In this mini episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn sits down with author Anne “Annie” Lamott to talk about her seminal book on the craft of writing (and living), ‘Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life’ (Anchor Books), and about maintaining hope—during the writing process, yes, but also in a time of climate crisis and during political and social upheaval.

This week, we return to Lauren’s January 2022 conversation with Nathaniel Ian Miller, author of ‘The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven,’ the fictional story of Sven Ormson, a restless industrial worker who, in 1916, seeks adventure in a mining camp between mainland Norway and the North Pole.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Cree (nehiyaw) novelist Jessica Johns, author of ‘Bad Cree,’ the story of Mackenzie, a young Cree woman who returns, night after night in her dreams, to a memory from before her sister Sabrina’s untimely death: a weekend at the family's lakefront campsite, long obscured by a fog of guilt.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren speaks with Andrew Sean Greer—Andy—about the follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, ‘Less,’ ‘Less Is Lost.’

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ we’re airing a September 2022 conversation with word-lover Chrysti Smith, known to many throughout Montana and in the region as “Chrysti the Wordmsith.” This conversation was recorded live at the Missoula Public Library as part of the Montana Book Festival in 2022.

TWQ host Lauren Korn spoke with Marina Richie about her memoir, ‘Halcyon Journey: In Search of the Belted Kingfisher,’ in June of this year, of 2022, before it won the 2022 National Outdoor Book Award in the “Journeys” category.

In June, Terry Tempest Williams visited Missoula, Montana, to take part in the 2022 “In the Footsteps of Norman Maclean” literary festival, which was held at the Wilma Theater. In the second of a two-part conversation, host Lauren Korn and and Terry, a beloved writer and activist, talk about the festival—but also about sisterhood and Terry’s preoccupations with fragment, fracture, and beauty.

In June, Terry Tempest Williams visited Missoula, Montana, to take part in the 2022 “In the Footsteps of Norman Maclean” literary festival, which was held at the Wilma Theater. In this conversation, host Lauren Korn and the beloved writer and activist talk about the festival and the discussions it provoked: on hope and engagement; on building communities of care; on how the overturning of Roe v. Wade speaks to broader issues of human and non-human relationships.

In this episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Great Falls, Montana-based novelist Leigh Ann Ruggiero, author of ‘Unfollowers,’ a tale of religious angst, unrequited love, and the upheaval of racial and economic privilege.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren speaks with Jules Ohman about her debut novel, ‘Body Grammar.’ ‘Body Grammar’ tells the story of Lou, a young photographer who, after a tragic hiking accident, finds herself in front of the camera, distracted by the dizzying world of international modeling.