This week Write-minded is interviewing an established writer whose star is on the rise. Elwin Cotman’s new story collection blew us away for how he played with form and takes readers on an expected journeys. His stories don’t fit into any box—including le

This week Write-minded reaches broadly into the topic of intimacy to explore its many permutationsnot just romantic, but innocuous, violent, collective, and more. Guest StaceyDErasmo invites us to consider intimacy in writing, how we do it, how we feel

This weeks guest is John McMurtrie, the esteemed former editor of the San Francisco Chronicles book review section. Join us as we explore the transition of book reviews from traditional media like TV and radio to online outlets like Amazon and Goodreads

What does it really mean to consider your own social responsibility as a fiction writer? Guest Naomi Kanakia confronted that very question as she considered her modeling as a trans author writing YA books for teens. What if hers was the first book a gende

Strap on your seatbelts cause were going for a rideinto the wild world of book publishing. Guest Kathleen Schmidt is a leading voice in publishing. Her popular Substack, Publishing Confidential, is a go-to source for tell-it-like-it-is realities about

An episode about friendship, writing about friendship, and how friendship influences our writing lives. As a community-minded podcast, Write-minded has often touched upon the importance of a broader net of friendship on our writing. This week we get a bit

This weeks Write-minded show examines the nuanced and deep exploration at the heart of guest Lissa Soeps new book,Other Peoples Words.A consideration of the ways others voices echo in our own, her book and this episode shows us a kaleidoscope of how

Ready for a reprieve? Join Brooke and Grant and this weeks guest, NeelyTubati-Alexander, for a conversation about whether romance and rom-com writers are having more fun. We dive into questions of the success of the genre, what publishers are looking fo

This week Write-minded wades into the important topic of writing about childhood trauma. Trauma is at the heart of many of our stories, whether youre writing coming-of-age or only touching upon childhood stories in the context of specific memoir scenes (

It's important to learn from the challenges of a failed book rather than allowing it to define your career. The publishing industry can be harsh and unforgiving to writers in this situation. Unforgiving as in agents abandoning the writer or publishers tur