The Downtown Writers Jam
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Vikki Tobak
05 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Writer, photographer, curator, and storyteller, Vikki Tobak left Detroit for New York City and found herself at the center of the nascent hip-hop scen...
KT Peterson
22 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
After hours of conversations with Brad outside the podcast, Indianapolis playwright and writer KT Peterson came by to talk about how empathy, perform...
Too Black
15 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Indianapolis spoken word artist Too Black stopped by the podcast to talk about how he developed his performance and writing voice, and how he's gotten...
Jen Blackmer
08 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
PEN Literary award-winning playwright Jen Blackmer came by the podcast to discuss the importance of the personal perspective in art, particularly in t...
Ellen Munds
04 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing with the pursuit of writing in all of its forms, Storytelling Arts of Indiana director Ellen Munds discussed how stories and live performa...
Trisha Borowicz
17 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we went full nerdy-artist-filmmaker smart with Trisha Borowicz, a scientist and documentary filmmaker who raised $20,000 to create he...
Matt Mullins
12 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Back from a winter hiatus, the Podcast picks up with more post-election musings between Brad and his guest Matt Mullins, a writer and professor at Bal...
Celestine Bloomfield
28 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The 2016 Presidential election changed everything about this country. And so it goes with The Downtown Writers Jam Podcast. Host Brad King has gotten ...
Ben Asaykwee
23 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Asaykwee left Indiana to pursue his music and returned home to form one of Indianapolis' most interesting and innovative theater companies, Q Arti...
Frankie Bolda
16 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Frankie Bolda stopped by the Jam to talk about her improv comedy work at Comedy Sportz, her life as the associate artistic director of the EclecticPon...
Adam Petty
03 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Brad King of The Geeky Press hosts The Downtown Writers Jam Podcast, where writers and authors discuss what drives them to tell stories. You can subs...
Shannon McLeod
26 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Shannon McLeod is a soft-spoken writer from Michigan who writers stories where characters almost, but not quite. Much like like. Currently, she’s a ...
Kelli Allen
19 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kelli Allen is probably the most traveled, and least likely to be pinned down, writer we’ve had on the Podcast. She's a four-time Pushcart Prize nom...
Loren Niemi
12 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Brad is still trying to wrap his head around the fact that Storyteller is a career. To help him understand what that means, Loren Niemi stops by the J...
Casey Ross
05 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Writing is a terrible, terrible trade. But it's also one that can help find the voice we always wanted, but could never muster. Indianapolis playwrigh...
Les Kurkendaal
28 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first iteration of the second generation of The Downtown Writers Jam Podcast with Brad King. In this episode, we sat down with Los Ange...
David Blomenberg
28 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The last "lost episode" from the vault of The Downtown Writers Jam Podcast. In this episode, Brad talks to David Blomenberg is a kick-ass writer and ...
Kari McElroy
28 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Well we're back from our short hiatus. Which really wasn't short. It's been 18 months since we sat down with Kari McElroy, our favorite graphic nove...
Salvatore Pane
04 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Salvatore Pane is at the center of the small and independent literary scene in Indianapolis. He's a professor at the University of Indianapolis, he's...
Halle Butler
04 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Halle Butler's novel Jillian is getting rave reviews. I had the chance to sit down with her last November -- before the book came out -- to talk ab...
Dmity Samarov
24 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Dmitry Samarov's book Where To? A Hack Memoir chronicles his time as a cab driver by combining narrative stories, visual art, and a 'zine sensibility...
Ben Tanzer
21 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Brad visited Curbside Splendor Publishing author Ben Tanzer in Chicago where they had two discussions. The first part of the podcast explored Ben's ...
Erika T. Wurth
16 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Curbside Splendor Publishing author Erika T. Wurth stopped by the podcast before her appearance at The Downtown Writers Jam, Vol. 2. We talked about...
Amanda Heckert
30 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Amanda Heckert is the best kind of editor. She's got an eclectic background, she's curious, and she loves reading, which is good since she's the edi...
Angela Jackson-Brown
28 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Angela Jackson-Brown isn’t just appearing at The Downtown Writers Jam, Vol. 2. She also stopped by the Podcast to talk about how her life helped ...
Sarah Layden
16 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
When Sarah Layden stopped by the Downtown Writers Jam Podcast, she wasn’t expecting to explore how the themes from her childhood diaries played out...
John P. Gibson
08 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
John P. Gibson is the writer/director of Revelation Trail, a feature film that follows the journey of a preacher and a lawman along the Old West fron...
Ben H. Winters
30 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Ben H. Winters is the author of the best selling book Sense and Sensibilities and Sea Monsters as well as the The Last Policeman trilogy, and a r...
Andrew Neylon
16 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
When Andrew Neylon joined The Invictus Writers project, Brad didn't know what to expect. Much to his surprise, "The Long War" turned out to be one o...
Travis DiNicola
15 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Travis DiNicola has his hand on the pulse of arts, reading, and writing in Indianapolis. He’s the executive director of Indy Reads, a non-profit lit...
Michelle Freed
04 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Writer Michelle Freed wrote a one-woman stage monologue for the Fringe Festival on a whim. That's not exactly how you're told to find a writing car...
Barbara Shoup
02 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Barbara Shoup, the author of Looking for Jack Kerouac and the executive director of the Indiana Writers Center, discussed why she waited 20 years b...