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...
by SWMP Admin | Jun 3, 2024 | Podcasts
Behind the Scenes of Selling Books, featuring Josh Cook This week’s episode is one for book lovers, book collectors, aspiring authors, and every kind of writer. It’s always helpful to know what booksellers know—because bookstores do so much more than just provide a...
by SWMP Admin | May 27, 2024 | Podcasts
Be the Change You Want To See, featuring Dhonielle Clayton In this week’s extra-inspiring show, guest Dhonielle Clayton treats us to a generous conversation about effecting change in the industry and how that inevitable comes with backlash. We talk about...
