The Write, Publish, and Shine Podcast
A podcast for emerging writers who want to publish and shine, from literary magazine editor, Rachel Thompson.
Recent Episodes
60 // Chill Subs’ Karina Kupp on Keeping Your Chill as You Submit
Welcome back to the Write, Publish, and Shine Podcast! How’s your September going so far? You may have noticed that this podcast has been on hiatus! It’s back now after a lengthier summer break. My September has been wildly busy, but I’m cultivating my chill as I...
59 // The Gettysburg Review with Mark Drew on Reflecting on the Time You’re In
The Lit Mag Love course is open for registration right now and this episode is slightly different in that you will get to peek behind the curtain of the Lit Mag Love course. Each session, we host editor Q&A calls where writers in the course community come live...
18 // Know You’re in a Conversation with Lilly Dancyger of Narratively
“You’re participating in a conversation, so you should know what has already been said so that you can push the conversation forward.” Lilly Dancyger In this episode, Rachel Thompson talks with Lilly Dancyger of Narratively, about the responsibility of editors to...
12 // Humber Literary Review’s Eufemia Fantetti—Write Rhymes with Fight
“Write rhymes with fight for a reason. We’re not all meant to be at the frontline...I’m way more comfortable sitting down and trying to figure out how to write back against something that I really dislike.” Eufemia Fantetti In this episode, Rachel Thompson talks to...
58 // Room Magazine’s Lue Palmer on Who Tells Your Story, Why, and to Whom?
Moving into the copy editing stage is actually my favourite, when you get to work with the authors directly. —Lue Palmer In this episode, Rachel Thompson talks to her colleague Lue Palmer about Room magazine. Lue Palmer is a writer of literary fiction,...
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 guests for the podcast, I’m finding so many people are burned out...
56 // Holding Each Other Up in Our Writing Community with Writer and Cartoonist Tamara Jong
This idea of supporting and holding each other up and putting each other ahead is something I learned early on. I do feel strongly that there's room for all of us to succeed.—Tamara Jong In this episode, I talk to Tamara Jong about celebrating writers’ publication...
32 // Atticus Review’s Former Editor Dorothy Bendel on Erasing Shame [Replay]
“We’re looking for work that has an artfulness to it. I understand how, with everything going on in the world today we want to scream sometimes and it comes through our writing. Sometimes that kind of writing can come off as finger-wagging.” —Dorothy Bendel Hi,...
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