Marianne Monson plays a segment of the recording of Karl Marlantes’ keynote address at the October 2024 Astoria Creative Writing Festival sponsored by The Writers Guild.

Sean talks to Best Selling author Mike Magnuson. Magnuson teaches at Pacific University’s Low-Residency MFA program that meets in the winters in Seaside. He is the managing editor of a new Creative NonFiction Magazine called Sneaker Wave. Sean and Mike talk about what makes a good memoir, what it was like to teach with Harry Crews,...

Marianne Monson interviews local author Asher Finch

Sean speaks to Oregon Book Award winner Lidia Yuknavitch about the writer as an observer and how to write about social issues without going insane.

Marianne Monson interviews Grays River poet Robert Michael Pyle.

Host Sean Davis goes to Ric’s Open Mic or the Poets on the Pier and spoke to Jennifer Nightingale. River Writers is on scene to speak to some really great people and highlight this open mic at WineKraft on Pier 11 the first Tuesday of every month.

Marianne Monson speaks with local author and poet, Cliff Taylor

Marianne Monson interviews Mike Stark

Host Sean Davis speaks with author Kase Johnstun.

Host Marianne Monson speaks with American author and journalist Randall Sullivan