Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers
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Hybrid Writing for Hybrid Lives, featuring Faith Adiele
This week’s show features guest Faith Adiele, who’s just released two chapbooks that are in conversation with one another. These books are a springboard for a conversation about hybrid writing, hybrid memoirs, the popularity of chapbooks, and hybrid forms
Bringing Attention, Playfulness, and Surprise to Your Writing, featuring Jeannine Ouellette
This week guest Jeannine Ouellette returns to Write-minded to share some specific teachings and practical tips for writers who want to better curb their own impulses to tell and/or to overwrite. This episode is a little more craft-focused than we normally
Drug Stories, featuring Emily Witt
This weeks Write-minded delves into our cultural and literary relationship with drugs, examining the role drugs play in creativity and among creatives. We also look at novels and memoirs that center drugs and alcohol, and talk to author Emily Witt about
Embracing Contradiction, featuring Carvell Wallace
This weeks episode is a deep conversation that covers love, embracing contradiction, and guest Carvell Wallaces journey to and through memoir. This is an enlightening interview for anyone whos ever contemplated paradox, or how to tackle big, tangly ide
The Art of Listening, featuring Elizabeth Rosner
This week Write-minded is exploring listeningas a practice, as an experience, as something that interacts with our writing. Guest Elizabeth Rosners new book is Third Ear, a book that she describes as a hybrid memoir. Listen in to find out why, to consid
Centering Marginalized Characters in Your Fiction, featuring Barbara Ridley
This weeks episode is inspired by guest Barbara Ridleys new novel,Unswerving,whose central protagonist is gay and disabled. We explore the dearth of disabled characters in fiction, and hear from Barbara how choosing to write about a character who was
How Being Fascinated and Daunted Can Drive Your Writing, featuring Edwidge Danticat
It could be said of this weeks guest that she, like the title of this weeks show, is fascinating and daunting. And that this is a pull toward the things were interested in, that we want to dive more deeply into, is the subject of this weeks show. Edwi
Optimism and Pessimism in Book Publishing—Because It’s Always Both, featuring Michael Castleman
As Write-minded is wont to do, we bring you another tell-it-like-it-is reality bites episode about book publishing. And while the news isnt all good, its also not all badand guest Michael Castleman is living, breathing proof that its worth it, as long
Writing as a Way to Champion People and Causes, featuring Maggie Tokuda-Hall
This weeks Write-minded is a thoughtful conversation about where writers values meet public persona and the writing life. Guest Maggie Tokuda-Hall treats us to her thinking about career, ambition, and why she writes what subjects and characters she writ
Don’t Let Your Comfort Zone Become Your Doom Zone, featuring Joshua Mohr
A rocking ride through punk influence on prose and story, this interview with guest Joshua Mohr is, more than anything, about pushing your limits and getting out of your comfort zone. In his new book, Saint the Terrifying, Josh does a few things he’s neve