Waywords Podcast

About Waywords Podcast

Join me, Steve Chisnell, as we find and lose meaning across modern and classic tales, through ancient and distant verse, atop everything in our many cultures which might be read. For teachers, students, and lovers of reading, we will discover new paths to understanding!

Publisher

Steve Chisnell

Category

arts · education · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Aug 2021

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

97 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026

   Spectre-Grey – Dark Montgomery Pt. 2

   What is the real story behind the creator of Anne of Green Gables? In the close of this two-part examination of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s life, we examine how her idealized fiction was neither passive memory nor simple escapism, but a defiant “evensong,” an act of economic, spiritual, and even artistic sovereignty launched from within […]

2. 

   22 Sept 2026

   Ghost in the Garden – Dark Montgomery Pt. 1

   What if Anne of Green Gables wasn’t just an escapist daydream, but a calculated strategy that saved its author’s life? Today we find the divide between L.M. Montgomery’s sunlit public fiction and her claustrophobic domestic reality. From hidden kitchen-table writing under an autocratic grandfather to a decade-long legal battle against a predatory Boston publisher, […]

3. 

   4 Sept 2026

   Temporary Delay Announcement

   Hey, everyone! Thanks for your patience during this unexpected episode delay! A few tech challenges while I upgraded my studio this summer put me a few weeks behind. But this little announcement proves that I’m back up and running, so we’ll continue our Literary Tourism journey very soon, and I’ll likely drop a few episodes […]

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

75,505

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 78 / 100

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Quality

94

Social presence

91

YouTube

76

Engagement

32

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