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.
River Writers
River Writers is brought to you by the Writers Guild of Astoria, and features interviews about the craft of writing. The program is co-hosted by Marianne Monson and Sean Davis.
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,…
Marianne Monson interviews local author Asher Finch
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.
Marianne Monson interviews Grays River poet Robert Michael Pyle.
Host Sean Davis goes to Ric’s Open Mic or the Poets on the Pier and spoke to Jennifer Nightingale. River Writers is on scene to speak to some really great people and highlight this open mic at WineKraft on Pier 11 the first Tuesday of every month.
Marianne Monson speaks with local author and poet, Cliff Taylor
Marianne Monson interviews Mike Stark
Host Sean Davis speaks with author Kase Johnstun.
Host Marianne Monson speaks with American author and journalist Randall Sullivan
Host Dayle Olson interviews author Alan Rose.
Host Marianne Monson speaks with author Brenda Cárdenas
Dayle Olson has a conversation with Lower Columbia author and historian, Irene Martin.
Marianne Monson speaks with Astoria-based author and cartoonist Alyssa Graybeal
Host Dayle Olson interviews Sydney Stevens, author and historian of Oysterville.
An interview with Pacific Northwest Poet Emily Ransdell
Dayle Olson speaks with Bunny Ketterman
Marianne Monson interviews author Deborah Hazen
Marianne Monson interviews David Campiche
Marianne Monson interviews author Susan Banyas
Dayle Olson of the Writers Guild of Astoria interviews local writer and playwright Shawn Deal.
Host Marianne Monson interviews guest writer Elisa Carlsen of Astoria.
Dayle Olson of the Writers Guild interviews local author and playwright Jan Bono.
Marianne Monson interviews local musician, Israel Nebeker of Blind Pilot, on his songwriting process.
In this premier episode of River Writers, a new KMUN program brought to you by the Writer’s Guild of Astoria, co-hosts Marianne Monson and Dayle Olson talk all things writing, and preview what you can expect from this new endeavor.