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  Sheila is talking with Port Townsend based poet, teacher and translator Afrose Ahmed about her writing, the impromptu poems she writes for others, and the evolution of her interest in the power of writing. Listen

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  Sheila talks with poets Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano about their work encouraging each other’s writing as well as creating the Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts for Your Writing Practice. Listen

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  Sheila talks with poet Elizabeth Austen about her work as a poet and her tenure as WA State Poet Laureate. Listen

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  Sheila talks with Doris Baizley about her work as a playwright bringing the words of communities to the stage. Listen

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  1) Sheila is interviewed about her memoir, A New Theology, on KUOW by Elizabeth Austin. Listen
  2) Sheila is interviewed on BlogTalkRadio by Steve Dahlberg & Mary Alice Long. She talks about bringing our creativity to writing from personal experience. Listen
  3) Sheila is interviewed about writing creative non-fiction by Mark Matousek for his website about personal awakening and transformation. Listen
  4) Sheila is interviewed by The Writing Show host Paula B. on the subject of the personal essay. Listen

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  1) Sheila talks with Susan Bono about her career as a writer, editor, publisher and teacher. Listen
  2) Sheila talks with Petaluma editor and author Susan Bono about writing and promoting her new collections of essays, What Have We Here: Essays About Keeping House and Finding Home. Listen

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  Sheila talks with career journalist and investigative reporter Tony Brenna about his life writing for publications in the US and abroad. Listen

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  Sheila talks with author Jody Gentian Bower about writing and supporting her book Jane Eyre’s Sisters: How Women Live and Write the Heroine’s Story. Listen

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  Sheila talks with Patty Cogen author of nonfiction for parents of internationally adopted children, as well as poet and essayist. Listen

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  Sheila Bender talks with filmmaker and screenwriter Steve de Jarnatt about his turn to writing fiction. Listen

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  Sheila talks with Michael D’Alessandro about his poetry and his small poetry press project, bedouin books. Listen

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  Sheila talks with visual artist, novelist and poet Rikki Ducornet about her writing and teaching and small book publishing venture. Listen

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  Sheila is talking with New York fiction writer and essayist Janice Eidus about current developments in her writing and teaching career. Listen

Sheila talks with Seattle freelance writer Glenn Fleishman, tech columnist for many magazines and publisher of his own venture, the online periodical, The Magazine. Listen

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  Sheila talks with Ruth Folit, creator of LifeJournal software (which includes an add-on for writers) and founder of the International Association for Journal Writing. Listen

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  Sheila talks with Jeannine Hall Gailey about her life in poetry. Listen

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  Sheila speaks with writer Christi Killien Glover about her blog and novella. Listen

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  Sheila speaks with Centrum Foundation’s Port Townsend Writers’ Conference program manager Jordan Hartt about his writing and project of the heart Writing Across Borders. Listen

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  Sheila talks with Adrianne Harun about her award winning novel, A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain, and her career as a fiction writer and instructor in the Rainier Writer’s Workshop. Listen

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  Sheila talks with poet and essayist Esther Helfgott about her writing life and work building community through writing. Listen

• Sheila participates in a round table discussion of the writing she, Molly Hollenbach and Wendy Chapman did in playwright Doris Baisley’s workshop. Listen

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  Sheila Bender speaks with David D. Horowitz, Seattle poet and founder of Rose Alley Press. Listen

Sheila speaks with fiction writer Pam Houston about her book Contents May Have Shifted, the Port Townsend, WA 2013 Community Read. Listen

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  Sheila talks with poet Holly J. Hughes about her poetry and her teaching career as a writer. Listen

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  Sheila talks with agent and novelist Andrea Hurst about the new aspects of agenting, publishing and writing. Listen

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  Sheila speaks with poet Gayle Kaune about her poetry collections and writing life as a poet. Listen

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  Sheila talks with author Rita Kepner about her memoir Through Fire and Water: True Stories of Rita Marie Matthiesen as told to Laura Callender, which she wrote using a pen name. Listen

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  Sheila talks with the Judith Kitchen and Stan Rubin, heads of The Rainier Writers’ Workshop about low-residency MFA programs. Listen

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  Sheila speaks with journalist Carolyn Kortge about her nonfiction work, The Spirited Walker: Fitness Walking for Clarity, Balance, and Spiritual Connection. Listen

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  Sheila talks with playwright Mara Lathrop about her writing and her career. Listen

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  Sheila talks with poet and blues musician Gary Lilley about the roots of his writing and interest in playing the blues. Listen

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  Sheila talks with author and poet Ellie Matthews and her husband Carl Youngman about their work with the Madrona Writers and how prompts facilitate writing. Listen

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  Sheila talks with poet and poetry reading curator Bill Mawhinney about his writing life and poetry. Listen

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  Sheila talks with Cheryl Merrill about the writings in her memoir-in-progress about several trips to Africa to walk with elephants. Listen

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  Sheila talks with creative nonfiction writer Brenda Miller about her work and teaching. Listen

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  Sheila talks with author Susan Orlean about her writing career from journalism to feature articles to books. Listen

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  Sheila speaks with Dennis Must about his long writing career from plays to the novel The World’s Smallest Bible. Listen

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  Sheila talks about writing and publishing with Terry Persun, author of over a dozen books of fiction and poetry. Listen

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  Sheila talks with John Pierce, technical editor for companies such as Microsoft as well as editor of poetry for Copper Canyon and Floating Bridge Press. Listen

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  Sheila talks with award-winning novelist, performer and playwright Sarah Pleydell about her work. Listen

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  Sheila talks with author and publisher Midge Raymond about her fiction, non-fiction and Ashland Creek Press. Listen

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  Sheila talks with writer, writing teaching and writing practice provocateur Judy Reeves. Listen

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  Sheila speaks with writer David Reich about his memoir-in-progress. Listen

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  Sheila talks with chaplain Stephanie Tivona Reith about writing contemporary psalms. Listen

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  Sheila speaks with poet Susan Rich about her collection Cloud Pharmacy and teaching poetry. Listen

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  Sheila talks with award-winning memoirist Sue William Silverman about her career in writing and teaching and her newest memoir, The Pat Boone Fan Club. Listen

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  Sheila talks with Barbara Sjoholm about her work as a novelist, translator, and creative nonfiction writer. Listen

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  Sheila talks with poet Judith Skillman about her new books of both poetry and lessons for poets. Listen

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  Sheila talks with Barbara Stahura about her work as a novelist, translator, and creative nonfiction writer. Listen

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  Sheila speaks with Tina Tessina, who as a psychotherapist and author of 13 books, works and writes about couples and romance. Listen

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  Sheila talks with novelist and memoirist Molly B. Tinsley about her foray into writing a novel for middle graders. Listen

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  Sheila talks with feminist fiction writer Kathryn Trueblood and her work and the publishing world. Listen

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  Sheila talks with Port Townsend editor Julie Van Pelt about how editors work and her career and beliefs as an editor. Listen

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  Sheila talks with poet, journalist, and memoirist Beverly West about the writing of her memoir Finding My Way Back to 1950s Paris. Listen

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  Sheila talks with fiction writer Susan Wingate about writing and promoting one’s work. Listen

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  Sheila talks with Seattle poet Carolyne Wright about her life in poetry. Listen