New Rivers Press Podcast

This episode of the New Rivers Press Podcast provides a commentary on ways to improve your own creative writing. All advice found in the podcast comes from Benjamin Percy's craft book Thrill Me and Stephen King's memoir/writing guide On Writing.

New Rivers Press is a teaching press operating in association with Minnesota State University Moorhead. The press gives student interns hands-on experience with editing, publishing, and the business of books. Since 2003, every New Rivers Press title has been edited and designed by MSUM students under the supervision of New Rivers Press staff.

For more information about the press, our authors, and our upcoming events, follow us on social media @nrppodcast or check out our website: newriverspress.com.

The views expressed are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of New Rivers Press, Minnesota State University Moorhead, or any employees thereof.

Music Copyright © 2018 by Sakora Studio. Music composed by Thomas Maresh.

Podcast Image created by Mikaila Norman.

Interns Alex and Sarah interview a diverse collection of attendees at AWP Portland in March of 2019.

Ernesto L. Abeytia is a Spanish-American poet and teacher. He holds an MFA from Arizona State University and MAs from Saint Louis University and the Autonomous University of Madrid. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Fugue, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, PBS NewsHour, The Shallow Ends, Zocalo Public Square, and elsewhere.

Website: ernestoabeytia.com

Twitter: @eabeytia

Missy Ladygo

Creator and former Editor of Shards through the University of Houston,

Tamara Al-Qaisi-Coleman is a bi-racial Muslim writer and artist. She holds dual Bachelor’s degrees in Creative Writing and History. She is the Administrative Coordinator at Writers in the Schools, the Marketing and Development

Director of Defunkt Magazine and creator of Brown Girls Book Club. Her interests are Middle Eastern History, culture, linguistics, and biracial identity. She primarily writes from the Arab-American perspective. Her fiction, poetry, essays, and translation publications can be found or are forthcoming in: Scintilla Magazine, Paper Trains Journal, The Bayou Review: The Women's Issue, and Glass Mountain, Volume 21, Dead Eyes Literary Magazine.

Her visual Artistry can be found in Cosumnes River Journal, Sonder

Midwest Review, and Wordpeace Magazine.

Instagram: tamara_jean_

Beret Olsen

Jessica L. Walsh is the author of two poetry collections, The List of Last Tries and How to Break My Neck. Her work has appeared in RHINO, Tinderbox, Whale Road Review, and other journals. She teaches at a community college outside of Chicago and practices archery, which is the best therapy.

Website: jessicalwalsh.com

Facebook and Instagram: jessicalwalshpoet

KB is a Black queer nonbinary poet, editor, and educator currently based in Austin, TX. They have received fellowship invitations from the Vermont Studio Center, Lambda Literary, The Hurston/Wright Foundation, The Watering Hole, Winter Tangerine, and UTSA's African American Literatures and Cultures Institute. KB's poetry appears in The Cincinnati Review, The Matador Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, NAILED Magazine, The Shade Journal, Sappho's Torque, and other pretty places. When they're not on the stage or in the page, they serve as Program Coordinator for the University of Texas at Austin's Gender and Sexuality Center, Founder/Co-Organizer of ATX Interfaces, Teaching Artist for the Austin Library Foundation, Assistant Editor for Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and proud member of Lenguas Locxs Writers Collective. If you got this far, see them talk poems, sweetness & other things on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook. They think all your dreams are possible.

Website: earthtokb.com

Twitter and Instagram: earthtokb

New Rivers Press is a teaching press operating in association with Minnesota State University Moorhead. The press gives student interns hands-on experience with editing, publishing, and the business of books. Since 2003, every New Rivers Press title has been edited and designed by MSUM students under the supervision of New Rivers Press staff.

For more information about the press, our authors, and our upcoming events, follow us on social media @nrppodcast or check out our website: newriverspress.com.

Thank you to Minnesota State Educational Innovations for making this podcast possible.

The views expressed are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of New Rivers Press, Minnesota State University Moorhead, or any employees thereof.

Music Copyright © 2018 by Sakora Studio. Music composed by Thomas Maresh.

Podcast Image created by Mikaila Norman.

Intern Alex brings us back to March 2019, when NRP attended the AWP Conference and Bookfair in Portland, Oregon. NRP staff Nayt Rundquist and Kevin Carollo, along with NRP authors Elizabeth Mosier, Jehanne DuBrow, and Joel Peckham, read from their books and discuss trauma and memory.

New Rivers Press is a teaching press operating in association with Minnesota State University Moorhead. The press gives student interns hands-on experience with editing, publishing, and the business of books. Since 2003, every New Rivers Press title has been edited and designed by MSUM students under the supervision of New Rivers Press staff.

For more information about the press, our authors, and our upcoming events, follow us on social media @nrppodcast or check out our website: newriverspress.com.

Thank you to Minnesota State Educational Innovations for making this podcast possible.

The views expressed are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of New Rivers Press, Minnesota State University Moorhead, or any employees thereof.

Music Copyright © 2018 by Sakora Studio. Music composed by Thomas Maresh.

Podcast Image created by Mikaila Norman.

Intern Alex sits down with NRP author Gary Eldon Peter to discuss his book Oranges, his experience as a Short Story & Novel finalist in the Minnesota Book Awards, and the cross-generational LGBTQ experience.

New Rivers Press is a teaching press operating in association with Minnesota State University Moorhead. The press gives student interns hands-on experience with editing, publishing, and the business of books. Since 2003, every New Rivers Press title has been edited and designed by MSUM students under the supervision of New Rivers Press staff.

For more information about the press, our authors, and our upcoming events, follow us on social media @nrppodcast or check out our website: newriverspress.com.

Thank you to Minnesota State Educational Innovations for making this podcast possible.

The views expressed are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of New Rivers Press, Minnesota State University Moorhead, or any employees thereof.

Music Copyright © 2018 by Sakora Studio. Music composed by Thomas Maresh.

Podcast Image created by Mikaila Norman.

What do writing and archaeology have in common? More than you think. How does scent relate to memory? Well, we're not scientists, but we'll try our hand.

In the newest episode of the NRP Podcast, interns Alex and Alyssa sit down with Elizabeth Mosier (Excavating Memory: Archaeology and Home) and Jehanne Dubrow (throughsmoke: an essay in notes), whose books released on Monday, April 1, 2019.

Buy Excavating Memory: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780898233827/excavating-memory-archaeology-and-home.aspx?src=NEWR

Buy throughsmoke: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780898233780/throughsmoke.aspx?=srcNEWR

New Rivers Press is a teaching press operating in association with Minnesota State University Moorhead. The press gives student interns hands-on experience with editing, publishing, and the business of books. Since 2003, every New Rivers Press title has been edited and designed by MSUM students under the supervision of New Rivers Press staff.

For more information about the press, our authors, and our upcoming events, follow us on social media @nrppodcast or check out our website: newriverspress.com.

Thank you to Minnesota State Educational Innovations for making this podcast possible.

The views expressed are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of New Rivers Press, Minnesota State University Moorhead, or any employees thereof.

Music Copyright © 2018 by Sakora Studio. Music composed by Thomas Maresh.

Podcast Image created by Mikaila Norman.

This episode of The New Rivers Press Podcast showcases one of the best aspects of a teaching press: students working directly with authors. Tune in to hear our Publishing Practicum students interview the authors they've been working with. "Trace" by Melanie Figg, "With Teeth" by Natanya Pulley, and "I Will Tell This Story to the Sun until You Remember That You Are the Sun" by Erin Slaughter will be released in Fall 2019.

New Rivers Press is a teaching press operating in association with Minnesota State University Moorhead. The press gives student interns hands-on experience with editing, publishing, and the business of books. Since 2003, every New Rivers Press title has been edited and designed by MSUM students under the supervision of New Rivers Press staff.

For more information about the press, our authors, and our upcoming events, follow us on social media @nrppodcast or check out our website: newriverspress.com.

Thank you to Minnesota State Educational Innovations for making this podcast possible.

The views expressed are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of New Rivers Press, Minnesota State University Moorhead, or any employees thereof.

Music Copyright © 2018 by Sakora Studio. Music composed by Thomas Maresh.

Podcast Image created by Mikaila Norman.

In this episode of The New Rivers Press Podcast, Susan Smith Daniels is interviewed by intern Sarah Ernster. Susan Smith Daniels is the author of "The Genuine Stories", a collection of short stories revolving around Genevieve "Genuine" Eriksson, who has the supernatural ability to heal people.

You can buy "The Genuine Stories" here: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780898233759/the-genuine-stories.aspx?src=NEWR

New Rivers Press is a teaching press operating in association with Minnesota State University Moorhead. The press gives student interns hands-on experience with editing, publishing, and the business of books. Since 2003, every New Rivers Press title has been edited and designed by MSUM students under the supervision of New Rivers Press staff.

For more information about the press, our authors, and our upcoming events, follow us on social media @nrppodcast or check out our website: newriverspress.com.

Thank you to Minnesota State Educational Innovations for making this podcast possible.

The views expressed are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of New Rivers Press, Minnesota State University Moorhead, or any employees thereof.

Music Copyright © 2018 by Sakora Studio. Music composed by Thomas Maresh.

Podcast Image created by Mikaila Norman.

To celebrate Valentine's Day, New Rivers Press intern Aubrey Johnson reads from "The Mercurial Science of the Human Heart" by Vincent Reusch, one of NRP's newest releases.

You can purchase "The Mercurial Science of the Human Heart" here: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780898233704/the-mercurial-science-of-the-human-heart.aspx

New Rivers Press is a teaching press operating in association with Minnesota State University Moorhead. The press gives student interns hands-on experience with editing, publishing, and the business of books. Since 2003, every New Rivers Press title has been edited and designed by MSUM students under the supervision of New Rivers Press staff.

For more information about the press, our authors, and our upcoming events, follow us on social media or check out our website: newriverspress.com.

Thank you to Minnesota State Educational Innovations for making this podcast possible.

The views expressed are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of New Rivers Press, Minnesota State University Moorhead, or any employees thereof.

Transition Music Copyright © 2018 by Sakora Studio. Music composed by Thomas Maresh.

"I Need to Start Writing Things Down" by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/darkglow/

Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

Podcast Image created by Mikaila Norman.

A bite-sized glimpse into the 50 year history of New Rivers Press.

New Rivers Press is a teaching press operating in association with Minnesota State University Moorhead. The press gives student interns hands-on experience with editing, publishing, and the business of books. Since 2003, every New Rivers Press title has been edited and designed by MSUM students under the supervision of New Rivers Press staff.

For more information about the press, our authors, and our upcoming events, follow us on social media or check out our website: newriverspress.com.

Thank you to Minnesota State Educational Innovations for making this podcast possible.

The views expressed are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of New Rivers Press, Minnesota State University Moorhead, or any employees thereof.

Transition Music Copyright © 2018 by Sakora Studio. Music composed by Thomas Maresh.

"The Heart of New Rivers Printing" underscore: Etude by TheWorkingBamboo

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Podcast Image created by Mikaila Norman.

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How is a prose poem like a platypus? How are writers like astronauts? Kevin Zepper addresses these questions and more in this podcast.

New Rivers Press is a teaching press operating in association with Minnesota State University Moorhead. The press gives student interns hands-on experience with editing, publishing, and the business of books. Since 2003, every New Rivers Press title has been edited and designed by MSUM students under the supervision of New Rivers Press staff.

For more information about the press, our authors, and our upcoming events, follow us on social media or check out our website: newriverspress.com.

Thank you to Minnesota State Educational Innovations for making this podcast possible.

The views expressed are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of New Rivers Press, Minnesota State University Moorhead, or any employees thereof.

Music Copyright © 2018 by Sakora Studio. Music composed by Thomas Maresh.

Podcast Image created by Mikaila Norman.