast Penguin, Scurvy Day, and Other Stories of Antarctic Cuisine jasoncanthony@yahoo.com, www.Albedoimages.com

Sandra Oliver, author of Maine Home Cooking; Saltwater Foodways: New Englanders and Their Foods at Sea and Ashore in the 19th Century & Saltwater Foodways Companion Cookbook; Food in Colonial and Federal America; and Giving Thanks: Thanksgiving History and Recipes
Food column: Taste Buds, a weekly Bangor Daily News blog
sandyoliver47@gmail.com