Linebreak | The One

The Underground Writing Podcast is an audio channel focusing on student writing. Flowing in and through this river, as it were, are interviews, guests, and organizational updates, as well as two smaller tributaries: Linebreak (a single piece of writing) and Kite (our student writing audio zine).

Show Notes:

Today’s student writing is a poem is by Justin, a student at our workshop site with the Skagit County Community Justice Center (our county’s jail for adult women and men).

Some items mentioned in—or aligned with—today’s episode + Announcements:

1.  The long quote about the subject of time in today’s episode was from the Life Wisdom podcast episode, “Everything Has Its Timing.”

2. What a year already—seemingly unending wars, a divided country teetering on the precipice, and deep funding and staff cuts in the Arts sector— and this is at both the national and local levels.  As a community arts nonprofit that depends on grants and individual donations for our survival, we need your support now as much as ever.  We’d be honored if you’d keep us in mind as you plan for your advocacy and charitable giving: https://undergroundwriting.org/donate

3. We regularly hear from folks asking how they can be involved with—or help out—Underground Writing.  We’re grateful for the interest.  Please check out our “Get Involved” page on our website: https://undergroundwriting.org/get-involved  Also, to highlight a few inroads for getting involved:  1) If you live locally, consider joining us for our once-a-month re/vision volunteer day (https://undergroundwriting.org/revision),  2) Spread the word about our Letters to a Young Inmate initiative (https://undergroundwriting.org/letters-to-a-young-inmate), and  3) Consider partnering with us by becoming a patron-donor – we’re only able to do our work because of our individual donors and grant partners . . . and we are always in need of these donor-partnerships so that we can continue our work (https://undergroundwriting.org/donate).

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We’re repeating ourselves, but it’s good to say again . . . Listeners!—You can also help us by writing a review on Apple Podcasts or other outlets. And something new—we may even read some of them on the air. Podcast reviews help other like-minded folks find out about our show, as well as our broader work. Any help you can lend to this effort would be greatly appreciated.

Our website: www.undergroundwriting.org

You can send inquiries, or pitches for advertising, here: podcast@undergroundwriting.org

Thanks for listening, Friends.

Safe journey, and take good care.

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Kite 11

KITE  ['kīt, noun]  1. A note requesting or providing information, passed from one inmate to another in a separate cell, to someone on the outside, or to a guard; 2. Underground Writing’s audio zine featuring a selection of student writing.

Show Notes:

Today’s featured writings were by incarcerated adult students at our workshop site with the Skagit County Community Justice Center. You can support students like them by spreading the word about our podcast, purchasing student writing anthologies in our website store, and donating to help our ongoing work via our website’s secure donation portal here: https://undergroundwriting.org/donate

Announcements:

1. For a 4th year in a row, we have received a very significant organizational grant from an Anonymous Donor via the Seattle Foundation. We want to thank the donor and the Seattle Foundation for believing in the work we’re doing and helping our students continue to read, write, and make their voices heard.

2.  We’re grateful that Podcast Review—a Los Angeles Review of Books channel—recently included us on their list of “7 Indie Podcasts to Listen to This Spring.”  Shout outs to the review’s author, Alice Florence Orr, who wrote in her review regarding the contexts in which we serve: “Some politicians and news outlets paint these communities with a broad and dark brush. But The Underground Writing Podcast offers a different perspective: writing as a communal act, a way to spark connection and hope . . . the podcast amplifies voices often lost in the noise, proving that the power of storytelling isn’t confined to MFA programs or publishing deals.” A big note of gratitude to Alice, Podcast Review, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. We truly, truly appreciate your support.

3. We regularly hear from folks asking how they can be involved with—or help out—Underground Writing. We’re grateful for the interest. Please check out our “Get Involved” page on our website: https://undergroundwriting.org/get-involved Also, to highlight a few inroads for getting involved:  1) If you live locally, consider joining us for our once-a-month re/vision volunteer day (https://undergroundwriting.org/revision),  2) Spread the word about our Letters to a Young Inmate initiative (https://undergroundwriting.org/letters-to-a-young-inmate), and  3) Consider partnering with us by becoming a patron-donor – we’re only able to do our work because of our individual donors and grant partners (https://undergroundwriting.org/donate).

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Listeners!—Help us by writing a review on Apple Podcasts or other outlets. And something new—we may even read some of them on the air. Podcast reviews help other like-minded folks find out about our show, as well as our broader work. Any help you can lend to this effort would be greatly appreciated.

Our website: www.undergroundwriting.org

You can send inquiries, or pitches for advertising, here: podcast@undergroundwriting.org

Thanks for listening, Friends. 

Safe journey, and take good care.

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