All Episodes

The Responsible Party by Claire Carusillo - Writing a Fictional Character Named Claire Carusillo

Appetite by P Paramita - Write Your Obsessions

The Make-Believe by Hannah Murray - On Magic and Madness

A Real Animal by Emeline Atwood - Writing Your Body and Soul

The Great Wherever by Shannon Sanders - Writing a "BIG" Book

Names Have Been Changed by Yu-Mei Balasingamchow - Finding the Right Way to Tell Your Story

Voyagers by Meg Charlton - The Best Alien Novel of the Year

Girl's Girl by Sonia Feldman - Creating an Online Marketing POV

Waiting On A Friend by Natalie Adler - A Dyke-About-Town

No God But Use by Bobuq Sayed - Finding the Viewpoints

Debuti-Vault: Torrey Peters Discusses Detransition, Baby (2021)

Middlemen by Laura B. McGrath - Are Literary Agents Parasites?

One Leg on Earth by 'Pemi Aguda - Enjoying the Hard Parts of Creativity

The Memory Museum by M Lin - "So, Do You Have a Novel?"

Squirming by Monika Ostrowska - Writers Should Be Readers

Harmless by Miranda Shulman - How To Write Four First Drafts And Still Love Your Novel

Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran: Queer Academia and Gothic Horror

The Fountain by Casey Scieszka: The Ever-Evolving Journey to Writing a Book

Debuti-Vault: Brandon Taylor Discusses Real Life (2020)

Bloodfire, Baby by Eirinie Carson - Seeking People to People Vibes

She Made Herself a Monster by Anna Kovatcheva - Surprising Yourself With Every Draft

Salvation by C. William Langsfeld - Dispatches from the Western Slope

Escape! by Stephen Fishbach - Behind-the-Scenes of the Great American Reality TV Novel

Take It From Me by Alia Hanna Habib: Let's Talk About Nonfiction Careers

Scavengers by Kathleen Boland: How the American West Inspires Her Writing

Buckeye by Patrick Ryan: What Makes A Story Worth It

Lonely Crowds by Stephanie Wambugu - The Lineage of Writers

Wanting by Claire Jia - Life After Publishing Your Debut

First Taste: Ally Ang reads from Let the Moon Wobble

Ravishing by Eshani Surya - Body On the Page

First Taste: Cloud Delfina Cordona Reads From The Past is a Jean Jacket

That's Not How It Happened by Craig Thomas - Writing From the Heart

Simultaneous by Eric Heisserer - Writing for the Screen and Why This Story Needed To Be A Novel

First Taste: Max Delsohn Reads From Crawl

This Is the Only Kingdom by Jaquira Díaz - Fiction, Nonfiction, and "Slutty Reading"

Sister Creatures by Laura Venita Green - Writing When the Timing is Right

First Taste: Teresa Dzieglewicz reads from Something Small of How to See a River

Thank You, John by Michelle Gurule - What's a Sugar Baby?

First Taste: Isabella DeSendi Reads From Someone Else's Hunger

First Taste: Brian Gyamfi Reads From What God in the Kingdom of Bastards

Kaplan's Plot by Jason Diamond - Writer with a Capital W

The Belles by Lacey N. Dunham - Modern Gothic Academia

The Once and Future Me by Melissa Pace - From (Not On) the Screen to the Page

First Taste: Antonio Michael Downing Reads From Black Cherokee

First Taste: Ed Park Reads From An Oral History of Atlantis

Dominion by Addie E. Citchens - The Great Mississippi Novel

These Memories Do Not Belong To Us by Yiming Ma - From MBA to MFA

First Taste: Tennessee Hill Reads From Girls With Long Shadows

Atomic Hearts by Megan Cummins - What is a Debut, Anyway?

Dwelling by Emily Hunt Kivel - The Hero's Journey of the Housing Crisis

First Taste: Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo Reads From The Tiny Things Are Heavier

Extinction Capital of the World by Mariah Rigg - An Ode to Hawai'i, Family, and Climate

Literary Agent Kate McKean Wants You To Write Through It

First Taste: Katie Yee Reads From Maggie

Bitter Sweet by Hattie Williams - How Sometimes Accidents Lead to Success

House of Beth by Kerry Cullen: Sad, Weird, Horny

First Taste: Carrie R. Moore Reads From Make Your Way Home

My Train Leaves at Three by Natalie Guerrero: Finding Yourself and Your Community

Hot Girls with Balls by Benedict Nguyễn: Are you a Six, or a Green?

First Taste: Rob Franklin Reads From Great Black Hope

Imagine a Door by Laura Stanfill: Inside Indie and Small Presses with Forest Avenue Press' Publisher

Ezra Kupor's Galley Brag is the Must-Read Publishing Newsletter of the Year

Girls Girls Girls by Shoshana von Blanckensee: Nurse by Day, Writer by Any Available Moment

First Taste: Jayson Greene Reads From UnWorld

Foreclosure Gothic by Harris Lahti: Skateboarding, Foreclosures, and Finding Your Voice

First Taste: Lydi Conklin Reads From Songs of No Provenance

There Are Reasons For This by Nini Berndt: Writing To Serve the Story's Purpose

Aggregated Discontent by Harron Walker: Early Aughts Nostalgia

First Taste: Beena Kamlani Reads From The English Problem

Old School Indian by Aaron John Curtis: Love What You Write

The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei: Knowing What You Want To Write

First Taste: Sarah Aziza Reads From The Hollow Half

When the Harvest Comes by Denne Michele Norris: An Intimate Third Date Conversation

Big Chief by Jon Hickey: From False Starts to Finding the Book's Path

First Taste: Lena Moses-Schmitt Reads From True Mistakes

Luminous by Silvia Park: Finding the Right Way to Tell the Story You Need to Tell

We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown: How Doncaster and Disability Shaped and Re-Shaped Her Writing

Guatemalan Rhapsody by Jared Lemus: Getting Stories to Work on the Fundamental Level

First Taste: Sarah Lyn Rogers Reads From Cosmic Tantrum

Loca by Alejandro Heredia: An Ode to The Bronx, Dominican Culture, and Queerness

First Taste: Freda Epum Reads From The Gloomy Girl Variety Show

The Edge of Water by Olufunke Grace Bankole: How to Embrace The Unknown

First Taste: Kyle Paoletta Reads From American Oasis

Good Girl by Aria Aber: Finding Character Desire

First Taste: Maria Zoccola Reads From Helen of Troy, 1993

Homeseeking by Karissa Chen: Exploring Long Lost Romantic and Familial Love

First Taste: Julian Zabalbeascoa Reads From What We Tried to Bury Grows Here

First Taste: Marguerite Sheffer Reads From The Man in the Banana Trees

Maya Kessler - Rosenfeld

Marie Tierney - Deadly Animals

First Taste: Patricia Coral Reads From Women Surrounded By Water

Ruthvika Rao - The Fertile Earth

First Taste: Cameron Walker Reads From How to Capture Carbon

Mike Fu - Masquerade

First Taste: Cherry Lou Sy Reads From Love Can't Feed You

Amy Stuber - Sad Grownups

First Taste: Brittany Rogers Reads From Good Dress

Bruna Dantas Lobato - Blue Light Hours

First Taste: Tammy Armstrong Reads From Pearly Everlasting

Rae Garringer - Country Queers: A Love Letter

First Taste: Lilliam Rivera Reads From Tiny Threads

Ledia Xhoga - Misinterpretation

First Taste: Benjamin Resnick Reads From Next Stop

Jessica Elisheva Emerson - Olive Days

First Taste: Nora Lange Reads From Us Fools

Katherine Packert Burke - Still Life

First Taste: Emilie Menzel Reads From The Girl Who Became a Rabbit

Gina María Balibrera - The Volcano Daughters

First Taste: Komail Aijazuddin reads from Manboobs

Sam Sax - Yr Dead

Kendra Winchester - Read Appalachia

Anamely Salgado Reyes - My Mother Cursed My Name

First Taste: Holly Baxter reads from Clickbait

Lena Valencia - Mystery Lights

First Taste: Kat Tang Reads from Five-Star Stranger

Ruben Reyes Jr. - There is a Rio Grande in Heaven

First Taste: Alisa Alering Reads From Smothermoss

Jordan Kopy - Theodora Hendrix and the Monstrous League of Monsters

First Taste: Chris Koslowski Reads From Kayfabe

Alana Saab - Please Stop Trying To Leave Me

First Taste: Samuel Kọ́láwọlé Reads From The Road to the Salt Sea

Marcela Fuentes - Malas

First Taste: Sarai Johnson Reads From Grown Women

August Thompson - Anyone's Ghost

Isabel Banta - Honey

First Taste: Manuel Betancourt Reads From The Male Gazed

Santiago Jose Sanchez - Hombrecito

First Taste: Ananda Lima Reads from Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

Joanna Pearson - Bright and Tender Dark

Puloma Ghosh - Mouth

First Taste: Frankie Barnet Reads From Mood Swings

Kimberly King Parsons - We Were The Universe

First Taste: Annell López Reads From I'll Give You a Reason

Emma Copley Eisenberg: Housemates

First Taste: J. Nicoles Jones Reads From The Witches of Bellinas

Melissa Mogollon - Oye

First Taste: Charlee Dyroff Reads From Loneliness & Company

Alina Grabowski: Women and Children First

Jiaming Tang - Cinema Love

First Taste: Garrard Conley Reads From All The World Beside

First Taste: Uche Okonkwo Reads From A Kind of Madness

Christine Ma-Kellams - The Band

First Taste: Parul Kapur Reads From Inside the Mirror

Ursula Villareal-Moura - Like Happiness

First Taste: Jessie Ren Marshall Reads From Women! In! Peril!

Marissa Higgins - A Good Happy Girl

First Taste: Laura Chow Reeve Reads From A Small Apocalypse

Alexandra Tanner - Worry

First Taste: Gina Chung Reads From Green Frog

Sierra Greer - Annie Bot

First Taste: Rita Bullwinkel Reads From Headshot

Andrew Boryga - Victim

First Taste: Jennifer Croft Reads From The Extinction of Irena Rey

First Taste: Gareth Brown Reads From The Book of Doors

Circling Back with L'Oreal Thompson Payton

First Taste: Maura Cheeks Reads From Acts of Forgiveness

First Taste: Tobias Carroll Reads From Transitory

Phillip B. Williams - Ours

First Taste: Rae Giana Rashad Reads from The Blueprint

Mariah Stovall - I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

Meg Reid - Hub City

First Taste: Sean Enfield Reads From Holy American Burnout!

Andrés N. Ordorica - How We Named the Stars

First Taste: Shubnum Khan Reads From The Djinn Waits A Hundred Years

Christina Cooke - Broughtupsy

First Taste: Temim Fruchter Reads From City of Laughter

Circling Back with Ruth Madievsky

Celine Saintclare - Sugar, Baby

First Taste: Aube Rey Lescure Reads From River East, River West

Inci Atrek - Holiday Country

First Taste: Kate Brody Reads From Rabbit Hole

Vanessa Chan - The Storm We Made

Tyriek White - We Are A Haunting

James W. Jennings - Wings Of Red

First Taste: Yael Goldstein-Love Reads From The Possibilities

First Taste: Nina Simon Reads From Mother-Daughter Murder Night

First Taste: Jami Nakamura Lin Reads From The Night Parade

Chin-Sun Lee - Upcountry

First Taste: Amelia Possanza Reads From Love Story

First Taste: CJ Leede Reads From Maeve Fly

First Taste: Eskor David Johnson Reads From Pay As You Go

Kelsey Norris - House Gone Quiet

Molly McGhee - Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

First Taste: Alicia Elliott Reads From And Then She Fell

First Taste: Kelly Sather Reads From Small In Real Life

Shannon Sanders - Company

First Taste: Kate Doyle Reads From I Meant It Once

James Frankie Thomas - Idlewild

First Taste Greg Marshall Reads From Leg

Elyssa Maxx Goodman - Glitter And Concrete

First Taste: Meg Kissinger Reads From While You Were Out

Megan Kamalei Kakimoto - Every Drop Is A Man’s Nightmare

John Manuel Arias - Where There Was Fire

First Taste: Shastri Akella reads from The Sea Elephants

Kyle Dillon Hertz - The Lookback Window

First Taste: Adrienne Brodeur Reads From Little Monsters

Ben Purkert - The Men Can’t Be Saved

First Taste: J.R. Dawson Reads From The First Bright Thing

First Taste: Boo Trundle Reads From The Daughter Ship

First Taste: Sarah Cypher Reads From The Skin And Its Girl

First Taste: Nicole Flattery Reads From Nothing Special

Ruth Madievsky - All-Night Pharmacy

First Taste: Meagan Jennett reads from You Know Her

Genevieve Wheeler - Adelaide

First Taste: Celia Bell reads from The Disenchantment

First Taste: Tom Comitta Reads From The Nature Book

Nicole Cuffy - Dances

First Taste: Emma Törzs reads from Ink Blood Sister Scribe

Rita Chang-Eppig - Deep As The Sky, Red As The Sea

First Taste: Michael Magee reads from Close to Home

Olivia Wolfgang-Smith - Glassworks

First Taste: Abraham Verghese reads from The Covenant of Water

Jenny Fran Davis - Dykette

Vanessa Walters - The Nigerwife

First Taste: Susie Luo Reads From Paper Names

First Taste: Nick Medina Reads From Sisters Of The Lost Nation

Stephen Buoro - The Five Sorrowful Mysteries Of Andy Africa

First Taste: Omer Aziz reads from Brown Boy

Becky Chalsen - Kismet

First Taste: Davon Loeb Reads From The In-Betweens

Melissa Coss Aquino - Carmen and Grace

First Taste: Chloe Cooper Jones Reads From Easy Beauty

Gina Chung - Sea Change

Jade Song - Chlorine

First Taste: Vibhuti Jain reads from Our Best Intentions

Szilvia Molnar - The Nursery

First Taste: Richard Mirabella reads from Brother & Sister Enter the Forest

First Taste: Joseph Lezza reads from I’m Never Fine

Madelaine Lucas - Thirst For Salt

First Taste: Lamya H Reads From Hijab Butch Blues

Joseph Earl Thomas - Sink

First Taste: Gabrielle Bates reads from Judas Goat

Daisy Alpert Florin - My Last Innocent Year

First Taste: Ariel Delgado Dixon reads from Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You

First Taste: EM Tran reads from Daughters of the New Year

First Taste: Aaron Foley reads from Boys Come First

Josh Riedel - Please Report Your Bug Here

First Taste: Talia Lakshmi Kolluri reads from What We Fed to the Manticore

Kai Thomas - In the Upper Country

First Taste: Bernadette Jiwa reads from The Making of Her

First Taste: Michael X Wang reads from Lost in the Long March

Margo Price - Maybe We’ll Make It

First Taste - Sabrina Imbler Reads From How Far The Light Reaches

Dionne Irving - The Islands

First Taste: Maria Adelmann Reads From How To Be Eaten

First Taste: Nada Alic Reads From Bad Thoughts

First Taste: Antonia Angress reads from Sirens & Muses

First Taste: Soon Wiley Reads From When We Fell Apart

Erika T. Wurth - White Horse

First Taste: Shelby Van Pelt Reads From Remarkably Bright Creatures

Fatimah Asghar - When We Were Sisters

First Taste: Oscar Hokeah Reads From Calling For A Blanket Dance

First Taste: Kimberly Garza Reads From The Last Karankawas

First Taste: Sarah Thankam Mathews reads from All This Could Be Different

Prince Shakur - When They Tell You To Be Good

First Taste: Rasheed Newson reads from My Goverment Means To Kill Me

Laura Warrell - Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

Meghan Gilliss - Lungfish

Jonathan Escoffery - If I Survive You

LaToya Watkins - Perish

Kayla Maiuri - Mother In The Dark

Sarah Priscus - Groupies

Isaac Fitzgerald - Dirtbag, Massachusetts

Morgan Talty - Night Of The Living Rez

Jules Ohman - Body Grammar

Carter Bays - The Mutual Friend

Lydia Conklin - Rainbow Rainbow

Naheed Phiroze Patel - Mirror Made of Rain

Vauhini Vara - The Immortal King Rao

Alyssa Songsiridej - Little Rabbit

Jendella Benson - Hope and Glory

Melissa Chadburn - A Tiny Upward Shove

Caitlin Barasch - A Novel Obsession

Neema Avashia - Another Appalachia

Emme Lund - The Boy With A Bird In His Chest

Charmaine Wilkerson - Black Cake

Sequoia Nagamatsu - How High We Go In the Dark

Jessamine Chan - The School For Good Mothers

Mina Seçkin - The Four Humors

Juhea Kim - Beasts Of A Little Land

Cara Blue Adams - You Never Get It Back

Gene Kwak - Go Home, Ricky!

Jo Hamya - Three Rooms

Brittany Ackerman - The Brittanys

Rachel Yoder - Nightbitch

Matthew Clark Davison - Doubting Thomas

Jonathan Parks-Ramage - Yes, Daddy

Isle McElroy - The Atmospherians

J. Nicole Jones - Low Country

Jakob Guanzon - Abundance

Zak Salih - Let’s Get Back To The Party

Dantiel W. Moniz - Milk Blood Heat

A Conversation with Torrey Peters

Bryan Washington - Memorial

Simon Han - Nights When Nothing Happened

Micah Nemerever - These Violent Delights

Corey Sobel - The Redshirt

K-Ming Chang - Bestiary

Greg Mania - Born To Be Public

Melissa Faliveno - Tomboyland

Leah Hampton - F*ckface

John Fram - The Bright Lands

Zaina Arafat - You Exist Too Much

Jean Kyoung Frazier - Pizza Girl

Digital Book Tour - Carter Sickels

Ilana Masad - All My Mother’s Lovers

Digital Book Tour - Jessica Pearce Rotondi

Sara Sligar - Take Me Apart

Digital Book Tour - Kate Milliken

Digital Book Tour - Tran

Digital Book Tour - Adrienne Raphel

Digital Book Tour - Leslie Gray Streeter

Digital Book Tour - Rachel Vorona Cote

Digital Book Tour - Marco Rafalà

Chelsea Bieker - Godshot

Digitial Book Tour - David Moloney

Alexandra Chang - Days of Distraction

Digital Book Tour - R. Eric Thomas

Digital Book Tour - Megan Giddings

Digital Book Tour - Hadley Moore

Digital Book Tour - Michael Zapata

Digital Book Tour - Celia Laskey

Brandon Taylor - Real Life

Emma Copley Eisenberg - The Third Rainbow Girl

Debut Episode: Kimberly King Parsons, Melissa Rivero, John Englehardt, Lauren Wilkinson