Podcasts by Write, Publish, and Shine

#67 [Replay] Empathy for You and Your Reader with Lyric Writer, Christina Brobby from 2023-12-13T10:55:14

In this episode, it’s my pleasure to welcome Christina Brobby, a wonderful lyric writer and instructor, to the podcast. We start by getting into what exactly lyric writing is, if you’re wonderin...

#88 Writerly Book Club: All About “On Connection” by Kae Tempest from 2023-12-06T13:00

Memoirist Yolande House sits down with me for a book club conversation about Kae Tempest’s On Connection. It was a real pleasure to read this book alongside her and compare notes. And I...

#87 Grief is a Ghost with Poet and Artist Sarah Esmi (Ghosts #8) from 2023-11-29T09:50:33

This is the final episode in my series of special episodes of Write, Publish, and Shine that take a deep dive into the creation of Room magazine issue 46.3, where I was lead edi...

#86 Letting Your Work Fall Apart with Artist Amy Friend (Ghosts #7) from 2023-11-22T09:15:18

This is the seventh, wow!, in my series of special episodes of Write, Publish, and Shine as I take you on a deep dive into the creation of Room magazine issue 46.3, where I was lead edi...

#85 Expanding on Your Vision with ViNa Nguyễn (Ghosts #6) from 2023-11-15T10:00:35

This is the sixth in my series of special episodes of Write, Publish, and Shine as I take you on a deep dive into the creation of Room magazine issue 46.3, where I was lead edit...

#84 Reviews Editor Micah Killjoy on learning craft from books (Ghosts #5) from 2023-11-08T12:07:33

This is the fifth in my series of special episodes as I take you on a deep dive into the creation of Room magazine issue 46.3, where I was lead editor of the issue. In this epis...

#63 [Replay] Ghosts and Haunting with Room Editor Ellen Chang-Richardson from 2023-11-01T11:06:04

In this replay episode, Ellen Chang-Richardson and I both speak as editorial collective members at Room, and as editors of the (then) upcoming issue of Room’s Ghosts issue. Listen

#83 Our Ghostly Interactions Creating a Lit Mag with Publisher Nara Monteiro from 2023-10-25T09:17:31

The fourth in my series of special episodes of Write, Publish, and Shine as I take you on a deep dive into the creation of Room magazine issue 46.3, where I was lead editor of the issue...

#82 Talking to Spirits and Handling Success with Aviaq Johnston (Ghosts #3) from 2023-10-18T10:24:32

Welcome to the third in my series of special episodes of Write, Publish, and Shine as I take you on a deep dive into the creation of Room magazine issue 46.3, where I was lead editor of the issue.O...

#81 Make It Personal with Room Writers Reyzl Grace & Annette C. Boehm (Ghosts #2) from 2023-10-11T09:20

Welcome to the second Ghost-themed special episodes of Write, Publish, and Shine as I take you on a deep dive into the creation of Room magazine issue 46.3, Ghosts, where I was lead editor of the i...

#80 Ghosts (#1) from 2023-10-04T09:38:39

Welcome to the first in a series of special episodes of Write, Publish, and Shine as I take you on a deep dive into the creation of Room magazine issue 46.3, where I was lead editor of the issue.Wh...

#61 Staying True to You as You Publish with Laurel Parry, Lyndall Cain, and Tamara Jong [Replay] from 2023-09-27T13:03:35

It felt like the right time—in this season when people join writing programs and restart sending out submissions to lit mags—to replay this episode on Staying True to Yourself. Even if you already ...

#79 Three lessons on writing, revising, and publishing your writing from 2023-09-20T12:52:20

We talk all about the Write, Publish, Shine Intensive, which brings together my three courses, Write and Light, a course to get writers generating new, more profound work, Revision Love, my course ...

#78 Writing About Social Issues with Author Kavita Das from 2023-09-14T09:43

Kavita Das really takes us on an intentional journey with her deep knowledge of social justice work and challenges us to unpack our motivations for writing about an issue and to understand that “wr...

Five Things Writers Can Stop Doing from 2023-06-08T06:15:10

If you’re just tuning into my podcast, welcome. I’m on a break, but I will be back in late August. Pick up a copy of our book club read, Craft and Conscience by Kavita Das, to join our book-club co...

#77 Come From a Place of Passion and Honesty in Your Writing Life from 2023-05-30T08:16:57

Megan Beadle ran her own literary agency for several years. So, if you’ve been listening to the last run of episodes, that word, agent, rings a bell. Ding, ding! We’re still talking about literary ...

#76 Make Your Own Map with Wendy Atwell from 2023-05-24T12:37:12

This is the continuation of our agency theme on the podcast...I interview another luminous Writerly Love community member, Wendy Atwell, who is earlier in the process than our previous member guest...

#75 Literary Agency with Room Editor and Multi-Hyphenate Geffen Semach from 2023-05-09T09:14:13

As this is the third episode in the mini-series of episodes on the theme of agency and finding agency with your writing, we spend the most time talking about Geffen Semach's experience working as a...

#74 Anchoring into Your Why with Memoirist Jessica Waite from 2023-05-03T13:35:50

The second in our series exploring the theme of agency for writers, our double-entendre theme of both intentionality and finding an agent. Jessica Waite, the author of the forthcoming memoir, The W...

#73 Agency: Finding an Agent with Lacey Yong from 2023-04-26T17:38:48

The first in our series on the theme of agency—a term both literal (i.e. about finding an agent) and abstract, in that we talk about pursuing your writing life with intentionality. In this episode ...

#72 Book Club: Voice First by Sonya Huber from 2023-04-18T07:46:40

In this episode it is our Book Club Conversation and we talk about Voice First: A Writer’s Manifesto by Sonya Huber, sharing who we think the book is for, how it helped with our writing, and what i...

Cool Loneliness [Replay] from 2023-04-11T12:26:51

Reflections on cool loneliness: When I’m not writing enough, I lose track of what I believe, who I am, and who I truly want to be. Also, Book Club Conversation is coming up. Also, Book Club Convers...

#71 Touch, Sight, and the Sixth Sense in Your Writing from 2023-04-04T15:39:58

In this episode, it’s part two of our most recent six senses showcase.The writers you will hear all participated in the workshop series I offered last year on the six senses.As I mentioned in part ...

#70 Special Episode: State of the Community from 2023-03-28T14:01:49

In this episode, it’s a little peak behind the podcast. I have some real hashtag transparency moments around what I’m working on and what I have heard from writers in our broader community, which—i...

#69 Sound, Smell, and Taste in Your Writing from 2023-03-21T15:26:36

In this episode, we come to our senses again. We had another LIVE showcase of writers in the Writerly Love community. The writers you will hear all participated in the workshop series I offered las...

#68 Craft Book Club Conversation—The Poet's Companion by Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux from 2023-03-14T15:40:28

In this episode it is my pleasure to introduce you to two members of our Writerly Love Community and bring you in to our book club conversation. We’ve been doing our close craft-book readings for a...

Wrap-Up: Empathy for Writers from 2023-03-07T07:40

Wrap-Up: Empathy for Writers

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#66 Empathy for Objects in Your Writing with Lyndall Cain from 2023-02-21T14:33:09

This episode is the second in our mini-series of three episodes on the theme of empathy for writers and a really interesting and unique take on empathy, as my guest is a curator and writer of ficti...

#65 Empathy & POV with Naomi J. Williams from 2023-02-14T12:14:21

Naomi J. Williams is the author of Landfalls (FSG 2015), long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award. Her short fiction has ap...

#64 Using the Six Senses in Your Writing—a Showcase PLUS Prompts for Each Sense from 2023-02-07T13:43:44

In this episode, Rachel talks with six writers from her Writerly Love membership community about writing through the senses.In this showcase, you’ll hear each writer represent a sense and how they ...

#63 Ghosts and Haunting with Room Editor Ellen Chang-Richardson from 2022-12-14T13:55:03

Ellen Chang-Richardson and Rachel Thompson on what they are looking for in submissions to the upcoming issue of Room’s Ghosts issue.

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#62 Seventeen “Craft” Books & Lessons Learned in Our Writerly Book Club from 2022-11-23T19:45:17

Listen if you’ve been looking for books to support your writing practice, or maybe a list of books to give another writer in your life, or if you’ve been wanting to read with a community of writers...

#61 Staying True to You as You Publish with Laurel Parry, Lyndall Cain, and Tamara Jong from 2022-10-19T16:31:24

Maybe you have found yourself feeling compromised by the publication process. Maybe even by just anticipating the publication process you have bent your writing into something that doesn’t feel aut...

#60 Chill Subs' Karina Kupp on Keeping Your Chill as You Submit from 2022-09-28T12:08:27

Chill Subs is making the submissions process much easier and less stressful. That’s the mission statement on this database of places to send your writing. Well, that’s what it started as and it’s a...

#59 The Gettysburg Review with Mark Drew on Reflecting on the Time You're In from 2022-04-21T12:19:03

You’ll hear Mark Drew of the Gettysburg Review in this episode answering questions from the live cohort who came to our call attended by writers in the Lit Mag Love course. [rachelthompson.co/litma...

Five Steps to Publishing Your Writing in Literary Journals #LitMagLove from 2022-04-07T07:02:11

Here are five things editors want in your writing submissions to journals. This is all based on my experience reading submissions, publishing work in a lit mag, and talking to dozens of editors fro...

#18 [Replay] Know You're in a Conversation with Lilly Dancyger of Narratively from 2022-03-23T13:17:56

In this episode, Rachel Thompson talks with Lilly Dancyger of Narratively, about the responsibility of editors to elevate voices left out the conversation, why you should know what conversations ha...

#12 Humber Literary Review’s Eufemia Fantetti —Write Rhymes with Fight [Replay] from 2022-03-10T11:46:59

“Write rhymes with fight for a reason. We’re not all meant to be at the front line. I’m way more comfortable sitting down and trying to figure out how to write back against something that I really ...

#58 Room Magazine’s Lue Palmer on Who Tells Your Story, Why, and to Whom? from 2022-02-23T14:00

Listen to hear about Lue’s Afrofuturistic writing and for insight into how things work at Room magazine where we are both collective members.

Host...

#57 On Writing and “Cool Loneliness” from 2022-02-09T16:51:21

As in the midst of this vaccinated pandemic life, I have had many awkward social moments and truly stressful interactions where I don't feel connected to myself and who I am.And each time that happ...

#56 Holding Each Other Up in Our Writing Community with Writer and Cartoonist Tamara Jong from 2022-01-26T13:45:26

In this episode, I talk to Tamara Jong about celebrating writers’ publication wins.Tamara Jong (she/her) is a Montreal-born mixed-race writer/cartoonist of Chinese and European ancestry. Her work h...

#32 Atticus Review's Former Editor Dorothy Bendel on Erasing Shame [Replay] from 2021-11-24T10:31:49

I'm reissuing this interview as a companion to a piece that was just posted on my website, written by Lucy Wilde, a writer in my course and membership community, about publishing with Atticus Revi...

#32 Atticus Review's Former Editor Dorothy Bendel on Erasing Shame [Replay] from 2021-11-24T10:31:49

I'm reissuing this interview as a companion to a piece that was just posted on my website, written by Lucy Wilde, a writer in my course and membership community, about publishing with Atticus Revi...

#15 The Threepenny Review’s Wendy Lesser on Picking Pleasure Over Ambition [Replay] from 2021-11-09T12:18:19

“I think there is too much pushing forward in a way that is not motivated by pleasure, that is motivated by shaped ambition or greed or some sense that people have as to what they should want. Zoom...

#15 The Threepenny Review’s Wendy Lesser on Picking Pleasure Over Ambition [Replay] from 2021-11-09T12:18:19

“I think there is too much pushing forward in a way that is not motivated by pleasure, that is motivated by shaped ambition or greed or some sense that people have as to what they should want. Zoom...

#55 Handling Rejection of Your Writing and Finding Strength in Community from 2021-10-26T07:43

You probably already know, or have heard, that rejection is a *big* part of writing to be read and submitting your work to lit mags. You probably also wish you could snap your fingers and become im...

#54 Four Writers on Finding Their “Lanes” and Publishing in Literary Magazines from 2021-10-12T11:13:53

Ellen Chang-Richardson is a poet, writer and editor of Taiwanese and Cambodian Chinese (or Chinese Cambodian) descent, whose writing has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Vallum Contemporary, and Watch Y...

#53 Writing About Grief with Meli Walker of the Writing Grief Podcast from 2021-09-28T05:50

"Really, the thing that keeps me writing is knowing that at some point I will have some kind of shared connection with readers." —Meli WalkerIn this episode, host Rachel Thompson speaks with Meli W...

#52 How to Reach Out to the World with Your Writing from 2021-09-15T08:49:27

Host Rachel Thompson explores going from the intimate to the broad, the personal to the political, and how to reach out to the world with your writing with the help of six writers and editors.
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Write, Publish, and Shine is Back Next Week from 2021-09-09T11:39:09

This is a heads up that the podcast will not be back today, but it will be back very soon on its new release date, this upcoming Tuesday!

I have one other programming note, while you're li...

#01 EVENT's Shashi Bhat, No Subject is Off Limits [Replay] from 2021-07-01T07:00

“I think anything that’s written about well can be interesting.”—Shashi Bhat, *EVENT* Host Rachel Thompson speaks with EVENT Editor, Shashi Bhat about how no subject is off-limits and her urge for...

#01 [Replay] EVENT's Shashi Bhat, No Subject is Off Limits from 2021-07-01T07:00

“I think anything that’s written about well can be interesting.”—Shashi Bhat, *EVENT*Host Rachel Thompson speaks with EVENT Editor, Shashi Bhat about how no subject is off-limits and her urge for y...

#35 Massachusetts Review Editor Emily Wojcik on Trusting Your Writing from 2021-06-17T09:55:41

“Trust that the reader came with you, trust that you did a good job and that you brought us there.” —Emily WojcikHost Rachel Thompson speaks with Emily Wojcik about trusting your writing and how th...

#35 Massachusetts Review Editor Emily Wojcik on Trusting Your Writing from 2021-06-17T09:55:41

“Trust that the reader came with you, trust that you did a good job and that you brought us there.” —Emily Wojcik Host Rachel Thompson speaks with Emily Wojcik about trusting your writing and how ...

#20 Plenitude’s Rebecca Salazar on Writing with Flash AND Fire from 2021-06-03T07:00

"Poems, no matter what they are about or how they approach the world, have to need to happen." —Rebecca Salazar of *Plenitude*.Host Rachel Thompson speaks with Rebecca Salazar, Associate Poetry Edi...

#20 Plenitude’s Rebecca Salazar on Writing with Flash AND Fire from 2021-06-03T07:00

"Poems, no matter what they are about or how they approach the world, have to need to happen." —Rebecca Salazar of *Plenitude*.

Host Rachel Thompson speaks with Rebecca Salazar, ...

#51 The /tƐmz/ Review Amy Mitchell and Aaron Schneider on Good Ugliness from 2021-05-20T07:00

“We both really like having, essentially, the guts to look at not just issues in their full complexity, but also not to try to gloss over the ugliness.” —Amy Mitchell, The /tƐmz/ ReviewHost Rachel ...

#50 Answers to Listener Questions About Publishing in Lit Mags for this 50th Episode! from 2021-05-06T08:17:21

50th Episode!This special episode is all about you, the listeners. Rachel answers your questions, mostly about submitting and publishing in lit mags. Questions cover writing contests, the questions...

#14 Amanda Leduc from the Festival of Literary Diversity—Keep Going from 2021-04-22T09:57:47

“Don’t give up and recognize that the writing is a thing in and of itself as well. You need to be able to love doing the writing and just love being in this world that you create with your characte...

#14 Amanda Leduc from the Festival of Literary Diversity—Keep Going from 2021-04-22T09:57:47

“Don’t give up and recognize that the writing is a thing in and of itself as well. You need to be able to love doing the writing and just love being in this world that you create with your characte...

#49 Augur co-Editor-in-Chief Terese Pierre—Nothing Has to Happen from 2021-04-08T06:48

“Nothing has to happen in the story. There doesn't need to be explosions or big shocking twists. It's just enough to have well-developed characters and a beautiful world.” —Terese Mason Pierre, Aug...

#48 CRAFT Editor-in-Chief Katelyn Keating—Leave Us Heartbroken, Amazed, or Excited from 2021-03-25T05:59

“We’re excited if the forms that come in are not an arc. We’re not just looking for one direction of the piece, it doesn’t have to use linear time or linear form.” —Katelyn Keating, CRAFT.Host Rac...

#08 Entropy Executive Editor Janice Lee on Writing When Language Fails You from 2021-03-04T12:57:21

“I’m interested in asking different questions and in the vulnerability of language that allows for an honest attempt at expression and a way to investigate complex questions.” —Janice Lee, Entropy ...

#08 Entropy Executive Editor Janice Lee on Writing When Language Fails You from 2021-03-04T12:57:21

“I’m interested in asking different questions and in the vulnerability of language that allows for an honest attempt at expression and a way to investigate complex questions.” —Janice Lee, Entropy ...

#47 Black Warrior Review Editor Josh Brandon on Taking Necessary Breaks from 2021-02-15T11:38:17

“You’re kinda playing with fire when you delve into trauma writing. It’s possible to push yourself past your own limits and touch on things that are more tender than you thought.” —Josh Brandon of ...

#46 Food Writing with Qwerty Editors Christine Wu and McKenna James Boeckner from 2021-02-11T10:55:37

Host Rachel Thompson speaks with editors from Qwerty magazine, based at the University of New Brunswick, about sumptuous food writing and, of course, everything you need to know if you want to subm...

#45 Weird Writing with Okay Donkey Editors Téa Franco, Genevieve Kersten, and Elizabeth Upshur from 2021-01-28T16:06:52

Host Rachel Thompson speaks with three editors from the online journal Okay Donkey about weird poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Téa Franco, Genevieve Kersten, and Elizabeth Upshur discuss ...

#11 The Fiddlehead—Understand Who You Are with Alicia Elliott [Replay] from 2021-01-14T10:46:32

“I think that when a writer doesn’t have a good understanding of who they are and what their beliefs are...they are going to necessarily lack the conviction in their writing to go daring places, an...

#11 The Fiddlehead—Understand Who You Are with Alicia Elliott [Replay] from 2021-01-14T10:46:32

“I think that when a writer doesn’t have a good understanding of who they are and what their beliefs are...they are going to necessarily lack the conviction in their writing to go daring places, an...

#44 Genius and Estrangement with Ploi Pirapokin of Newfound #LitMagLove from 2020-12-17T04:00

In this episode, Ploi Pirapokin and Rachel Thompson start deep, jumping right into discussing estrangement for writers. Ploi shares about writing through immigration statuses and her Genius Visa. T...

#43 What if my story isn't special? from 2020-12-03T13:52:01

The biggest epiphany I had about my writing in the last year is that there is nothing special about my story. This sounds like a terrible epiphany, I realize! But it was so liberating. Let me expla...

#42 Rowan McCandless on How to Create a Writing Community from 2020-11-19T23:09:07

Emerging author, Rowan McCandless shares how she built her writing community. She and Rachel discuss the four different forms of writing groups she engages. She also shares a racist experience she ...

#41 Five Steps to Publishing Your Writing in Literary Journals #LitMagLove from 2020-11-05T15:36:50

`In this first solo episode after the Write, Publish, and Shine podcast reboot, I talk about the five things editors want in your writing submissions to journals. This is all based on my experience...

Write, Publish, and Shine! (Announcement) from 2020-10-22T06:50

I have an announcement about this podcast, but before we get to it, I want to thank you for continuing to listen in this almost year since I released new podcast episodes. I feel you out there, I s...

#40 Vestal Literary and JMWW—Send Your Best with Alle C. Hall from 2019-12-21T20:40

“We’re not a writing class, we’re a magazine.”

#40 Vestal Literary and JMWW—Send Your Best with Alle C. Hall from 2019-12-21T20:40

“We’re not a writing class, we’re a magazine.”

#39 Apple Valley Review—Do the Work You Want to Do with Leah Browning from 2019-11-20T19:21

The Apple Valley Review is a semiannual online literary journal founded in 2005 by Leah Browning. Published in the spring and fall, each issue features a collection of poetry, short fiction, and pe...

#39 Apple Valley Review—Do the Work You Want to Do with Leah Browning from 2019-11-20T19:21

The Apple Valley Review is a semiannual online literary journal founded in 2005 by Leah Browning. Published in the spring and fall, each issue features a collection of poetry, short fiction, and pe...

#38 Mom Egg Review—Restore the Balance of Narratives with Marjorie Tesser from 2019-11-12T20:55

Mom Egg Review is a literary journal about motherhood. It promotes and celebrates the creative force of mother writers and artists. Mom Egg Review is about being a mother, in its many varieties. It...

#38 Mom Egg Review—Restore the Balance of Narratives with Marjorie Tesser from 2019-11-12T20:55

Mom Egg Review is a literary journal about motherhood. It promotes and celebrates the creative force of mother writers and artists. Mom Egg Review is about being a mother, in its many varieties. It...

#37 The Unpublishables—Reflect Your True Self with M. Paramita Lin and Doretta Lau from 2019-10-23T20:58

Writing may be the only pursuit that M. Paramita Lin hasn't accidentally stumbled into. In between hanging out with triad members and living in a succession of haunted flats in Hong Kong, she's als...

#37 The Unpublishables—Reflect Your True Self with M. Paramita Lin and Doretta Lau from 2019-10-23T20:58

Writing may be the only pursuit that M. Paramita Lin hasn't accidentally stumbled into. In between hanging out with triad members and living in a succession of haunted flats in Hong Kong, she's als...

#36 The Nasiona—Persuade with Julián Esteban Torres López from 2019-10-12T21:01

“Editing is a position of power that I take seriously. I’m a writer, author, creative in different ways and I experienced the negativity of being a victim of systems of oppression,” Julián Esteban ...

#36 The Nasiona—Persuade with Julián Esteban Torres López from 2019-10-12T21:01

“Editing is a position of power that I take seriously. I’m a writer, author, creative in different ways and I experienced the negativity of being a victim of systems of oppression,” Julián Esteban ...

#35 Massachusetts Review—Trust Your Writing with Emily Wojcik from 2019-09-16T21:04

This is a journal "more interested in the world than the self"—it's a little bit more on the political and social justice side.
Managing Editor, Emily Wojcik, shares the best analogy ...

#34 Make Relationships Right with Jessica Johns of Room Magazine from 2019-09-01T19:13

This episode focuses on working in close relationship with writers, and thinking through all your relationships as you navigate choices for your writing and in your writing community.Jessica Johns ...

#33 Evoke Place with Mary Leauna Christensen of The Swamp Literary Magazine from 2019-08-18T21:09

The Swamp publishes work that evokes a sense of place, which, for The Swamp, is broadly defined. “We look forward to reading work that we can inhabit, no matter its geography. We do give preference...

#31 Push Back on What’s Expected with Felicity Landa of Literary Mama from 2019-07-14T21:18

Literary Mama believes that all mothers have a story worth sharing and honors the many faces of motherhood by publishing work that celebrates the journey as well as the job.Felicity Landa earned he...

#30 Tear Down Structures with Anna Lena Phillips Bell & Rachel Taube of Ecotone from 2019-06-30T21:21

Founded at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2005, the award-winning magazine features writing and art that reimagine place, and our authors interpret this charge expansively. An ecoto...

#29 Question and Observe with Alana Saltz of Blanket Sea Arts & Literary Magazine from 2019-06-16T21:26

Blanket Sea features work created by people living with chronic illness, mental illness, and disability. “There aren’t many places where writers and artists with illness and disabilities can expres...

#28 Know Who Your Readers Are (And Are Not) with Caroline Knecht of Whiskey Island from 2019-06-02T21:29

"A rejection letter doesn't mean it's not working." —Caroline Knecht of Whiskey IslandFounded in 1977, Whiskey Island is a nonprofit literary journal published by Cleveland State University. They a...

#27 Follow Your Lights with Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis and Gerald Maa of the Asian American Literary Review from 2019-05-19T21:33

"Our impulse is to trust writers and follow their lights. In cases where we’re editing and working closely with them, it’s to help them get to that place that they’re wanting to get to, but might w...

#26 Have Heart and Humility with Jasmine Gui of LooseLeaf Magazine from 2019-05-05T21:36

"I think intersectional community asks us to be open and mindful of difference. It asks us to have a posture of listening that requires a lot of effort, it requires a lot of heart, it requires a lo...

#25 Be Generous & Wise with Jónína Kirton of Turtle Island Responds from 2018-11-15T21:39

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#24 Share Intimacy with Doyali Islam of Arc Poetry Magazine from 2018-11-08T21:51

In this episode of Lit Mag Love: A podcast for creative writers who want to publish, host Rachel Thompson interviews Doyali Islam from Arc magazine.Their conversation covers offering an emotional t...

#23 Learn from Others with Alexandria Petrassi of So to Speak Journal from 2018-10-31T21:54

In this episode of the Lit Mag Love Podcast, host Rachel Thompson talks with Alexandria Petrassi from So to Speak journal.Their discussion covers how the “canonical” writer has changed. “When I sta...

#22 Invite Readers In with Sakina Fakhri and Diana McClure of Azure magazine from 2018-10-24T21:56

In this episode of the Lit Mag Love Podcast, host Rachel Thompson talks with Sakina Fakhri and Diana McClure, founders of Azure magazine.Azure accepts literary fiction, creative non-fiction, excerp...

#21 Team Up with Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice and Marianne Chan of Split Lip from 2018-10-17T18:33

We talk about how their collaboration works and extends to the writers who submit to the journal. We cover jealousy in art and how the poems and stories they publish need to be ready for their solo...

#19 Take Control of Your Narrative with Robin Richardson of Minola Review from 2018-09-26T18:29

In this episode, Rachel Thompson talks with Robin Richardson, founder of the Minola Review. She discusses how she overcame early critiques of her writing by men—critiques she internalized. And they...

#17 Delight in Language with Maya Marshall of [PANK] from 2018-09-12T18:24

In this episode, Rachel talks with Maya Marshall, a self-described demanding and productive writer and editor with [PANK] magazine—yes, the magazine founded by Roxane Gay.Among much glorious and af...

#16 Take Notice with Donna Talarico of Hippocampus from 2018-05-09T18:22

“I’ve just become better at noticing those little mechanical things,” says the guest for this episode, Donna Talarico, the founder and publisher of Hippocampus Magazine.Hippocampus makes memorable ...

#15 The Threepenny Review—Pick Pleasure over Ambition with Wendy Lesser from 2018-05-02T18:20

In this episode, we break outside the Lit Mag Love bubble we’ve been in—both in terms of region, The Threepenny Review is an established American lit mag, but also in terms of the approach to write...

#13 Room Magazine Contests—Lift Up Women's Stories with Sierra Skye Gemma from 2018-04-19T18:15

advice for writers of creative nonfiction (CNF) and for writers who are trying to decide if a piece is suitable to enter contests.More About Sierra Skye GemmaSierra Skye Gemma On Publishing in Lit ...

#13 Room Magazine Contests—Lift Up Women's Stories with Sierra Skye Gemma from 2018-04-19T18:15

advice for writers of creative nonfiction (CNF) and for writers who are trying to decide if a piece is suitable to enter contests.

More About Sierra Skye Gemma
Sierra Skye Gemma On Pub...

#12 Humber Literary Review—Remember Write Rhymes with Fight with Eufemia Fantetti from 2018-04-04T18:06

“Write rhymes with fight for a reason. We’re not all meant to be at the frontline...I’m way more comfortable sitting down and trying to figure out how to write back against something that I really ...

#10 PRISM—Stick With Writers with Shazia Hafiz Ramji from 2018-03-21T17:47

As always this episode truly takes you behind the scenes of a literary journal—in this case, it’s a University-based journal in the centre of controversy. (Below, we link to articles that will prov...

#10 PRISM—Stick With Writers with Shazia Hafiz Ramji from 2018-03-21T17:47

As always this episode truly takes you behind the scenes of a literary journal—in this case, it’s a University-based journal in the centre of controversy. (Below, we link to articles that will prov...

#09 Joyland Vancouver—Turn Your Writing Outward with Carleigh Baker from 2018-03-14T17:45

Rachel interviews Carleigh Baker, an editor with Joyland, who talks about the difference between her first and future books, “You can only gaze at your navel for so long. If that’s what you needed ...

#09 Joyland Vancouver—Turn Your Writing Outward with Carleigh Baker from 2018-03-14T17:45

Rachel interviews Carleigh Baker, an editor with Joyland, who talks about the difference between her first and future books, “You can only gaze at your navel for so long. If that’s what you needed ...

#07 Let Love Lead You with Derek Askey of The Sun Magazine from 2017-11-17T17:40

The Sun is an independent, ad-free magazine that for more than forty years has used words and photographs to evoke the splendour and heartache of being human. Each monthly issue features personal e...

#06 Invest in Relationships with Pamela Mulloy of The New Quarterly from 2017-10-31T17:37

The New Quarterly—TNQ, for short—is a Canadian literary journal known for wit, warmth, and literary innovation. Our style is celebratory, and we’re well known for finding, as well as nurturing, dis...

#05 Listen to the Writing with Chelene Knight of Room from 2017-10-14T22:01

Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary journal, and has published fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and book reviews for forty years. Published quarterly by the West Coast F...

#04 How Writing is Like Running and Cycling with Andrea Bennett of Maisonneuve from 2017-10-02T21:58

About MaisonneuveMaisonneuve literally means "new house" and suggests the spirit of collective enterprise the magazine gathers under one roof. The magazine takes its name from Paul de Chomedey de M...

#03 Make Something Strange with Thea Prieto of The Gravity of the Thing from 2017-09-20T17:30

An online independent literary magazine dedicated to the publication of new and innovative writing, The Gravity of theThing has been named one of thirty best online magazines in 2016 (Bookfox) and ...

#02 Expose Something Scary with John Haggerty from The Forge Lit Mag from 2017-09-19T21:24

The Forge Literary Magazine was founded by volunteers from the Fiction Forge, an international online writers’ forum, which counts amongst its members and alumni winners of numerous literary awards...