by SWMP Admin | Jul 22, 2024 | Podcasts
Being a Voice for Causes That Matter, featuring Naomi Klein This week’s episode airs Brooke in conversation with Naomi Klein at this year’s Bay Area Book Festival. While this interview does not hew to Write-minded’s effort to offer weekly doses of inspiration for...
by SWMP Admin | Jul 15, 2024 | Podcasts
How Secrets Fuel Memoir Writing, featuring Margaret Juhae Lee Secrets come in all forms, big and small. We inherit secrets, carry the secrets of others, and struggle with the burden of all they hold and how they sometimes fester within us. This week’s episode with...
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,...
