All Episodes

Enlarging People’s Perception of Sylvia Plath w. HEATHER CLARK

WMFA ARCHIVES: Creating Reassuring Writing Frameworks w. KRISTEN ARNETT

Turning Your Past into Narrative w. ELISSA WASHUTA

WMFA ARCHIVES: Fictionalizing Real Life w. LISA KO

Not Coddling Your Characters w. DANTIEL W. MONIZ

Examining Extremely Online Life w. LAUREN OYLER

WMFA ARCHIVES: Keeping Faith in the Process w. R.O. KWON

Rethinking Craft and Workshops w. MATTHEW SALESSES

Keeping Writing Fun w. MATEO ASKARIPOUR

Flipping Received Narratives w. DANIELLE EVANS

Exploring the Quiet Moments w. SIMON HAN

Contextualizing Research into Prose w. ANNE HELEN PETERSEN

Writing Into Contradictions w. DEESHA PHILYAW

WMFA ARCHIVES: Fighting Perfectionism w. CELESTE NG

WMFA ARCHIVES: Being Patient and Indulgent w. GARTH GREENWELL

WMFA ARCHIVES: Storytelling as an Act of Love w. WAYÉTU MOORE

Inventing Complex Characters w. GENEVIEVE HUDSON

Minisode: Transformation

Capturing Grief and Collective Memory w. CARTER SICKELS

WRITERS-IN-RESIDENCE: Book Tour Edition

Minisode: Paying Attention

Mining for Character in Verse w. ELIZABETH ACEVEDO

Writing For Your Characters w. C PAM ZHANG

Minisode: Aloneness, Or How I’m Learning to Love Solitude

Capturing Contradictory Truths w. EMMA COPLEY EISENBERG

Minisode: A Conversation Across Time

Writers-in-Residence

Minisode: Where We're At Now

Surviving the Publishing Process w. COURTNEY MAUM

Minisode: Gratitude

Returning to Your Humanity w. ALEXANDER CHEE

Minisode: Constraint

Playing to Your Strengths w. JAMI ATTENBERG

Minisode: The Future

Crafting a Compelling Voice w. BRIAN ALLEN CARR

Minisode: A Tiny (and in Retrospect Totally Obvious) Epiphany

Minisode: Rest

Cultivating Patience w. MARY RUEFLE

Minisode: Isolation

Keeping Faith in the Process w. R.O. KWON

FROM THE ARCHIVES | Minisode: On Fear

Defining Your Writing Identity w. MARGINALLY PODCAST

Minisode: Writing Needs

Growing Into Your Practice w. MICHAEL PARKER

Minisode: Rewriting Our Stories

Finding Writerly Courage w. SAVANNAH SIPPLE

Minisode: Healthier Harvests, or Another Kind of Flow

Creating Reassuring Writing Frameworks w. KRISTEN ARNETT

Minisode: Why Do You Write?

Knowing What You Need as a Writer w. CASEY CEP

Minisode: Goody Two Shoes Writing

Writing More Diverse Narratives w. TOMMY ORANGE

Minisode: Agent Anxiety

Developing an “Occult Sensibility” of Your Writing w. KAREN RUSSELL

Minisode: Patience

Crafting Narratives from History w. DAVID K. RANDALL

Minisode: Writing Without Writing

Writing Into the Darkness w. SUSAN CHOI

Minisode: Choosing Your Mindset

Reimagining Narrative Structure w. JANE ALISON

Minisode: Accepting Your Process

Building a Narrative Labyrinth w. SUMMER BRENNAN

Minisode: Taking Yourself Seriously

Telling the Hard Truths w. MORGAN PARKER

Minisode: Being a Student

Should You Get an MFA? w. ERICA DAWSON & LEAH HAMPTON

Season 4 Teaser

How to Not Always Be Working w. MARLEE GRACE

Minisode: Jealousy

Turning Family Members into Characters w. NICOLE CHUNG

Minisode: Voices

Holding Yourself Accountable w. HEATHER HAVRILESKY

Minisode: Centeredness, or Surviving Creative Adolescence

Finding Creative Freedom w. LIANA FINCK

Minisode: Writing as Relationship

Storytelling as an Act of Love w. WAYÉTU MOORE

Minisode: Priorities

Writing While Parenting w. KAT GARDINER

Minisode: On Shame

Being a Steward of Others’ Stories w. LINDA KAY KLEIN

Minisode: On Fear

Taking Control of Your Narrative w. ERICA DAWSON

Listening to Your Inner Voice w. MARGARET WILKERSON SEXTON

Fictionalizing Real Life w. LISA KO

Engaging Your Characters w. ROBIN MACARTHUR

Getting the Writing Done w. NATALIE GOLDBERG

Writing the Book You Want to Read w. SILAS HOUSE

Catching History Before It's Forgotten w. ELIZABETH CATTE

Keeping Tabs on Your Characters w. ROBERT GIPE

Solving the Puzzle of Fiction w. KARAN MAHAJAN

Presenting Women Characters w. LENI ZUMAS

Writing Desire and Faith w. JAMIE QUATRO

Making Art and Podcasts w. MIKE SAKASEGAWA & COURTNEY BALESTIER

Figuring Out the Book You Want to Write w. JOANNA SCUTTS

Fighting Perfectionism w. CELESTE NG

Cutting Away the Obvious w. ZINZI CLEMMONS

Coaxing Out Your Subconscious w. CARMEN MARIA MACHADO

Rewriting And Rewriting More w. MATTHEW NEWTON

Writing Your Way to a Theory w. NICK RIGGLE

Special Episode: Readings by Glenn Taylor, Jeremy B. Jones & Rebecca Gayle Howell