WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Audio archives of spoken word broadcasts from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill (weru.org)
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.
Producer/Host: Ellie O’Leary
Engineer: Amy Browne
Topic: Maine writers and their work
Key Discussion Points (list at least 3):
a) poetry
b)poetry, creative life – midcoast, down east
c) getting poetry published
d) The Illuminated Sea Press
Guests:
Dave Morrison: author of Clubland and of a new collection, fail, which came out in the fall of
2012, www.dave–morrison.com
Jacob Fricke: immediate past Poet Laureate of Belfast, jacob@belfastpoetry.com
Call In Program: No
Producer/Host: Ellie O’Leary
Engineer: Amy Browne
Issue: Maine writers and their work
Key Discussion Points:
a) historical fiction
b) figure skating
c) writing from real life as fiction or non fiction
Guests:
A) Jennifer Wixson: author of Hens and Chickens, first of four books in the Sovereign Series; https://www.facebook.com/Jennifer.Wixson.author
B) Erica Rand: author of Red Nails Black Skates: Gender, Cash, and Pleasure On and Off the Ice; http://ericarand.org
C) Kevin C. Mills, author of two works of historical fiction Breakwater and Sons and Daughters of the Ocean as well as Sidelined, his book on his sports journalism career. http://www.kevincmills.com
Host: Ellie O’Leary
Engineer: Amy Browne
Issue: Maine writers and their work
Key Discussion Points:
a) writing about the outdoor life
b) hunting
c) poetry and essay from nature
d) Bangor Book Fest: www.BangorBookFest.org
e) The Belfast Poetry Festival: www.belfastpoetry.org
Guests:
A) Robin Follette, www.RobinFollette.com
B) Elizabeth Garber, ElizabethGarberpoetry.com
Call In Program: No
Host: Ellie O’Leary
Engineer: Amy Browne
Issue: Writing
Key Discussion Points:
a) memoir, fiction
b) MWPA workshops offered down east: www.MaineWriters.org
c) Bangor Book Fest: www.BangorBookFest.org
d) Lit Readings and Libations at Slainte in Portland
e) elder care
Guests:
A) Patricia Taub, memoirist and author of The Mother of My Invention. pparee2011@gmail.com
B) Kate Cone, co-founder of Lit Readings and Libations in Portland, reading from her novel-in-progress No One to Bury. kecone@colby.edu
Call In Program: No
Political Broadcast: No
Host: Ellie O’Leary
Engineer: Amy Browne
*writing mysteries in Maine
*sailing, Matinicus, lobster hauling
*police procedure
*art & antiques theft
Guests:
-Darcy Scott, author of the Island Mystery Series including Matinicus, Reese’s Leap, and the third book currently being drafted. www.DarcyScott.net
-Robert Fuller, author of Unnatural Deaths, a police procedural mystery. www.UnnaturalDeaths.com
-Mark Sisco, author of The Masterworks Deal, a mystery in progress. marksisco@roadrunner.com
Call In Program: No
Producer/Host: Joan Clemons
Engineer: Joel Mann
Program Topic: mystery writing
*Where do ideas for the mysteries you’ve written come from?
*Does having the same amateur detective in more than one book cramp your style?
*How are mysteries different today from the days of Agatha Christie?
Guests:
Dorothy Cannell (dotnet@localnet.com)
Paul Doiron (Paul Doiron.com)
Vicki Doudera (vicki@vickidoudera.com)
Call In Program: No
Producer/Host: Ellie O’Leary
Engineer: Amy Browne
Issue: Writing
Program Topic:
Key Discussion Points:
a)science fiction and fantasy as genres
b)the Liaden Universe, writing a whole new universe
c)collaboration in writing
Guests by name and affiliation: P
A) Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, husband & wife team of science fiction/fantasy writers.
Their books and other items of interest can be found at www.Korval.com.
Call In Program: No
Issue: Writing
Host: Ellie O’Leary
Engineer: Amy Browne
Key Discussion Points:
a)lost treasures in New England
b)religion with snakes
Guests:
Patricia Hughes, author of Lost Treasures,www.patriciahughes.net
Bruce Pratt, author of the novel Serpents of Blissful and the poetry collection, Boreal. www.bepratt.com
Call In Program: No
NOTE: (Local writer whose barn burned recently, as mentioned on today’s show): Darthia Farm, http://www.giveforward.com/darthiafarmphoenixfund or Darthia Phoenix Fund, Bar Harbor Bank & Trust, P.O. Box 159, Winter Harbor ME 04693.