The Write Question

Series produced by KUFM - Montana Public Radio

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A weekly literary program that features writers from the American West and beyond. The Write Question is hosted and produced by former Montana Book Festival Director Lauren Korn and co-produced first by Peter Hoag and currently by Chris Moyles and Jake Birch. TWQ is distributed through PRX to public and community radio stations, as well as to listeners around the world.

Guests on The Write Question include authors writing from or about the western United States—or about subjects outside the American West that are applicable to the region. The series also features bestselling and emerging writers, visiting writers, illustrators, photographers, publishers, and other artists.


504 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
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Michael Finkel discusses “The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession.”

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 14, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Arnold “Smoke” Elser and Eva-Maria Maggi discuss Smoke’s memoir, “Hush of the Land: A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness.”

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Elise Atchison discusses her award-winning debut novel, "Crazy Mountain."

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Journalist Kathleen McLaughlin discusses "Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America's Blood Industry," recently released in ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Poet, farmer, and Missoula, Montana, county commissioner Josh Slotnick discusses his second collection of poetry, "If Only." This is part two of a ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Poet, farmer, and Missoula, Montana, county commissioner Josh Slotnick discusses his second collection of poetry, "If Only." This is part one of a ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Creator and former host of The Write Question Chérie Newman returns to discuss her debut memoir, "Other People's Pets: Critters, Careers, and Capit...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Alexandra Teague discusses her memoir, "Spinning Tea Cups: A Mythical American Memoir" (Oregon State Univ. Press).

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Nehiyaw (Cree) poet Emily Riddle discusses her award-winning debut poetry collection, "The Big Melt."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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"Pie lady" Kate Lebo discusses her newly revised and expanded cookbook, "Pie School: Lessons in Fruit, Flour & Butter."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Cartoonist Navied Mahdavian discusses his graphic memoir, "This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 06, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Poet and translator D.M. (Darby) Bradford discusses their sophomore collection "Bottom Rail on Top."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Sindya Bhanoo discusses her award-winning short story collection, "Seeking Fortune Elsewhere."

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Nov 16, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Stephanie Land discusses the follow-up to "Maid," her bestselling memoir, "Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education."

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Spokane, Washington-based poet Maya Jewell Zeller discusses "out takes/ glove box," her New American Poetry Prize-winning collection.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Poet and farrier Michael Earl Craig (Livingston, Montana) discusses "Iggy Horse" (Wave Poetry, 2023).

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMUN, Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Spokane, Washington-based fiction writer Erin Pringle discusses her newest short story collection, "Unexpected Weather Events" (Awst Press, 2023).

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Robin Wall Kimmerer reflects on the ten years that her best-selling book of essays, "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge a...

Bought by WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 05, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Mohawk writer Alicia Elliott discusses her debut novel, "And Then She Fell."

Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Poet Dara Barrois/Dixon (née Dara Wier) discusses her most recent collection, "Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina."

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WETS, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4