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The Sound and the Future: Teaching Podcasting to MFA Students

Room 2105, Kansas City Convention Center, Street Level
Friday, February 9, 2024
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm

 

Podcasting classes are an exciting addition to the MFA curriculum but teaching them can be a pedagogical challenge. How do you explain sound editing to poets? What are the best narrative podcasts for essayists? Our panelists include the authors of Podcasting in the Creative Writing Classroom and cohosts of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast. They’ll outline how they created first-of-their-kind podcasting courses and how these classes can open up new vistas for MFA students and enrich their work.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWP_2024_event_outline.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Whitney Terrell cohosts the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast at Literary Hub. He is the author of The Good Lieutenant, The King of Kings County, and The Huntsman. His nonfiction appears in the New York Times, Harper's, and The New Republic. He teaches at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

V. V. Ganeshananthan (she/her) is the author of the novels Brotherless Night (a New York Times Editors’ Choice) and Love Marriage, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize and named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post. She cohosts Literary Hub's Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast.

Saul Lemerond is an assistant professor of English at Hanover College. He received his PhD in English with an emphasis in creative writing—fiction. He is dyslexic. He has a book, Digital Voices: Podcasting in the Creative Writing Classroom. Also, his short stories have appeared in JMWW and elsewhere.

Leigh Camacho Rourks is the author of the St. Lawrence Book Award winner, Moon Trees and Other Orphans. She is also the recipient of the Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award and the Robert Watson Literary Review Prize. She is an assistant professor of English and humanities at Beacon College.

Jared McCormack is a writer, teacher, and podcaster originally from rural Missouri. He is the host and coproducer of the MFA Writers podcast. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Pleiades, New Letters, Sonora Review, and elsewhere. Find him at JaredMcCormack.com.

#AWP24

February 7–10, 2024
Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City Convention Center