SoundPages Podcast
1) All Over the Map – Hillary Behrman
Hillary Behrman’s project for the 2025 Jack Straw Writers Program is a novel called All Over the Place and a collection of short stories called Lake Effect that explore human care and intimacy in a wo...Show More
2) Learning How to Fish Again – Monique Ouk
Monique Ouk’s project for the 2025 Jack Straw Writers Program is a series of poems, essays, and fiction pieces that attempt to record her family’s history, her parents’ experience of surviving the Cam...Show More
3) The Forest Bison – Nhatt Nichols
Nhatt Nichols’s project for the 2025 Jack Straw Writers Program is a non-fiction graphic novel about the history of the Białowieża Forest, a World Heritage Area that sits between Poland and Belarus, a...Show More
4) When Mother Took Her Hair Down – Sigrun Susan Lane
Sigrun Susan Lane’s project for the 2025 Jack Straw Writers Program is a collection of poems about her immigrant family and their origins in Iceland. In her conversation with curator Kathleen Alcalá, ...Show More
5) Jenny Harrington Lill – How to Write a Eulogy for a 10-Year-Old
Jenny Harrington Lill’s project for the 2025 Jack Straw Writers Program is a memoir about her late son, Ewan, who was diagnosed with an aggressive form of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2018. In her...Show More
6) Gravity – Asha Dore
Asha Dore’s project for the 2025 Jack Straw Writers Program is an autoethnography titled Gravity that focuses on weird crime in Florida, class, and neurodivergence. In her conversation with curator ...Show More
7) Distance – Bill Hollands
Bill Hollands’s project for the 2025 Jack Straw Writers Program is a collection of poems that incorporate pop culture elements from his childhood. In his conversation with curator Kathleen Alcalá, th...Show More
8) The Godspore King – Gabriel Moseley
Gabriel Moseley’s project for the 2024 Jack Straw Writers Program is a speculative fiction novel set at a fundamentalist Christian camp in the Olympic Peninsula, where the revelation of a child’s heal...Show More
9) The Dim – Stacy Nathaniel Jackson
Stacy Nathaniel Jackson’s project for the 2024 Jack Straw Writers Program is a novel that he describes as “Epic, leaning speculative fiction, with a horror lens.” The Dim centers on a headhunter who h...Show More
10) A Killer Whale Calls – Catherine DeNardo
Catherine Denardo’s project for the 2024 Jack Straw Writers Program is a piece of nonfiction narrative writing that celebrates the sounds of the Southern Residents, a community of endangered killer wh...Show More