The ACME Writing Academy members discuss rules, laws, and other things about writing we don't necessarily need to follow.

ACME is
Hosted by Rick Krizman.
Produced by Rick Krizman and Mike Magnuson.
Featuring Bob Clark, Jim Frank, and Marcello Vazquez.
With Mike Magnuson.

S1 - #2 - ACME Rules of the Roadrunner

The ACME Writing Academy members get a bit sentimental discussing sentimentality.

ACME is
Hosted by Rick Krizman.
Produced by Rick Krizman and Mike Magnuson.
Featuring Bob Clark, Jim Frank, and Marcello Vazquez.
With Mike Magnuson.

S1 - #3 - ACME Sentimentality

The ACME Writing Academy members explore voice as a function of personality and as a function of writing craft, and they reach some surprising conclusions.

ACME is
Hosted by Rick Krizman.
Produced by Rick Krizman and Mike Magnuson.
Featuring Bob Clark, Jim Frank, and Marcello Vazquez.
With Mike Magnuson.

S1 - #4 - ACME Voice

GENRE!  A truly whacked, bandwidth-challenged, chuckling-around-the-peanut-barrel conversation about the nature of genre in writing.   Crack one open, light one up, and join us!  

ACME is
Hosted by Rick Krizman.
Produced by Rick Krizman and Mike Magnuson.
Featuring Bob Clark, Jim Frank, and Marcello Vazquez.
With Mike Magnuson.

S1 - #5 - ACME Genre Party

#9 ACME Lost in Place.    In this rather heartfelt episode – Really! – the ACME Writing Academy ponders the one undeniably stupid question known to exist in the universe:  Is there no place like home?

ACME is
Hosted by Rick Krizman.
Produced by Rick Krizman and Mike Magnuson.
Featuring Bob Clark, Jim Frank, and Marcello Vazquez.
With Mike Magnuson.

S1 -#6 - ACME Lost in Place

The ACME Writing Academy discusses the nature of rhythm and tempo in prose, in music, and in the heart.  Is the music of writing natural and unconsciously created?  Or do writers construct it to control their reader’s experience?  Special guest appearance by Ludwig van Beethoven. 

ACME is
Hosted by Rick Krizman.
Produced by Rick Krizman and Mike Magnuson.
Featuring Bob Clark, Jim Frank, and Marcello Vazquez.
With Mike Magnuson.

S1 - #7 - ACME Writing Rhythm

ACME gets personal in this discussion of Vietnam, Argentina, Iowa, the Bronx, and the differences between influence, appropriation, and plagiarism.

Acme is
Hosted by Rick Krizman.
Produced by Rick Krizman and Mike Magnuson.
Featuring Bob Clark, Jim Frank, and Marcello Vazquez.
With Mike Magnuson.

S1 - #8 - ACME Under the Influence(s)

A funny, serious, lowbrow/highbrow, and ultimately honest discussion of the value of writing workshops.  Does the old, often brutal workshop model still work?  Or should there be new way for us to get feedback on our works in progress?

ACME is
Hosted by Rick Krizman.
Produced by Rick Krizman and Mike Magnuson.
Featuring Bob Clark, Jim Frank, and Marcello Vazquez.
With Mike Magnuson.

S1 - #9 - ACME Workshop

ACME kicks around the writing advice we’ve heard or given over the years, the advice we’ve heeded or ignored or didn’t mean in the first place or that we might have been just too damn lazy to put into effect.  

ACME is
Hosted by Rick Krizman.
Produced by Rick Krizman and Mike Magnuson.
Featuring Bob Clark, Jim Frank, and Marcello Vazquez.
With Mike Magnuson.

S1 - #10 - ACME Advice:  Sage or Sausage?

With the California sun shining and everyone’s mood improving, the Academy sidesteps the broader, abstract concerns of writing and opens up the toolbox of grammar and rhetoric and what writers actually need to know to put words on the page.

ACME Writing Academy Season Two:
ACME’s California Adventure

Hosted by Rick Krizman.
Produced by Rick Krizman and Mike Magnuson
Featuring Chef Marcello Vazquez
With Bob Clark and Mike Magnuson

S2 - #5 - The Stephen Foster Wallace Stevens Taco Meatloaf Grammar

Valerie Laken - novelist, artist, musician - joins the Academy on the north shore of Lake Winnebago for Part Two of this discussion about trangressions in literature, Midwesternisms, and ways to produce serious work and have fun doing it.

Hosted by Rick Krizman
Produced by Rick Krizman and Mike Magnuson
Featuring Valerie Laken
With Bob Clark and Mike Magnuson
Marcello Vazquez will return in future episodes.

S3 - #5 - Valerie Laken, Part Two: Go Bad or Go Home

A writer's podcast: part morning-drive radio; part graduate school; part old school; part train wreck.

Hosted by Rick Krizman.
Produced by Rick Krizman and Mike Magnuson.
With Mike Magnuson, Bob Clark, and Chef Marcello Vazquez.
Guest appearances by Mary Helen Stefaniak, Valerie Laken, and Jim Frank.

S3 - #5 - Valerie Laken, Part Two: Go Bad or Go Home

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