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Author Up
by Writing tips, craft habits, and professional advice to feed the author life
Author Up is a show about the working lives of writers and how to up your own authorship. Host Garrett Souliere talks with writers, editors, publishers, and other people in the literary world about making good work, getting it into the world, building community, and figuring out what comes next. quibblelit.substack.com
Episodes
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#30 Ben & Tamarah Rockwood — A Press Built by Belief
On this episode of Author Up, we get to know Tamarah and Ben Rockwood of Bainbridge Island Press, an independent poetry publisher based in Washington’s Puget Sound. Tamarah leads the press’s editorial work, while Ben handles operations and design. Together, their work spans full-length poetry...
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#29: Alex Price: Making Progress without a Goal
Poet and Quippy Choice Award recipient Alex Price joins Quibble Lit editor Garrett Souliere on Author Up for a conversation about her writing and the experiences behind it. From her background in journalism and book criticism to teaching creative writing and working on a farm, Alex’s life has...
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Zeugma Draft - Draft and Craft #2
Join poets Anne Louise Phillips, L.Lois, JeFF Stumpo, and Garrett Souliere as they play a poetry drafting game built around the rhetorical device of zeugma… and our humble attempts to understand and use it poetically. Thank you, poets, for playing with me. This is a really fun device that you’ll...
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#28: Amber Byers - Short Form and Self Trust (Tadpole Press)
Amber Byers, author and founder of Tadpole Press, joins Quibble Lit editor Garrett Souliere on Author Up for a conversation about finding a creative path and helping others find theirs. From her background in law to her work as a writer, editor, and 100-word contest judge, we explore the...
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Duplex Pix - Draft and Craft #1
Welcome to Draft & Craft, Quibble Lit’s new premium writing gameshow podcast—a little writing group and prompt challenge in your pocket. The idea grew from advice we hear often on Author Up: find a writing group. Draft & Craft brings some of that shared energy, encouragement, and discovery to...
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#27: Oak Morse - Poetry as Albums & Artistic Eras
This week on Author Up, we welcome poet and Quippy Choice Award winner Oak Morse for a conversation about the craft, career, and creative possibilities of poetry. A recipient of the 2025 Larry Levis Post-Graduate Award and the 2024 A Public Space Writing Fellowship, Oak’s work has appeared in...
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#26: Erica Miriam Fabri & L. Lois (Featured Guests)
This week on Author Up, we’re joined by poet Erica Miriam Fabri and Quibble poetry editor Lisa Lois. Erica Miriam Fabri is a poet, writer, and educator whose work has moved across the page, performance, and a wide range of creative spaces. She is the author of two poetry collections, Dialect of a...
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#25: Kelsey Britt - Finding Voice within Yoga & Poetry (Featured Voice)
Kelsey Britt is a writer, sexuality educator, and trauma-informed yoga instructor whose work brings poetry, storytelling, mindfulness, and the body into conversation with one another. Her poems and short fiction have appeared in Gulf Coast, Anodyne Magazine, Wild Roof Journal, Variant Literature,...
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#24: Anne Louise Phillips
This week’s guest on Author UP is Anne Louise Phillips, a Mississippi-based author of children’s and middle-grade fiction, poet, & poetry editor at Quibble Lit. Anne Louise and I first “met” in 2024, back when her poem “Overheard” was published in Issue 7: Simple. Little. Scribble. She reached…
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Announcing Our Podcast Rebrand
We’re excited and delighted to share some news: Sunday SubDays will from here on be known as Author Up. “Sunday SubDays” has been a truly marvelous experience, as I continue learning more career insights from writers each week. The name, however, is a remnant from an earlier form of the idea. We...
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#23: JeFF Stumpo (Featured Guest)
This week, we’re joined by poet JeFF Stumpo, author of these are the waterfalls in my head, winner of the 2026 Granite State Poetry Prize and published this spring by Yas Press. JeFF has had one of those wonderfully winding writing lives: slam poet and organizer, bookstore owner, adjunct…
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#22: Emily Broadmore (Featured Guest)
This week, Quibble is joined by Emily Broadmore, founder and editor-in-chief of Folly, an award-winning independent New Zealand indie publisher with a taste for bold, beautiful and provocative art. Folly is one of ChillSub’s Best Lit Mags of 2025 (#6 overall for “Bold and Weird”) and was a 2023...
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#21: Andres Cordoba (Featured Voice)
This week on Author Up, we’re joined by poet, fiction writer, and editor Andres Cordoba, and winner of the 2026 Quippy Award for Best Lyricism with his poem “Monica #43.” Andres is a 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow whose work has appeared in Harvard Review, Gandy…
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#20: The Diamond Quill (Featured Guest)
The Diamond Quill is a writing community built around a community-driven monthly poetry contest, bringing writers together to create, share, and celebrate one another’s work. This week on Author Up, I sit down with Bryce, founder and the one-man team behind The Diamond Quill to talk about how the...
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#19: Lauren Rich (Featured Voice)
This week on Author Up, we’re joined by poet Lauren Richkus , whose poem “Job Title: Entertainer” won Quibble Lit’s Quippy Award for Most Humorful. We talk about her Quippy-winning poem, Lauren’s path to writing, humor as a tool, and the importance of community. And halfway through, Lauren shares...
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#18: Brett Van Emst (Featured Guest)
This week, Author Up welcomes Brett Van Emst—founder of Midnight Mind Magazine and creator of Lit Mag Week, a new collaborative initiative making its debut September 28–October 2. Bringing together independent literary magazines, writers, editors, and readers, Lit Mag Week is a straightforward…
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#17: Sophia Lucia (Featured Voice)
This week we’re joined by Sophia Lucia: experimental poet, performer, musician, and producer of Freak Show Cabaret. Sophia’s poem “Get Me Out” was selected for a Quippy Categories Award for Best Sonic Experiment. The piece moves with voice, pressure, humor, confession, performance, and a kind of...
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#16: Adam Shove (Featured Guest)
In this week’s Author Up, Quibble Lit welcomes Adam Shove, poet and founder of Dark Thirty Poetry Publishing. This episode looks at Adam’s path as an artist, creator, and builder: where Dark Thirty began, what the work has taught him, and what he wants to help bring forward next. Adam has a big...
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#15: Rochelle Potkar (Featured Voice)
In this Featured Voice conversation, we welcome to the show Rochelle Potkar, winner of our Quippy Category Award for Best Use of Silence with her poem “Bedrock.” Rochelle is a poet, fiction writer, screenwriter, playwright, critic, editor, and mentor whose work moves across genres and literary...
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#14: Hilesh Patel (Featured Voice)
Content note: This episode includes discussion of school violence. In this Author Up, we’re joined by poet, mediator, facilitator, and Chicago ACT Collective member Hilesh Patel, whose poem “Apples and a cold slice of pizza, eaten arc first” won Quibble’s Most Heartbreaking Quippy Award. The poem...
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#13: Carella Keil (Featured Guest)
This week’s guest is a new friend and artist of many talents - we’re delighted to welcome on Canadian poet & photographer Carella Keil. Carella’s photograph “Frog Prince” is featured as the cover art for JUNGLE, Quibble Lit’s upcoming 8th print volume (which goes live in July!) Additionally,...
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#12: Dré Pontbriand (Featured Voice)
This week on Author UP, Quibble Lit sits down with Dré Pontbriand, poet and Quippy winner for “Porcelain Playground Barbie.” Dré and I have a ton of fun as we talk about the making of her award-winning poem and what it means to write toward transformation. Dré’s work is vivid, intimate, and…
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#11: Sabrina Maurer (Featured Guest)
This week is a very special episode and honor, as I get to sit down with Sabrina Maurer to talk about her debut book, Cherished Memories. Published through ReadyAimWrite Kids — an independent publisher built around books written by kids, for kids — Sabrina’s story follows 11-year-old Bella, a...
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#10: Angelina Aldrich (Featured Voice)
Happy Memorial weekend for our U.S. audience! This week, I shared a meaningful conversation with Angelina Aldrich, whose poem “Thighs for Days” took home the Copper Quippy Award (3rd place) in this year’s Ps & Qs Audio Poem Contest. Watch the full discussion for bits of wisdom and laughter about...
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#9: Rachel Kramer Bussel (Featured Guest)
This week on Author Up, we’re joined by Rachel Kramer Bussel, founder and editor-in-chief of Open Secrets Magazine , a publication devoted to the personal stories we’re often taught to keep tucked away. Watch or listen to us discuss: * the power of the personal essay * how quiet truth can form...
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#8: James Spencer (Featured Guest)
This week on Author UP, we have a bonus episode! — to pair alongside our Featured Voice spotlight on Jae Nichelle — Quibble Lit sits down with poet and voice coach James Spencer for a thoughtful conversation on performance, presence, vulnerability, and the living relationship between poetry and…
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#7: Derrick C. Brown (Featured Guest)
This week’s featured guest of Author Up is Derrick Brown, poet, performer, comedian, and founder/president of Write Bloody Publishing. Derrick has spent decades helping poetry escape the box some people try to keep it in. As the founder of Write Bloody, he has also helped shape a major lane for...
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#6: Bri Gearhart Staton (Featured Voice)
And we’re back! This Sunday with an inspiring conversation with Bri Gearhart Staton, poet and the first-ever winner of our 1st Place Golden Quippy Award from The 2026 Ps & Qs Audio Poetry Contest. Bri was truly a treat to connect with. I was amazed to hear how she discovered poetry, in a battle…
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#5: La Piccioletta Barca (Featured Guest)
This week, we’re thrilled to feature La Piccioletta Barca co-editors-in-chief Eponine Howarth and Micaela Brinsley. We talk literary community, editorial evolution, collaboration, independent publishing, and what it means to build a magazine that feels less like a platform and more like a living...
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#4: Thomas Sims (Featured Guest)
We're glad to share this conversation with Thomas Sims — poet and poetry editor at Quibble Lit.(once we grow a little, this series will be for subscribers only!) Thomas brings a rare mix of precision, curiosity, and calm to both writing and reading. In this interview, we talk about poetry…
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#3: Trudy Hale (Featured Guest)
For this episode, I’m really glad to share a conversation with Trudy Hale — founder of Porches Writing Retreat and Editor-in-Chief of Streetlight Magazine. Trudy brings a thoughtful perspective to literary life, and this conversation moves through some of the lasting questions around writing…
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Author Up is a show about the working lives of writers and how to up your own authorship. Host Garrett Souliere talks with writers, editors, publishers, and other people in the literary world about making good work, getting it into the world, building community, and figuring out what comes next.
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