Sunday, August 30, 2009

upstreet editor/publisher
featured on “Write the Book”

An interview with upstreet editor/publisher Vivian Dorsel will be featured on the August 31 broadcast of “Write the Book,” the radio show and podcast for writers and curious readers. Hosted by writer Shelagh Connor Shapiro, “Write the Book” features interviews with authors, poets, agents, editors, illustrators and other people who love—and live—books. Previous interviewees have included Margot Livesey, Richard Russo, Mary McGarry Morris, Michael Collier, David Jauss, Richard Jackson, Tim Brookes, Sue William Silverman, and upstreet number five authors Robin Behn, Phyllis Barber, and Robin Hemley, among others. The show airs every Monday (2-3 pm) on WOMM-LP, 105.9 FM, The Radiator, in Burlington, VT. To hear Monday’s broadcast, go to http://theradiator.org/, and follow the “Listen to live stream” instructions. A free podcast of the program will be available Tuesday, September 1, at http://writethebook.podbean.com/

“Write the Book” host Shelagh Shapiro is a graduate of Middlebury College and the Vermont College MFA in Writing Program. Her stories have been published in a number of literary journals, including North Dakota Quarterly, Hunger Mountain, Short Story, The Baltimore Review and Hot Off the Press, an Australian anthology published by the New South Wales Writers’ Center, at which she was a participant in 2005. She lives near Burlington, VT, with her husband and two sons.