This week’s show focuses on endings, and beginnings. Guest Zahid Rafiq, who’s written a short story collection whose endings serve the stories and his characters, speaks to how he thinks about endings, including those that others might find less than sati

This weeks show features guest Faith Adiele, whos 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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