On this season-ending episode of Word, we highlight some of those who appeared during 2023. It's a "Fest Of Us," celebrating literature and the winners of KJZZ's "Tiny Library" drawing.
Donna Ives won the kids collection. She's a retired teacher from the Valley.
Josiah McNeil won the adult collection. He's a student at Arizona State University.
Once again, we employed the metaphor of listening to stories around a "digital" campfire.
Of course, time spent around such often includes music, so here's the "set list" for this episode which links back to the full shows.
| Author segment | Episode | Listen |
| Daniel Suarez | 9.1 | Word S9.1 — ‘Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it’: Sci-fi, Black history and haiku |
| Jamie Galloway Haiku winner | 9.3 | Word S9.3 — Shakespeare, hiking, poetry on vinyl and a haiku winner share some thematic space |
| Biruni Hariadi Poetry Out Loud | 9.4 | Word S9.4 – Country music in the West and poetry reverberate the sounds of spring |
| Mary Louise Kelly | 9.5 | Word S9.5 – National Poetry Month ‘Goes. So. Fast.’ |
| Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford | 10.1 | Word S10.1 – Anecdotes: Baseball, biography and Bob Dylan |
| Chuck Palahniuk | 10.3 | Word S10.3 – Carew Papritz on banning books, plus murder with J.A. Jance and Chuck Palahniuk |
Thanks for listening to this new holiday tradition of “Word” we call “Fest Of Us” and celebrating our longevity, with an eye on the future as we hope to be back in 2024 with Season 11.
This program, which has been nominated for Edward R. Murrow and Public Media Journalists Association Awards, is made possible by the generous support from KJZZ members who give monthly sustaining contributions.
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Thanks for listening, and Happy New Year!
