# Nina Maclaughlin

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Day 3: Retelling Tales with Nina MacLaughlin

Why rewrite old tales and myths? And how best to do it? Helping us find the answers, we’re joined by Nina MacLaughlin , author of Wake, Siren, a story collection retelling Ovid’s Metamorphosis from the perspective of the women transformed in his tales. For a list of my fave craft books and the most…

Ask a Bookseller re-sings the tales of Ovid from the women’s points of view

Autumn Siders of The Country Bookseller in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, recommends a re-telling of Ovid’s collection of ancient myths “Metamorphoses,” told by the tales’ female characters. It’s entitled “Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung,” by Nina MacLaughlin. The stories come in snippets, vignettes and thera…

Episode Six: The Golden Apple Goddesses

This episode we meet the big three: Hera, Athena and Aphrodite and unpack their personalities based on what they offer pretty boy farmer/secret prince, Paris during that pivotal moment when war is courted. We have poetry from Sarah L Dixon, otherwise known as The Quiet Compare, and budding Greek My…

Episode Five: The Titanesses/Interview with Rosie Garland

In this episode we meet a plethora of pre-pantheon Rebel Heroines. Primordial entities who emerged from the chaos, creation goddesses who were up against it, and a host of nymphs, muses and the keepers of Destiny. There are poem extracts from Nikita Gills fabulous Great Goddesses, oracle messages f…

🎄🎧Season 4 Episode 4 ✨Christmas Lights✨

Friends, December is upon us, which means meterological winter has arrived here in the northern hemisphere. This episode, Season 4 Episode 4 ‘Christmas Lights’, is all about words, because winter is my favourite time of year for writing. It’s so cosy to light a candle, read some poetry, get out you…

🎄🎧Season 4 Episode 6 ✨Ancient Embers✨

✨ This is the episode where sadness is honoured, our loved ones are remembered, and we allow all the feelings, however they might arise. May it be a comfort to you in the dark season. Episode 6 includes: * The comfort of poetry * Thoughtful ideas for dealing with sadness in the dark season * A can…

December 19, 2024 - Ayodele Casel, Will Gusakov, and Nina MacLaughlin

Ayodele Casel is a trailblazing tap dancer and choreographer.  Her tap dancing is at once percussive and poetry in motion. She joins The Culture Show to talk about the world-premiere production,  “Diary of a Tap Dancer.”  It  traces her  life  – from her first steps in the Bronx and Puerto Rico– an…

EP90: Poetry & Prose with Nina MacLaughlin

Okay, Hannah's back, but that doesn't mean we're done with guest hosts! This week we're joined by author Nina MacLaughlin, editor of the brand-new New England Literary News newsletter, and we've got the Newburyport Literary Festival on the brain (oh, and sorry, Nina, about putting you on the spot v…

June 19, 2025 - Mass. Poet Laureate Regie Gibson, Club Passim, and Nina MacLaughlin on the Summer Solstice

Regie Gibson, an assistant professor at Berklee College of Music and an instructor at Clark University, has been selected as Massachusetts’ first Poet Laureate. He joins The Culture Show to talk about how he’ll define this role, his path to poetry and to share some of his work.  Gibson is a songwri…

June 19, 2026 - Annette Gordon-Reed onJuneteenth, Regie Gibson on Shakespeare, and Summer Solstice

Historian, lawyer and Pulitzer-prize winning author Annette Gordon-Reed joins The Culture Show to talk about her book “On Juneteenth,” which explores the holiday commemorating the day Union troops announced the end of slavery in Texas.  We mark the staying power of William Shakespeare with Regie Gi…