Rick, Bob, and Mike answer your questions about writing in this funny and occasionally serious final episode of Season Three.

Hosted by Rick Krizman

Produced by Rick Krizman and Mike Magnuson

Featuring Bob Clark

Marcello Vazquez will return in future episodes.

Novelist and ACME Academy member Mary Helen Stefaniak calls in to Academy Party Headquarters in Menasha with a report on teaching creative writing in Beijing.

Hosted by Rick Krizman

Produced by Rick Krizman and Mike Magnuson

Featuring Mary Helen Stefaniak

With Bob Clark and Mike Magnuson

Marcello Vazquez will return in future episodes.

Valerie Laken - novelist, artist, musician - joins the Academy on the north shore of Lake Winnebago for Part Two of this discussion about trangressions in literature, Midwesternisms, and ways to produce serious work and have fun doing it.

Hosted by Rick Krizman

Produced by Rick Krizman and Mike Magnuson

Featuring Valerie Laken

With Bob Clark and Mike Magnuson

Marcello Vazquez will return in future episodes.

Valerie Laken - novelist, artist, musician - joins the Academy on the north shore of Lake Winnebago to discuss her roots as a writer and a thinker.

Hosted by Rick Krizman

Produced by Rick Krizman and Mike Magnuson

Featuring Valerie Laken

With Bob Clark and Mike Magnuson

Marcello Vazquez will return in future episodes.

Mary Helen Stefaniak guest hosts this discussion with novelist Kellie Wells about writing methods, writing mindsets, reading aloud, and our inner voices.

Hosted by Rick Krizman

Produced by Rick Krizman and Mike Magnuson

Featuring Mary Helen Stefaniak and Kellie Wells

Note: Bob Clark and Marcello Vazquez will return in future episodes.

Novelist Mary Helen Stefaniak joins ACME to discuss making time to write a novel and how to think about the sentences that go in it.

Hosted by Rick Krizman

Produced by Rick Krizman and Mike Magnuson

Featuring Mary Helen Stefaniak

Note: Bob Clark and Marcello Vazquez will return in future episodes.

Novelists Claire Davis and Mary Helen Stefaniak join ACME to discuss everything from metaphors to movies to red wine and the great city of Milwaukee.

Hosted by Rick Krizman

Produced by Rick Krizman and Mike Magnuson

Featuring Claire Davis and Mary Helen Stefaniak

Note: Bob Clark and Marcello Vazquez will return in future episodes.

The California Adventure begins in a jarring alternate reality where the members of the ACME Academy find themselves in Venice, tasked with defeating the age-old, art-killing nemesis of every writer: What do you do when you got nothin’?

ACME Writing Academy Season Two:

ACME’s California Adventure

Hosted by Rick Krizman.

Produced by Rick Krizman and Mike Magnuson

Featuring Chef Marcello Vazquez

With Bob Clark and Mike Magnuson

The Academy searches through the murk of their histories to find where their stories and storytelling methods come from, and when they can’t figure it out what it all means, they do the only sensible thing.

ACME Writing Academy Season Two:

ACME’s California Adventure

Hosted by Rick Krizman.

Produced by Rick Krizman and Mike Magnuson

Featuring Chef Marcello Vazquez

With Bob Clark and Mike Magnuson

On a lovely Santa Monica evening, with a $100 dollar porterhouse on the grill, the Academy ponders the endless layers of the bullshit involved in writing the stories of our lives, and along the way, they stumble into the dangerous territory of personal and cultural appropriation. And outright theft.

ACME Writing Academy Season Two:

ACME’s California Adventure

Hosted by Rick Krizman.

Produced by Rick Krizman and Mike Magnuson

Featuring Chef Marcello Vazquez

With Bob Clark and Mike Magnuson