Fierce Womxn Writing - Inspiring You to Write More: Recent Episodes
Sara Gallagher - she/her
Level up your writing practice with readings from a diverse array of womxn writers, and discover their tips and tricks. For writers and would-be writers looking for a dose of confidence, Fierce Womxn Writing delivers weekly inspiration and information. Host Sara Gallagher interviews guests on their practice and process, and the author reads from their work. The show ends with a writing prompt for you to use at home. Join the community conversation between episodes on Instagram @fiercewomxnwriting.
Nana Nkweti is the author of Walking on Cowrie Shells, a book that spans genres – literary realism, horror, mystery, YA, science fiction – and features complex, fully-embodied characters. The stories aim to entertain readers while also offering a counterpoint to prevalent “heart of darkness” writing that too often depicts a singular “African” experience plagued by locusts, hunger, and tribal in-fighting.
“Boisterous and high-spirited debut stories by a talented new writer.” - Kirkus Reviews
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Keeping runnings lists on your phone
- Staying engaged with the world as a writer
- And more
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
This week’s writing prompt: Close your eyes. Imagine your body. Do a complete and full inventory and think of all the things that make you you. Hone in on scars, physical and emotional. Write from the perspective from that scar, or about how you received that scar. Let that scar tell you about yourself and your life.
Explore Womxn Authors
In this episode, they recommended these womxn writers:
- Yaa Gyasi - Author of Transcendent Kingdom
- Kwoya Fagin Maples - Author of Mend
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- Episode 78: Jennifer Craven - Author of All That Shines and Whispers
- Episode 77: Marina Carreira - Author of Save the Bathwater
- Episode 76: Kathleen Basi - Author of A Song for the Road
- Episode 75: Tashie Bhuiyan - Author of Counting Down With You
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Jennifer Craven is the author of All That Shines and Whispers, a re-imagining of what happens after the credits roll on The Sound of Music. The book explores themes of betrayal, sacrifice, consequences, and redemption, set against the backdrop of Nazi-era Europe.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- That words have power and that we can use them for positive or negative purposes
- How her book was inspired by The Sound of Music
- And more
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
This week’s writing prompt: Write a story in which you are disconnected from someone society tells you you should inherently be close to. Write how you navigate the distance, remain true to yourself, and explain your choice to those who just don’t understand.
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In this episode, they recommended these womxn writers:
- Kiersten Modglin - Author of My Husband’s Secret
- Ashleigh Renard - Author of Swing
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- Episode 77: Marina Carreira - Author of Save the Bathwater
- Episode 76: Kathleen Basi - Author of A Song for the Road
- Episode 75: Tashie Bhuiyan - Author of Counting Down With You
- Episode 74: Cassandra Lane - Author of We Are Bridges
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Marina Carreira is a queer, Luso-American poet artist and the author of Save the Bathwater, a poetry collection, and the curator of Divine Feminist: An Anthology of Poetry and Art by Womxn and Non-binary Folx, both published by Get Fresh Books.
“Her poet soul sings—like a Portuguese saudade—in service to safeguarding what has been lost and what should never be forgotten, “to remember it all—sweat and tears, / Luso ancestry, to run roots through/ my future great-granddaughter’s bones.” — Rigoberto González
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- The stories that you are too afraid to tell
- Being part of a local writing community
- And more
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
This week’s writing prompt: Where or how do you locate the divine in your own life?
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In this episode, they recommended these womxn writers:
- The WriteOnPoetryBabes
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- Episode 76: Kathleen Basi - Author of A Song for the Road
- Episode 75: Tashie Bhuiyan - Author of Counting Down With You
- Episode 74: Cassandra Lane - Author of We Are Bridges
- Episode 73: Ellen Hagan - Author of Reckless, Glorious, Girl and Blooming Fiascoes
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Kathleen Basi is the author of the new novel, A Song for the Road, a story of a womxn’s healing road trip after profound loss.
"Basi's exquisite, gut-wrenching debut is filled with loss, hope, and secrets.” - Booklist
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- The brick wall that is an invitation
- Feeding your creativity when supporting your family
- And more
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
This week’s writing prompt: Think of a scene from your WIP. Think about the place where it is set: the smell, the sound, the way it feels on the skin and in your body. Freewrite 3-4 details you can weave into the dialogue that can be evoked in a sentence or two, so that you can weave them into your action.
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In this episode, they recommended these womxn writers:
- Sonya Yoerg, Author of True Places
- Louise Miller, Author of The Late Bloomers’ Club
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- Episode 74: Tashie Bhuiyan - Author of Counting Down With You
- Episode 73: Ellen Hagan - Author of Reckless, Glorious, Girl and Blooming Fiascoes
- Episode 72: Heather Ostman - Author of The Second Chance Home for Girls
- Episode 71: Elle Marr - Author of Lies We Bury
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Tashie Bhuiyan is the 22-year-old author of Counting Down With You, a YA “own stories” novel about a Bangladeshi teenager who agrees to a fake relationship with her school’s resident bad boy when her parents are out of the country.
"This 'love letter to young brown girls; explores a topic that can be taboo in desi culture: anxiety. Bhuiyan guides Karina through it with care … Hand to fans of Netflix hit Never Have I Ever." - Booklist
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- How consuming lots of media helps her through a block
- Having a playlist for the book you’re writing
- And more
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
This week’s writing prompt: Look back on one of your childhood medias and think about what you loved so much about it, whether it was a character, a trope, the setting. Then, write your own version of it.
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In this episode, they recommended these womxn writers:
- Chloe Gong, Author of These Violent Delights
- Madeline Miller, Author of Circe
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- Episode 73: Ellen Hagan - Author of Reckless, Glorious, Girl and Blooming Fiascoes
- Episode 72: Heather Ostman - Author of The Second Chance Home for Girls
- Episode 71: Elle Marr - Author of Lies We Bury
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Cassandra Lane is the author of We Are Bridges, a memoir that explores reclaiming violent family history in order to create a more free future for one’s children.
“In this narrative, Lane seeks an origin story, searching for what facts are available and wondering about the legacy she is passing on. . . . A multiangled exploration of family trauma and the forging of an identity.” — Kirkus Reviews
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Exploring your city to explore your creativity
- Writing in the early morning hours with candles and incense
- And more
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
This week’s writing prompt: Write about a food you loved as a child. Describe its taste, texture, smell, color, and how it felt in your mouth. Push deeper to unravel what it symbolized for you. What deep cravings does it dredge up even now?
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In this episode, they recommended these womxn writers:
- Reema Zaman, Author of I Am Yours: A Shared Memoir
- Lynell George, Author of A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler
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- Episode 73: Ellen Hagan - Author of Reckless, Glorious, Girl and Blooming Fiascoes
- Episode 70: Meg Medina - Author of Merci Suárez Can’t Dance
- Episode 69: adrienne maree brown - Author of We Will Not Cancel Us
- Episode 63: Sonya Renee Taylor - Author of The Body is Not An Apology
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Ellen Hagan is the author of two new releases: a YA novel in verse called Reckless, Glorious, Girl, and a poetry collection called Blooming Fiascoes. Hagan is also the co-author of Watch Us Rise with Renée Watson.
A gorgeous, inter-generational story of Southern women and a girl's path blossoming into her sense of self, Reckless, Glorious, Girl explores the important questions we all ask as we race toward growing up.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Being in community and dialoguing with other artists
- Getting others to use writing to tell their stories
- And more
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- Check out her work at DreamYard Project
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
This week’s writing prompt: Write an Ode poem. Make a list of all the things you really love. Circle one or two that really stand out to you. Write details that help the reader see what you’re writing about, and write what you want to say to that which you love.
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In this episode, they recommended these womxn writers:
- Renée Watson, Author of Love is a Revolution
- Aracelis Girmay, Author of The Black Maria
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- Episode 72: Heather Ostman - Author of The Second Chance Home for Girls
- Episode 70: Meg Medina - Author of Merci Suárez Can’t Dance
- Episode 69: adrienne maree brown - Author of We Will Not Cancel Us
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Heather Ostman is the author of the new novel, The Second Chance Home for Girls. Told through three interwoven narrative voices, it’s a story of friendship and freedom, loss and grief, set in a halfway house for troubled teenage girls. She is also the author of the forthcoming Rhetorical Lives, a history of women activists of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
“An atmospheric yet entertaining read with an enigmatic, charismatic hero that will keep readers riveted. This beguiling, slyly subversive tale puts a spiritual mystery at the heart of gritty truths.” - Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2020
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Breathing through the fear of a writing block
- Using Aristotle’s eight point arc to structure your novel
- And more
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
This week’s writing prompt: How can I tell you all that cannot be said?
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In this episode, they recommended these womxn writers:
- Kate Chopin, Author of The Awakening
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- Episode 71: Elle Marr - Author of Lies We Bury
- Episode 69: adrienne maree brown - Author of We Will Not Cancel Us
- Epiosde 64: Fan Favorites - Featuring Kim Krans, Brittney Morris, Aja Black, Melissa Valentine, and Rebekah Taussig
- Episode 63: Sonya Renee Taylor - Author of The Body is Not An Apology
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Elle Marr is the author of The Lies We Bury, a newly released thriller. She strives to tell powerful and compelling stories of womxn who demonstrate resilience in the face of great obstacles. She is also the author of a 2020 thriller release, The Missing Sister.
“The suspenseful plot is matched by the convincing portrayal of the vulnerable Claire, who just wants to lead a normal life. Marr is a writer to watch.” - Publishers Weekly
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Consuming art to get inspired
- Giving yourself breaks and not writing every day
- And more
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
This week’s writing prompt: Write a scene in which a long held secret is revealed over a meal. Is the meal symbolic of the secret? How do your characters digest this new information while consuming their food? Do they even continue eating at all or do the utensils they clutch remain tools of nourishment or become weapons?
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In this episode, they recommended these womxn writers:
- Georgina Cross - Author of The Stepdaughter
- A.H. Kim - Author of A Good Family
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- Episode 70: Meg Medina - Author of Merci Suárez Can’t Dance
- Episode 69: adrienne maree brown - Author of We Will Not Cancel Us
- Episode 68: Amy Solomon - Editor of Notes from the Bathroom Line
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Meg Medina is the author of Merci Suárez Can’t Dance, the sequel to the Newberry-award winning young adult novel, Merci Suárez Changes Gears. She is a New York Times bestselling Latina author of books for kids of all ages.
"Medina writes about the joys of multigenerational home life (a staple of the Latinx community) with a touching, humorous authenticity. Merci's relationship with Lolo is heartbreakingly beautiful and will particularly strike readers who can relate to the close, chaotic, and complicated bonds of live-in grandparents. Medina delivers another stellar and deeply moving story." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Scaring herself with trying new genres
- Cross-pollinating when she’s feeling blocked
- Staying at it and keeping the emotional connection to your work
- And more
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
This week’s writing prompt: On the top of the page, write “I remember.” Imagine yourself at your favorite age as a kid. Set a timer for six minutes and write a memory you have of that age. After the six minutes, stop, and ask yourself, “Why do I remember this?” And then for two minutes, write and answer that question for yourself.
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In this episode, they recommended these womxn writers:
- Renee Watson, Author of Love is a Revolution
- Yamile Saied Méndez, Author of Furia
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- Episode 69: adrienne maree brown - Author of We Will Not Cancel Us
- Episode 68: Amy Solomon - Editor of Notes from the Bathroom Line
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adrienne maree brown is the author of We Will Not Cancel Us, Pleasure Activism, Emergent Strategy, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. Her new book, Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, comes out in April. She is the co-host of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables podcasts.
“adrienne maree brown urges us to go deep, sink down, struggle, and swim as we find language, spirit, ourselves, and each other in this time of chaos. I cannot say how grateful I am for this work of poetry and love that makes sense of my/our everyday state of confusion and shows us how we might live abolition—not as an absolute state but as a dynamic motion forward and together.” - Mimi Kim, California State University, Long Beach
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- The most valuable thing there is
- Applying Buddhist principles to her editing process
- What the next moves are when you feel blocked.
- And more
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
Write a story in which you are being called out or cancelled. Write how you would handle it, how you would want to be treated, how you would want your community to hold you accountable if you had actually done anything harmful or wrong, and what you would hope to be the outcome on the other side of it.
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In this episode, they recommended these womxn writers:
- Mariame Kaba, author of We Do This Until We Free Us
- Trans activist Indya Moore
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- Epiosde 64: Fan Favorites - Kim Krans, Brittney Morris, Aja Black, Melissa Valentine, and Rebekah Taussig
- Episode 63: Sonya Renee Taylor - Author of The Body is Not An Apology
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Amy Solomon is the editor of Notes From The Bathroom Line, an anthology of all new humor pieces (essays, satire, short stories, poetry, cartoons, artwork, and more) by 150 womxn and nonbinary writers in comedy.
“The beautiful thing about some books is their time-capsule quality, how they perfectly preserve a cultural moment between two covers. Amy Solomon has created just such a book with Notes From the Bathroom Line, an eclectic mix of writing, art and "low-grade panic," to quote the subtitle, from a large and rowdy cast of very funny women.” - BookPage
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Thoughtful editing
- Fancy pens that make you happy
- Getting inspired by other people’s work
- And more
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
This week’s writing prompt: What’s the story of the time you laughed the hardest?
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In this episode, they recommended these womxn writers:
- Catherine Cohen, author of God I Feel Modern Tonight
- Karla Cornejo Villavicencio,author of The Undocumented Americans
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- Episode 67: Layla AlAmmar - Author of Silence Is A Sense
- Episode 66: Patricia Engel - Author of Infinite Country
- Epiosde 64: Fan Favorites - Featuring Kim Krans, Brittney Morris, Aja Black, Melissa Valentine, and Rebekah Taussig
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Layla AlAmmar is the author of Silence is a Sense, a profound and life-affirming novel that follows a mute Syrian refugee grappling with her experiences during the Syrian Civil War, and as a refugee traveling through Europe as she is gradually and unwillingly drawn into the lives of her neighbors.
“With gut-punching clarity, AlAmmar unpacks the complicated identity of a refugee discovering that safety is not what it seems, as she learns to find her voice in a new home.” - Booklist
Layla AlAmmar is a Kuwaiti-American writer and student of Arab literature, delivering a complex and fluid book about memory, revolution, loss, and safety. AlAmmar’s debut novel, The Pact We Made, was published in 2019. She is currently pursuing a PhD on the intersection of Arab women's fiction and literary trauma theory.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Changing your medium to get un-stuck
- Writing as a repository for thoughts and feelings
- The difficulty in trying to take writing advice
- And more
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
This week’s writing prompt: Take a pivotal scene in your WIP, or a scene that is giving you trouble, and try to rewrite it in several different ways. For example: straight, a dream or nightmare, someone relaying the scene to another person in a letter, or as a hallucination.
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In this episode, they recommended these womxn writers:
- Adania Shibli, author of Minor Detail
- Han Kang, author of The Vegetarian
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- Episode 66: Patricia Engel - Author of Infinite Country
- Epiosde 64: Fan Favorites - Featuring Kim Krans, Brittney Morris, Aja Black, Melissa Valentine, and Rebekah Taussig
- Episode 63: Sonya Renee Taylor - Author of The Body is Not An Apology
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Patricia Engel is the author of Infinite Country. The novel follows teenager Talia as she and her family grapple with their mixed-immigration statuses, offering an intimate perspective on an experience that so many have endured - and are enduring right now.
Rich with Bogotá urban life, steeped in Andean myth, and tense with the daily reality of the undocumented in America, Infinite Country is the story of two countries and one mixed-status family - for whom every triumph is stitched with regret, and every dream pursued bears the weight of a dream deferred.
Patricia Engel is also the author of Vida, which won Colombia’s national book award. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Writing by natural light
- Keeping your writing appointments
- Her unique approach to revision (hint: it involves re-writing)
- And more
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
This week’s writing prompt: Write about a time in your life when you did what some people might consider the wrong thing for the right reasons.
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In this episode, they recommended these womxn writers:
- Carolina De Robertis, author of The President and The Frog
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- Episode 65: Kate Hope Day - Author of In the Quick
- Epiosde 64: Fan Favorites - Featuring Kim Krans, Brittney Morris, Aja Black, Melissa Valentine, and Rebekah Taussig
- Episode 63: Sonya Renee Taylor - Author of The Body is Not An Apology
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Kate Hope Day is the author of In the Quick, a novel about an ambitious young astronaut whose love affair threatens the rescue of a lost crew.
“I read In the Quick with wonder at the deeply imaginative world Kate Hope Day created. Feminist and thrilling, this novel centers around a precocious, brilliant character named June. I happily followed June into deep space, but I would have followed her anywhere. What a wonderful story. I highly recommend this novel.”- Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Changing your definition of a good writing day
- What she does between 10pm and midnight
- Letting your brain think about your writing while you sleep
- And more
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This week’s writing prompt: Take a page of a piece you’re revising. Skim the page and see what words are hot, and circle those for a few paragraphs. Then make a list of those words, and step away for a few minutes. Come back and read the words again. Set a timer for 10-15 minutes and write about what those words might be telling you about your writing.
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In this episode, they recommended these womxn writers:
- Katherine May, author of Wintering
- Danielle Geller, author of Dog Flowers
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- Epiosde 64: Fan Favorites - Featuring Kim Krans, Brittney Morris, Aja Black, Melissa Valentine, and Rebekah Taussig
- Episode 63: Sonya Renee Taylor - Author of The Body is Not An Apology
- Episode 62: Arianna Davis - Author of What Would Frida Do?: A Guide to Living Boldly
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This week we hear highlights from some of your favorite episodes:
- Episode 15: Brittney Morris - Author of the YA novel, Slay
- Episode 14: Kim Krans - Author of the graphic memoir Blossoms and Bones: Drawing a Life Back Together
- Episode 33: Melissa Valentine - Author of the memoir, The Names of All the Flowers
- Episode 39: Rebekah Taussig - Author of the memoir, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body
- Episode 27: Aja Black - Songwriter from The Reminders
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- Visit Kim Krans’ Instagram pages, The Wild Unknown, Kim Krans, her Website, and order her book, Blossoms and Bones: Drawing a Life Back Together
- Visit Melissa Valentine’s Website, Instagram, and Twitter, and order her book, The Names of All the Flowers
- Visit Rebekah Taussig’s Instagram, Website, and order her book, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
- Visit Aja Black’s Website, Instagram, or hear her new collaboration on Hungry World with Rising Appalachia
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- Learn more about The Feminist Press, which lifts up insurgent and marginalized voices from around the world to build a more just future
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Sonya Renee Taylor is the author of The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, an invitation to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds and bodies and celebrate our collective, enduring strength.
“This book took my breath away. It’s an unexpected and urgent embrace of truth.” - Brené Brown, Ph.D., author of the New York Times #1 bestseller, Dare to Lead
“Through lucid and courageous self-revelation, Taylor shows us how to realize the revolutionary potential of self-love.” - Kimberlé Crenshaw, legal scholar and founder and Executive Director, African American Policy Forum
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Tending to what needs to be tended so you can write
- Choosing her bold book cover
- And more
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I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt: Imagine yourself as having gotten lost. Using five colors, four items you can see in your house right now, and one faraway location, write yourself a map back to yourself.
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In this episode, they recommended these womxn writers:
- Octavia E. Butler, author of Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories
- adrienne maree brown, author of Emergent Strategy and Pleasure Activism
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- Episode 62: Arianna Davis - Author of What Would Frida Do?
- Episode 60: Isabel Ibañez - Author of Written in Starlight
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Arianna Davis is the author of What Would Frida Do?: A Guide to Living Boldly, an exploration of the feminist icon’s signature style, outspoken politics, and boldness in love and art, even in the face of pain and heartbreak. She is also the Digital Director at Oprah Magazine.
"A modern take on a woman who was modern beyond her time. Arianna Davis's book paints a colorful picture of the strength, courage, and love that uplifted Frida Kahlo through her many tragedies. This comprehensive look into Frida's life leads me to think that we could all learn a lesson or two from Frida." - Nina Garcia, editor-in-chief of Elle
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Translating your creative energy into words
- Nurturing creativity by spending time in nature
- And more
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I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt: If someone in history who is no longer with us were suddenly with you again, what would you say to them or what message would you want to write down and have them read behind you?
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In this episode, they recommended these womxn writers:
- Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half
- Elizabeth Acevedo, author of The Poet X
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- Episode 60: Isabel Ibañez - Author of Written in Starlight
- Episode 59: Stephanie Big Eagle - Author of Thunderbird Rising
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Isabel Ibañez is the author of Written in Starlight, a YA novel that continues the story of Woven in Moonlight, where Catalina, the rightful heiress to the Inkasisa throne, has been abandoned in the Yanu jungle, and needs to find her way back to her power and her home.
“Packed with growing pains, adventure, and self-realization, Written in Starlight is an important, entertaining tale about community and resistance.” – Foreword Reviews
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Finishing the book so that you have something to edit
- Returning to writing after years in graphic design
- And more
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I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt: Choose an Enneagram personality type and write about their point of view as they are experiencing a jungle setting on their very first day.
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In this episode, they recommended these womxn writers:
- Stacey Lee, author of Outrun the Moon
- Zoraida Córdova, author of Labyrinth Lost
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- Episode 59: Stephanie Big Eagle - Author of Thunderbird Rising
- Episode 58: Timneisha Greene Kim - Author of Athena’s Quest: A Lesbian’s Quest for Normality
- Episode 56: Mia Mercado - Author of Weird But Normal
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Stephanie Big Eagle is the author of Thunderbird Rising, a memoir about reconnecting, resilience, and empowerment.
In this episode, we discuss their writing process, and:
- Writing from your heart and your passion
- Finding the right agent and publisher
- And more
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt: What experiences in your own life, whether from a dream, a vision, or everyday reality, had such a profound effect on you that it forever changed your life and your perspective on your identity? How would you describe it so that your audience is there with you in that moment, experiencing it with you, and feeling the shift it created within you?
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In this episode, they recommended these womxn writers:
- Winnie Mandela, author of Part of My Soul Went With Him
- Joy Harjo, author of Crazy Brave
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- Episode 58: Timneisha Greene Kim - Author of Athena’s Quest: A Lesbian’s Quest for Normality
- Episode 57: Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite - Authors of One of the Good Ones
- Episode 56: Mia Mercado - Author of Weird But Normal
- Episode 54: Sarah Gottesdiener - Author of The Moon Book
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Timneisha Greene Kim is the author of Athena’s Quest: A Lesbian’s Quest for Normality, a memoir that explores coming out while being a Christian, and learning self-love and acceptance in the wake of molestation.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Putting your genuine feelings on paper
- The pros and cons of self-publishing
- Writing in bed
- And more
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt: Write to your younger self about the heroes of the past. Tell your younger self how you are a hero of the present. Do you think your younger self would be proud?
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In this episode, they recommended these womxn writers:
- Trina Greene Brown, author of Parenting for Liberation: A Guide for Raising Black Children
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- Episode 57: Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite - Authors of One of the Good Ones
- Episode 56: Mia Mercado - Author of Weird But Normal
- Episode 55: Alexandra Chang - Author of Days of Distraction
- Episode 54: Sarah Gottesdiener - Author of The Moon Book
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Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite are sisters and the authors of One of the Good Ones, a young adult novel that explores Blackness and how it relates to white acceptability, through the eyes of a young womxn whose sister was killed at a BLM protest.
Kirkus awarded the book a starred review, saying, “Brilliant storytelling, sharp dialogue … An explosive look behind the hashtags at race and history, taking readers on a road trip mapped by love and grief. Close to perfection."
In this episode, we discuss their writing process, and:
- Getting caught up in perfectionism and failing to start
- Asking for deadline extensions
- And more
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt: Write a scene where your character is having a physical and mental reaction to an extremely shocking moment. What happened? What will happen next?
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In this episode, they recommended these womxn writers:
- Elizabeth Acevedo, author of The Poet X
- Alyssa Cole, author of When No One is Watching
- Ibi Zoboi, author of Pride
- Gloria Anzaldua, author of Borderlands
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Mia Mercado is the author of the collection of humor essays, Weird But Normal, which explores the absurdity of being a womxn, and more particularly, a millennial womxn.
PopSugar recommends the book, saying, “Whether she’s tackling universal topics like the joy of shopping at Target or zeroing in on discussing racial identity, each one of her essays is insightful, funny, and a joy to read.”
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Separating your worth as a person from what you create
- Writing the things you want to write
- And more
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt: What is something that other people take as normal or fine, that you think is super strange?
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Rachel Ignotofsky, author of Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
- Riance Konc, author of Build Your Own Christmas Movie Romance
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- Episode 55: Alexandra Chang - Author of Days of Distraction
- Episode 54: Sarah Gottesdiener - Author of The Moon Book
- Episode 53: Rachel Mans McKenny - Author of The Butterfly Effect
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Alexandra Chang is the author of Days of Distraction, a new novel about a young womxn who leaves home and contends with the question, “How do you exist in a society that does not notice or understand you?”
The Washington Post calls the book “an immersive, emotionally honest novel that thinks through our era’s complexities, histories and divisions; it wanders into the gray areas, and wonders where the path forward might be.”
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Being physically well in order to be able to create
- Letting your ordinary life nurture your creativity
- And more
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I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt: Stolen from J. Robert Lennon: Go to Mapcrunch and click around randomized google street views. Find one view that calls to you and write a story that takes place in that street view of your choice.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Likes by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
- Night Rooms by Gina Nutt
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- Episode 54: Sarah Gottesdiener - Author of The Moon Book
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- Episode 52: Riane Konc - Author of Build Your Own Christmas Movie Romance
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Sarah Faith Gottesdiener is the author of The Moon Book, “a guide to conscious living through the moon and her phases, incorporating wellness rituals, spellwork, and witchcraft for the modern seeker.”
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Having an ambivalent relationship with writing
- The importance of a good editor
- And more
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt: Close your eyes. Take eight slow deep belly breaths. Out loud, name how you’d like to feel right now. Bring that feeling into your entire body. Now, put an eight minute timer on your phone and write by hand at least eight sentences that invoke that feeling.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Pema Chödrön, author of The Wisdom of No Escape
- adrienne maree brown, author of Emergent Strategies and Pleasure Activism
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- Episode 53: Rachel Mans McKenny - Author of The Butterfly Effect
- Episode 52: Riane Konc - Author of Build Your Own Christmas Movie Romance
- Episode 50: Marisa Acocella - Author of The Big She-Bang: The Herstory of the Universe According to God the Mother
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Rachel Mans McKenny is the author of The Butterfly Effect, a new novel. The book is the story of Greta, an entomologist, who takes an unexpected trip back home and unwinds an “unconventional tale of self-discovery, navigating relationships, and how sometimes it takes stepping outside of our comfort zone to find what we need the most.” McKenny is also a humor writer who has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and more.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Writing outside your genre
- What she thinks about writing every day
- And more
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I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt: Think about an indoor space with which you are extremely familiar. Picture it and think for a moment about the other things, unseen, which might reside there. Pick one of these creatures and describe what you know about them or what questions you might have about them, without doing any additional research. Create a scene where two people are talking, told from the perspective from this truly outside observer.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Mia Mercado, author of Weird But Normal: Essays
- Tyrese Coleman, author of How to Sit: A Memoir in Stories and Essays
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- Episode 52: Riane Konc - Author of Build Your Own Christmas Movie Romance
- Episode 51: Mariëlle S. Smith - Author of 52 Weeks of Writing: Author Journal and Planner
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Riane Konc is the author of Build Your Own Christmas Movie Romance: Pick Your Plot, Meet Your Man, and Create the Holiday Love Story of a Lifetime. The book takes you on a humorous trip of your choosing through the challenges of a big-city heroine who heads back to her small hometown, while navigating work and love, all with a touch of holiday spirit.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Being in the struggle
- Her path from school psychologist to internet humor writer
- And more
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I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompts are borrowed from Elissa Bassist’s piece, Writing Prompts for the Dumped, published at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Two unlikely characters meet, date, and eventually part ways. Write their story without using the words “part ways,” “meet,” or “Zoloft.” OR/AND Write flash fiction that begins with the phrase “every silver lining has a cloud” and ends in castration.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Katie Schmid, author of the forthcoming book, Nowhere
- Maggie Smith, author if Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
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Mariëlle S. Smith is the author of 52 Weeks of Writing: Author Journal and Planner. The book helps writers to plan and work on writing goals all year, reflect on your experience writing, and keep you inspired with weekly prompts.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Being brutally honest with yourself
- Journaling for anti-journalers
- And more
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I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Write a letter to your future self: the one who never stopped writing. Keep the letter close in a spot you’ll remember, and each time you find yourself stalling, take out the letter and read it to yourself.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Cassandra Snow, author of Queering Your Craft: Witchcraft from the Margins
- Clare Sager, author of Beneath Black Sails
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- Episode 50: Marisa Acocella - Author of The Big She-Bang: The Herstory of the Universe According to God the Mother
- Episode 49: Laura Taylor Namey - Author of A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
- Episode 48: Lan Cao and Harlan Van Cao - Authors of Family in Six Tones
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Marisa Acocella is the author of The Big She-Bang: The Herstory of the Universe According to God the Mother, an Oprah Magazine book pick. Marisa highlights the ways womxn have been erased, vilified, and dominated for thousands of years, and uses humor and the graphic novel format to set the story straight.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Walking and creativity
- Being compelled to tell stories that have been squelched
- And more
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I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Take the very worst moment in your life, write about it, and turn it into the very best moment of your life.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Maria Scrivan, author of Nat Enough
- Maryjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis
- Karen Duffy, author of Backbone
- Elaine Pagels, author of The Gnostic Gospels
- Gigi Levangie, author of Been There Married That
- Adriana Trigiani, author of Don’t Sing at the Table
- Max Dashu, author of Witches and Pagans
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- Episode 49: Laura Taylor Namey - Author of A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
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Laura Taylor Namey is the author of A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, a new Young Adult novel that was just chosen as a Reese’s Book Club pick for November 2020. The novel is the story of Lila, a recent high school graduate who is sent to England from Miami by her parents after disaster strikes at home. She feels out of place, but then she meets Orion, and starts to rethink her plans for the future.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Knowing that we don’t have to get it right the first time
- How to read to make you a better writer
- And more
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This week’s writing prompt is: Write your protagonist’s first look at a new place or an opportunity that takes them outside their comfort zone.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Aida Salazar, author of The Land of the Cranes
- Rachel Lynn Solomon, author of Today Tonight Tomorrow
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Mother Lan Cao and daughter Harlan Van Cao share the new book they wrote together, Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter, a memoir exploring the American immigrant experience and how it impacts a family.
In this episode, we discuss their writing process, and:
- Writing a book together as mother and daughter
- Setting time aside to write, even if you aren’t inspired
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
Harlan’s writing prompt is: What are things about your childhood that you resented at the time that now create parts of your personality that you really love?
Lan’s writing prompt is: Think of a period in your life where you struggled with your own self identity vs. how somebody thought of you.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Greta Gerwig, screenwriter of Little Women and Ladybird
- Gail Honeyman, author of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
- Bharati Mukherjee, author of Jasmine
- Isabel Allende, author of House of the Spirits
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Award-winning journalist Zara Stone is the author of The Future of Science is Female: The Brilliant Minds Shaping the 21st Century, a book for young people about badass womxn scientists and entrepreneurs.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Editing your book like it’s your favorite book
- Being inspired by the little things
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Write about a physical product that doesn’t exist right now, magical or otherwise, and how you would use it.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Sarah Frier, author of No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
- Britt Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half
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- Episode 46: Francina Simone - Author of Smash It!
- Episode 45: Nicole Vick - Author of Pushing Through: Finding the Light in Every Lesson
- Episode 44: Sandra Miller Linhart - Author of Diary of an Unkempt Woman
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Francina Simone, author of YA novel, Smash It!
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Being your own best editor
- Blocks coming from undeveloped characters
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Play some music that gets you into writing. Pick at least three of your characters who interact, and take them to Disney World. Have them avoid the problem that you know they have to face, and let them talk around it.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Amara Luciano, author of Heirs of Fate
- Olivia A. Cole, author of The Conspiracy of Stars
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- Episode 43: Deborah Salazar Shapiro - Author of The Magical Mindful Day
- Episode 42: Emily Hashimoto - Author of A World Between
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This week our guest is Nicole Vick, public health advocate and self-published author. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- The benefits of self-publishing
- What she listens to when she’s writing
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: What did you experience in life that at first appeared to be a huge hurdle, that became a blessing?
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Trina Greene Brown, author of Parenting for Liberation: A Guide for Raising Black Children
- Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migrations
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- Episode 44: Sandra Miller Linhart - Author of Diary of an Unkempt Woman
- Episode 42: Emily Hashimoto - Author of A World Between
- Episode 39: Rebekah Taussig - Author of Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body
- Episode 30: Trina Greene Brown - Author of Parenting for Liberation: A Guide for Raising Black
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This week our guest is Sandra Miller Linhart. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- The importance of having someone else edit your work
- Writing as a program running in the background of your mind
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Write without a prompt!
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Elizabeth Berg, author of Open House
- Mary Higgins Clark, author of Where are the Children?
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- Episode 43: Deborah Salazar Shapiro - Author of The Magical Mindful Day
- Episode 42: Emily Hashimoto - Author of A World Between
- Episode 41: Jenny Bhatt - Author of Each of Us Killers
- Episode 39: Rebekah Taussig - Author of Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body
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This week our guest is Deborah Salazar Shapiro, author of the award-winning children’s book published in both Spanish and English, The Magical Mindful Day. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Writing to turn compassion into action
- Connecting to your intuition
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Write about a time that you felt deeply connected to the earth or nature in some way, and include as many sensory details as you can recall.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Ruth King, author of Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out
- Kristin Neff, author of Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
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- Episode 42: Emily Hashimoto - Author of A World Between
- Episode 41: Jenny Bhatt - Author of Each of Us Killers
- Episode 39: Rebekah Taussig - Author of Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body
- Episode 35: Chet’la Sebree - Author of Mistress
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This week our guest is Emily Hashimoto, author of the new novel, A World Between, which explores the relationship between two queer womxn over the span of many years. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Making a playlist for your characters
- Doing “writing-adjacent” work
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Consider a time you were uncomfortable or insecure. Rewrite that moment in a way that unfolds unexpectedly.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties and In the Dream House
- Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko
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- Episode 41: Jenny Bhatt - Author of Each of Us Killers
- Episode 40: Xanthe Alexis - Creator of The Offering
- Episode 39: Rebekah Taussig - Author of Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body
- Episode 38: Maisy Card - Author of These Ghosts are Family
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This week our guest is Jenny Bhatt, Indian author of Each of Us Killers. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Editing out your tics
- The point of no return
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Start with a memory about an object, a news headline, or an image. Take any of these and free write non-stop for about 10-15 minutes.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Toni Morrison, author of Beloved
- Zadie Smith, author of White Teeth
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- Episode 40: Xanthe Alexis - Creator of The Offering
- Episode 39: Rebekah Taussig - Author of Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body
- Episode 38: Maisy Card - Author of These Ghosts are Family
- Episode 37: Christina Hammonds Reed - Author of The Black Kids
- Episode 36: Melissa Faliveno - Author of Tomboyland
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This week our guest is Xanthe Alexis, songwriter, and creator of the atmospheric indie folk album, The Offering. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Writing as devotional practice
- Telling the truth
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Imagine your little girl and what her blueprint was for you. Allow her voice to come through and let you know where she sees you going and what’s up ahead.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Kaia Ra, author of The Sophia Code
- Fiona Apple, creator of Fetch the Bolt Cutters
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- Episode 39: Rebekah Taussig - Author of Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body
- Episode 38: Maisy Card - Author of These Ghosts are Family
- Episode 37: Christina Hammonds Reed - Author of The Black Kids
- Episode 36: Melissa Faliveno - Author of Tomboyland
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This week our guest is Rebekah Taussig, author of Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Being easy on yourself
- Giving yourself space to make a mess
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Write about one crystal clear moment when you were made very aware of your sense of being inside of or outside of this designated circle of "women."
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Keah Brown, author of The Pretty One
- Alice Wong, editor of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
- Erin Clark, author of If you really love me, throw me off the mountain: a memoir
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- Episode 38: Maisy Card - Author of These Ghosts are Family
- Episode 37: Christina Hammonds Reed - Author of The Black Kids
- Episode 36: Melissa Faliveno - Author of Tomboyland
- Episode 35: Chet’la Sebree - Author of Mistress
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This week our guest is Maisy Card, author of the new novel, These Ghosts Are Family. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Never getting rid of anything you love that you edit out
- Writing from your experience
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is based on a prompt provided to Maisy from Elizabeth Bobrick: Write a story you heard that happened before you were born. Whoever it’s about, write from their perspective.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Michelle Cliff, Author of No Telephone to Heaven
- Megan Giddings, Author of Lakewood
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- Episode 37: Christina Hammonds Reed - Author of The Black Kids
- Episode 35: Chet’la Sebree - Author of Mistress
- Episode 33: Melissa Valentine - Author of The Names of All the Flowers
- Episode 30: Trina Greene Brown - Author of Parenting for Liberation: A Guide for Raising Black Children
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This week our guest is Christina Hammonds Reed author of the new YA novel, The Black Kids. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- How screenwriting helped her develop her novel
- When she takes a nap during her writing process
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Write about somebody who receives bad personal news in the middle of a national or international upheaval/catastrophe.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Jesmyn Ward, Author of Sing, Unburied, Sing
- Laila Lalami, Author of The Moor’s Account
- Rebecca Makkai, Author of The Great Believers
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- Episode 36: Melissa Faliveno - Author of Tomboyland
- Episode 35: Chet’la Sebree - Author of Mistress
- Episode 34: Lacy Crawford - Author of Notes on a Silencing
- Episode 33: Melissa Valentine - Author of The Names of All the Flowers
- Episode 32: Juli Delgado Lopera - Author of Fiebre Tropical
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This week our guest is Melissa Faliveno, editor, teacher, and author of Tomboyland. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Carving out just five minutes a day
- Reading and editing other people’s work to improve your own writing
- And more
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Find the tree nearest you. If you can, stand or sit down next to the tree. Describe the tree. First using only sensory descriptions. Then, add a little speculation about the tree. Then write yourself into a scene with a tree and see where it takes you.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood
- Alison Stine, author of Road Out of Winter
- Samantha Irby, author of wow, no thank you
- Angela Pelster, author of Limber
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- Episode 35: Chet’la Sebree - Author of Mistress
- Episode 34: Lacy Crawford - Author of Notes on a Silencing
- Episode 33: Melissa Valentine - Author of The Names of All the Flowers
- Episode 32: Juli Delgado Lopera - Author of Fie
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This week our guest is Chet’la Sebree, author of poetry collection Mistress, and the forthcoming lyric meditation Field Study. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- What really makes a person a writer
- Writing before the emails start piling up
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Take out a piece of writing that has content you feel passioante about, but you feel like it isn’t working. Write it in a completely different mode, form, or genre.
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- Shayla Lawson, author of This is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope
- Dantiel Moniz, author of the forthcoming Milk, Blood, Heat
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- Episode 34: Lacy Crawford - Author of Notes on a Silencing
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- Episode 32: Juli Delgado Lopera - Author of Fiebre Tropical
- Episode 31: Casey Cep - Author of The Furious Hours
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This week our guest is memoirist Lacy Crawford, author of the memoir Notes on a Silencing, the journalistic account of being sexual assaulted as a teenager at a private school that spent decades covering it up. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Being compassionate with yourself when you are blocked
- Giving up writing for periods of time
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Choose an experience from your life, and instead of writing it beautifully, write it as cleanly, accurately, and honestly as you can.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Meg Howrey, author of The Wanderers
- Maggie Nelson, author of Bluets
- Patricia Lockwood, author of Priestdaddy
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- Episode 33: Melissa Valentine - Author of The Names of All the Flowers
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This week our guest is memoirist Melissa Valentine, author of The Names of All the Flowers, which explores growing up mixed race in Oakland, being part of a family fractured by the school to prison pipeline, and losing her brother. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Doing the writing first before anything else
- Writing as a self-help tool
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Read two pages of any piece of literature and let it inspire you to write.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Zora Neale Hurston, author of Dust Tracks on a Road
- Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina
- Robin Coste Lewis, author of Voyage of the Sable Venus
- Clarice Lispector, author of The Passion According to G.H.
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- Episode 28: Liara Tamani - Author of All The Things We Never Knew
- Episode 27: Aja Black - Songwriter of musical duo The Reminders
- Episdoe 15: Brittney Morris - Author of Slay
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This week our guest is Colombian writer Juli Delgado Lopera, author of the queer multilingual novel, Fiebre Tropical. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Editing with an inquisitive lens
- Committing to a creative practice
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: This is ‘stolen’ from Linda Barry because I love her so much. Write a list of ten cars that have appeared in your life. Pick number 7 and write the story of that car, using all of your senses as you’re writing.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Miriam Toews, author of A Complicated Kindness
- Rita Indiana, author of Papi
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- Episode 29: Trina Greene Brown - Author of Parenting for Liberation: A Guide for Raising Black Children
- Episode 28: Liara Tamani - Author of All The Things We Never Knew
- Episode 27: Aja Black - Songwriter of musical duo The Reminders
- Episode 26: Minna Salami - Author of Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone
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This week our guest is New York Times bestselling author and staff writer at the New Yorker, Casey Cep. Her recent book is Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, which was listed by President Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of 2019. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Writing nonfiction and being curious about people
- Being flexible in order to write
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Draft a tableau. Place all of your characters in the same place at the same time.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Elaine Weiss, author of The Woman’s Hour
- Jamaica Kinkaid, author of At the Bottom of the River
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- Episode 30: Trina Greene Brown - Author of Parenting for Liberation: A Guide for Raising Black Children
- Episode 28: Liara Tamani - Author of All The Things We Never Knew
- Episode 27: Aja Black - Songwriter of musical duo The Reminders
- Episode 26: Minna Salami - Author of Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone
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This week our guest is author Trina Greene Brown, author of Parenting for Liberation: A Guide for Raising Black Children. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Trusting your inner knowing and sharing it with the world
- Writing as activism
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: How are you practicing liberation in your home?
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Octavia Butler, author of Kindred
- Audre Lorde, author of The Black Unicorn
- Dani McClain, author of We Live for the We: Policial Power of Black Motherhood
- The authors in the anthology, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines
- adrienne maree brown, author of Emergent Strategies and Pleasure Activism
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- Episode 3: Nefertiti Austin - Author of Motherhood So White: A Memoir of
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This week our guest is memoirist Jaquira Díaz, author of Ordinary Girls - a story of growing up queer in Puerto Rico and Miami. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Listening to yourself read your own work
- The pen she needs for her first drafts
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Write about an event, a person, or a moment that changed everything. Who were you before this moment, before this event, before this person? Who were you right after this event, or this moment, or this person? Think about yourself now, or about the character now. What do you know now that you didn’t know then? What was happening in the world in that moment? Think about the world and the character: how are those things connected?
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Angie Cruz, author of Dominicana
- Carolina De Robertis, author of Cantoras
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- Episode 26: Minna Salami - Author of Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone
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This week our guest is novelist Liara Tamani, author of All the Things We Never Knew, a young adult novel that follows two Black teenagers as they discover how first love, heartbreak, betrayal, and family can shape you - for better or worse. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- The three questions to ask yourself when you’re blocked
- Editing as you write
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Inspired by Ross Gay, write an essay about delight. Draft it really quickly and write it by hand.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Zinzi Clemmons, author of What We Lose
- Elana K. Arnold, author of An Ordinary Day
- Renee Watson, author of Ways to Make Sunshine
- Brandy Colbert, author of The Only Black Girls in Town
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- Episdoe 15: Brittney Morris - Author of Slay
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This week our guest is Aja Black - songwriter, musician, vocalist, and one half of the creative duo The Reminders. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Asking questions with your writing
- Removing expectations, rules and regulations from your creativity
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Start with the phrase “flowers keep falling from your mouth,” and combine it with an emotion of your choosing. Expand on that metaphorical phrase through your own interpretation.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Nnedi Okorafor, author of the Afrofuturistic series Binti
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- Episode 26: Minna Salami - Author of Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone
- Episode 23: Valencia Robin - Author of Ridiculous Light
- Episdoe 15: Brittney Morris - Author of Slay
- Episode 7: Dr. Rosenna Bakari - Author of Too Much Love is Not Enough
- Episode 3: Nefertiti Austin - Author of Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
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This week our guest is Minna Salami, author of Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
- Showing up for your muse
- Having an idea that you’re obsessive about
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Think about a topic that you want to write about. Write about this topic with sensuous knowledge. Conveying whatever topic you choose to write about in the most holistic and sensuous way that you can.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Elif Shafak, author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
- Bernadine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, Other
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- Episode 22: Deborah Paredez - Author of Year of the Dog
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This week our guest is Bishakh Som, author of Apsara Engine, a collection of graphic short stories. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
- Turning everything off
- Making sure your work isn’t too precious while you’re editing
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Dig up an old photo of yourself on a holiday. Preferably one with you and with people in the background. Now imagine yourself as one of the people in the background and how they regard you taking a photo as a tourist.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Vidhu Aggarwal, author of The Trouble with Humpdori
- Cat Fitzpatrick, author of Glamorpuss
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- Episode 21: Dallas Woodburn - Author of The Best Week That Never Happened
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This week our guest is Aimee Liu, author of Glorious Boy, a novel set in World War II. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
- Who to include in your writing group
- Having an abiding question as you write
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Part One: Write about a memory that inspires guilt. What happened, what did you do, why and how do you blame yourself?
Part Two: How does that memory play forward? What might you do to atone for what happened and what consequences might ensure from the acts you undertake to atone?
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Colette Sartor, author of Once Removed
- Cai Emmons, author of Vanishing
- Sherri L. Smith, author of The Blossom and the Firefly
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- Episode 22: Deborah Paredez - Author of Year of the Dog
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This week our guest is Valencia Robin, visual artist, poet, and author of Ridiculous Light. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
- The power of a writing group
- Toggling between painting and writing
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Write a poem where the lines go from one margin to the other.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Linda Gregg, author of All of it Singing
- Rita Dove, Naomi Shihab Nye, Joy Harjo, Sharon Olds, Natasha Trethewey, Brenda Shaughnessy, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Natalie G. Diaz
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This week our guest is Deborah Paredez, co-founder of CantoMundo, and author of Year of the Dog, a book of poetry. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
- Submitting more, and submitting after rejection
- Reckoning with silence
- And more
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Make a list of language, stories, figures, or images that we see as so completely mundane that we don’t even notice them. Then write what you know and notice about that familiar piece of language. Then write a story to pull it from its familiarity to something more strange or wondrous or meaningful.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Aracelis Girmay, author of Black Maria
- Lucille Clifton, author of Blessing the Boats
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- Episode 17: Hala Alyan - Author of The Twenty-Ninth Year
- Episode 16: Writing in the Time of COVID-19 with host Sara Gallagher and poem Perhaps Prayer by Kristy Milligan
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This week our guest is Dallas Woodburn, author of the young adult novel, The Best Week That Never Happened. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
- Accidentally making external critics internal
- Writing after loss
- And more!
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This week’s writing prompt is: Have your character do something out of character for them. What is their decision, why do they decide to do it, and what happens as a result?
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- Maya Angelou, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Vanessa Hua, author of Deceit and Other Possibilities
- Aimee Bender, author of The Color Master
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This week our guest is Kristen Millares Young, author of Subduction. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
- Parenting and writing in short periods of time
- Allusion and the tension of the unsaid
- Editing from the end forward
- And more!
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Pick a scene that’s been stymying you, and write it from the perspective of the character who is in juxtaposition with but not interior to your protagonist.
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- Elissa Washuta, author of My Body is a Book of Rules
- Elizabeth Rosner, author of Survivor Cafe
- Weike Wang, author of Chemistry
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This week our guest is Luba Vikhanski, author of Gender Mosaic.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
- Adding tension and suspense to any writing
- The importance of your opening
- Working on writing in your sleep
- And more!
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Take some quiet time in the evening before you go to bed, and try to think about what you are trying to write in as much detail as possible. Get up in the morning and see if you have fresh ideas.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Chimamanda Adichie, author of We Should All Be Feminists
- Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Gwen Cooper, author of Homer’s Odyssey
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This week our guest is Melissa Matthewson, author of Tracing the Desire Line.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
- Moving your body
- Playing with the words on the page
- Researching where to submit
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Make a list of ten beautiful things. Be as specific as possible and ground yourself in all sensory details. Draw each one out into 200 word fragments about each beautiful thing.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Mary-Kim Arnold, Author of Litany of the Long Moment and The Fish & The Dove
- Emily Arnason Casey, Author of Made Holy
- Cari Luna, Author of The Revolution of Every Day
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- Episode 14: Kim Krans - Author of Blossoms and Bones
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This week our guest is Hala Alyan, poet and author of The Twenty-Ninth Year.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
- Your writing ritual
- Keeping an inspired headspace
- Leading with the action
- And more!
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Think of some long ago family member, imagined or real, and write something about them or to them.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Analicia Sotelo, author of Virgin
- Marwa Helal, author of Invasive Species
- Ada Limón, author of The Carrying
- Kali Fajardo-Anstine, author of Sabrina & Corina
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- Episode 13: Ann Hagerty Davenport - Owner at 31 Annotations
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This week host Sara Gallagher talks about creativity and writing during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Poet Kristy Milligan shares Perhaps Prayer.
In this episode, we discuss
- That our art is here to nourish us
- The truth and the beauty of life
- To give ourselves grace as we navigate these uncertain times
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Write a prayer. Write the prayer you need right now. Write the prayer in your heart.
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- Kristy Milligan, who read Perhaps Prayer
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- Episode 11: T. Susan Chang - Author of Tarot Correspondences
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This week our guest is Brittney Morris, author of Slay, a young adult novel based on her idea of what might happen if there were an all-black Wakanda-style video game.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
- Writing a published book in 12 days
- Keeping at it even after 200 rejections
- A prompt to help you learn more about your protagonist
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Set your protagonist in a coffee shop, tavern, or restaurant. Have each of your other characters come in. Focus on the five senses, and how they feel about the interaction with the other characters who come in. Make it as interesting as you can and focus on the five senses.
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- Roseanne Brown, author of A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
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This week our guest is New York Times bestselling author Kim Krans, who reads from her new graphic memoir, Blossoms and Bones: Drawing a Life Back Together.
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- The need for tension in creation
- “The third thing” we need in order to work on a project
- Surprising yourself
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Write a thank you letter to an author or artist, the first one who comes to mind. Write a one page, handwritten letter, and thank them for not giving up. Sign it with the date.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
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- Anne Frank, author of The Diary of a Young Girl
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This week our guest is Ann Hagerty Davenport: poet, translator, and devotee of fresh bread.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
- Tuning into what works for your own practice
- The element of surprise when you’re stuck
- Connecting with your voice as a writer
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: The door is a memory. When you walk through, what does this house hold? What rooms do you visit? How might you rearrange the furniture to meet your present needs?
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Sarah Faith Gottesdiener, creator of Modern Women and Visual Magic
- Brené Brown, author of Dare to Lead
- Aracelis Girmay, author of Kingdom Anamalia
- Natalie G. Diaz, author of Postcolonial Love Poem
- Ysabel Y. Gonzalez, author of Wild Invocations
- Roxane Gay, author of Ayiti
- Rebecca Solnit, author of Recollections of My Nonexistence
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This week our guest is poet Ysabel Y. Gonzalez, author of Wild Invocations.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
- How poems build up in the body
- Creating a container for your work
- The magic of revision
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Think about praise and celebrating, and how we celebrate our body in particular. Write an ode or a praise poem to a body part.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Aracelis Girmay, author of Kingdom Anamalia
- Ada Limón, author of The Carrying
- Audre Lorde, Author of Sister Outsider
- Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Author of Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
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* Episode 8: Elizabeth Bell - Author of The Lazare Family Saga
* Episode 7: Dr. Rosenna Bakari - Author of Too Much Love is Not Enough*
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This week our guest is writer T. Susan Chang. Susie writes about the tarot, and occasionally reviews cookbooks.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
- How sleep can help a block
- Drinking tea
- Affirmations for writing
- And more!
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Set an alarm for a random time of day when you’re not normally thinking about writing. Check in with each of your senses. Write a sentence or two for each sensory experience.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Lorna Crozier, author of The Sex Lives of Vegetables
- Jane Hirshfield, author of poem “Spell to be Said after Illness” from Lives of the Heart
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This week our guest is creative nonfiction writer Dr. Chloe Schwenke. She reads from her memoir, SELF-ish: A Transgender Awakening.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
- Being brave enough to be introspective
- How stress makes it hard to write
- Finding the right places to publish
- And more!
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I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Even though people prefer to read about heroes and winners, try to own being less than or different from those who are celebrated. Write about your own experiences of being victimized and how you avoided identifying as a victim.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- N.K. Jemisin, author of The Broken Earth Triology
- Cheryl Strayed, author of Tiny Beautiful Things and Wild
- Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, author of Water & Salt
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- Episode 6:Shara McCallum - Author of Madwoman
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This week our guest is editor and fiction writer, Tara Lynn Masih. Her recent novel, My Real Name is Hanna, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
- When to take a walk
- Persistence
- Writing by hand vs. writing on a computer
- And more!
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Pick a subject matter, Google it, and see if anything crazy shows up. Truth is crazier than fiction. I use news headlines to prompt interesting stories that are unusual.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Courtney Maum, author of Costalegre
- Rene Denfeld, author of The Child Finder
- Hannelore Cayre, author of The Godmother
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This week our guest is historical fiction author Elizabeth Bell, author of Necessary Sins and Lost Saints, in the Lazare Family Saga.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
- what she does when she feels stalled in her process
- a great proofreading hack
- what she reads when she’s feeling insecure
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Write a scene in which a character interacts with a work of art. Maybe it sparks a memory, maybe it challenges the character’s beliefs, or maybe the character knows the artist.
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- Episode 3: Nefertiti Austin - Author of Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
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This week our guest is Dr. Rosenna Bakari: memoirist, poet, psychologist, and college professor.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
- Embracing writer’s block
- How she uses a four-draft revision system
- Womxn’s body autonomy
- And more!
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Write a letter of apology to your younger self at whatever age you think some wounding occurred.
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Jamaican-born writer Shara McCallum has received a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, an award from the Library of Congress, and more.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
- Being a parent and waking up early to write
- Learning the language of poetry as a child in Jamaica
- Writing poetry in spurts rather than marathons
- And more!
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- Read Shara McCallum’s books Madwoman, The Face of Water, This Strange Land, Song of Thieves, The Water Between Us
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Choose an abstract concept that you are particularly vexed by, and allow that concept to talk to you.
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The author recommended these womxn writers:
- Shivanee Ramlochan, Author of Everyone Knows I am a Haunting
- Chet’la Sebree, Author of Mistress
- Lucille Clifton, Author of Blessing the Boats
- Emily Dickinson, Author of The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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Writer Courtney Maum shares the introduction to her book that is being released this week, Before and After the Book Deal.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
- Why you should fall in love with editing
- Writing as catharsis
- Being uninhibited in first drafts
- Naming your drafts so that you can find them later
- And more!
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- Preorder her book, Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer's Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book releasing from Catapult this week
- Learn about The Cabins, the artist retreat she founded
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- Visit QuillsEdge Press (dedicated to the poetry of womxn over 40) and submit for their next anthology
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Write from the first person point of view of a holiday gift. Explore the way the gifts that we give and receive feel about the act of being given.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, Author of Hex
- Hala Alyan, Author of Salt Houses
- Renata Adler, Author of Speedboat
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Poet Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach emigrated from Ukraine as a Jewish refugee when she was six years old. She shares two poems; one of them Hanukkah-themed.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
- How many rejections her first manuscript received
- Are more submissions better?
- How parenting affects her writing practice
- And more!
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Write a poem that uses a foreign language and plays with the way it enters into the English. Use it to make music or meaning or a little bit of both. Use it to play.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Kelly Grace Thomas, author of Boat Burned
- Luisa Muradyan, author of American Radiance
- Maya Jewell Zeller, author of Yesterday, the Bees
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- Episode 2: Elissa Bassist - essayist, humor writer, and editor at The Rumpus
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When Nefertiti Austin looked for books reflecting the experience of a single, black, adoptive mother, she didn’t find any. Anywhere. So she wrote one. This week Nefertiti shares a reading from her recent memoir, Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America.
In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
- How long it took her to get published
- Whether or not procrastination is good for a writer
- How emotional peace is involved in writing
- And more!
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: What does motherhood look like to you?
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Casey Cep, author of Furious Hours
- Toni Morrison’s collection The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
- Doris Payne’s book Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief
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“Read, read, read! Read all the time!” - Elissa Bassist
This week, Sara interviews essayist, humor writer, and editor Elissa Bassist on her writing process.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Writing one good sentence
- What the first goal should be for any professional writer
- What’s changed since her letter to Dear Sugar (Cheryl Strayed)
- And more!
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Tell me what you do not want people you knew in high school to read about you.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Riane Konc, Mia Mercado, Emily Flake, Mira Ptacin, Tracy Clark-Flory, Anna Weiner
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We all need companionship in our creativity. This week, Sara interviews author Grace Talusan, who shares writing tips and reads from her book, The Body Papers.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Rejection rates (they’re high!)
- Grace’s process for making editing and revising pleasurable
- How to use a Critic Journal
- And more!
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This Week’s Writing Prompt
Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Write about a meal that you’ve made for someone else out of love, or that someone has made for you out of love.
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In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:
- Jia Tolentino, Meredith Talusan, Roslyn Talusan, Celeste Ng, Jennifer De Leon, Whitney Scharer
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Hear interviews and original pieces read by diverse femxle authors, on Fierce Womxn Writing. If you're looking for creative inspiration, interested in discovering new authors, or just want to find support in navigating the writing process - this podcast is for you. Host Sara Gallagher ends every week's episode with a writing prompt for you to use at home.
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