Wrote Podcast

We welcome back Jerry L Wheeler to the Wrote Podcast House. Jerry is relaunching his review website and the journey to put it back out there as a beacon for reviewing queer works || The Importance of Queer Voices from the community || The Human Connection to Writing || RFQs || What's Ahead || Credits and Outtake

We welcome ARSHAD AHSANUDDIN to the Wrote Podcast house! Journey as a writer || How his background in hermatopathology informed his vampire series || Gay Romance themes in SciFI/Fantasy works || Artwork || Rapid Fire Questions || Comic Adaptations || What's Ahead || Credits

We welcome Joe Okonkwo to the Wrote Podcast house! Journey as an actor AND writer! || How Theater informs writing and the creativity involved in creating something from nothing || Jazz and historical fiction || The Harlem Experience || RFQs || What's Ahead || Credits

We welcome SCOTT ALEXANDER HESS to the Wrote Podcast house this week! Come join us as we discuss: Scott's journey as a writer and literary professional || His two works Skyscraper and The Butcher's Sons and the great reviews for both || Writing in different genres | Style changes between genres || Reaching your audience || Rapid Fire Questions || What's Next and Credits

We welcome MICHAEL JENSEN to the Wrote Podcast house! Journey as a literary and entertainment professional || LGBT Issues/AfterElton.com || Historical Voices and Places || Gay Figures/Characters in History || Self-Publishing || RFQs || What's Ahead || Credits and Blooper/Outtake

Baz and Vance take a moment to reflect on not only a rather bruising 2016, but to celebrate what was great about it, talk about what lies ahead that has nothing to do with those damnable dark clouds gathering in Washington, and just a general talk across multiple points of interest across all mediums of queer storytelling. A BIG shout out to all the artists who appeared on our show in 2016 - we couldn't have done this without you! HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

We welcome back Tim O'Leary and Brent Hartinger for part two of our rapid fire bullet train discussion on queer representation in mainstream media (Print, Screen, Television). Queer Protags - Why aren't there more of them? Gay Sensibility - Is mainstreaming the answer? Game of Thrones vs. Spartacus - who was better with queer characters? Quantity over Quality? Which is better? To self-pub or not ... that is the question. What's ahead for both Tim and Brent And just want IS Cockshrubbery? Listen to the outtake in the end to find out the lexicography of this little gem.

We welcome JEFF MANN to the Wrote Podcast house! Tell us about your start and journey as a literary professional || Poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction || Balancing gay identity with Southern/Appalachian identity || The Bear Community || Queer Spaces and the Importance they have for the community || RFQs || What's Ahead and Closing Credits || Outtake

We welcome back Kate Aaron, Fred Feeley, Jr, and Dr. Redfern Jon Barrett to the Wrote Podcast in a special SPOTLIGHT episode - Getting the Conversation Started - Part 2 Topics on hand - Fake News, SCOTUS, Queer Rights, What's Ahead, Queer Youth, Role of Government in Peoples Lives. Please join us for a robust discussion with members from the queer community of writers as we discuss issues that our community is facing in a post Trump election era.

We welcome back BRENT HARTINGER and TIM O'LEARY to the Wrote Podcast house! We have part one of a intense, witty, humorous debate and discussion on screenplays and visual media with an eye to queer storytelling in the mainstream. We talk about everything from Moonlight, The Real O'Neals, Looking, How To Get Away With Murder, and everything else in between. Are you an aspiring queer screenplay writer in the back waters of Iowa? We've got you covered there too! First of a gripping two part episode release (because there was just so much to talk about).