The Write Question

Series produced by KUFM - Montana Public Radio

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A weekly literary program that features writers from the American West and beyond. The Write Question is hosted and produced by former Montana Book Festival Director Lauren Korn and co-produced first by Peter Hoag and currently by Chris Moyles and Jake Birch. TWQ is distributed through PRX to public and community radio stations, as well as to listeners around the world.

Guests on The Write Question include authors writing from or about the western United States—or about subjects outside the American West that are applicable to the region. The series also features bestselling and emerging writers, visiting writers, illustrators, photographers, publishers, and other artists.


507 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
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Renowned science writer David Quammen talks about "Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus," a National Book Award finalist.

Bought by KSJD, Yellowstone Public Radio, WETS, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Poet Caylin Capra-Thomas discusses "Iguana Iguana," her debut collection.

Bought by KWMR, KSJD, Yellowstone Public Radio, WETS, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Co-editors Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters talk about their second collaborative anthology, "Wanting: Women Writing About Desire."

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KSJD, WETS, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 16, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Poet and novelist Fatimah Asghar discusses their debut novel, "When We Were Sisters."

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KSJD, WETS, KVNF, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Havre, Montana-based poet Charles Finn discusses his collaborative collection, co-authored with photographer Barbara Michelman, "On a Benediction o...

Bought by KWMR, KSJD, Yellowstone Public Radio, WETS, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Alberta, Canada-based, Cree author Jessica Johns discusses her debut novel, "Bad Cree."

Bought by KVNF, KSJD, Yellowstone Public Radio, WETS, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Novelist Andrew Sean Greer discusses the sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Less," "Less Is Lost."

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KSJD, WETS, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jan 12, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Belgrade, Montana-based dictionary enthusiast Chrysti Smith, known to most as "Chrysti the Wordsmith," discusses her interstitial radio program hea...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WETS, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Nature writer and memoirist Marina Richie discusses her National Outdoor Book Award-winning debut, "Halcyon Journey: In Search of the Belted Kingfi...

Bought by KSJD, Yellowstone Public Radio, WETS, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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In June, Terry Tempest Williams visited Missoula, Montana, to take part in the 2022 “In the Footsteps of Norman Maclean” literary festival, which w...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WETS, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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In June, Terry Tempest Williams visited Missoula, Montana, to take part in the 2022 “In the Footsteps of Norman Maclean” literary festival, which w...

Bought by KVNF, Yellowstone Public Radio, WETS, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Great Falls, Montana-based novelist Leigh Ann Ruggiero discusses her Juniper Prize-winning novel, "Unfollowers."

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WETS, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Portland, Oregon-based novelist Jules Ohman discusses her debut novel, "Body Grammar."

Bought by KVNF, Yellowstone Public Radio, WETS, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Missoula-based designer Molly Russell and The Write Question Host Lauren Korn discuss the creative process and challenges that they encountered dur...

Bought by WETS, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Spokane-based authors and co-editors Sharma Shields and Maya Jewell Zeller discuss "Evergreen: Grim Tales and Verses from the Gloomy Northwest."

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WETS, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:47
  • Purchases: 5
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Award-winning journalist Nate Schweber discusses his book, "This America of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild."

Bought by KWMR, WETS, KVNF, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
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Senior Director and co-host of 'The Moth Radio Hour' Meg Bowles talks about the book she co-authored with other 'Moth' producers, "How To Tell A St...

Bought by KVNF, WETS, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Poet Taneum Bambrick talks at length about her first book, "Vantage" (2019), as well about her second collection, "Intimacies, Received" (2022).

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Prolific writer of the American West James Lee Burke talks about his newest novel, "Every Cloak Rolled in Blood," his [self-proclaimed] best and mo...

Bought by WETS, KVNF, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Oct 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Writer and professor of food and farming Liz Carlisle discusses "Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming," wh...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, and KVNF


  • Added: Sep 30, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3