by SWMP Admin | Jul 8, 2024 | Podcasts
On the Awards We Receive and the Rewards We Make, featuring Jayne Anne Phillips This week’s guest, Jayne Anne Phillips, is a Pulitzer prize-winning author for her latest book, Night Watch, which gives Write-minded an opportunity to muse about awards—why they matter,...
by SWMP Admin | Jul 1, 2024 | Podcasts
How Big Questions Inform Fiction, featuring Rachel Khong This week’s Write-minded centers questions, and how questions guide writers, drive fiction, and unearth important stories. Guest Rachel Khong shares how the big and provocative question of who’s a “real...
by SWMP Admin | Jun 24, 2024 | Podcasts
Breaking New Ground in Memoir, featuring Shze-Hui Tjoa Write-minded is celebrating memoir as an evolving form this week, tackling the difference between imaginative writing in memoir and writing in memoir that might not be true. Memoir is increasingly embodying its...
by SWMP Admin | Jun 17, 2024 | Podcasts
The Big Novel, featuring Garth Risk Hallberg This week we take on The Big Novel and unpack our thoughts on novel length, the very concept of The Great American Novel, advances, and more. Guest Garth Risk Hallberg joins us to talk about his own long works of fiction,...
by SWMP Admin | Jun 10, 2024 | Podcasts
Remembering and Forgetting: The Refugee Journey, featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen It’s Write-minded’s 300th episode! And we’re celebrating by bringing listeners the esteemed Viet Thanh Nguyen, whose novel, The Sympathizer, was adapted for HBO Max and started streaming in...
