New Podcast!

After our live events were canceled last spring due to the pandemic, we grappled with how to safely engage our audience while continuing to serve our mission to promote writers. This spring, Read650 was re-born as a podcast, part of Carnegie Hall’s first ever all-digital spring festival, “Voices of Hope.”

We featured original work from thirty writers during the festival. Following the launch, I received a package containing this chocolate “Oscar” from writer Ann Levin—an award she says is for “Best Production of a Podcast & Radio Show.”

I’m grateful to everyone who made this “award” possible, from Richard Kollath to Steven Lewis, David Masello, and Susan Ragusa — but I owe the most gratitude to Sara Caldwell and Jim Russek for the many hours they devoted to making our show sound as good as it does!

Here’s a link to our premiere episode, featuring Susan Zelouf, Anthony Murphy, Sarah Bracey White, and Suzanne McConnell.

All the episodes from those remarkable fifteen days are archived here on the website.

New episodes of the Read650 Podcast will now appear each “Writer Wednesday’ at 6:50PM EDT, beginning with a special show on May 5 to honor Mother’s Day.

And finally — here’s a great gift for all the mothers in your life: more than thirty original stories on mothers, mothering, and motherhood, available as both an e-book and a printed volume (orders for the book placed today/Tuesday arrive by Thursday, May 6!)

Please follow the podcast and please encourage your friends to follow, too (if they don’t know how, please help them) YOU make everything we do possible, and we can’t do it without you!