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Write, Publish, and Shine
Hello and welcome, luminous writers.
I'm Rachel Thompson. I'm an author, a literary magazine editor, and an online writing instructor. And this is Write, Publish, and Shine, a podcast for emerging writers who want to publish and shine.
In this season of Write, Publish, and Shine, we'll talk about how to keep making art when the world needs our resistance, when your energy is stretched and when you still feel called to the page.
You'll hear interviews with writers and editors about sustaining a…
Episodes
Write, Publish, and Shine#82 Talking to Spirits and Handling Success with Aviaq Johnston (Ghosts #3)
Welcome to the third in my series of special episodes of Write, Publish, and Shine as I take you on a deep dive into the creation of Room magazine issue 46.3…
Write, Publish, and Shine#81 Make It Personal with Room Writers Reyzl Grace & Annette C. Boehm (Ghosts #2)
Welcome to the second Ghost-themed special episodes of Write, Publish, and Shine as I take you on a deep dive into the creation of Room magazine issue 46.3…
Write, Publish, and Shine#80 Ghosts (#1)
Welcome to the first in a series of special episodes of Write, Publish, and Shine as I take you on a deep dive into the creation of Room magazine issue 46.3…
Write, Publish, and Shine#61 Staying True to You as You Publish with Laurel Parry, Lyndall Cain, and Tamara Jong [Replay]
It felt like the right time—in this season when people join writing programs and restart sending out submissions to lit mags—to replay this episode on Staying…
Write, Publish, and Shine#79 Three lessons on writing, revising, and publishing your writing
We talk all about the Write, Publish, Shine Intensive, which brings together my three courses, Write and Light, a course to get writers generating new, more…
Write, Publish, and Shine#78 Writing About Social Issues with Author Kavita Das
Kavita Das really takes us on an intentional journey with her deep knowledge of social justice work and challenges us to unpack our motivations for writing…
Write, Publish, and ShineFive Things Writers Can Stop Doing
If you’re just tuning into my podcast, welcome. I’m on a break, but I will be back in late August. Pick up a copy of our book club read, Craft and Conscience…
Write, Publish, and Shine#77 Come From a Place of Passion and Honesty in Your Writing Life
Megan Beadle ran her own literary agency for several years. So, if you’ve been listening to the last run of episodes, that word, agent, rings a bell. Ding…
Write, Publish, and Shine#76 Make Your Own Map with Wendy Atwell
This is the continuation of our agency theme on the podcast...I interview another luminous Writerly Love community member, Wendy Atwell, who is earlier in the…
Write, Publish, and Shine#75 Literary Agency with Room Editor and Multi-Hyphenate Geffen Semach
As this is the third episode in the mini-series of episodes on the theme of agency and finding agency with your writing, we spend the most time talking about…
Write, Publish, and Shine#74 Anchoring into Your Why with Memoirist Jessica Waite
The second in our series exploring the theme of agency for writers, our double-entendre theme of both intentionality and finding an agent. Jessica Waite, the…
Write, Publish, and Shine#73 Agency: Finding an Agent with Lacey Yong
The first in our series on the theme of agency—a term both literal (i.e. about finding an agent) and abstract, in that we talk about pursuing your writing life…
Write, Publish, and Shine#72 Book Club: Voice First by Sonya Huber
In this episode it is our Book Club Conversation and we talk about Voice First: A Writer’s Manifesto by Sonya Huber, sharing who we think the book is for, how…
Write, Publish, and ShineCool Loneliness [Replay]
Reflections on cool loneliness: When I’m not writing enough, I lose track of what I believe, who I am, and who I truly want to be. Also, Book Club Conversation…
Write, Publish, and Shine#71 Touch, Sight, and the Sixth Sense in Your Writing
In this episode, it’s part two of our most recent six senses showcase.The writers you will hear all participated in the workshop series I offered last year on…
Write, Publish, and Shine#70 Special Episode: State of the Community
In this episode, it’s a little peak behind the podcast. I have some real hashtag transparency moments around what I’m working on and what I have heard from…
Write, Publish, and Shine#69 Sound, Smell, and Taste in Your Writing
In this episode, we come to our senses again. We had another LIVE showcase of writers in the Writerly Love community. The writers you will hear all…
Write, Publish, and Shine#68 Craft Book Club Conversation—The Poet's Companion by Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux
In this episode it is my pleasure to introduce you to two members of our Writerly Love Community and bring you in to our book club conversation. We’ve been…
Write, Publish, and ShineWrap-Up: Empathy for Writers
Wrap-Up: Empathy for Writers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Write, Publish, and Shine#67 Empathy for You and Your Reader with Lyric Writer, Christina Brobby
If you’re listening right when this episode comes out, it's not too late to join Christina Brobby in the workshop we're offering today. You can learn more and…
Write, Publish, and Shine#66 Empathy for Objects in Your Writing with Lyndall Cain
This episode is the second in our mini-series of three episodes on the theme of empathy for writers and a really interesting and unique take on empathy, as my…
Write, Publish, and Shine#65 Empathy & POV with Naomi J. Williams
Naomi J. Williams is the author of Landfalls (FSG 2015), long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the National Book Critics Circle’s John…
Write, Publish, and Shine#64 Using the Six Senses in Your Writing—a Showcase PLUS Prompts for Each Sense
In this episode, Rachel talks with six writers from her Writerly Love membership community about writing through the senses.In this showcase, you’ll hear each…
Write, Publish, and Shine#63 Ghosts and Haunting with Room Editor Ellen Chang-Richardson
Ellen Chang-Richardson and Rachel Thompson on what they are looking for in submissions to the upcoming issue of Room’s Ghosts issue. Hosted on Acast. See…
Write, Publish, and Shine#62 Seventeen “Craft” Books & Lessons Learned in Our Writerly Book Club
Listen if you’ve been looking for books to support your writing practice, or maybe a list of books to give another writer in your life, or if you’ve been…
Write, Publish, and Shine#61 Staying True to You as You Publish with Laurel Parry, Lyndall Cain, and Tamara Jong
Maybe you have found yourself feeling compromised by the publication process. Maybe even by just anticipating the publication process you have bent your…
Write, Publish, and Shine#60 Chill Subs' Karina Kupp on Keeping Your Chill as You Submit
Chill Subs is making the submissions process much easier and less stressful. That’s the mission statement on this database of places to send your writing…
Write, Publish, and Shine#59 The Gettysburg Review with Mark Drew on Reflecting on the Time You're In
You’ll hear Mark Drew of the Gettysburg Review in this episode answering questions from the live cohort who came to our call attended by writers in the Lit Mag…
Write, Publish, and ShineFive Steps to Publishing Your Writing in Literary Journals #LitMagLove
Here are five things editors want in your writing submissions to journals. This is all based on my experience reading submissions, publishing work in a lit…
Write, Publish, and Shine#18 [Replay] Know You're in a Conversation with Lilly Dancyger of Narratively
In this episode, Rachel Thompson talks with Lilly Dancyger of Narratively, about the responsibility of editors to elevate voices left out the conversation, why…
Write, Publish, and Shine#12 Humber Literary Review’s Eufemia Fantetti —Write Rhymes with Fight [Replay]
“Write rhymes with fight for a reason. We’re not all meant to be at the front line. I’m way more comfortable sitting down and trying to figure out how to write…
Write, Publish, and Shine#58 Room Magazine’s Lue Palmer on Who Tells Your Story, Why, and to Whom?
Listen to hear about Lue’s Afrofuturistic writing and for insight into how things work at Room magazine where we are both collective members. Hosted on Acast…
Write, Publish, and Shine#57 On Writing and “Cool Loneliness”
As in the midst of this vaccinated pandemic life, I have had many awkward social moments and truly stressful interactions where I don't feel connected to…
Write, Publish, and Shine#56 Holding Each Other Up in Our Writing Community with Writer and Cartoonist Tamara Jong
In this episode, I talk to Tamara Jong about celebrating writers’ publication wins.Tamara Jong (she/her) is a Montreal-born mixed-race writer/cartoonist of…
Write, Publish, and Shine#32 Atticus Review's Former Editor Dorothy Bendel on Erasing Shame [Replay]
I'm reissuing this interview as a companion to a piece that was just posted on my website, written by Lucy Wilde, a writer in my course and membership…
Write, Publish, and Shine#15 The Threepenny Review’s Wendy Lesser on Picking Pleasure Over Ambition [Replay]
“I think there is too much pushing forward in a way that is not motivated by pleasure, that is motivated by shaped ambition or greed or some sense that people…
Write, Publish, and Shine#55 Handling Rejection of Your Writing and Finding Strength in Community
You probably already know, or have heard, that rejection is a *big* part of writing to be read and submitting your work to lit mags. You probably also wish you…
Write, Publish, and Shine#54 Four Writers on Finding Their “Lanes” and Publishing in Literary Magazines
Ellen Chang-Richardson is a poet, writer and editor of Taiwanese and Cambodian Chinese (or Chinese Cambodian) descent, whose writing has appeared in The…
Write, Publish, and Shine#53 Writing About Grief with Meli Walker of the Writing Grief Podcast
"Really, the thing that keeps me writing is knowing that at some point I will have some kind of shared connection with readers." —Meli WalkerIn this episode…
Write, Publish, and Shine#52 How to Reach Out to the World with Your Writing
Host Rachel Thompson explores going from the intimate to the broad, the personal to the political, and how to reach out to the world with your writing with the…
Write, Publish, and Shine#01 [Replay] EVENT's Shashi Bhat, No Subject is Off Limits
“I think anything that’s written about well can be interesting.”—Shashi Bhat, *EVENT*Host Rachel Thompson speaks with EVENT Editor, Shashi Bhat about how no…
Write, Publish, and Shine#35 Massachusetts Review Editor Emily Wojcik on Trusting Your Writing
“Trust that the reader came with you, trust that you did a good job and that you brought us there.” —Emily WojcikHost Rachel Thompson speaks with Emily Wojcik…
Write, Publish, and Shine#20 Plenitude’s Rebecca Salazar on Writing with Flash AND Fire
"Poems, no matter what they are about or how they approach the world, have to need to happen." —Rebecca Salazar of *Plenitude*.Host Rachel Thompson speaks with…
Write, Publish, and Shine#51 The /tƐmz/ Review Amy Mitchell and Aaron Schneider on Good Ugliness
“We both really like having, essentially, the guts to look at not just issues in their full complexity, but also not to try to gloss over the ugliness.” —Amy…
Write, Publish, and Shine#50 Answers to Listener Questions About Publishing in Lit Mags for this 50th Episode!
50th Episode!This special episode is all about you, the listeners. Rachel answers your questions, mostly about submitting and publishing in lit mags. Questions…
Write, Publish, and Shine#14 Amanda Leduc from the Festival of Literary Diversity—Keep Going
“Don’t give up and recognize that the writing is a thing in and of itself as well. You need to be able to love doing the writing and just love being in this…
Write, Publish, and Shine#49 Augur co-Editor-in-Chief Terese Pierre—Nothing Has to Happen
“Nothing has to happen in the story. There doesn't need to be explosions or big shocking twists. It's just enough to have well-developed characters and a…
Write, Publish, and Shine#48 CRAFT Editor-in-Chief Katelyn Keating—Leave Us Heartbroken, Amazed, or Excited
“We’re excited if the forms that come in are not an arc. We’re not just looking for one direction of the piece, it doesn’t have to use linear time or linear…
Write, Publish, and Shine#08 Entropy Executive Editor Janice Lee on Writing When Language Fails You
“I’m interested in asking different questions and in the vulnerability of language that allows for an honest attempt at expression and a way to investigate…
Write, Publish, and Shine#47 Black Warrior Review Editor Josh Brandon on Taking Necessary Breaks
“You’re kinda playing with fire when you delve into trauma writing. It’s possible to push yourself past your own limits and touch on things that are more…
Write, Publish, and Shine#46 Food Writing with Qwerty Editors Christine Wu and McKenna James Boeckner
Host Rachel Thompson speaks with editors from Qwerty magazine, based at the University of New Brunswick, about sumptuous food writing and, of course…
Write, Publish, and Shine#45 Weird Writing with Okay Donkey Editors Téa Franco, Genevieve Kersten, and Elizabeth Upshur
Host Rachel Thompson speaks with three editors from the online journal Okay Donkey about weird poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Téa Franco, Genevieve…
Write, Publish, and Shine#11 The Fiddlehead—Understand Who You Are with Alicia Elliott [Replay]
“I think that when a writer doesn’t have a good understanding of who they are and what their beliefs are...they are going to necessarily lack the conviction in…
Write, Publish, and Shine#44 Genius and Estrangement with Ploi Pirapokin of Newfound #LitMagLove
In this episode, Ploi Pirapokin and Rachel Thompson start deep, jumping right into discussing estrangement for writers. Ploi shares about writing through…
Write, Publish, and Shine#43 What if my story isn't special?
The biggest epiphany I had about my writing in the last year is that there is nothing special about my story. This sounds like a terrible epiphany, I realize!…
Write, Publish, and Shine#42 Rowan McCandless on How to Create a Writing Community
Emerging author, Rowan McCandless shares how she built her writing community. She and Rachel discuss the four different forms of writing groups she engages…
Write, Publish, and Shine#41 Five Steps to Publishing Your Writing in Literary Journals #LitMagLove
`In this first solo episode after the Write, Publish, and Shine podcast reboot, I talk about the five things editors want in your writing submissions to…
Write, Publish, and ShineWrite, Publish, and Shine! (Announcement)
I have an announcement about this podcast, but before we get to it, I want to thank you for continuing to listen in this almost year since I released new…
Write, Publish, and Shine#39 Apple Valley Review—Do the Work You Want to Do with Leah Browning
The Apple Valley Review is a semiannual online literary journal founded in 2005 by Leah Browning. Published in the spring and fall, each issue features a…
Write, Publish, and Shine#38 Mom Egg Review—Restore the Balance of Narratives with Marjorie Tesser
Mom Egg Review is a literary journal about motherhood. It promotes and celebrates the creative force of mother writers and artists. Mom Egg Review is about…