PODCAST

Writers for Recovery is proud of partnering to create not one, but two amazing podcast series. The most recent, My Heart Still Beats, aired on Vermont Public Radio. Produced with the amazing and award-winning podcaster Erica Heilman, creator of Rumble Strip, My Heart Still Beats featured 6 amazing recovery stories. A bonus follow-up section features people from the podcast in dialogue with the community at the Turnign Point Recovery Center in Burlington, VT.

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VT Digger Writers for Recovery Podcast

Writers for Recovery is proud to partner with VT Digger on a new podcast series! The Writers for Recovery Podcast premieres Wednesday, September 20, and runs for 11 weeks. Each week, one of our writers will read an original work created in a WFR workshop.  The Writers for Recovery Podcast will be available at VTDigger, on podcast outlets including iTunes, and on Writers for Recovery. Thanks so much to VT Digger, our sponsors at the Vermont and New Hampshire Federally Qualified Health Centers, and all the writers who provided work for the podcast. Thanks also to the the amazing Erica Heilman, producer of the Rumble Strip podcast, for recording and editing the series, Brian Clark for the music, and Michael Dougherty of VTDIgger for taking the project live and providing social media support. 

Our new podcast series features stories of addiction and recovery from Vermont's acclaimed Writers for Recovery workshops. This week, Mollie Hoerres reads her original poem, "I Am From." vtdigger.org/recovery Audio produced by Erica Heilman. Music by Bryan Clark. Photo by Carley Stevens-McLaughlin. Writers for Recovery is produced by Bess O'Brien and Gary Miller.

Writers for Recovery workshop participant Richard Gengras reads his original poem, "A Morning in the Middle of My Addiction." For more about Richard, visit https://vtdigger.org/2017/10/03/writers-recovery-richard-gengras/

From Writers for Recovery​, Doreen Phillips remembers a turning point in her addiction. https://vtdigger.org/2017/10/31/writers-recovery-doreen-phillips/

Caitlin Ferland reads her original poem, "Dear Addiction." For more on the project, visit https://vtdigger.org/recovery.

Robyn Joy has been sober since the first day of 2016. For Writers for Recovery, she reads "I Began to Notice." http://vtdigger.org/recovery

Angala Devoid has been in recovery for fourteen years. From Writers for Recovery, Angala reads "I Win." https://vtdigger.org/2017/11/07/writers-recovery-angala-devoid

 
 

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