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Each episode of Writing Stories features an interview with a contemporary author about how her book went from an idea in her head to an object on a shelf. Join us on Writing Stories for honesty, struggle, and triumph, for writing community, publishing insight, and inspiration to persist in whatever difficult but meaningful journey you've chosen for yourself.

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166 - "Vomit drafts" - Teddy Wayne tells the story of The Au Pair

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166 - "Vomit drafts" - Teddy Wayne tells the story of The Au Pair
Mon, 06 Jul 2026
165 - The Sexiest Form: A Conversation with the Series Editor of Best American Short Stories 2025 and a Featured Author
Sat, 17 Jan 2026
164 - Developing the Negatives of a Life: Painter Pat Lipsky on 50 Years of Making Art in New York City
Sat, 01 Nov 2025
163 - Make More Pots! Marguerite Sheffer on Perseverance and Experimentation.
Thu, 16 Oct 2025
162 - To Have No Shame On Your Face -- T Clark's Journey to a Two-Book Deal.
Sat, 27 Sep 2025
161 - With My Background in Publishing, I Knew Nothing Was Make-or-Break
Fri, 01 Aug 2025
160 - "This is my start" — Lorraine Russell tells the story of Love and Shadows
Thu, 17 Jul 2025
159 - "I'm not writing just for myself" — Danielle Teller tells the story of FORGED
Tue, 17 Jun 2025
158 - “There’s Someone Out There...I just Have to Find Them." — Christine Kalafus tells the story of FLOOD
Wed, 04 Jun 2025
157 - Two Things That Are Anathema in Publishing — Deesha Philyaw tells the story of The Secret Lives of Church Ladie
Thu, 29 May 2025
156 - "Your Life Can Be Set Up Like An Artist's Residency" — Sasha Hom tells the story of Sidework
Tue, 20 May 2025
155 - A Safe Place to Explore — Jennie Case tells the story of We Are Animals
Thu, 15 May 2025
154 - "Are You All In?" — Rebe Huntman tells the story of My Mother in Havana
Mon, 21 Apr 2025
153 - The Dignity of Small Things — Libby Maxey tells the story of Indwelling
Mon, 14 Apr 2025
152 - Have The Audacity — Dori Lumpkin tells the story of Antenora
Wed, 09 Apr 2025
151 - "I Learned the Hard Way" — Emma Pattee tells the story of TILT
Mon, 31 Mar 2025
150 - "Charge into the Messiness" —Wayne Scott tells the story of The Maps They Gave Us
Thu, 27 Mar 2025
149 - "It's really annoying to write a novel" — Mariam Rahmani tells the story of Liquid
Thu, 20 Mar 2025
148 - Do what you have to do to get the work done — Cally Fiedorek tells the story of Atta Boy
Mon, 17 Mar 2025
147 - Questioning Assumptions — Nicole Graev Lipson tells the story of Mothers and Other Fictional Characters
Fri, 14 Mar 2025
146 - Once I found the voice and the mode of the narrative, I could just PLAY — Shubha Sunder tells the story of Optional Practical Training
Tue, 11 Mar 2025
145 - "I DO belong over here on this side" — Nanda Reddy tells the story of A Girl Within A Girl Within A Girl
Fri, 07 Mar 2025
144 - Don't Revise, Explode — Elyse Durham tells the story of Maya and Natasha
Mon, 24 Feb 2025
143 - "Oh, you want a plot? I'll GIVE you A PLOT" — Emily J. Smith tells the story of Nothing Serious
Thu, 20 Feb 2025
142 - "Take Your Time" — Olufunke Grace Bankole Tells the Story of The Edge of Water
Wed, 19 Feb 2025
141 - "You Don't Suck" — Lidia Yuknavitch tells the story of Reading the Waves
Wed, 05 Feb 2025
140 - "It Took 8 Years To Write" — Susan Barker Tells the Story of Old Soul
Wed, 29 Jan 2025
139 - "Please Stop Me if This Is Going Terribly" — Erika Swyler tells the story of We Lived on the Horizon
Tue, 21 Jan 2025
138 - "Making art is a lot like making a kid—It is just this really intense expression of being alive"
Sun, 19 Jan 2025
137 - RERELEASE! A Major Problem with Publication
Tue, 14 Jan 2025
136 - RERELEASE! The most hardcore writing hack ever
Mon, 13 Jan 2025
135 - RERELEASE! Shannon Sanders talks about her award-winning story collection Company
Sun, 12 Jan 2025
134 - "The Blank Space Became the Book" — Amy Wilson Tells the Story of Happy To Help
Fri, 10 Jan 2025
133 - RERELEASE! Letting Go of What You Can't Control
Fri, 10 Jan 2025
132 - RERELEASE! "I Had to Do Whatever Was Necessary to Communicate"
Thu, 09 Jan 2025
131 - "Traditional Publishing Industry B******t" — Amanda Fields tells the story of My Caesarean
Mon, 23 Dec 2024
130 - "If You're Not Getting the Dopamine Boost, Then Why Bother?" — Terese Svoboda tells the story of Roxy and Coco and The Long Swim
Wed, 18 Dec 2024
129 - This Very Sacrificial Thing — Jaclyn Gilbert Tells the Story of Late Air
Fri, 06 Dec 2024
128 - "What If We Free Ourselves?" — Vera Blossom Tells the Story of How To F**k Like A Girl
Wed, 04 Dec 2024
127 - "Too Many Emotions and No Tranquility" — Jessica E. Johnson Tells the Story of Mettlework
Sat, 23 Nov 2024
126 - "A Dream Come True" — Polly Rosenwaike tells the story of Look How Happy I'm Making You
Mon, 18 Nov 2024
125 - Writing From Post-Election Anxiety — Danny Goodman Tells the Story of Amerikaland
Tue, 12 Nov 2024
124 - Wonderful and Terrible — Jazmina Barrera Tells The Story of Linea Nigra
Wed, 06 Nov 2024
123 - "No One Can Read It If It Doesn't Get Published" — Kate Brody tells the story of RABBIT HOLE (Paperback out Tuesday!)
Fri, 25 Oct 2024
122 - "Nobody Can Write A Book Everyone Loves" — Brittany Means Tells the Story of Hell If We Don't Change Our Ways
Sat, 19 Oct 2024
121 - Moving from Doubt to Self-Belief — Kate Weinberg tells the story of There's Nothing Wrong With Her
Fri, 11 Oct 2024
120 - Memoir as an Exercise in Perspective — Cheryl Klein Tells the Story of Crybaby
Sat, 05 Oct 2024
119 - The Power of Lemon Cake — Marie Mutsuki Mockett tells the story of The Tree Doctor
Fri, 27 Sep 2024
118 - "Writing is a place I love to come back to" — Rebecca J. Sanford tells the story of The Disappeared
Sun, 11 Aug 2024
117 - I'm Choosing This — Elle Everhart tells the story of Hot Summer
Wed, 07 Aug 2024
116 - People Think That When You're Not Published, You're Not Working
Mon, 08 Jul 2024
115 - I Had to Do Whatever Was Necessary to Communicate — Elizabeth Hilborn tells the story of Restoring Eden
Wed, 03 Jul 2024
114 - I was having so much fun, I wasn't concerned about what would happen — Ananda Lima tells the story of CRAFT
Wed, 26 Jun 2024
113 - "When I was writing it, I was writing it TO her" — Barrie Miskin tells the story of Hellgate Bridge
Thu, 06 Jun 2024
112 - "A Place I Had Never Thought Possible" — Shze-Hui Tjoa talks about The Story Game
Sat, 25 May 2024
111 - Welcoming to Evolution or Change or Rupture — Lucas Mann tells the story of Attachments
Sun, 12 May 2024
110 - The Fight to Retain the Weird and the Feral — Michelle Tea tells the story of SLUTS
Tue, 07 May 2024
109 - What Will and Will Not Be Translated — Crystal Hana Kim tells the story of The Stone Home
Sun, 28 Apr 2024
108 - "It's Never Gonna Happen For Me" — Hannah Sward tells the story of Strip
Sun, 28 Apr 2024
107 - Nothing is Whole Until It's In Words — Stephanie Clare Smith tells the story of Everywhere the Undrowned
Sun, 21 Apr 2024
106 - There's Nothing I Regret — Estelle Erasmus tells the story of Writing That Gets Noticed
Wed, 17 Apr 2024
105 - "Write or Die" — Annell López tells the story of I'll Give You A Reason
Sun, 14 Apr 2024
104 - "What is the book that can only be yours?"— Clare Beams tells the story of The Garden
Thu, 11 Apr 2024
103 - What If Nobody Likes it? Nicole Haroutunian Tells the Story of Choose This Now
Sun, 07 Apr 2024
102 - "If You Don't Like An Edit, Just Don't Do It" — Sarah Rose Etter tells the story of RIPE
Sun, 31 Mar 2024
101 - Writing Stories 'Artist Statement'
Sun, 31 Mar 2024
100 - Season 2 Trailer!
Fri, 29 Mar 2024
99 - A Bold Fearlessness — Deborah Jackson Taffa Tells the Story of Whiskey Tender
Tue, 19 Mar 2024
98 - "Stay in the Game...Sooner or Later Something Will Crack" — Chin-Sun Lee Tells the Story of Upcountry
Sun, 17 Mar 2024
97 - Could My Story Be of Use? —Mary Beth O'Connor Tells the Story of Junkie to Judge
Mon, 04 Mar 2024
96 - "I Thought It Was Very Mainstream, But..." — Cassie Premo Steele Tells the Story of Beaver Girl
Mon, 04 Mar 2024
95 - Four Agents, Three Books, Two Publishers — Jacinda Townsend talks about Saint Monkey and Mother Country
Mon, 26 Feb 2024
94 - Fun, Ridiculous, and Thrumming with Truth - Rachel Yoder Tells the Story of Nightbitch
Sun, 18 Feb 2024
93 - Plumbers Don't Get Plumbers Block — Talking with Sue Shapiro about American Shield and Barbie
Tue, 13 Feb 2024
92 - There's Life in the Messiness - Yael Golstein-Love Tells the Story of The Possibilities
Wed, 07 Feb 2024
91 - It's a linear narrative... but a trail is a line — Andrea Lani tells the story of Uphill Both Ways: Hiking Toward Happiness on the Colorado Trail
Mon, 05 Feb 2024
90 - The whole idea of ‘SERIOUS’ writing is a lot of toxic trash — Alyssa Songsiridej tells the story of Little Rabbit
Sun, 28 Jan 2024
89 - You Have to Do This - Shannon Sanders tells the story of Company
Mon, 22 Jan 2024
88 - Letting Go of What's Not Under Your Control - Christina Consolino Tells the Story of The Weight We Carry
Wed, 10 Jan 2024
87 - Margo Steines Talks About Brutalities - "I Feel Aligned With The Tastes of Men In a Way That I Hope To Grow Out Of"
Tue, 09 Jan 2024
86 - It's Like a Circuit Break. You're Almost a New Person — Talking with Kelly McMasters about The Leaving Season — Episode 2
Tue, 02 Jan 2024
85 - You Have to Work Really Hard - Kai Harris Tells the Story of What the Fireflies Knew - Episode 1
Tue, 26 Dec 2023
84 - Season 1 - Trailer
Mon, 11 Dec 2023

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