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Upwelling
Fifth Wednesdays at 9am

Join Michelle Blackwell, for Upwelling, where she interviews authors, poets, playwrights, historians, and songwriters about their recently published works. Get insights into their creative process and writing as well as publishing tips. Upwelling brings the richness of local literature to the airwaves, four times a year on the fifth Wednesday at 9:00 AM or as a podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

Recent Episodes
  • An interview with author Norma Watkins about her novel In Common and Mendocino County 2022 Youth Laureate, Sidney Regelbrugge about her poetry and writing journey.
  • An interview with award-winning author Ginny Rorby about her novel Like Dust I Rise. Ginny chronicles a family’s struggle to capture the American Dream from the Chicago Stockyards to Texas during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
  • Daniel Coshnear, winner of a Willa Cather Fiction Award, the Novella Prize, the Missouri Review Editor’s Prize, and the Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, reads from his recently published short story collection, Separation Anxiety. Local poet windflower reads her poetry and discusses her first poetry collection, Age Brings Them Home to Me.
  • Author of Into the Forest, Jean Hegland talks about her novel, Still Time which was rereleased in France, and historian Kim Bancroft delves into her book Writing Themselves Into History which reveals the family life of Emily, Matilda, and HH Bancroft through their own writing.
  • Author Tansy Chapman talks about her first novel, Rose Gray, Eco Poet Maureen Eppstein about her 2020 poetry collection Horizon Line, and two-time Emmy award-winning writer Laura Maria Censabella about her play, Paradise. Upwelling brings the richness of local literature to the airwaves.