Episodes

  • River Writers - February 10th, 2025

    River Writers - February 10th, 2025
    Feb 10 2025
    Co-host Marianne Monson interviews local author Cindy Gentry about Sermons on the Couch, her collection of secular sermons.
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    29 mins
  • River Writers - January 13th, 2025

    River Writers - January 13th, 2025
    Jan 14 2025
    Sean Davis sits down with North Coast writer and poet Jason Arias in the Clatsop Community College Library. They discuss Jason’s two books: A Momentary Illumination of Objects In Motion and his new book of poetry nostraDAMus 2032. They also talk about the beauty of the North Coast and its literary scene.
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    29 mins
  • River Writers - December 9th, 2024

    River Writers - December 9th, 2024
    Dec 9 2024
    Marianne Monson sits down with Sallie Vandegrift, author and editor, for a conversation about the art of these practices as well as the world of literary arts nonprofits.
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    29 mins
  • River Writers - November 11th, 2024

    River Writers - November 11th, 2024
    Nov 11 2024
    Marianne Monson plays a segment of the recording of Karl Marlantes’ keynote address at the October 2024 Astoria Creative Writing Festival sponsored by The Writers Guild.
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    29 mins
  • River Writers - October 14th, 2024

    River Writers - October 14th, 2024
    Oct 14 2024
    Sean talks to Best Selling author Mike Magnuson. Magnuson teaches at Pacific University’s Low-Residency MFA program that meets in the winters in Seaside. He is the managing editor of a new Creative NonFiction Magazine called Sneaker Wave. Sean and Mike talk about what makes a good memoir, what it was like to teach with Harry Crews, and much more.
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    29 mins
  • River Writers - September 9th, 2024

    River Writers - September 9th, 2024
    Sep 9 2024
    Marianne Monson interviews local author Asher Finch
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    29 mins
  • River Writers August 12, 2024

    River Writers August 12, 2024
    Aug 12 2024
    Sean speaks to Oregon Book Award winner Lidia Yuknavitch about the writer as an observer and how to write about social issues without going insane.
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    29 mins
  • River Writers - July 8th, 2024

    River Writers - July 8th, 2024
    Jul 9 2024
    Marianne Monson interviews Grays River poet Robert Michael Pyle.
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    29 mins