New season of MTPR's "The Write Question" kicks off with new host

Press release

MISSOULA — The new season of Montana Public Radio’s “The Write Question” will debut Thursday at 7 p.m. featuring a new voice and a familiar one.

Incoming host Lauren Korn will sit down with outgoing host Sarah Aronson to swap perspectives on hosting the program, writing, longing, whimsy and more.

And while there will be a familiar voice behind the mic it will be in a different role.

“The Write Question” kicks off its 14th year on Montana Public Radio as well as a variety of public radio stations across the West including Yellowstone Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio. Listeners can also subscribe to “The Write Question” at http://mtpr.org .

“The Write Question” has historically featured hundreds of authors from around the Western United States. Korn said she intends to expand the program’s geographical boundaries.

“My hope is that ‘The Write Question’ becomes a diverse literary space,” she said. “The stories of Montana and of the American West are vital, and I still want to center those voices; but I think it’s imperative, especially now, when there’s a certain ease of accessibility, that listeners of “The Write Question” are able to see — or to hear — beyond our state and regional, and even national borders, and I hope listeners keep me accountable to this idea.”

Korn holds Master of Arts in poetry from the University of New Brunswick, where she was the recipient of the Tom Riesterer Memorial Prize and the Angela Ludan Levine Memorial Book Prize.

She lives in Missoula, where she is the director of the Montana Book Festival, programming a virtual festival this September with more than 30 events and 80 authors from Montana and around the world.

Producer Peter Hoag has been added to the team of “The Write Question.” Hoag also produces the MTPR podcast “Can Do: Essential Business Lessons.”

Authors Anne Helena Peterson of Montana, Jess Walter of Washington, Kerri Arsenault of Maine, Gwen Florio of Montana and Elissa Washuta of Washington and Ohio will be featured on this season of “The Write Question.”

Montana Public Radio is a public service of the University of Montana and broadcasts on 89.1 Missoula (KUFM), 91.5 Missoula, city (K218AI), 91.9 Hamilton (KUFN), 89.5 Polson (KPJH), 90.1 Kalispell, Whitefish, North Valley (KUKL), 90.5 Libby (KUFL), 91.7 Kalispell, city (K219BN), 101.3 Swan Lake (K267BJ), 91.3 Butte (KAPC), 91.7 Helena (KUHM), 91.7 Dillon (K219DN) and 89.9 Great Falls (KGPR).

People can learn more at http://mtpr.org .