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
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 have as to what they should want. Zooming over everything else. And to me that is not literature. That is...
55 // Handling Rejection of Your Writing and Finding Strength in Community
Had I not had a community of writers around me to support me, I would not have been successful, because there are people who were pushing me. —Angela Wright You probably already know, or have heard, that rejection is a *big* part of writing to be read and...
54 // Four Writers on Finding Their “Lanes” and Publishing in Literary Magazines
Four actively publishing writers on writing what you're meant to be writing and publishing in your own time and your own way. Ellen Chang-Richardson is a poet, writer and editor of Taiwanese and Cambodian Chinese (or Chinese Cambodian) descent, whose writing has...
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 Walker In this episode, I talk to Meli Walker about writing about grief and finding connection. We talk about our new...
52 // How to Reach Out to the World with Your Writing
“What would happen if you consider the specific, personal details you're crafting in writing as a part of a whole pattern in the world?” I explore going from the intimate to the broad, the personal to the political, and how to reach out to the world with your...
1 // EVENT’s Shashi Bhat, No Subject is Off Limits [Replay]
“I think anything that’s written about well can be interesting.”—Shashi Bhat, EVENT This is a special replay episode—my very first podcast episode. I'm re-releasing this conversation with Shashi Bhat who was when we spoke and is still now Editor at EVENT magazine....
35 // Massachusetts Review Editor Emily Wojcik on Trusting Your Writing [Replay]
“Trust that the reader came with you, trust that you did a good job and that you brought us there.” —Emily Wojcik This episode is a replay of a conversation I had in 2019 with Emily Wojcik, the managing editor of the Massachusetts Review. This was during the year...
20 // Plenitude’s Rebecca Salazar on Writing with Flash AND Fire [Replay]
“Poems, no matter what they are about or how they approach the world, have to need to happen.” —Rebecca Salazar, Plenitude This is a replay of a conversation I had with Rebecca Salazar of Plenitude back in 2018. One of the reasons I'm returning to this conversation...
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