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Episodes How To Listen Select Page THIS WEEK: MAY 13, 2024 Deep Memoir, featuring Jennifer Leigh Selig We’re living through a golden age of memoir, and guest Jennifer Leigh Selig’s Deep Memoir is a new contribution to the how-to” space for memoirists who want to explore the how and the why of memoir writing. This episode will help listeners consider their own why” when it comes to that age-old question of why to keep at it, and also to celebrate a genre that’s finally getting its due. Never miss an episode Subscribe to Write-minded on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Subscribe Weekly Inspiration for Writers Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers kicked off in September 2018 and airs every week. We are a podcast for writers craving a unique blend of inspiration and real talk about the ups and downs of the writing life. Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner, two friends and colleagues who bring a community-minded sensibility to the writing journey, each theme-focused episode of Write-minded features an interview with a writer, author, or publishing industry professional. Write-minded features a Book Trend at the end of each episode to keep listeners in the loop about what they need to know about the book industry. Brooke and Grant bring to this weekly podcast their deeply held belief that everyone is a writer, and everyone’s story matters. How to Listen Subscribe Never miss an episode! Subscribe to Write-minded on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Online Click on an episode below to stream it directly from our website. Find past episodes in our archives . Download Click on an episode below to download it directly to your computer and listen anytime. Latest Episodes Deep Memoir, featuring Jennifer Leigh Selig May 13, 2024 We’re living through a golden age of memoir, and guest Jennifer Leigh Selig’s Deep Memoir is a new contribution to the how-to” space for memoirists who want to explore the how and the why of memoir writing. This episode will help listeners consider their own why” when it comes to that age-old question of why to keep at it, and also to celebrate a genre that’s finally getting its due. Grief: The Hardest Emotion to Write, featuring Claire Jiménez May 6, 2024 This week’s Write-minded takes on grief, and why, as our guest Claire Jiménez says, it’s where language collapses.” Jiménez’s new book deals with loss and grief and what happens in a family in the aftermath of a disappearance of a child, and yet, she weaves in humor and the history of American colonization of Puerto Rico and so much more. Grant and Brooke share their own experiences with grief, and also writing and thinking about grief as it manifests on the page and in the body, and why feeling grief is a gift of the human experience. Creating New Forms—and Rearranging the Alphabet, featuring Elwin Cotman Apr 29, 2024 This week Write-minded is interviewing an established writer whose star is on the rise. Elwin Cotman’s new story collection blew us away for how he played with form and takes readers on an expected journeys. His stories don’t fit into any box—including length, and we loved it! On this week’s show Grant also announces his departure from NaNoWriMo and what some of his new ventures will be. We’re celebrating creation and recreation and taking on new forms, on the page and in real life. The Art of Intimacy, featuring Stacey D’Erasmo Apr 22, 2024 This week Write-minded reaches broadly into the topic of intimacy to explore its many permutations—not just romantic, but innocuous, violent, collective, and more. Guest Stacey D’Erasmo invites us to consider intimacy in writing, how we do it, how we feel it as readers, and also to consider acts of intimacy, like an older actress showing her authentic self as she ages. Intimacy is felt, and not always something we know how to put words around, so this conversation is a particular treat, thought-provoking and enticing. The State of the Book Review, featuring John McMurtrie Apr 15, 2024 This week’s guest is John McMurtrie, the esteemed former editor of the San Francisco Chronicle’s book review section. Join us as we explore the transition of book reviews from traditional media like TV and radio to online outlets like Amazon and Goodreads. His is an interesting take about how things were and how things are, along with insight about what a book reviewer is looking for when considering what books to review. Join us as John shares valuable insights on breaking into book reviewing and what he considers to be the key elements of a great book. Social Responsibility in Fiction, featuring Naomi Kanakia Apr 8, 2024 What does it really mean to consider your own social responsibility as a fiction writer? Guest Naomi Kanakia confronted that very question as she considered her modeling as a trans author writing YA books for teens. What if hers was the first book a genderqueer or trans kid ever read? What did she owe her reader? These are some of the questions at the heart of this week’s episode, but we also look under the hood of the publishing industry a bit, too, from the perspective of an author who’s inside/outside,” who’s writing across many genres, from sci-fi to lit fic, and who has a certain kind of privilege but still lives on the margins. A truly interesting episode with a guest who’s not afraid to speak truth to power. View All Episodes Want to be a guest on the podcast? We’d love to hear from you. Contact us at [email protected] . 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