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Episode 104: Writing Resistance - Suzanne Scanlon

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Episode 104: Writing Resistance - Suzanne Scanlon

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Jul 11, 2018

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Jul 11, 2018

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The Writing University podcast features recordings of illuminative craft talks from the renown writers, novelists, poets, and essayists who present at the Eleventh Hour Lecture Series during the University of Iowa's Iowa Summer Writing Festival.

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Jim Heynan: “Same Content/Different Form”: In this podcast, recorded on 6/19/07 at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival Elevenses novelist and poet Jim Heynen discusses the relationship between content and form. Heynen advises writers to revisit thematic "obsessions" and to attempt "re-exploring the by The Writing University Podcast
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