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Midwest Writers Room

Podcast from the Wisconsin Writers Association. We discuss all things writerly, with an emphasis on the unique flavor of works that originate in the Midwest.

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29:16

Chapter Break with Harvey Araton

Midwest Writers Room ·

2025/11/17

BIO: Harvey Araton is a longtime sports journalist, a former New York Times columnist and author of 10 books, including Driving Mr. Yogi, a New York Times best-seller, and When The Garden Was Eden, the same title of an ESPN 30for30 documentary, which he co-produced. Araton was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017 for his work in media. SYNOPSIS: The Goal of the Game is a middle-grade readers novel that explores the pleasures and pressures of youth sports at a time when f...

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21:29

Chapter Break with Sarah Jane Peters

Midwest Writers Room ·

2025/11/14

BIO: Sarah Jane Peters is a peace and love teacher in Green Bay, WI, licensed counselor, storyteller, musician, and mother of three. Through her practice, she helps families navigate the digital world with presence, emotional connection, and care. SYNOPSIS: Written with busy caregivers in mind, it offers quick-access tools, age-specific strategies, and reflective prompts that deepen your understanding of how to meet your child’s emotional needs in a fast-paced, tech-saturated world. Thr...

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24:49

Chapter Break with Dennis McBride

Midwest Writers Room ·

2025/11/10

BIO: Dennis McBride is Mayor of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He holds a journalism degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a master’s degree in public administration from Princeton University, and a law degree from New York University. He practiced law for 35 years for Boston and Milwaukee law firms and the U.S. government. A two-time marathon champion, he is a member of the UW-Milwaukee and Wauwatosa East High School Athletics Halls of Fame. He is the author of A City on the ...

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25:46

Chapter Break with James Francisco Bonilla

Midwest Writers Room ·

2025/11/03

BIO: James is a New York City–born Puerto Rican writer now living just across the Mississippi in Winona, Minnesota. He was born with congenital cataracts and has never had sight in his left eye. At age nine, he lost much of his remaining sight in the right eye due to a racial assault. A decade later a medical breakthrough restored the sight to his right eye. Because of his experiences his memoir follows his entry into the early disability rights movement which helped ground his work as a comm...

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Season 3, Ep. 18 - Michael Braun, November 2025

Midwest Writers Room ·

2025/11/03

BIO: Michael holds a BA in English Literature and an MA and PhD in Communication Science, all from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Michael purchased Orange Hat from founder Shannon Ishizaki in 2024. Before that, he worked in academic research and evaluation positions at the University of Illinois and the Medical College of Wisconsin. When not running Orange Hat, Michael is also an adjunct professor at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, where he teaches writing. Michael is a Wisconsin n...

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20:08

Chapter Break with Thomas Cannon

Midwest Writers Room ·

2025/10/27

BIO: Thomas Cannon was raised on a small dairy farm in Wisconsin. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point. In 2021, he was named the inaugural Poet Laureate of Oshkosh. He has written an eclectic collection of books and has many poems and short stories published in journals. Thomas and his wife have raised three children and have three grandchildren. SYNOPSIS: A troubled life has led spirited Auburn Halverson to make every mistake that ...

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25:22

Chapter Break with Nora B Peevy

Midwest Writers Room ·

2025/10/27

BIO: Nora is a syndicate author for Thrill Ride eZine and The Butchered Writers. She is an editor for Baynam Books Press and also is a freelance narrator and editor. For the Sake of Brigid, her first novelette, came out on May 24, 2024, from Baynam Books Press, and her first short story collection, Cemetery Tacos on Wednesday and Other Delights, will be published in November of 2025 from JournalStone. Her debut novel, Flesh-Eating Turtles! was published in June of 2025 by The Evil Cookie Publ...

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19:49

Chapter Break with Wade Walker

Midwest Writers Room ·

2025/10/23

BIO: Wade Walker is the author of the Code Name: LoneWolf action-horror spy series, blending classic pulp, supernatural suspense, and action thrills. His novels—Bite of the Wolf, Operation Frankenstein, and the newest release, the short story special Night of the Pumpkin Man—mix monsters, espionage, and dark humor in the spirit of Ian Fleming, Hammer Horror, and 1960s Eurospy cinema. He is also the author of the upcoming poetry collection Dead Love: Apocalyptic Pop Sonnets, releasing October ...

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25:04

Chapter Break with Maxine Rosaler

Midwest Writers Room ·

2025/10/21

BIO: Maxine Rosaler is the author of the novel-in-stories Queen for a Day (Delphinium Books, 2018), which was nominated for the Kirkus Prize. The Jewish Book Council selected it as one of ten recommended fiction books in 2021. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Tikkun, The Southern Review, Glimmer Train, Witness, Fifth Wednesday, and other literary journals. Her stories have been cited in Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. Her latest collection, The Missing Kidney a...

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Season 3, Ep. 17 - Steve Fox, October 2025

Midwest Writers Room ·

2025/10/20

BIO: Steve is the winner of the Rick Bass Montana Prize for Fiction, the Zona Gale Award for Short Fiction, The Great Midwest Writing Contest, the Jade Ring Award, the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters Fiction Contest, and the Midwestern Gothic Summer Flash Contest. His fiction has appeared in New Ohio Review, MQR, Whitefish Review, and others. His short-story collection, Sometimes Creek, was published by Cornerstone Press in January 2023 and received the 2023 American Book Fe...

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25:45

Chapter Break with Scott Eveloff, MD

Midwest Writers Room ·

2025/10/15

BIO: Scott Eveloff MD is a pulmonary physician with thirty years’ experience of treating seriously ill patients. He has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, ABC’s 20/20, and Inside Edition. His insider’s knowledge of the many ways to harm patients in today’s hospitals as there are to heal them prompted this debut novel. Dr. Eveloff is an exercise fanatic, but loves evenings out on the deck with a good whiskey as well. He loves to travel but hates cruises, and can often be found attending concerts of ...

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23:52

Chapter Break with Silvia Acevedo

Midwest Writers Room ·

2025/10/14

BIO: Silvia Acevedo writes stories for kids and adults who want magic and mystery in their world. She stirred up monster hijinks in her latest title, MAIL-ORDER MONSTERS: CRASH COURSE. And she called up a Wisconsin ghost in the spooky anthology, THE HAUNTED STATES OF AMERICA. Before that, she barely escaped the gods’ wrath in her mythological GOD AWFUL series. Silvia’s worked in New York publishing, led the Wisconsin chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and serv...

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27:14

Chapter Break with Roy R. Behrens

Midwest Writers Room ·

2025/10/09

BIO: Roy Behrens is an Iowa-based writer, designer and artist, who taught for 46 years at art schools and universities throughout the country. The author of eight books, he is known for his writings about about art, design and camouflage, and for his illustrations, including the cover of Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird, and the short stories of Guy Davenport and other well-known writers. He was art director of the North American Review for many years; contributing editor of the New York new...

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35:45

Chapter Break with Andrew Patrie

Midwest Writers Room ·

2025/10/07

BIO: Andrew Patrie teaches English language, literature, and creative writing in West Central Wisconsin where he lives with his family. He has self-published two previous collections of poems: Nights, Grace (2006) and Half-Life (2016). His work has appeared most recently in Barstow and Grand, Sky Island Journal, Twig, and on Wisconsin Public Radio. He is a contributor to Volume One magazine and the underground Polish heavy metal ‘zine Burning Abyss. Clumsy Love is his first nonfiction b...

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Season 3, Ep. 16 - Joseph Rein, October 2025

Midwest Writers Room ·

2025/10/06

BIO: Joe is the author of the Youtopia technothriller series; the third installment, Youtopia Infinity, is scheduled for release this December. He is also author of Roads without Houses, a collection of short stories set in Wisconsin and Minnesota. He is currently a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, a health nut, and the father of four exhausting but rewarding children. LINKS: https://josephrein.com/

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Chapter Break with Rebecca Zornow

Midwest Writers Room ·

2025/09/30

BIO: Rebecca grew up in Wisconsin, only leaving the state for two years to join the U.S. Peace Corps. Her debut novel, It’s Over or It’s Eden, is a first contact novel set in the Rocky Mountains. Her space opera series, The Displacement Duology, includes Dangerous to Heal and Negotiated Fate, and tells the story of a woman who has the ability to heal others and the intergalactic corporation that wants to monetize her. Rebecca co-founded the book coaching firm Conquer Books and has been recogn...

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Chapter Break with Terri Blair

Midwest Writers Room ·

2025/09/23

BIO: Terri Blair is a non-fiction writer, artist, amateur genealogist, and business owner. She has over 40 years of psychic training, including studying at the Edgar Cayce Association for Enlightenment and Research (A.R.E.) and with other accomplished teachers of psychic studies and mediumship. She has written feature articles for Psychic News Magazine in the UK, The Edge Magazine and posts articles regularly on Substack. Terri lives in Shorewood, Wisconsin with her partner Joe, in a lo...

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Season 3, Ep. 15 - Rodney Schroeter, September 2025

Midwest Writers Room ·

2025/09/22

BIO: Rodney grew up in Sheboygan County, inspired by comic artist Steve Ditko’s Spider-Man and Dr. Strange, and painter James Bama’s Doc Savage covers. After seven years teaching middle school science in North Dakota, he launched a 22-year career in information technology while pursuing a parallel path in writing and publishing. In 2009, he began reporting for The Random Lake Sounder, later joining The Plymouth Review as reporter, layout editor, and editor of The Plymouth Review C...

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Season 3, Ep. 12 - Erica Floyd, September 2025

Midwest Writers Room ·

2025/09/18

BIO: Erica is the founder and CEO of Lake Literary Center, a literary arts hub in Fond du Lac offering writing workshops, book clubs, author readings, literary events, and open mics, plus more programming coming soon. She holds an MFA in creative writing (fiction) from Antioch University Los Angeles and a bachelor's degree in journalism & mass communication from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A former magazine editor-in-chief and marketing director for Thelma Sadoff Center for...

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31:35

Chapter Break with Jeannee Sacken

Midwest Writers Room ·

2025/09/16

BIO: Described by MKE Lifestyle magazine as “Indiana Jones with a camera,” Jeannée Sacken is a photojournalist who travels to the ends of the earth, documenting the lives of women and children. She also photographs wildlife and is deeply committed to the conservation of endangered species. Jeannee has fictionalized many of her experiences while on assignment in her multiple award-winning Annie Hawkins Series. Her new novel, The Women Who Stand Between, releases September 16, 2025. SYNO...

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