Joel Wayne
ProducerExpertise: writing, production, hosting, programming, project management
Education: Idaho State, Boise State, University of Montana
Highlights
- Fave NPR memory is driving around at night in high school, 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 and co-host of You Know The Place, which ran for six award-winning seasons, visiting funeral homes, ostrich farms, and nude retreats for the story. I later began working as a contract producer on Reader’s Corner and Something I Heard, the former in its 24th year of interviewing NYT-bestselling, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning authors, the latter a bite-sized literary break, along a monthly theme.
I’m a writer and a reader at heart. In my 9-5, I proudly serve as the public programs manager at The Cabin, a literary arts organization where I work on events with writers and journalists I admire, like Ira Glass, Louise Erdrich, Anthony Doerr, Steve Inskeep, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Elizabeth Gilbert, among many 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 first week of March, Sara Nicholson reads a poem by John Clare, titled “I Am!"
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On the final week of February, Alan Heathcock reads an excerpt from his own story, "Ne'er-do-wells."
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On the third week of February, Alan Heathcock reads an excerpt from Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden."
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On the second week of February, Alan Heathcock reads an excerpt from Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, OH.”
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On the first week of February, Alan Heathcock reads "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” a poem by Robert Frost.
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On the final week of January, Nic Darlinton reads an excerpt from Colette’s essay “Hellebore."
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On the fourth week of January, Nic Darlinton reads an excerpt from Shaun Tan’s “Tales from the Inner City."
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On the third week of January, Nic Darlinton reads an excerpt from his own short story, “Embolden."
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On the second week of January, Nic Darlinton reads a poem by Mary Oliver titled, “Winter Sleep."
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On the first week of January, Nic Darlinton reads an excerpt from “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” by Frederick Douglass.