Episodes 28
Avg. Duration 28m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 5.0 (6)
Since Aug 2019
Latest Episode Nov 2025

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Semi-Annually
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Episodic
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About This Podcast

In the 49 Writers Active Voice Podcast, writers and artists reflect on how current issues shape their works. The ongoing series is hosted and produced by Katie Bausler from Juneau, Alaska for 49 Writers, a support and networking organization for Alaskan writers. Guests include Ernestine Hayes, Susan Orlean, Tommy Orange, Kim Heacox and Pam Houston.

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Recent Episodes

Eowyn Ivey, Author, "Black Woods, Blue Sky"

Nov 30, 2025 21m

Our latest episode was recorded with the keynote speaker for the 2025 North Words Writers Symposium in Skagway, Alaska.  Pulitzer prize nominee Eowyn Ivey talks with guest host Summer Christiansen…

Shauna Potocky, Poet, "Sea Smoke, Spindrift and Other Spells"

Apr 04, 2025 44m

Shauna Potocky is a poet and painter who spent a decade as park ranger in Yosemite National Park. She is now a devoted resident of the community of Seward, Alaska. Along with the Kenai Peninsula, it…

Josh Fortenbery, Writer-Musician, "No Such Thing as Forever"

Apr 23, 2024 36m

Katie’s guest Josh Fortenbery plays live tracks and reflects on the writing of his debut album. Southeast Alaska grown and produced, No Such Thing as Forever is getting strong reviews in Americana…

Kate Troll, Author "All in Due Time"

Dec 13, 2023 31m

Katie's guest for this episode is Kate Troll, author of a memoir with an unusual focus. It chronicles, as she entered her seventies, meeting two siblings for the first time. And how these discoveries…

Lucian Childs, Author, "Dreaming Home"

Nov 18, 2023 32m

In this episode, host Katie Bausler chats with Lucian Childs, author of Dreaming Home, a powerful collection of six linked short stories on the outing of a gay teenager by his younger sister, his…

Annie Bartholomew, Writer-Musician, "Sisters of White Chapel"

Jul 10, 2023 35m

In her debut album, Sisters of White Chapel, Alaskan writer and musician Annie Bartholomew brings a fresh approach to traditional folk music, channeling the under told stories of some of the working…

Beth Ann Mathews, Author, "Deep Waters"

Jun 07, 2023 29m

Beth Ann Mathews, her husband Jim and nine year old son Glen were living a full and vibrant life in Alaska’s capital Juneau, which, as she describes lies, “between the ocean and a retreating glacier,…

Melinda Moustakis, Author, "Homestead"

Apr 13, 2023 28m

Acclaimed author Melinda Moustakis on her debut novel, Homestead. In this first 49 Writers Active Voice Podcast taped LIVE,  we  go back in time to the last years before Alaska became a state, and…

Tommy Orange, Author, "There, There"

Sep 09, 2022 29m

Tommy Orange on his commended debut novel "There, There", which tells the intertwining stories of Native Americans en route to a pow wow in Orange's hometown of Oakland, California. He discusses what…

Linnea Lentfer, Author, "Hold the Tide"

Jun 24, 2022 28m

Linnea Lentfer discusses and reads passages from her debut novel. "Hold the Tide" is told by a young girl raised like Lentfer, hunting deer and gathering berries in remote and wild Southeast Alaska.…

Bonnie Proudfoot, Author, "Goshen Road"

Mar 11, 2022 33m

Ohio author Bonnie Proudfoot discusses and reads passages from her debut novel with Active Voice host and producer Katie Bausler. Goshen Road is told through the alternating voices of a working class…

Erin Heist, Singer-Songwriter, "Another Rainy Day"

Jul 16, 2021 27m

Thanks to writer and musician Erin Heist for sharing her creative journey on the 49 Writers Active Voice podcast, an audio forum on the role of writers and artists in these challenging times. Learn…

Emily Wall, Poet, Professor of English and Creative Writing

Apr 22, 2021 28m

In conversation with Active Voice host and producer Katie Bausler, Emily Wall touches on her current project, chapbooks in the personas of three renowned women, the difference between good and bad…

Kathryn H. Ross, Writer, Author of "Black Was Not a Label"

Aug 27, 2020 33m

Writers and artists discuss their work in these challenging, changing times with host and producer Katie Bausler on the 49 Writers Active Voice podcast. Episode 15 guest Kathryn H. Ross is the…

Vered Mares, Writers Block Bookstore and Cafe'

Jul 02, 2020 26m

We’ve reached a last straw in the struggle for justice for black people in this country. Add to that mass inequality magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic. What’s an artist, writer or activist to do?…

Bathsheba DeMuth, Environmental Historian

Jun 09, 2020 22m

Environmental Historian and author Bathsheba DeMuth explores the past to better understand the present. As the COVID-19 pandemic settles in for the foreseeable future, the Brown University Professor…

Jackie Venson, Songwriter and Guitar Ripper

Jan 17, 2020 30m

Tired of division, strife and the feeling that half the country just doesn’t get it? Want more joy in your life? In the world? Then you might like to meet our first guest songwriter, Jackie Venson.…

Susan Orlean, Writer for the New Yorker, Author

Oct 19, 2019 27m

Susan Orlean is best known for her books The Orchid Thief, Saturday Night, Rin Tin Tin, and most recently, The Library Book, published in October, 2018. Now out in paperback, it’s a story she was…

Annie Boochever, Author, "Fighter in Velvet Gloves"

Aug 24, 2019 26m

Author Annie Boochever on Fighter in Velvet Gloves: Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich. Boochever collaborated with this story of Elizabeth Peratrovich's life for young readers with her…

Andromeda Romano-Lax, Writer, Author, "Plum Rains"

Aug 24, 2019 27m

49 Writers co-founder and author Andromeda Romano Lax has published her fourth novel, Plum Rains. Andromeda lives for a while in the places where her novels are set, for this one in Japan and Taiwan.…

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