October 2, 2023 The Essays of Joni B. Cole ‘Show, tell, reflect,’ suggests Joni B. Cole, a seven-time author and founder of The Writer’s Center of WRJ in White River Junction, Vermont. We…
August 23, 2023 If Grief Is An Elephant If grief is an elephant, imagine how a small child might begin to encounter it: large, unfamiliar, weighty, an unwieldy mass. You might hear…
January 21, 2023 Hope and Renewal at Green Writers Press: An interview with Dede Cummings At the end of 2022, I sat down with poet, writer and Green Writers Press publisher Dede Cummings, who also published my second book,…
November 3, 2022 Charlotte Matthews and The Half-Life of Regret Charlotte Matthews is a poet, a writer, a University of Virginia professor, and founder of Whistle Words, a community writing project—or “womanship” as she…
October 20, 2022 On Creating The Vivid and Continuous Dream of Fiction Illusions made use of the relationship between the imagination and deeply instinctual emotions like fear and desire. People saw what they wanted to see…
September 15, 2022 Meant to Be: Author Jo Knowles’ Mission to Help Young Readers Make Sense of Their Lives We are talking to young adult Author Jo Knowles about her two recent books, Meant To Be (Candlewick Press, 2022) and Where The Heart…
August 5, 2022 Pen Names and Personas with Trish Esden When we first reached out to author Trish Esden about interviewing her for AuthorPods, we wavered between which of her pen names we should…
June 13, 2022 For The Love of Purple: Engaging with Author Laurie Forest I knew I needed to talk with Laurie Forest about the relationship she’s cultivated with her readers after I attended Phoenix Books’ “most interactive…
May 27, 2022 VT Author E.J. Myers and Sense of Place “What does it mean to love a place?” asks E.J. Myers in his book, “On Whitcomb Hill: Land, House, and History in Rural Vermont”…
May 2, 2022 Melanie Finn wins The 2021 Vermont Book Award The 2021 winners for The Vermont Book Award have been announced and AuthorPods is delighted to share that author Melanie Finn is among them…