Community of Writers Podcasts

About Community of Writers Podcasts

Stay abreast of our summer workshops in Fiction, Nonfiction and Memoir by following to hear panels, and craft talks from esteemed agents and editors. Later in the year we will be adding selected craft talks from previous summers. Year-round, we also host Bibliocracy Radio , a weekly half-hour books discussion and interview program hosted by Santa Monica Review editor Andrew Tonkovich featuring writers of literary fiction and nonfiction, poetry, memoir and cultural criticism.

Publisher

Community of Writers

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Feb 2024

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

133 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   Bibliocracy Radio: Poet Gary Short: The Stars That Fell

   My guest this week is poet Gary Short, originally from Virginia City, Nevada and one of the most celebrated chroniclers of the West. This show is a celebration of his newest collection, The Stars That Fell, out from the University of Nevada Press. Short is the author of three previous volumes of poetry and three chapbooks. His second book, Flying Over Sonny Liston, received the Western States Book Award. He’s taught at Old Dominion University, UC Davis, and the University of Mississippi...

2. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Bibliocracy Radio: Janine Jackson of CounterSpin (FAIR)

   My guest this week is Janine Jackson, longtime host of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting’s (FAIR) weekly radio show and podcast CounterSpin. Longtime fans, like myself, will welcome this celebratory interview with a journalist whose voice has brought clarity, insight, and a welcome corrective by way of thoughtful media analysis. This year FAIR marks 40 years of critiquing and challenging the interests and priorities of media owners and sponsors, and Jackson reminds us of how. For more on the...

3. 

   28 Sept 2026

   Bibliocracy Radio: Nolan Higdon on MAGAcademy

   My guest this week is Nolan Higdon, a returning favorite: scholar, activist, instructor and real-time chronicler of all things higher ed including academic speech, technology, and labor justice. He is out now with MAGAcademy: How Corporations Paved the Way for the Hostile Takeover of HigherEd. He’s the author of The Media and Me, United States of Distraction, and writes a Substack column and hosts a podcast when not teaching. Published by Third Rail Communications, MAGAcademy includes a forew...

Who has been a guest on Community of Writers Podcasts

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• L Annette Binder
• Adolfo Guzman-Lopez
• Emily Greenberg
• Amy Gerstler

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 48 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

65

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

81

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Guest appearances

Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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