Make More Pots! Marguerite Sheffer on Perseverance and Experimentation.
Send us a textIn this episode Marguerite Sheffer talks about Iowa Short Fiction Prize winning collection The Man in the Banana Trees and covers:the content of Marguerite's wide ranging speculative fiction stories that dive deeply into the practice of making art and some of our most critical justice issues in our culturehow design thinking helped Marguerite get to a place of wildness and fierce play and pleasure with these storieswhat it was like to win the 2024 Iowa Short Fiction Prize and how it has changed her professional lifehow writing groups and community played a role in completing this collectionwhat experimentation and sense of creative destruction can lead to in a creative practice
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To Have No Shame On Your Face -- T Clark's Journey to a Two-Book Deal.
Send us a textIn this episode T Clark talks about All This Want and I Can't Get None and covers:the content of T's feverish and honest short stories about girlhood, shame, want, and choiceshow T found an agentwhat the path to a book deal looked likehow living in a certain place can foster a more balanced writing lifehow writing collaborative plays has informed their fiction
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With My Background in Publishing, I Knew Nothing Was Make-or-Break
Send us a textIn this episode Samantha Browning Shea talks about MARROW and covers:writing her own book as a literary agent for otherswhen her first novel didn't find a publisherwriting with small children writing characters in the context of their relationships worry over whether a book will work find out more about Samantha herepre-order Marrow hereLearn more about the upcoming host of Writing Stories Jessica Kinnison here
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"This is my start" — Lorraine Russell tells the story of Love and Shadows
Send us a textLorraine Russell tells the story of Love and Shadows. Along the way she covers: Self-publishing on AmazonUsing Fiverr to find cover designers and editors Fear of failure Getting yourself into a flow state Working with a writing coachWriting as though telling a story around a campfire Also in this episode: The Long Road to Publishing with Eva Langston Our upcoming new Writing Stories host, Jessica Kinnison (!!!) Catherine Lacey (Catherine Lacey, if you are out there, we love you!) Buy Love and Shadows here
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"I'm not writing just for myself" — Danielle Teller tells the story of FORGED
Send us a textDanielle Teller tells the story of Forged and talks about: success as a writer rule-breaking the pitfalls of newspaper articles in novels Cassie Chadwick All the Ever Afters When your agent can't place your manuscript How her work as a doctor has informed her writing process Learn more about Danielle here buy FORGED here
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