Podcast appearances and mentions of eric fritzius

The writer Lee Maynard passed away on June 16, 2017, in New Mexico. He was an infamous son of the Appalachian literary scene due to his less than flattering depiction of growing up in West Virginia in his novel Crum--infamously banned from sale at Tamarack. What negative publicity it received, however, drew more attention to the book, which is, at its heart, a love letter to the state. For the past 15 years, Lee has been a regular presenter at the WV Writers Summer Conference, often accompanied by his friend and collaborator Pops Walker. In this episode we talk to Pops himself about Lee and his work. Also included are Lee's previous podcast appearances, including a recording of one of Lee's readings with Pops Walker, a resonant interview he did with Cat Pleska in 2009, and other recorded material.

The Mothman of West Virginia is reported to be a winged creature, the size of a man, but with glowing red eyes. There have been a few plays written about this creature. This is one of them. Presenting the stage adaptation of Eric Fritzius’s short story "...to a Flame" as recorded during its performance at the Opera House PlayFest, at the Pocahontas County Opera House, in Marlinton, W.Va., in 2016. The adaptation stars John C. Davis as Jeff, Dwayne Kennison as Virgil Hawks, and the author himself as Rik Winston.

The Mothman of West Virginia is reported to be a winged creature, the size of a man, but with glowing red eyes. It was reportedly witnessed on multiple occasions around the area of Point Pleasant, W.Va., during the 1960s and has been reported around the world since. An ominous creature, its presence often seems to portend doom for those who see it. When Virgil Hawks shoots one behind his tool shed, he knows the portents for his own future aren’t good. He seeks help from the one man he can trust--his good buddy Jeff. This podcast adapts the short story "...to a Flame" found in the collection A Consternation of Monsters as well as the unabridged audiobook of the collection .

The Consternation of Monsters Podcast is an ongoing project, adapting and excerpting a few of the stories found in the short story collection A Consternation of Monsters as well as the unabridged audiobook of the collection. While many of these stories have been featured in the previous iteration of this podcast from 2015, this redux edition will feature new stories, new live readings and stage play adaptations, as well as excerpts from the official unabridged audiobook of the collection now available through Amazon.com, iTunes, and Audible.com. This EPISODE 00 features the foreword to the book by noted paranormal radio host Rik Winston.

Ed Davis is the WV-native author of the novels I Was So Much Older Then and The Measure of Everything. His third novel, The Psalms of Israel Jones was recently published by WV University Press. It tells the story of a legendary hard-living, hard-lovin', hard-drinkin', and hard-druggin' rockstar who, in his later years, develops something of a cult following. Literally. His son Thom, a conservative minister with some possible moral issues of his own, is called on to the tour by a mysterious phone call and finds himself once again thrust into his estranged father's chaotic world of tour busses, dive-bar shows, and... snake-handlers? In this episode, host Eric Fritzius sits down with Davis for an interview about the novel, as recorded during the Lewisburg Literary Festival on August 8, 2015.

The Seward Whale Strike Tragedy, they called it. Twenty-five people dead. The worst accident in Alaska’s tourism history since Will Rogers’ plane went down in ‘35. Only one man left alive knows the truth of what really happened -- the man everyone agrees caused the tragedy to start with. And if there's one thing he's sure of, the thing they hit that day was no whale. Presented here is his testimony, as transcribed for an interview with Paranorm Violations Magazine. This podcast adapts the short story "The Ones that Aren't Crows" found in the collection A Consternation of Monsters.

Only a month late in posting this episode, this is the final prose recording from the 2014 Literary Tea series at the Greenbrier Valley Theatre in Lewisburg. It features Rachel Garringer, the 2nd place winner of our 2014 Emerging Writers Prose category. This recorded live reading comes from the October 13, 2014 Literary Tea session at the Greenbrier Valley Theatre in Lewisburg. We also mourn the loss of WV Writers member and podcast contributor Miles Dean, who passed on April 1. You can hear other podcasts featuring Miles at http://podcast.wvwriters.org/search/label/Miles%20Dean

To help promote our annual writing contest, this year's Literary Tea readings featured winners from the 2014 WVW Annual Writing Contest.  The featured reader for this Tea is Janet Lilly, who won third place in the Writers Wall competition at the 2014 WV Writers Summer Conference.   This recorded live reading comes from the October 6, 2014 Literary Tea session at the Greenbrier Valley Theatre in Lewisburg.

This recorded live reading comes from the September 29 Literary Tea session at the Greenbrier Valley Theatre in Lewisburg. To help promote our annual writing contest, this year's Literary Tea readings featured winners from the 2014 WVW Annual Writing Contest.  The featured reader for this first reading is Audrey Stanton Smith, who placed in the Humor, Stageplay and Children's Book categories. (If you're a member or extended friend of WV Writers, Inc. we invite you to submit your own recorded live readings to wvwpodcast@gmail.com.)

This recorded live reading comes from the September 22 Literary Tea session at the Greenbrier Valley Theatre in Lewisburg. To help promote our annual writing contest, this year's Literary Tea readings featured winners from the 2014 WVW Annual Writing Contest. The featured reader for this first reading is Dawn A. Baldwin, who placed both honorable mention and 1st place in the Pearl S. Buck Award for Writing for Social Change category of the 2014 contest. (If you're a member or extended friend of WV Writers, Inc. we invite you to submit your own recorded live readings to wvwpodcast@gmail.com.)

ContestCAST 2015 is your one-stop primer for all information about the 2015 West Virginia Writers Annual Writing contests, which accepts entries from January 2 through March 31. Joining host Eric Fritzius for the third year in a row is 2015 Contest Coordinator... Eric Fritzius.

ContestCAST 2014 serves as your primer for all things related to the WV Writers Annual Writing Contest for 2014, which accepts entries from January 2 through March 31. Joining host Eric Fritzius for the second year in a row to help explain all the whys and wherefores of the contest is the 2014 Contest Coordinator... Eric Fritzius.

Born in Hillsboro, WV.  Pearl S. Buck was a Pulitzer Prize winning author known the world over for such books as The Good Earth.  The child of missionary parents, she grew up in China, and her writing later in life greatly influenced the change in Western perceptions of that nation.  As part of the WV Writers Annual Writing Contest, our organization has teamed with the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation in Hillsboro to sponor the Pearl S. Buck Award for Writing for Social Change category of our 2013 contest.   Joining host Eric Fritzius to talk about the award and about Pearl Buck herself, are Jolie Lewis,vice president of the board of directors for the Pearl S. Buck Birthpalce Foundation, and Dr. Edwina Pendarvis, a biographer of Buck's.  

ContestCast 2013 serves as your primer for all things related to the WV Writers Annual Writing Contest for 2013, which accepts entries from January 2 through March 31. Joining host Eric Fritzius to help explain all the whys and wherefores of the contest is the 2013 Contest Coordinator, Eric Fritzius.

For a special Christmas Bonus Show, we're playing a recorded live reading of a Christmas-set short story by our own podcast host, Eric Fritzius. This story was recorded at the November 16 Brown Bag Reading he did at Carnegie Hall WV in Lewisburg. Introducing the show, unfortunately, are Eric's usual Bonus Show co-hosts, his dogs, with a Christmas story of their own.

Bonus Show #13 is all about announcements, including word about the ending days of the WVW 2011 Writing Contest, the registration opening for the 2011 Summer Conference, the Writers Toolkit Event and our special upcoming poetry hotline show in which you can participate.   Check our website for all the details on all of the above, but listen to the podcast to hear me say it. http://www.wvwriters.org

For a special Christmas Bonus Show, we're playing a recorded live reading of a Christmas-set short story by our own podcast host, Eric Fritzius. This story was recorded at the November 16 Brown Bag Reading he did at Carnegie Hall WV in Lewisburg. Introducing the show, unfortunately, are Eric's usual Bonus Show co-hosts, his dogs, with a Christmas story of their own.

Podcast Episode 45 is a landmark recorded live reading of the Woodland Press Writing and Publishing Panel from October 23 at Taylor Books on Capitol Street in downtown Charleston.  This is a panel designed to be a brief overview on publishing using a variety of methods from traditional to self-publishing as well as some of the ins and outs of the publishing business. Featured in the panel are Woodland Press authors Karin Fuller, Geoff Fuller, Eric Fritzius, Michael Knost, Jason L. Keene, Frank Lanerd and Brian J. Hatcher.   The panel is led by 2010 Bram Stoker Award winner Michael Knost, co-founder of Woodland Press. Taylor Books, by the way, is a fantastic bookstore and they stock not only titles by Woodland Press but also WV Writers own anthology Seeking the Swan.

We return with Episode 42 of the WV Writers Podcast, another of our patent-pending recorded live readings (Q: "But if it's recorded, how can it be live?" A: "Zzzzzzzzipit") This recorded live reading comes from the September 21st Brown Bag Tuesday session at Carnegie Hall WV in Lewisburg and features WV Writers' current parliamentarian, author Belinda Anderson. Belinda will be reading a selection from her three collections of short stories, The Well Ain't Dry Yet, The Bingo Cheaters and Buckle Up, Buttercup assisted by Elizabeth Spangler and Dr. Larry Davis. DOWNLOAD (Right click and Save Link Target As) West Virginia Writers Podcast Episode 42 Links mentioned in Podcast: * Carnegie Hall WV * Belinda Anderson * Tim Armentrout * Eric Fritzius

MOMCAST 2010 is our celebration of Mother's Day, featuring stories, poems, essays and memories as phoned in by our listeners.   Featured on this episode are mom pieces from: Terry McNemar, Tracy Seiffers, Sandra Klein, Barbara Wittington, Llewellyn McKernan, Sal Buttacci, Kate Dooley, John Nagle, C.J. Farnsworth, Diane Tarantini, Tim Armentrout, Susan DeVan, Elvera Denning, Charlotte Sneed, Linda Hoagland, Barbara Smith, Cat Pleska, Heidi Hartwicker and Eric Fritzius.

We continue our celebration of National Poetry Month in WV Writers Podcast Episode 29. We also celebrate our own 1st anniversary as a podcast. (Whoo hoooo!) This week we have part 2 of our recorded live poetry reading from the Greenbrier Valley Theatre's Poetry Literary Tea this past November. Featured poets this week include Ellen Broudy, Tim Armentrout and your host Eric Fritzius, reading a Cheryl Denise poem as recorded at a reading in Mercer County this past December. DOWNLOAD (Right click and Save Link Target As) West Virginia Writers Podcast Episode 29 LINKS FOR THIS PODCAST * Greenbrier Valley Theatre * Tim Armentrout on Podcast Bonus Show #5 * Cheryl Denise's appearance on podcast Episode #20 * Tim Armentrout's original piece "Local Heroes, Local Foes" from his blog Breath Made Visible, November 2008. * "Local Heroes Local Foes" recorded live reading, linked from MisterHerman.com.

Welcome to the second bonus show of the WVW Podcast, continuing to serve as a no-frills, bi-weekly clearing house for quality interview trimmings we were unable to fit into previous episodes. This week we play a couple of off-topic clips from last week's Shirley Young Campbell tribute episode, featuring Dolly Withrow and Barbara Smith.  We also have a return visit from  my dog, who seems to think she's my new co-host.

Episode 1 of the podcast in which we introduce ourselves and speak of "conferency" things to come with WV Writers President T.W. McNemar. DOWNLOAD (Right click and Save Link Target As) West Virginia Writers Podcast Episode 1