Writers on Writing is a weekly radio program produced and hosted by author Barbara DeMarco-Barrett and guest host Marrie Stone. Each Wednesday at 9am Pacific, writers, poets and literary agents join her and/or Marrie. The show is broadcast from the studios of KUCI-FM; on your radio in Orange County, CA, at 88.9 and simulcast worldwide at www.kuci.org.

Barbara’s first book, Pen on Fire: The Busy Woman’s Guide to Igniting the Writer Within, is available from Harcourt/ Harvest Books.

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Authors: Diana Abu-Jabar, Christina Adams, Caroline Adderson Kim Addonizio, a.j. albany, Dwight Allen, Steve Almond, Joan Wester Anderson, Natalie Angier, Kate Atkinson, Elizabeth Ayres, Noreen Ayres, Thomas Averill, Burl Baer, Neil Baldwin, Melissa Bank, Andrea Barrett, Chris Baty, Charles Baxter, Madison Smartt Bell, Aimee Bender, Elizabeth Benedict, Elizabeth Berg, Nina Bernstein, Stacy Bierlein, Mark Bittner, David Blatner, Lawrence Block, Amy Bloom, Judy Blunt, Charles Bock, Chris Bohjalian, Ted Botha, T.C. Boyle, Gayle Brandeis, Lynette Brasfield, Adam Braver, Kate Braverman, David Brooks, Geraldine Brooks, Rachel Manija Brown, Debby Bull, Allison Burnett, Gene Busnar, Andrea Campbell, Janell Cannon, Ron Carlson, Nell Casey, Ana Castillo, Mary Castillo, Michael Chabon, Charles Champlin, Terry Cheney, Harriet Chessman, Tracy Chevalier, Melissa Clark, Susanna Clarke, George Cohen, Paul Collins,Andrea King Collier, Laura Collins, Maura Conlon-McIvor, Lisa Collier Cool, Michael Connelly, Eleanor Cooney, Catherin Cowan, Lynne Cox, Peter Craig, Robert Crais, Judi Culberson, Michael Datcher, Edwidge Danticat, Iris Rainer Dart, Meghan Daum, Claire Davis, Kathryn Davis, Sara Davidson, Debra Dean, Joan Detz, Eric Jerome Dickey, Chitra Divakaruni, Phil Doran, Tananarive Due, Samantha Dunn, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jack El-Hai, Dr. David Elkind, Naomi Epel, Tony Eprile, Louise Erdrich, Maria Escandon, Marc Estrin, Percival Everett, Tom Farber, Stefan Fatsis, Alice Feiring, Jenni Ferrari-Adler, Robert Ferrigno, Rachel Fershleiser, Janet Fitch, Fawn Fitter, Ken Foster, Earlene Fowler, Karen Joy Fowler, Lucinda Franks, Judith Freeman, James Frey, John Freyer, Lisa Fugard, Peter Gadol, Carolyn Garcia-Aguilera, Peter Gethers, Elizabeth Gilbert, Debra Ginsburg, Barry Glassner, Lisa Glatt, Natalie Goldberg, Ariel Gore, Barbara Gowdy, David Groves, Mireille Guiliano, Patricia Guiver, Sally Gunning, Sandra Gurvis, Constance Hale, Donald Hall, Sands Hall, Janice Hallowell, Denise Hamilton, Patricia Hampl, Kristin Hannah, Judith Handelsman,Elizabeth Harper, Tim Harper, Rick Haskin, Sheridan Hay, Lesley Hazelton, Ursula Hegi, Robert Hellenga, Amy Hempel, Kathy Hepinstal, Jane Heller, Lamar Herrin, Alice Hoffman, Ann Hood, Marya Hornbacher, Michelle Huneven, Samantha Hunt, Tara Ison, David Israel. Susan Issacs, A.J. Jacobs, Kate Jacobs, J.A. Jance, Wendy Johnson, Heidi Julavits, Jonathan Kirsch, Kelly James-Enger, Allison Johnson, Elizabeth Kadetsky, Ken Kalfus, Susan Kandel, Jennifer Kaufman, Beth Kephart, David King, Laura Kipnis, Joe Kita, Matt Klam, Dr. Michael Klaper,Jean Hanff Korelitz, Rochelle Krich, Amy Krouse, Leora Krygier, Aryn Kyle, Carroll Lachnit, Sandy Lamb, Wally Lamb, Mimi Latt, Jennifer Lawler, Martha C. Lawrence, William Least Heat-Moon, Joanna Hershon, Ross LaManna, Maria Laurino, Caroline Leavitt, Diane Lefer, Kate Lehrer, Dinah Lenney,

Diane Leslie, Wendy Lesser, Peter Levitt, Aaron Raz Link, Beth Lisick, Emily Listfield, Margot Livesey, Aimee Liu, Steve Lopez, Laura Glen Louis,Teresa Lust, Doug Lyle, MD, Karen Mack, Eric Maisel, Clarence Major, Julie Mammano, Paul Mandelbaum, Jo-Ann Mapson, Eric Marcus, Merrill Markoe, Robert Masello, Frances Mayes, Joyce Maynard, Shawn McBride, Alice McDermott, Dennis McDougal, Patricia McFall, Martha McFee, Diane Middlebrook, Lillian Moats, Nicole Mones, Susanna Moore, Mary Morris, Walter Mosley, Bernadette Murphy, Gina Nahai, Lela Nargi, Jennie Nash, Antonya Nelson, Theo Pauline Nestor, Janis Cooke Newman, Susan Newman, Ph.D., Frances Noble, Howard Norman, Sigrid Nunez, Maxine O'Callaghan, Shirley Carroll O'Connor, Nuala O'Faolain, Kristin Ohlsen, Susan Orlean, Peter Orner, Diane Osen,Helen Oyeyemi, Ann Packer, Tom Paine, Dennis Palumbo, TJ Parsell, Sara Paretsky, T. Jefferson Parker, Carolyn Parkhurst, Jim Paul, Tom Perrotta, Susan Perry, Gary Phillips, Jayne Anne Phillips, Scott Phillips, Jodi Picoult, Melissa Plaut, Chandra Prasad, Francine Prose, Louise Rafkin, Mary Rakow, Ron Rash, Robert Ray, Hilda Raz, Philip Reed, Judy Reeves, Melanie Rehak, David Rensin, Rachel Resnick, Mary Roach, Roxana Robinson, Kirwan Rockefeller, M.J. Rose, Jordon Roter, Mary Rourke, Anastasia Royal Hazel Rowley, Sue Russell, Louis Sachar, Devyani Saltzman, R.A. Salvatore, Marisa de los Santos, Erika Schickel, Cathleen Schine, Helen Schulman, John Burnham Schwartz, Christina Schwarz, Daylle Deanna Schwartz, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Kathy Seal, Carolyn See, Lisa See, Susan Segal, Willa Shallit, Barry Siegel, Marc Siegel, M.D., Barbara Seranella, Siddharth Shangvi, Dan Shapiro, Dani Shapiro, Akhil Sharma, Mary Sharratt, Tucker Shaw, Alix Kates Shulman, Neal Shusterman, Sue Silverman, David Skal, Dominic Smith, Janna Malamud Smith, April Smith, Martin J. Smith, Scott Smith, Taylor Smith, Kevin Smokler, Kirk Snyder, Dava Sobel, Janis Abrahms Spring, Ph.D.,Jane Anne Staw, David Henry Sterry, Deanne Stillman, Robert Stone, Susan Straight, Ginger Strand, Nancy Rubin Stuart, Manil Suri, Ellen Sussman, Mark Svenvold, E.L. Swann, Lisa Teasely, Tina Tessina, Ph.D., Melanie Rae Thon, Judith Thurman, Michael Tolkin, Jim Tomlinson, Claire Tristram, John Truby, Danielle Trussoni, Scott Turow, David Ulin, Louise Ure,Louis Alberto Urrea, Andrew Vachss, Vendela Vida, Norah Vincent, Diane Wagman, Cathy Wald, Ayelet Waldman, David Wallis (Featurewell.com), Jeannette Walls, Joseph Wambaugh, Amanda Ward, Mary Waters, Katherine Weber, Wendy Werris, Carol Weston, Carolyn Wheat, Colson Whitehead, Amy Wilentz, Paul Williams, Andrew Winer, Lauren Winner, Lolly Winston, Susan Goldsmith Woolridge, Paula Woods, Jane Yolen, Victoria Zackheim

Poets: Marvin Bell, Michelle Ben-Hur, Derrick Brown, Billy Collins, Lea Deschenes, Diane Di Prima, Stephen Dunn, Donna Hilbert, Victor Infante, Eloise Klein Healy, Clarence Major, James McMichael, Rondo Mieczkowski, Mindy Nettifee, Georgia Popoff, Aleida Rodriguez, Gerald Stern, Diane Wakoski, Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge.

Literary Agents: Betsy Amster, Julie Barer, Vicki Bijur, Sheree Bykofsky, Elise Capron, Julie Castiglia, Bill Contardi, Brenda Copeland, Adam Chromy, Sandy Dijkstra, Arielle Eckstut, Laurie Fox, Laurie Harper, Gary Heidt, Jeff Herman, Dorian Karchmar, Jeff Kleinman, Linda Konner, Amy Kossow, Michael Larsen, Betsy Lerner, Noah Lukeman, Donald Maass, Steve Malk, Alice Martell, Elizabeth Pomada, Amy Rennert, BJ Robbins, Rita Rosenkranz, Susan Schulman, David Vigliano, Elizabeth Wales, John Ware, Ted Weinstein, Al Zuckerman

Screenwriters, Playwrights & Film & TV Producers: Terry Black, Joe Eszterhas, John Glore, Melissa Hsu, Barry Kibrick (host, "Between the Lines," KCLS-TV), Frederick Levy, Robert Johnson, Thom Taylor, Richard Walter

Editors, Publishers & Book Publicists: Steve Burgard (Los Angeles Times), Kedric Francis (Riviera), Robert Gray (FreshEyesNow.com), Jackie Green (Los Angeles book publicist), Douglas Messerli (Sun & Moon Press), Pat Mott (formerly of Orange Coast Magazine, now editor of Orange County Catholic), Richard F.X. O'Connor (Renaissance Books), Craig Reem (OC Metro), Richard Stayton (formerly of Westways), Will Swaim (OC Weekly), Holly Richmond (west coast editor of Seventeen), Andrew Tonquitz (Santa Monica Review), Lissa Warren,

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