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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#37 The Unpublishables—Reflect Your True Self with M. Paramita Lin and Doretta Lau
Writing may be the only pursuit that M. Paramita Lin hasn't accidentally stumbled into. In between hanging out with triad members and living in a succession of…
Write, Publish, and Shine#36 The Nasiona—Persuade with Julián Esteban Torres López
“Editing is a position of power that I take seriously. I’m a writer, author, creative in different ways and I experienced the negativity of being a victim of…
Write, Publish, and Shine#34 Make Relationships Right with Jessica Johns of Room Magazine
This episode focuses on working in close relationship with writers, and thinking through all your relationships as you navigate choices for your writing and in…
Write, Publish, and Shine#33 Evoke Place with Mary Leauna Christensen of The Swamp Literary Magazine
The Swamp publishes work that evokes a sense of place, which, for The Swamp, is broadly defined. “We look forward to reading work that we can inhabit, no…
Write, Publish, and Shine#31 Push Back on What’s Expected with Felicity Landa of Literary Mama
Literary Mama believes that all mothers have a story worth sharing and honors the many faces of motherhood by publishing work that celebrates the journey as…
Write, Publish, and Shine#30 Tear Down Structures with Anna Lena Phillips Bell & Rachel Taube of Ecotone
Founded at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2005, the award-winning magazine features writing and art that reimagine place, and our authors…
Write, Publish, and Shine#29 Question and Observe with Alana Saltz of Blanket Sea Arts & Literary Magazine
Blanket Sea features work created by people living with chronic illness, mental illness, and disability. “There aren’t many places where writers and artists…
Write, Publish, and Shine#28 Know Who Your Readers Are (And Are Not) with Caroline Knecht of Whiskey Island
"A rejection letter doesn't mean it's not working." —Caroline Knecht of Whiskey IslandFounded in 1977, Whiskey Island is a nonprofit literary journal published…
Write, Publish, and Shine#27 Follow Your Lights with Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis and Gerald Maa of the Asian American Literary Review
"Our impulse is to trust writers and follow their lights. In cases where we’re editing and working closely with them, it’s to help them get to that place that…
Write, Publish, and Shine#26 Have Heart and Humility with Jasmine Gui of LooseLeaf Magazine
"I think intersectional community asks us to be open and mindful of difference. It asks us to have a posture of listening that requires a lot of effort, it…
Write, Publish, and Shine#25 Be Generous & Wise with Jónína Kirton of Turtle Island Responds
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Write, Publish, and Shine#24 Share Intimacy with Doyali Islam of Arc Poetry Magazine
In this episode of Lit Mag Love: A podcast for creative writers who want to publish, host Rachel Thompson interviews Doyali Islam from Arc magazine.Their…
Write, Publish, and Shine#23 Learn from Others with Alexandria Petrassi of So to Speak Journal
In this episode of the Lit Mag Love Podcast, host Rachel Thompson talks with Alexandria Petrassi from So to Speak journal.Their discussion covers how the…
Write, Publish, and Shine#22 Invite Readers In with Sakina Fakhri and Diana McClure of Azure magazine
In this episode of the Lit Mag Love Podcast, host Rachel Thompson talks with Sakina Fakhri and Diana McClure, founders of Azure magazine.Azure accepts literary…
Write, Publish, and Shine#21 Team Up with Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice and Marianne Chan of Split Lip
We talk about how their collaboration works and extends to the writers who submit to the journal. We cover jealousy in art and how the poems and stories they…
Write, Publish, and Shine#19 Take Control of Your Narrative with Robin Richardson of Minola Review
In this episode, Rachel Thompson talks with Robin Richardson, founder of the Minola Review. She discusses how she overcame early critiques of her writing by…
Write, Publish, and Shine#17 Delight in Language with Maya Marshall of [PANK]
In this episode, Rachel talks with Maya Marshall, a self-described demanding and productive writer and editor with [PANK] magazine—yes, the magazine founded by…
Write, Publish, and Shine#16 Take Notice with Donna Talarico of Hippocampus
“I’ve just become better at noticing those little mechanical things,” says the guest for this episode, Donna Talarico, the founder and publisher of Hippocampus…
Write, Publish, and Shine#13 Room Magazine Contests—Lift Up Women's Stories with Sierra Skye Gemma
advice for writers of creative nonfiction (CNF) and for writers who are trying to decide if a piece is suitable to enter contests.More About Sierra Skye…
Write, Publish, and Shine#10 PRISM—Stick With Writers with Shazia Hafiz Ramji
As always this episode truly takes you behind the scenes of a literary journal—in this case, it’s a University-based journal in the centre of controversy…
Write, Publish, and Shine#09 Joyland Vancouver—Turn Your Writing Outward with Carleigh Baker
Rachel interviews Carleigh Baker, an editor with Joyland, who talks about the difference between her first and future books, “You can only gaze at your navel…
Write, Publish, and Shine#07 Let Love Lead You with Derek Askey of The Sun Magazine
The Sun is an independent, ad-free magazine that for more than forty years has used words and photographs to evoke the splendour and heartache of being human…
Write, Publish, and Shine#06 Invest in Relationships with Pamela Mulloy of The New Quarterly
The New Quarterly—TNQ, for short—is a Canadian literary journal known for wit, warmth, and literary innovation. Our style is celebratory, and we’re well known…
Write, Publish, and Shine#05 Listen to the Writing with Chelene Knight of Room
Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary journal, and has published fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and book reviews for forty years…
Write, Publish, and Shine#04 How Writing is Like Running and Cycling with Andrea Bennett of Maisonneuve
About MaisonneuveMaisonneuve literally means "new house" and suggests the spirit of collective enterprise the magazine gathers under one roof. The magazine…
Write, Publish, and Shine#03 Make Something Strange with Thea Prieto of The Gravity of the Thing
An online independent literary magazine dedicated to the publication of new and innovative writing, The Gravity of theThing has been named one of thirty best…
Write, Publish, and Shine#02 Expose Something Scary with John Haggerty from The Forge Lit Mag
The Forge Literary Magazine was founded by volunteers from the Fiction Forge, an international online writers’ forum, which counts amongst its members and…