Public Story is a course in writing for podcast & broadcast. Here’s a description:
Narratives told—human voice to ear—have a particular power and increasing popularity. It’s always been so: before streaming there was radio, and before radio there was Homer. Today, This American Life, The Moth Radio Hour, Radiolab, Invisibilia, and Third Coast Audio Festival are a few of many well-known, well-loved broadcasts whose métier is the human voice served by great writing and inventive audio production.
In this course we will study and practice writing for this type of public performance—creating stories for delivery by the human voice to the human ear. Sometimes this will involve one speaker, sometimes many; sometimes the story will be recorded and broadcast, other times it will be told live. We’ll also learn the rudiments of audio recording and producing for audiences both broad and narrow, from radio to podcasting. Our premiere vehicles will be the prose essay and the audio mini-documentary, but we’ll investigate other, more experimental forms of audio storytelling, too.
Here’s some work done by our students.
More stories written and written produced in Public Story:
“Family Secrets” by Sarah H.
“The Bomb” by Will M.
“Fallen Kingdom” by Katherine A.
“What’s Your Name?” by Nathan Y.
“Back Burners & Bygones” by Abigail E.
“First Crash” by Sam K.
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