The Essays of Joni B. Cole

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…

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”…

April 1, 2022

Discover Their and Her Art

We are talking to author Jean Leibowitz who paints under the name of Jean Wiecha and who spent 35 years working as a scientist…

March 6, 2022

Dayna Lorentz: Community, Connection and Healing

Dayna Lorentz is an attorney in the Vermont judiciary system who once worked in the foster system. She’s also a mother, an animal lover,…

February 2, 2022

Vermont: Home to Authors

Browse AuthorPods and the large number of Vermont-based authors on our platform is not a coincidence. Vermont is often reported to be the state…