The Write Question

312 - “My imagination is rooted in place; it doesn’t exist in the ether”: Joe Wilkins on writing ‘The Entire Sky’

The Write Question is a weekly literary program hosted by Lauren Korn that features authors from the American West—and beyond—including James Lee Burke, Kate Lebo, Anne Helen Petersen, Robert Wrigley, Jess Walter, Stephen Graham Jones, Hoa Nguyen, Maggie Shipstead, Elissa Washuta, and others.

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312 - “My imagination is rooted in place; it doesn’t exist in the ether”: Joe Wilkins on writing ‘The Entire Sky’

Thu, 12 Dec 2024
311 - ‘Cloud Missives’: Manifesting and excavating the self with Haudenosaunee poet Kenzie Allen

Thu, 05 Dec 2024
310 - TWQ Mini: Meghan Keane is a ‘Party of One,’ her own best life partner

Sun, 01 Dec 2024
309 - Encore: ‘And Then She Fell’: Alicia Elliott on motherhood, horror, and storytelling

Sun, 01 Dec 2024
308 - TWQ Mini: NPR’s Andrew Limbong discusses 2024’s reading trends and ‘Books We Love’

Sat, 30 Nov 2024
307 - Chris La Tray on ‘Becoming Little Shell’: “If pride was the air I was breathing, grief was what I was exhaling” (Part Two)

Thu, 14 Nov 2024
306 - Chris La Tray on ‘Becoming Little Shell’: “What kind of society do we live in where any Indigenous people can be considered ‘landless’ in the first place?” (Part One)

Thu, 07 Nov 2024
305 - ‘Scattered Snows, to the North’: Retracing steps and self-correcting with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Phillips

Mon, 04 Nov 2024
304 - Live! Pledge week episode: Lauren Korn, Justin Angle, and Sarah Aronson discuss climate anxiety, environmental ethics, and care

Thu, 24 Oct 2024
303 - “I wanted to learn her, as if Carolyn were some kind of language”: Sarah Gerard on her friend, her murder, and an obsession with the unthinkable

Thu, 31 Oct 2024
302 - Ben Goldfarb’s interspecies imagination in ‘Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet’

Thu, 17 Oct 2024
301 - “What if the world is always ending?”: Celebrating ten years of ‘Station Eleven’ with Emily St. John Mandel

Thu, 10 Oct 2024
300 - Jory Mickelson interrogates and writes into Western histories and landscapes in ‘All This Divide’

Thu, 03 Oct 2024
299 - “It’s now or it might-not-be-ever”: Hanif Abdurraqib’s urgent meditations on time, success, and witness in ‘There’s Always This Year’

Thu, 26 Sep 2024
298 - A “Climate Solutions Week” encore: Digging into regenerative farming with ‘Healing Grounds’ author Liz Carlisle

Thu, 12 Sep 2024
297 - TWQ Mini: About Third Act, Bill McKibben says, “There’s no known way to stop old people from voting”

Sat, 07 Sep 2024
296 - TWQ Mini with Sarah Capdeville: “Hope is an action, a practice, and a way of being”

Sat, 31 Aug 2024
295 - TWQ Mini: Kevin Barry talks about his “abandoned Butte, Montana, novel” in this sneak peek of The Write Question’s eighteenth season

Sat, 17 Aug 2024
294 - Dr. Alan Townsend: “You don’t have to be a scientist to have a scientific lens on the world and let that influence your life in positive ways”

Thu, 13 Jun 2024
293 - Live! Pledge week episode: Montana Poet Laureate Chris La Tray on poetry, public radio, and ‘Becoming Little Shell’

Thu, 18 Apr 2024
292 - Maxim Loskutoff: “What Montana represents to me is an entire species-wide need to re-evaluate our relationship with the natural world”

Thu, 06 Jun 2024
291 - “The truth of the West is a constellation”: Betsy Gaines Quammen discusses ‘Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America’

Thu, 30 May 2024
290 - TWQ Mini: NPR’s Rachel Martin attempts to “hold the light” and “lean into weird” in new podcast, ‘Wild Card’

Sun, 26 May 2024
289 - “Grief was a safe space for me”: Victoria Chang on engaging with the work of abstract artist Agnes Martin

Thu, 23 May 2024
288 - The possibility of a door left open: Leonard S. Marcus helps celebrate 50 years of children’s programming on MTPR

Thu, 16 May 2024
287 - TWQ Mini: Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series is coming to a close; the author is coming to the Helena Civic Center

Sat, 11 May 2024
286 - ‘With Every Great Breath’: Rick Bass on beauty, writing beyond his “cone of light,” and interrogating metaphor

Thu, 09 May 2024
285 - “What lifts your heart?”: Melissa Kwasny on “the big loss” and taking ‘The Cloud Path’ to healing

Thu, 25 Apr 2024
284 - TWQ Mini: The Moth Radio Hour’s Chloe Salmon on translating stage performances to the page and on the importance of storytelling, public radio

Sun, 21 Apr 2024
283 - TWQ Mini: Toni Jensen, UM’s James and Lois Welch Distinguished Visiting Native American Writer, to read at Missoula Art Museum

Fri, 12 Apr 2024
282 - Learning to reconnect with banished softness: Tessa Hulls on feeding “the ghosts that stand between mothers and daughters”

Thu, 11 Apr 2024
281 - Carmen Maria Machado on form & genre, fairy tales & urban legends, lineage & representation

Thu, 04 Apr 2024
280 - “It’s hard to make human beings believe in things”: Marie-Helene Bertino on belief, education, and the creative process in ‘Beautyland’

Thu, 28 Mar 2024
279 - TWQ Mini: Min Jin Lee on late-blooming, spending money, creating communities of care, and more!

Sat, 16 Mar 2024
278 - Peddling bright colors: Michael Finkel investigates ‘A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession’ in ‘The Art Thief’

Thu, 14 Mar 2024
277 - The gold in them thar hills is a hush: Arnold “Smoke” Elser and Eva-Maria Maggi discuss Smoke’s ‘Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness’

Thu, 29 Feb 2024
276 - TWQ Outtake: What did Smoke Elser teach Eva-Maria Maggi? “It’s the hush of the land, really”

Thu, 29 Feb 2024
275 - Elise Atchison’s ‘Crazy Mountain’ explores community and commodity in a rapidly changing West

Thu, 15 Feb 2024
274 - Kathleen McLaughlin’s ‘Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America’s Blood Industry’

Thu, 08 Feb 2024
273 - Poetry and property taxes, part 2: Josh Slotnick on growth in the West, resiliency, and the “Shakespearean Threshold”

Thu, 25 Jan 2024
272 - Poetry and property taxes, part 1: Josh Slotnick on audience and the complexities of writing and “commissioner-ing”

Thu, 18 Jan 2024
271 - Former TWQ host pens memoir about critters, careers, and capitalism in Yellowstone Country

Thu, 11 Jan 2024
270 - “I want to listen to other people’s lifetimes; I want to listen to history”: Alexandra Teague’s ‘Spinning Tea Cups’ explores family, reality, and time

Thu, 28 Dec 2023
269 - Encore: On ancestors and exes: Plains Cree poet Emily Riddle explores kinship, the colonial project of Canada, and climate change in ‘The Big Melt’

Thu, 21 Nov 2024
267 - Kate Lebo’s ‘Pie School’ reunion: Washington’s favorite pie lady revises and expands her 2014 cookbook

Thu, 14 Dec 2023
266 - In ‘This Country,’ cartoonist Navied Mahdavian wonders, “Do I belong here? Is this where I want to be?”

Thu, 07 Dec 2023
265 - TWQ Mini: “The Brené Brown of the environmental movement,” Heather White, will be at the Bozeman Public Library tonight!

Wed, 06 Dec 2023
264 - D.M. Bradford’s ‘Bottom Rail on Top’ is a prismatic, paratextual intervention on Black history in America

Thu, 30 Nov 2023
263 - TWQ Mini: Andrew Limbong discusses NPR’s “thoughtfully curated” year-end list, Books We Love

Sun, 26 Nov 2023
250 - Encore: ‘This is Wildfire’: Nick Mott and Justin Angle follow award-winning podcast with “first of its kind” guide

Thu, 11 Jul 2024

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