by SWMP Admin | Mar 17, 2025 | Podcasts
Writing to Save Your Life, featuring Samina Ali This week’s episode tells the story of a dramatic and traumatic story, and how writing played a central role in recovery and changing the outcome of one author’s life. This week’s episode is epic tale as much as it is...
by SWMP Admin | Mar 10, 2025 | Podcasts
Hard-Won Wisdom, featuring Sari Botton If part of why you write is because you have some things to share from a life well- or hard- or fully lived, then you’re in good company. Personal writing is about connection, and making sense of our experience, and this week’s...
by SWMP Admin | Mar 3, 2025 | Podcasts
The Suburban Novel, featuring Tom Perrotta There’s a caveat out the gate here, which is that in this week’s interview, Tom Perrotta stipulates that he writes about people and communities and the dramas that unfold—in places that just happen to be the suburbs. That...
by SWMP Admin | Feb 24, 2025 | Podcasts
Infusing Mystery into Literary Fiction, featuring Jean Kwok This week’s guest is Jean Kwok, a writer known for writing literary thrillers, which is the blending of literary writing and mystery, resulting in tension-filled books with exciting twists. Jean brings...
by SWMP Admin | Feb 17, 2025 | Podcasts
How to Submit, featuring Dennis James Sweeney This week, Grant and Brooke talk with Dennis James Sweeney about his new book, How to Submit. If you’ve ever felt intimidated by the submissions process; wondered what some of the common pitfalls are when it comes to...
by SWMP Admin | Feb 10, 2025 | Podcasts
Why Scope Matters, featuring Tara Dorabji This week we’re focusing on a little celebrated but much important aspect of storytelling: your story’s scope. How much ground are you trying to cover and how do you execute the pacing? These are the questions you must answer...
