by SWMP Admin | Nov 4, 2024 | Podcasts
Centering Marginalized Characters in Your Fiction, featuring Barbara Ridley This week’s episode is inspired by guest Barbara Ridley’s new novel, Unswerving, whose central protagonist is gay and disabled. We explore the dearth of disabled characters in fiction, and...
by SWMP Admin | Oct 28, 2024 | Podcasts
How Being Fascinated and Daunted Can Drive Your Writing, featuring Edwidge Danticat It could be said of this week’s guest that she, like the title of this week’s show, is fascinating and daunting. And that this is a pull toward the things we’re interested in, that we...
by SWMP Admin | Oct 21, 2024 | Podcasts
Optimism and Pessimism in Book Publishing—Because It’s Always Both, featuring Michael Castleman 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 isn’t all good, it’s also not all...
by SWMP Admin | Oct 14, 2024 | Podcasts
Writing as a Way to Champion People and Causes, featuring Maggie Tokuda-Hall This week’s 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,...
by SWMP Admin | Oct 7, 2024 | Podcasts
Don’t Let Your Comfort Zone Become Your Doom Zone, featuring Joshua Mohr A rocking ride through punk influence on prose and story, this interview with guest Joshua Mohr is, more than anything, about pushing your limits and getting out of your comfort zone. In his new...
by SWMP Admin | Sep 30, 2024 | Podcasts
How to Be Compulsively Readable, featuring Anne Lamott Anne Lamott joins Write-minded this week to talk about so many things—what she writes about; how she kills her darlings; her process with her early readers and editors; and more. On the question of being...
