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Chicago Writes

A monthly podcast of the Chicago Writers Association hosted by Bill Turck featuring in-depth interviews and candid conversations with published authors on the art, craft and business of writing.

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Author Paul Roach and the Fundamentals of Research...

Chicago Writes ·

2025/11/01

We spent the past couple of episodes with an exploration of the science fiction genre. Fantasy and magic are popular subgenres. Often over-looked is the spiritual sub-sub-genre. Paul Roach served twenty-seven years in the US Navy Medical Corps, with multiple combat and noncombat deployments. His memoir, Citizen-Surgeon, recounts his experiences as a combat surgeon in Afghanistan. His latest novel is the first part of the Jack’s Rogues Trilogy- Operation Agos, a supra-natural, that is, transcending

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104:00

Talkin' SyFy with Professor Joe Austin

Chicago Writes ·

2025/10/01

Jotham Austin, is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Chicago. He is also a Chicago Writers Association Board Member and Director of the Book of the Year Contest. Professor Austin is the author of the sci-fi psychological thriller, ‘Will You Still Love Me, If I Become Someone Else?” He is also the co-host of the Rabbit Hole of Research Podcast, which explores the science in fiction and tries to separate the “Handwavium” from the actual facts in the things we read and see in Sci-Fi,

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65:00

Talkin' Science Fiction with Joe Austin

Chicago Writes ·

2025/09/02

Jotham Austin, is a Research Associate Professor UChicago. He is also a Chicago Writers Association Board Member, Director of the Book of the Year Contest. Professor Austin is the author of the sci-fi psychological thriller, "Will You Still Love Me, If I Become Someone Else?” He is also the co-host of the Rabbit Hole of Research Podcast, which explores the science in fiction and tries to separate the “Handwavium” from the actual facts in the things we read and see in SciFi, fantasy and pop culture

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02:00:00

Robert Conlon's Celtic Knot and a Chicago Story from...

Chicago Writes ·

2025/08/01

A great city writes its own blood and spit and sweat and Chicago is a writer’s city. That muscle and toil can never be told from the outside but can only be rightfully told by those who have lived and walked the avenues and alleyways. Sinclair’s The Jungle was written here. We are at once bellicose and pious, corrupt and righteous. Chicago built its metropolis from the heartland and the heart demands incorruptible voices bearing witness... Celtic Knot by Robert Patrick Conlon is an interesting

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01:57:00

Writing, Workshops and Poetry with Ashley Honeysett,...

Chicago Writes ·

2025/07/01

First up, Sharon Woodhouse is a former Chicago-based indie publisher, and the current owner of a book business agency, Conspire Creative. Sharon is also the author of the new book, The Profitable Author: 1,001 Ways to Build a Business You Love Around Your Books.Sharon is offering a free six-part writer’s workshop at indie-bookstores around Chicago, running every other Tuesday beginning July 15th through Sept 23rd, titled, Summertime and the Business Is Easy Mini-Workshop Series The website is

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01:55:00

BOTY Hospital Heal Thy Self's Mark Taylor and Empire...

Chicago Writes ·

2025/06/01

Mark Taylor is a former newspaper and trade magazine reporter who covers the business, financing and delivery of healthcare. Taylor is a former Kaiser Fellow and a co-founder of the Association of Health Care Journalists. He is the author of Hospital, Heal Thyself: A Mathematician’s Plan for Saving American Lives and Billions of Dollars, available at Amazon… Mark Taylor is also one of our book of the year winners.Stephen Zimmer is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and broadcaster based out of

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01:45:00

Amy Yee, Award Winning Author and Journalist, plus...

Chicago Writes ·

2025/05/01

Adam Kaz on getting published with Zines, and a writing and organizing technique. Adam talks about beat words. Connect with Adam at thegroundisuneven.com and check out his portfolio at kazadam97.journoportfolio.com. And on Facebook and Instagram you can find him at kazadam97.Zine World’s website, www.undergroundpress.org, has event listings, a list of zine libraries and infoshops, how-to articles, and links to many other resources. Zinebook, www.zinebook.com, has articles on zine history, legal

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01:11:00

The Art of Writing Horror with Downpour Author...

Chicago Writes ·

2025/04/01

On this episode of Chicago Writes, Christopher Hawkins is an award-winning author and a current book of the year winner from the CWA. His works of short fiction have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Cosmic Horror Monthly, Fusion Fragment, Underland Arcana and The Big Book of New Short Horror. He is a member the Chicagoland chapter of the Horror Writers Association. His latest novel is Downpour. The websites are: downpourbook.com (Downpour by Christopher Hawkins, is

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01:30:00

Forces of Nature: Author Sharon Ann LaCour and...

Chicago Writes ·

2025/03/01

Lindsay Schultz owns/manages The Spine Bookshop in Smyrna, Tennessee. Lindsay is battling efforts to ban or restrict books at schools and libraries. She is also the host of The Spine Bookcast on Youtube. The website is The Spine Bookshop. comSharon Ann LaCour’s debut literary novel, The Meeting of Air and Water, tells the story of three generations of Cajun women. The Meeting Of Air And Water was a novel-in-progress finalist in the William Wisdom-William Faulkner novel competition in 2019

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01:04:00

Historian, Author, Survivor. A conversation with Pat...

Chicago Writes ·

2025/02/01

From maximizing your local market to building in history to deepen a novel and cautionaries on dialogue in memoir writing, Pat Camalliere is a survivor in more ways than one.Pat Camalliere is the author of The Cora Tozzi Historical Mystery Series, including The Mystery at Black Partridge Woods. Her new memoir is a remarkable story of survival, Staying Alive is a Lot of Work: Me and My Cancer now available from Eckhartz Press. The website is www.patcamallierebooks.com

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01:15:00

David Ladensohn's off-beat memoir, Fly Fishing with...

Chicago Writes ·

2025/01/01

David Ladensohn is the author of an extraordinary and truly unique perspective on the brilliance of Leonardo da Vinci, titled Fly Fishing with Leonardo da Vinci. Fly-fishing is his passion. That passion has taken him around the world.Ladensohn is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, he was the CEO of a manufacturing company in San Antonio. Ladensohn completed business programs at Harvard Business and Law Schools and recently spent six months completing a

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55:00

DePaul's Blue Book and Hope for Next-gen Writing with...

Chicago Writes ·

2024/12/01

In the age of AI and social media it is easy to be cynical about the future of writing. In highlighting the best high school writing, across multiple genres, Depaul's Blue Book is testimony to the timeless and vibrancy of written self-expression. Critically acclaimed, Chris Solís Green is the author of four books of poetry. He currently is a Distinguished Writer in Residence in the English Department at DePaul University. More information can be found at www.depaulsbluebook.com Submissions for the

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01:15:00

House of Honor: Margaret Philbrick, A Stolen...

Chicago Writes ·

2024/11/01

Margaret Ann Philbrick is an award-winning author and poet. she is the contributing editor of the essay and poetry collection for women, Everbloom—Stories of Deeply Rooted and Transformed Lives. Her poems and articles have been featured in numerous anthologies and publications, including her award-winning poem, A Mother’s Art. Margaret is a founding member of the Red-bud Writers Guild NFP and a member of the Door County Published Author Collective. Margaret Ann is also the author of Margaret’s Child

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01:05:00

Writing for Educators: The Advocate Educator’s...

Chicago Writes ·

2024/10/01

On this episode of Chicago Writes, the Podcast of the Chicago Writers Association, Educator and Award-winning Children's Author of Calvin, Vanessa Ford M.A.T. and Author of the Critically-acclaimed No Gender Left Behind and Educator Rebecca Kling, Authors of The Advocate Educator’s Handbook: Creating Schools Where Transgender and Non-Binary Students Thrive available on Amazon. The websites are theadvocateeducator.com, also jrandvanessaford.com and rebeccakling.com. Never worry about missing

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01:03:00

Writing to Make a Change with Tom Tresser

Chicago Writes ·

2024/09/01

From CWA BOTY winner Linda Gartz' Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago, to Civic Lab founder Tom Tresser's NO GAMES CHICAGO How A Small Group of Citizens Derailed the City’s 2016 Olympic Bid, there are lessons writers can learn about storytelling, structure, media messaging, and marketing. The websites is nogameschicagobook.com.CWA’s 9th Annual First Chapter Contest Opens August 10th. Visit chicagowrites.org The Chicago Writers Association returns to Printers

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01:10:00

Registry of Forgotten Objects; DePaul's Miles Harvey

Chicago Writes ·

2024/07/31

Miles Harvey is the author of three nonfiction books, The King of Confidence (a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice selection), Painter in a Savage Land, and The Island of Lost Maps, a national and international bestseller. He teaches creative writing at DePaul University in Chicago, where he chairs the Department of English and is a founding editor of Big Shoulders Books, a nonprofit, social-justice publisher. The Registry of Forgotten Objects is his first work of fiction.

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01:16:00

The Art of the Memoir with Kevin Hall and Risa August

Chicago Writes ·

2024/07/01

Kevin M. Hall is a New York author. He is the author of 3 books, Ilion My Childhood My Memories, My Rosemount MN. Memories, and SIGNS - The Veil is Thinner Than We Imagine. The website is Kevin-Hall.com.Risa August is a champion. She is the author of the award-winning memoir, or the biography of Bubba the tumor, if you like… The book is The Road Unpaved: Border to Border with a Brain Tumor and a Bike Learn more about Risa at: https://www.risaaugust.com Chicago Writes is the podcast of the Chicago

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01:00:00

Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Jonathan Eig, King: A...

Chicago Writes ·

2024/06/01

Jonathan Eig is an American journalist and biographer and the author of six books. His most recent King: A Life (2023), a biography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was just awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Mr. Eig is also the author of…Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig (2005). Ali: A Life. Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season. For Get Capone, Eig discovered thousands of pages of never-before-reported government documents from its case against the infamous gangster. He is

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59:20

Anatomy of an Amazon Book Promotion

Chicago Writes ·

2024/04/30

Host WC Turck takes you along for a need-to-know marketing hack on Amazon for his new novel, The Assassination of Baby Hitler: A Love Story with Dan Davies from Renegade Press LLC, renegadepresspublisher.com.Unlock a wealth of writer resources by joining the Chicago Writers Association today. Visit chicagowrites.org.

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56:00

Marketing and Cross Marketing for Authors with Janet...

Chicago Writes ·

2024/03/31

After recovering from a brain aneurysm in 2004 that left her blind and paralyzed, Janet Sutherland Madden wrote an astounding book of trauma and the courage to overcome is titled “Nose Over Toes.” Her latest project is a children's book titled, "Rhett, the kind little Corgi," a No.# 1 Amazon bestseller. Janet spent a life in media, journalism and marketing and shares some lessons learned. Janet Sutherland Madden has also turned her energies towards lobbying and fundraising for the Brain Aneurysm

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