Catherine Con Morse’s debut novel, The Notes , is a 2025 Chinese American Librarians Association Best Book Honorable Mention for Young Adult Fiction, a 2026 Panda Book Award nominee, and was shortlisted for the CRAFT First Chapters contest. Her newest book is The Summer I Remembered Everything (April 2025). A Kundiman fellow, Catherine received her MFA from Boston University, where she taught undergraduate creative writing for several years. Her work appears in Joyland , Letters , HOOT , Bostoni...
Jul 16, 2025•42 min
Cameron Roberson, who writes under the pen name Rob Cameron, is a teacher, linguist, and writer. Rob is also lead organizer for the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers and founder of Constellations Mentorship for the Octavia Project. He has poetry, stories, and essays in Star Line*, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , Foreign Policy Magazine , Tor.com , New Modality , Solarpunk Magazine , Apex , Clockwork Phoenix Five , Lightspeed , and others. Daydreamer , his debut middle grade no...
Jun 24, 2025•37 min
Ellen Oh is an award-winning author and editor of middle grade and young adult books such as The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee , YOU ARE HERE , Haru Zombie Dog Hero , Finding Junie Kim , The Dragon Egg Princess , The Spirit Hunters series (Books 1, 2, and 3), and the Prophecy trilogy ( Prophecy , Warrior ; and King ). She is also the editor of WNDB's middle grade anthology Flying Lessons and Other Stories , and the YA anthology A Thousand Beginnings and Endings . Ellen is a founding member of We ...
Jun 10, 2025•41 min
This special episode of NWP Radio features many of the educators behind Empowering Youth to Confront the Climate Crisis in English Language Arts , a co-published book from Teachers College Press and the National Writing Project. Recorded in three parts, you won't want to miss this comprehensive overview of this important book. 00:00 - Introduction/Systems Thinking with Richard Beach and Fawn Canady Richard Beach and Fawn Canady discuss chapter two of the book, focusing on how to engage students ...
Apr 29, 2025•1 hr 23 min
Tina Cane is the founder/director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI, and, from 2016-2024, served as the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island where she lives with her husband and three children. In her capacity as poet laureate, Cane established her state's first youth poetry ambassador program in partnership with Rhode Island Center for the Book, and brought the Poetry-in-Motion program from the New York City Transit System to Rhode Island's state-wide buses. Cane is the author of The Fifth Thought , Dear ...
Apr 15, 2025•42 min
Mahogany L. Browne is a Kennedy Center Next 50 fellow, writer, play-wright, organizer, and educator. Browne received fellowships from ALL ARTS, Arts for Justice, AIR Serenbe, Baldwin for the Arts, Cave Canem, Poets House, Mellon Research, Rauschenberg, and Wesleyan University. Browne’s books include A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe , Vinyl Moon , Chlorine Sky (optioned for Steppenwolf Theatre), Black Girl Magic , and banned books Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice and Woke Baby . F...
Apr 09, 2025•45 min
This episode of NWP Radio features an insightful conversation with Cynthia Ballenger , author of the new book Teaching Is Inquiry . Ballenger shares her teaching journey and the core ideas in her book about the power of inquiry-based learning, which encourages teachers to honor students' unexpected questions and ideas as opportunities for deeper exploration. Ballenger also discusses the challenges teachers face in maintaining time for reflection and collaboration, as well as the importance of fo...
Apr 01, 2025•32 min
Our guests discuss their book, Teaching with Arts-Infused Writing Pedagogies , which features the work of a multigenerational collective of K–12 educators, students, and teaching artists seeking educational justice. About Our Guests Kelly Wissman is the director of the Capital District Writing Project and an associate professor in the Department of Literacy Teaching and Learning within the University at Albany School of Education. Christina Pepe is a Language Arts teacher at Shenandoah High Scho...
Mar 18, 2025•39 min
Keenan Jones is an author who currently resides in Plymouth, Minnesota, who spent his childhood in northwest Indiana (Gary, IN) and south suburban Chicago (University Park, IL). He comes from a family of educators, pastors, athletes, and musicians. After suffering a career-ending injury while playing college basketball, Keenan switched paths to pursue a career in education, serving as an elementary school teacher before returning to his passion of writing. As an author, Keenan believes that lite...
Feb 19, 2025•33 min
In today’s episode we will talk about the recently published book, Going the Distance: The Teaching Profession in a Post-COVID World . This comprehensive study of teaching during the COVID-19 Pandemic has a lot to teach us about creating a healthy, resilient teaching profession able to face future crises. Our Guests Lora Bartlett , Associate Professor of Education, University of California, Santa Cruz Jamila Edwards , Teacher, Oakland Unified School District...
Feb 04, 2025•43 min
Join this special Write Out edition of The Write Time! Born in Louisville, Mississippi, Jermaine Thompson learned language from big-armed women who greased their skillets with gossip and from full-bellied men who cursed and prayed with the same fervor. Jermaine earned his MFA in poetry from the University of Missouri Kansas City in 2018, and he currently teaches 9th–12th grade Humanities at Build Up Community School in Birmingham, AL. Jermaine will be interviewed by Connecticut teacher and Writi...
Oct 23, 2024•44 min
Join The Write Time featuring Kate Messner , Write Out Author Ambassador and author of award-winning picture books like Over and Under the Snow , Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt , and The Brilliant Deep as well as books for older readers like Breakout and her forthcoming novel in verse, The Trouble with Heroes . Kate will be interviewed by San Diego Area Writing Project Director and early elementary educator, Kim Douillard....
Oct 16, 2024•36 min
NWP Radio visits with Benjamin Ludwig , a teacher, writer, school librarian, and an NWP Writers Council member. Benjamin is the author of Ginny Moon , and his next book, Outside , is coming December 4, 2024, with pre-ordering available today.
Oct 08, 2024•23 min
This episode of NWP Radio features Tomas Moniz , a member of the NWP Writers Council and the author of All Friends Are Necessary , a tender and open-hearted novel that explores the power of friendship, community, and the families we create for ourselves.
Sep 26, 2024•28 min
Based on the insight that "places are everywhere," this NWP Radio show explores how educators are using place to support students in having authentic opportunities to learn, grow, and connect. Join this team of teacher-editors and -authors from Place-Based Writing in Action: Opportunities for Authentic Writing in the World Beyond the Classroom to explore what is possible when you tap into this "everywhere resource" to support writing in elementary through preservice classrooms. Our Guests and Th...
Jul 30, 2024•1 hr 10 min
This episode of NWP Radio features a conversation with Tess Taylor , an avid gardener, the author of 5 acclaimed collections of poetry, and the editor of Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens and the Hands that Tend Them .
Jul 24, 2024•28 min
Join us for a conversation with NWP Writers Council member Lissa Soep, author of Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss and the Conversation that Never Ends . " Other People’s Words shows us how we carry within us the language of loved ones who are gone, and how their words can be portals to other times and places. Language—as with love—is boundless, and Other People’s Words is an intimate, original, and profoundly generous look at its power to nurture life amid the wreckage of grief. Dialogues ...
Jun 11, 2024•40 min
Join us for a conversation with Andrea Balis and Elizabeth Levy, authors of Witch Hunt: The Cold War, Joe McCarthy, and the Red Scare . About the Authors Dr. Andrea Balis is not only a distinguished faculty member in the history department of John Jay College, City University of New York, specializing in twentieth-century political history, but also a versatile writer and director. Elizabeth Levy is an award-winning author of over 100 fiction and non-fiction books for young readers. Renowned for...
May 28, 2024•37 min
Join us for a conversation with Jane Clark , author of the memoir, Story Carrier: a Collection of Tales of the Disappeared . Jane is a retired college teacher of composition, literature, and journalism, who worked for a major northeastern university and a small, private liberal arts college. She was also the director of the Capital Area Writing Project at Penn State Harrisburg. Additional Links from the Show Story Carrier Substack @janeclarkauthor Story Carrier on Facebook...
May 14, 2024•31 min
Join us for a conversation with Stephanie Vanderslice , a professor of creative writing, the co-director of the Arkansas Writers MFA Workshop at the University of Central Arkansas, and the author of Teaching Creative Writing: The Essential Guide .
Apr 30, 2024•24 min
This episode of The Write Time features members of the Furious Flower Syllabus Project , an open-access curriculum for incorporating Black poetry into classrooms of all ages and levels. About Our Guests McKinley E. Melton earned his PhD from the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Prior to joining the Gettysburg College faculty, Dr. Melton was a visiting assistant professor of literature at Hampshire College from 2007-2012. He is also th...
Apr 25, 2024•49 min
Novelly is on a mission to publish diverse teenage authors and get their books taught in classrooms, so that every student can feel seen and inspired by what they read. This episode features the founder and managing director Anna Gabriella Casalme, along with two youth authors who have had their work published through Novelly.
Apr 23, 2024•27 min
Rob Rokicki is an NYC-based artist and educator. He wrote the music, lyrics, and co-orchestrated the Broadway show, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (book by Joe Tracz); nominated for a Lortel, Off-Broadway Alliance, and three Drama Desk Awards. His graphic novel/musical, Monstersongs (National Alliance for Musical Theatre official selection), is played internationally and is being developed as a VR game. He’s a two-time Larson Award finalist, an alum of the BMI Workshop, and a gra...
Apr 11, 2024•37 min
Today we visit with Leticia Britos Cavagnaro , author of Experiments in Reflection . Leticia is a developmental biologist turned design educator, who has been a part of Stanford University’s d.school since 2006. She co-founded and co-directs the University Innovation Fellows program, impacting students and educators worldwide. Leticia’s work integrates emerging technologies in creative methods to foster self-directed and responsible future shapers....
Mar 19, 2024•20 min
Heather Bourbeau’s award-winning poetry and fiction have appeared in The Irish Times , The Kenyon Review , Meridian , and The Stockholm Review of Literature . She has been featured on KALW and the San Francisco Public Library’s Poem of the Day, and her writings are part of the Special Collections at the James Joyce Library, University College Dublin. Her collection Some Days The Bird is a poetry conversation with the Irish-Australian poet Anne Casey (Beltway Editions, 2022). Her latest collectio...
Mar 06, 2024•33 min
Join us for a conversation with Cindy Urbanski, PhD, author of Getting Schooled on Resistance: An Exploration of Clashing Narratives in Urban School Reform . Urbanski has worked with writing and writers in some capacity for 30 years. Currently her projects consist of making space for stories in the world that have formerly been untold and/or underrepresented. Through her degree in K-12 Urban Literacy, work with the National Writing Project, her teaching at the 6-12 level as well as the undergrad...
Feb 20, 2024•19 min
Jennifer Baker is a publishing professional of 20 years, the creator/host of the Minorities in Publishing podcast, a faculty member of the MFA program in Creative Nonfiction at Bay Path University, and a writing consultant at Baruch College. Formerly a contributing editor to Electric Literature, she received a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship and a Queens Council on the Arts New Work Grant for Nonfiction Literature. Her essay "What We Aren't (or the Ongoing Divide)" was listed as a Notable Essay in Th...
Feb 08, 2024•36 min
Patricia Park is a tenured professor of creative writing at American University, a Fulbright Scholar in Creative Arts, an Edith Wharton Writer-in-Residence, and a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. She is the author of the YA novel, Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim , and the adult novel, Re Jane , a retelling of Jane Eyre named New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, winner of an American Library Association Award, an NPR Fresh Air pick, and others. She’s written for the New ...
Dec 14, 2023•50 min
Join us for an engaging discussion featuring David and Susan Schwartz, authors of The Joy of Costco: A Treasure Hunt from A-Z . We'll be diving into their writing process and exploring why Costco holds a special place in their hearts. It's a great opportunity to learn more about the book and gain insights into their unique perspective on Costco and their creative journey.
Dec 07, 2023•36 min
Civics for the World to Come is a call to action, encouraging us all to reimagine our roles as educators and shift the purpose of schooling together. Providing a framework with suggestions for dialogue along with case studies from the classroom, this book is offered as a resource for teachers to start this journey, pragmatically but urgently. Listen to this NWP Radio interview with Drs. Nicole Mirra and Antero Garcia about their new book, Civics for the World to Come: Committing to Democracy in ...
Nov 06, 2023•44 min
