First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing is a literary podcast produced and hosted by Mitzi Rapkin. Each week the podcast features an in-depth interview with a fiction, non-fiction, essay, or poetry writer. The show is equal parts investigation into the craft of writing and conversation about the topics of an author’s work.

Shelley Read’s international bestselling debut novel, Go As A River, is translated into thirty-four languages and has been optioned for film by Mazur Kaplan Productions. Go As A River is the winner of the High Plains International Book Award for Fiction and the Reading the West Book Award for Best Debut, as well as a finalist for the Madame Figaro Du Grand Prix De L’Héroïne (France) and Storytel Award Best Novel (Sweden).