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 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.
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On the fourth and final full week of December, Anna Caritj reads “Meridian Response,” a poem by Ben Lerner.
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On the third week of December, Anna Caritj reads an excerpt from her own story, “Sweet Alice."
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On the second week of December, Anna Caritj shares a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins titled, “The Windhover."
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On the first week of December, Anna Caritj shares an excerpt from James Joyce's “The Dead."
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On the last week of November, Stephanie Reents shares an excerpt from her own novel, “We Loved to Run.”
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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.