by SWMP Admin | Apr 17, 2023 | Podcasts
On Pioneering and Why It Matters, featuring Donna Hill This episode honors a pioneer of a genre with guest Donna Hill, who pioneered a genre and hasn’t looked back. With more than 100 published books to her credit, Hill is a force. This episode covers the stamina it...
by SWMP Admin | Apr 10, 2023 | Podcasts
Executing an Ambitious Book Project, featuring Jinwoo Chong This week’s episode features a bright new star in the literary universe, Jinwoo Chong, whose debut novel, Flux, was also his masters’ thesis. Brooke and Grant loved the book—and the subject of conversation in...
by SWMP Admin | Apr 3, 2023 | Podcasts
The Themed Poetry Collection, featuring Heather Bourbeau This week Write-minded rings in National Poetry Month with guest Heather Bourbeau in a conversation about poetry, working with themes, and collaborations. Grant shares what he’s planning to do this month to...
by SWMP Admin | Mar 27, 2023 | Podcasts
The Literature of Longing, featuring Madelaine Lucas Longing is a subject, topic, theme, and obsession of countless stories that have shaped our literary landscape. Grant and Brooke take a good hard look at longing this week and hold it up against its companion...
by SWMP Admin | Mar 20, 2023 | Podcasts
The Self-improvement Memoir, featuring Peggy Orenstein Peggy Orenstein joins Brooke and Grant this week to talk about a number of ideas at the center of her newest memoir, Unraveling. We cover sheep shearing, the fast fashion industry, the crafts(wo)manship that came...
by SWMP Admin | Mar 13, 2023 | Podcasts
Mining Tension in Fiction, featuring Gish Jen Building tension in stories is part of writing good fiction writing, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to do—and it also requires writers to be conscious of the tensions they’re trying to mine. In this week’s show, tension...
