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Measured conversations with writers.
Write On Four Corners brings authors into measured conversations about recent books, creative process, research, setting, and character. Its strongest moments connect writing choices to grief, history, memory, place, and the ways stories get reshaped over time.
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Write On Four Corners is a literary interview show built around authors, books, and the patient work of making meaning on the page. It has a warm classroom-and-writing-group feel, with conversations that favor process over performance. Episodes often start with the book at hand, but the best stretches widen into questions about structure, research, setting, revision, and why certain stories keep pressing on a writer. The pace is unhurried. Guests are allowed to bring long context with them. That matters here, because the recent conversations cover unusually varied terrain. Paul Semendinger talks through West Point graduates at Gettysburg and the way blame, memory, and the Lost Cause shaped later readings of the battle. Monté Hill discusses Catbird Winter through flawed character, family damage, reader empathy, and the hard balance between likability and truth. Kim Henderson brings the scale down to flash fiction, where sentence-level choices and single words carry more pressure than they would in a novel. Leah Holbrook-Sackett frames Death is a Hungry Angel around grief, a 14-year-old girl, an abandoned funeral home, and a corrupted angel of death. Skye Griffith connects Bonehash to fascination with the American Southwest, Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, and older human stories embedded in place. Pierre C. Arsenault traces Something Happened in Carleton back through earlier short fiction and the pull of returning to a created town. Dodici Azpadu talks from the perspective of a fiction writing teacher, poet, and writer with multiple strands of identity and practice. Michael Farmer brings historical attention to The Apache Kid and the lesser-told early life behind a feared Southwestern figure. Across these episodes, the show keeps returning to the same central idea: stories are shaped by what gets remembered, revised, emphasized, or left out. Its intimacy comes from the way craft questions become human questions. It suits readers who like the slow build of literary conversation, especially when books are tied to region, history, teaching, grief, and the stubborn details of how writing actually happens.
Made for: Best suited for readers, writers, educators, and regional literature fans who enjoy careful author interviews. It will especially appeal to people interested in craft, historical context, Southwestern settings, and how difficult stories take shape.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart through its mix of local literary attention and close craft talk. It gives authors room to connect books with teaching, place, research, revision, and the emotional logic behind character choices.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Delsheree Spinner turns author interviews into practical close readings of how stories carry history, place, character, and human complication.
Delsheree Spinner treats an author interview as a close reading conducted aloud. Write On Four Corners brings novelists and other writers into conversations about character, language, research, and revision, with particular attention to books and literary activity connected to…
From Gettysburg generals to one stubborn word, your curiosity gets an author-led tour.
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A Gettysburg conversation that treats historical memory as carefully as military history.
A return visit with Paul Semendinger shifts the show from baseball into a tighter conversation about Gettysburg, memory, and the way history gets arranged around a book project.
A thoughtful craft conversation about making a flawed heroine feel human.
Monte Hill's debut novel conversation with DelSheree Spinner stays close to the path that led him there: music school, banking, travel, a mother's reading habits, and the turn from music to writing.
A patient look at regional writing, with flash fiction and local literary community keeping the focus.
Kim Henderson's visit centers on Four Corners Voices, Volume 2, and on the pleasure of seeing an anthology built around writers from the Four Corners area.
A thoughtful conversation about craft, character, and the difficulty of seeing people clearly.
Right on Four Corners turns into one of its better stretches when it follows Mike Avery through the line between law and fiction. The discussion is most engaging when it lingers on motive, judgment, and character, and Avery's move from civil rights lawyer and law professor to…
A grounded craft conversation about place, family tension, and the work of earning a writerly identity.
This episode stays close to craft and place. Kathleen Rogers talks about calling herself a writer in high school and how that label had to be earned over time, while DelSheree Spinner keeps the focus on process.
Publishing lessons from the working writer’s side.
Honest craft talk for working writers.
Paul Semendinger returns for a conversation about his new book, West Point at Gettysburg, Volume 1.
Delsheree Spinner welcomes Monte Hill and opens a conversation about Catbird Winter, Hill's debut novel.
Kim Henderson joins Write On Four Corners to talk about Four Corners Voices, Volume 2.
This episode features an interview with author Leah Holbrook-Sackett about her young adult novel 'Death is a Hungry Angel,' which explores grief through a haunted funeral home setting.
Host Delcerie Spinner interviews debut novelist Skye Griffith about her novel 'Bonehash', exploring her inspiration from the American Southwest's archaeology and her lifelong passion for storytelling.
Host Delcerie Spinner interviews author Pierre C.
Host Delcerie Spinner interviews author Dodici Azpadu about their book Dead of Winter and writing journey.
Host Delcerie Spinner interviews Michael Farmer about his book on the Apache Kid, covering the outlaw's early life as an Apache scout.
Host Alsheree Spinner interviews author Melissa Bowersock about her mystery novel 'Missing Walk,' which addresses the MMIW movement and features a Navajo medium.
Host Delcerie Spinner interviews author Donald Mengay about his novel Bear Life and the Eldorado trilogy, exploring queer identity and working-class experience.
Elsharee Spinner talks with Mike Avery about the shift from civil rights law and law teaching into fiction.
Delsheree Spinner welcomes Kathleen Rogers to the show.
Host Delshari Gladden interviews debut author Danica Nava about her rom-com novel The Truth According to Ember.
Host Stelchery Gladden interviews author and illustrator Zahra Marwan about the New Mexico Writers Rising Writer program and her career in children's book publishing.
Host Delsheree Gladden interviews author Suzanne Stouffer about her historical novel set in 1929 New Mexico.
Host Delcey Gladden interviews author J.M.
Host Delsheree Gladden interviews author Bethany Turner about her new romantic comedy novel 'Wes and Addie Had Their Chance' and her book series set in a fictional Colorado town.
Host Delsheree Gladden interviews author Jean Burroughs Johnson about her mystery novel 'Yen for Murder', the fourth in the Natalie Seacrest Hawaiian mystery series.
Host Delsheree Gladden interviews Lincoln Mitchell about his new book on George Moscone and the making of modern San Francisco.
Host Delsharie Gladden interviews retired professor Tom Swetnam about his book on the cultural and natural history of the Himis Mountains.
This episode features an interview with Christopher Barnes discussing his book on the history of managing the backcountry and wilderness of Mesa Verde National Park, his career in public land stewardship, and the passion required for such work.
This episode features an interview with Christopher Barnes about his book 'Mesa Verde's Secret Garden', which explores the history and management of wilderness areas in Mesa Verde National Park.
This episode features an interview with Colorado author Katherine Myrick about her book 'The Adventures of Scarlet of Arbelize', which explores the Dominguez-Escalante Trail of 1776 through a unique blend of history and modern photography.
This episode features an interview with the co-executive directors of Torrey House Press, discussing the nonprofit publisher's 15th anniversary, origins, and current funding challenges.
Host Elsheri Gladden interviews author Stoney Compton about his book Whale Song and his writing journey.
Host Delsheree Gladden interviews Nan Fisher about her gardening book for the Southern Rocky Mountains, covering practical advice and monthly tasks.
Host Delsheree Gladden interviews author Lynn A.
Host Delsheree Gladden interviews author Ellen Saul about her book 'From Pain to Power: Seven Steps to Healthy Boundaries.'
Host Delsheree Gladden interviews author Robert Skeed about his new middle grade fantasy book 'Legend of the Narwhals'.
Host Delsheree Gladden interviews author Sydney Graves (pen name of Kate Christensen) about her new detective novel The Arizona Triangle and the decision to use a pseudonym.
Host Delsheree Gladden interviews a new resident about her memoir detailing her journey from Africa to America, breaking silence and cultural norms.
This episode features an interview with Cynthia Sylvester and Byron Aspaas discussing an upcoming writers event in Farmington, New Mexico, hosted by New Mexico Writers.