{"podcast":{"title":"Writing Forward","slug":"writing-forward-7845810","podcast_index_feed_id":7845810,"rss_url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting/2mMuPgtY.rss","website_url":"https://www.jeffoloizia.com/writingforward","image_url":"https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/fa9bdd09-8dae-4aa6-a445-160a059a3648/logos/921c9ed2-b033-46ae-9e94-edf80494804d.jpeg","author":"Jeff Oloizia","episode_count":10,"summary":"Writing Forward is a weekly podcast featuring candid conversations with writers from and connected to Wisconsin. Hosted by writer and former New York Times editor Jeff Oloizia, the show explores craft, identity, and the challenges and rewards of building a writing life outside the traditional centers of the literary world. Across fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and journalism, each episode offers an honest look at what it takes to keep going — one word at a time. At its heart, Writing Forward asks a simple question: What if the most vital stories are being written in the places we’re taught to overlook?","last_synced_at":"2026-07-01T22:18:50.649940+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/writing-forward-7845810"},"episode":{"title":"Ep. 1: Barrett Swanson","slug":"ep-1-barrett-swanson","published_at":"2026-05-06T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/writing-forward-7845810/ep-1-barrett-swanson","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/writing-forward-7845810","url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/381d41121a0514fbe14d80a7d1e9ab208802868a700b900c0cfc5264aa7d9424/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiJiNWNmMGFjNy04ZTkyLTRiODctYTg5Zi04ZmM2ZDZlN2JlNGQiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiJmYTliZGQwOS04ZGFlLTRhYTYtYTQ0NS0xNjBhMDU5YTM2NDgiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2N2JjNzUzMzM1MzRhOWMzZDNiZTYwNDYiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNjlmYTg3ZjA1ZGExMzBlY2RjMWNjZmFlL2plZmYtb2xvaXppYXMtc3R1ZGlvLWNvbXBvc2VyLTIwMjYtNS02X18yLTE0LTQwLm1wMyJ9.mp3","audio_url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/381d41121a0514fbe14d80a7d1e9ab208802868a700b900c0cfc5264aa7d9424/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiJiNWNmMGFjNy04ZTkyLTRiODctYTg5Zi04ZmM2ZDZlN2JlNGQiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiJmYTliZGQwOS04ZGFlLTRhYTYtYTQ0NS0xNjBhMDU5YTM2NDgiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2N2JjNzUzMzM1MzRhOWMzZDNiZTYwNDYiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNjlmYTg3ZjA1ZGExMzBlY2RjMWNjZmFlL2plZmYtb2xvaXppYXMtc3R1ZGlvLWNvbXBvc2VyLTIwMjYtNS02X18yLTE0LTQwLm1wMyJ9.mp3","summary":"Our inaugural Writing Forward guest is Barrett Swanson: Harper's Magazine contributor , author of the essay collection Lost in Summerland , and assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. His new book, Equipment for Living: Notes on Selfhood after the End of the World , is forthcoming from Atria/Simon & Schuster. Barrett is also a co-founder of either/or , a magazine of fiction, nonfiction and poetry published annually out of UW-Whitewater. Writing Forward is a conversation show, digging into what keeps Wisconsin writers moving forward, one word at a time. Hosted by Jeff Oloizia. Podcast production by Anya van Wagtendonk. If you like what you hear, follow us on Instagram and Substack .","meta_description":"Our inaugural Writing Forward guest is Barrett Swanson: Harper's Magazine contributor , author of the essay collection Lost in Summerland , and assistant…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3290,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/writing-forward-7845810/episodes/ep-1-barrett-swanson/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/writing-forward-7845810/ep-1-barrett-swanson.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}