Words Out West
Welcome to Words Out West, a podcast where you’ll hear voices from the literary landscape of Big Sky Country and beyond.
We spotlight both established and emerging writers of the contemporary West.
A rapping cowboy, a river-guiding novelist and a bus-riding Poet Laureate are just a few of the folks you’ll hear from on Words Out West.
Latest Episodes
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In this episode, a Butte native reflects on the 20 years she spent in almost every state prison in California — teaching and performing theatre. -
In this episode, writer Sean Gallagher’s short story has his narrator lamenting the damage done to his older brother after becoming a soldier — the brother who taught him "that no one wins a fight."
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In this episode, playwright Jay Kettering introduces us to a couple recounting how they met, fell in love, and ultimately broke up, and let’s just say, it gets a bit noisy.
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In this episode, novelist Caroline Patterson takes us back to 1953 Montana, where we find a distraught couple struggling with their decision to institutionalize their baby Lizzie, who has Down Syndrome.
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In this episode, Caroline Keys and Nate Biehl share their original songs along with poems from Caroline and her young student writers.
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In this episode featuring Métis storyteller Chris La Tray, we celebrate words, and the way even very few words, in the right hands, can capture the wonder in every single day.
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In this episode, novelist Richard Fifield puts us in a car going way too fast up a narrow mountain road, and that’s only the beginning of our troubles. Take a deep breath, and hold on tight.
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In this episode, our season finale, Words Out West’s own Jay Kettering writes about a mysterious relationship.This episode contains some adult language…
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In this episode, Mark Gibbons, Shaun Gant and David E. Thomas explore their own personal landscapes. One ventures to where there are no fences, one…
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In this episode, David Allan Cates, Sheryl Noethe and Robert Lee mull over the fleeting nature of time. One takes a nostalgic leap of faith, another…
