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The Write, Publish, and Shine Podcast

Author and literary magazine editor, Rachel Thompson, helps you write, publish, and shine. Learn how to write and share your brilliant writing with the world.

Episodes delve into how to polish and prepare your writing for publication, and the journey from emerging writer to published author.

 

Latest Episode:

61 // Staying True to You as You Publish [Replay]

61 // Staying True to You as You Publish [Replay]

Replay note: 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 True to Yourself. Even if...

Past Episodes

76 // Make Your Own Map with Memoirist Wendy Atwell

76 // Make Your Own Map with Memoirist 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 process than our previous member guest...

73 // Agency and Finding an Agent with Lacey Yong

73 // Agency and 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 with intentionality. In this episode...

72 // Book Club: Voice First by Sonya Huber

72 // Book Club: Voice First by Sonya Huber

In this episode it is our Book Club Conversation. We talk about Voice First: A Writer’s Manifesto by Sonya Huber. It is my pleasure to introduce you to three lovely members of our Writerly Love...

Minisode: Cool Loneliness [Replay]

Minisode: Cool 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 is coming up. Be sure to check out...

Wrap-Up: Empathy for Writers

Wrap-Up: Empathy for Writers

Welcome to a more interstitial episode of the Write, Publish, and Shine Podcast, a bonus episode, if you will, to wrap up the series of episodes we just had on empathy for writers. In a moment I’ll...

65 // Empathy & POV with Naomi J. Williams

65 // Empathy & POV with Naomi J. Williams

This episode is the first in a mini-series of three episodes on the theme of empathy for writers. In my membership community for writers, called Writerly Love, we have monthly themes that we look at...

61 // Staying True to You as You Publish [Replay]

61 // Staying True to You as You Publish

This is a special episode of the Write, Publish, and Shine Podcast where you will hear from three writers on their publishing experiences and the journey they took to stay true to themselves as they...

57 // On Writing and “Cool Loneliness”

57 // On Writing and “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.”—Rachel Thompson Dear listeners! As I’m getting back into the swing of setting up interviews with...

43 // What if My Story Isn’t Special?

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! But it was so liberating. This episode...

Announcement: Write, Publish, and Shine!

Announcement: Write, Publish, and Shine!

Big announcement! And before we get to it, I want to thank you for continuing to listen in this almost year since I released new podcast episodes. I feel you out there; I see the numbers, too, so I...

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