Joel Wayne
ProducerExpertise: Writing, production, programming, project management
Education: Idaho State, Boise State, University of Montana
Highlights
- Favorite NPR memory is driving around late at night listening to Echoes
- Got my first three tattoos on an episode of You Know The Place
- I serve as a facilitator for the local chapter of Death Cafe
Experience
I started working with Boise State Public Radio in 2018, first as a freelance podcaster of You Know The Place, and later as a contract producer for Reader’s Corner. The former ran for six award-winning seasons, visiting funeral homes, ostrich farms and nude retreats for the story. The latter is now in its 22nd year of interviewing NYT-bestselling, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning authors.
I’m a writer and a reader at heart. In my 9-5, I work as the public programs manager at The Cabin, a literary arts nonprofit, where I create events with people like Ira Glass, Louise Erdrich, Amor Towles, Nicola Yoon and Elizabeth Gilbert, among others. I’m always plugging away at a story or script, when I’m not traveling with my bride or telling my kitties to get off the counter.
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On the third week of November, Stephanie Reents shares an excerpt from Ann Joslin Williams novel, “Down from Cascom Mountain."
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On the second week of November, Stephanie Reents shares an excerpt from “Blue Hours,” a novel by Daphne Kalotay.
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It’s the first week of November and Stephanie Reents joins the show this month to share work on the theme of color. Today, she reads an excerpt from Laurie Frankel’s novel, “One Two Three."
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On the final week of October, Natalie Disney reads "Samhain," a poem by Annie Finch.
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On the fourth week of October, Natalie Disney shares an excerpt from her novel, "The Fourth Coast."
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On the third week of October, Natalie Disney shares "And Now It's September" by Barbara Crooker.
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It's the second week of October, and today Natalie Disney joins the program to read "First Fall" by Maggie Smith.
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On the first week of October, Natalie Disney joins the program to read "Dandelion Wine" by Gregory Alan Isakov.
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On the final week of September, Something I Heard host Joel Wayne reads Emily Dickinson's poem, "Because I Could Not Stop for Death."
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On the third week of September, Something I Heard host Joel Wayne reads a poem by Emily Pittinos titled, "In Wolf's Clothing."