A Presentation
Podcasting is a natural medium for writers: a place for storytelling, craft conversation, and connection. Listening to podcasts can be wonderful — eavesdropping on your favorite authors, learning about the publishing industry, deep-diving into specific genres. But creating your own podcast is even better. In this presentation, writer and podcast creator Courtney Balestier will share what a valuable tool podcasting can be for writers. We'll take a close look at different popular writing podcasts and formats — including shows like Between the Covers, Bookworm, and The New Yorker: Fiction — and talk about what goes into making a podcast, from the first idea to the first episode. (And, yes, how you can monetize them.) We'll explore the ways in which podcasting can expand your creative practice, promote your writing, and help you hone your craft. And you might even leave with an idea for your own show! This panel will end with a Q & A, so be sure to bring your curiosity and your questions.
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Courtney Balestier is a writer whose work focuses on the intersection of place and identity, particularly in her native Appalachia. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Joyland, The New Yorker online, Lucky Peach, The New York Times, Saveur, Oxford American, New York, Wired, and others. Her writing has been anthologized in The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell (Ohio University Press, 2019), Cornbread Nation 7: The Best of Southern Food Writing (UGA Press, 2014) and nominated for a James Beard Foundation Journalism Award and a Pushcart Prize. She is the creator and host of WMFA, a writing podcast on the LitHub Radio Network whose guests include authors like Deesha Philyaw, Karen Russell, Alexander Chee, and Tommy Orange. Courtney holds a bachelor's degree in news journalism from West Virginia University and a master's degree in magazine journalism from New York University. She has taught at Wayne State University; Sweet Briar College, where she was an inaugural Sweet Briar College-Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Teaching Fellow; and Catapult, where she teaches an online workshop about writing place.
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