Write, Publish, and Shine

By Rachel Thompson

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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 practice, craft-focused episodes on tension, revision, voice, and structure, and personal reflections on the realities of writing and creating with care.


Every episode offers one or two practical moves you can try. I hope when you listen, you’re reminded that you're not alone in the work of being a luminous writer, i.e. a writer who's attentive to seasons, to the world, and to developing both craft and resilience.


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Episode Date
#122 Your Draft Hasn't Changed, You Have
Jul 16, 2026
#121 Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos of Raw Lit Mag on “Fit” for Editors
Jun 30, 2026
#120 The Garden Draft: A Guided Writing Practice for Unfinished Work
Jun 17, 2026
#119 Short Forms for Summer
Jun 02, 2026
#118 Chemistry Reading for Writers with Chimedum Ohaegbu
May 12, 2026
#117 The Long Game of Telling the Truth with Author Tamara Jong
Apr 28, 2026
#116 How to Build a Soft-Steadfast Submission Practice
Apr 14, 2026
#115 Radical Softness and Rage with author Rayya Liebich
Mar 31, 2026
#114 Thank You, Rest!
Mar 17, 2026
Returning soon: The Write, Publish, and Shine Podcast
Mar 03, 2026
#113 Revising With Love
Oct 23, 2024
#112 How to Get Published: Stay Organized
Oct 13, 2024
#111 How to Get Published: Don’t Rush
Oct 10, 2024
#110 How to Get Published: Handle Rejections However You Want
Oct 09, 2024
#109 How to Get Published: Seek (The Right Kind of) Feedback
Oct 08, 2024
#108 How to Get Published: Immerse Yourself in Your Genre
Oct 07, 2024
#107 How to Get Published: Write What Haunts You
Oct 06, 2024
#106 How to Get Published: Craft Compelling Everything
Oct 02, 2024
#105 How to Get Published: Craft a Compelling Opening
Sep 30, 2024
#104 How to Get Published: Build Relationships with Lit Mags
Sep 27, 2024
#103 How to Get Published: Find Your Spark in Lit Mag Submission Calls
Sep 25, 2024
#102 MFAs vs Online Courses
Sep 18, 2024
#101 Crafting Cover Letters that Work
Sep 11, 2024
#100 Episode 100!
Jun 13, 2024
#88 Writerly Book Club: All About “On Connection” by Kae Tempest [Replay]
Jun 05, 2024
#99 Eleven Essential Writing Tips From Lit Mag Editors After 99 episodes
May 30, 2024
#86 Letting Your Work Fall Apart with Artist Amy Friend [Replay]
May 22, 2024
#98 Summer Reading for Writers
May 16, 2024
#85 Expanding on Your Vision with ViNa Nguyễn [Replay]
May 08, 2024
#62 Seventeen “Craft” Books & Lessons Learned in Our Writerly Book Club [Replay]
May 02, 2024
#89 Start With a Meaningful Moment—Flash Memoir with Writer Lina Lau [Replay]
Apr 24, 2024
#97 Resist Expectations with Author Cicely Belle Blain
Apr 03, 2024
#96 Set L. Shuter on Using Humour and Being Kind to Herself as a Chronically Ill Writer
Mar 20, 2024
#95 Crystal Randall Barnett on Writing, Disability & Intuition
Mar 13, 2024
#94 Andrea Martineau: Believe Writers About Limitations and Disabilities
Mar 07, 2024
#93 Amy Vickers, An Autistic Writer on Beautiful Flaws
Feb 28, 2024
#92 Olwen Wilson on Following Joy While Writing with a Chronic Condition
Feb 21, 2024
#91 Shantell Powell on Visceral Writing and Writing with ADHD
Feb 14, 2024
#79 [Replay] Three Lessons on Writing, Revising, and Publishing Your Writing
Feb 14, 2024
#90 Accessibility for Writers with Disabilities and Limitations
Jan 31, 2024
#49 [Replay] Augur Magazine co-Editor-in-Chief Terese Mason Pierre—Nothing Has to Happen
Jan 24, 2024
#89 Start With a Meaningful Moment—Flash Memoir with Writer Lina Lau
Jan 17, 2024
#78 [Replay] Writing About Social Issues with Author Kavita Das
Jan 10, 2024
#59 [Replay] The Gettysburg Review with Mark Drew on Reflecting on the Time You're In
Dec 20, 2023
#67 [Replay] Empathy for You and Your Reader with Lyric Writer, Christina Brobby
Dec 13, 2023
#88 Writerly Book Club: All About “On Connection” by Kae Tempest
Dec 06, 2023
#87 Grief is a Ghost with Poet and Artist Sarah Esmi (Ghosts #8)
Nov 29, 2023
#86 Letting Your Work Fall Apart with Artist Amy Friend (Ghosts #7)
Nov 22, 2023
#85 Expanding on Your Vision with ViNa Nguyễn (Ghosts #6)
Nov 15, 2023
#84 Reviews Editor Micah Killjoy on learning craft from books (Ghosts #5)
Nov 08, 2023
#63 [Replay] Ghosts and Haunting with Room Editor Ellen Chang-Richardson
Nov 01, 2023
#83 Our Ghostly Interactions Creating a Lit Mag with Publisher Nara Monteiro
Oct 25, 2023
#82 Talking to Spirits and Handling Success with Aviaq Johnston (Ghosts #3)
Oct 18, 2023
#81 Make It Personal with Room Writers Reyzl Grace & Annette C. Boehm (Ghosts #2)
Oct 11, 2023
#80 Ghosts (#1)
Oct 04, 2023
#61 Staying True to You as You Publish with Laurel Parry, Lyndall Cain, and Tamara Jong [Replay]
Sep 27, 2023
#79 Three lessons on writing, revising, and publishing your writing
Sep 20, 2023
#78 Writing About Social Issues with Author Kavita Das
Sep 14, 2023
Five Things Writers Can Stop Doing
Jun 08, 2023
#77 Come From a Place of Passion and Honesty in Your Writing Life
May 30, 2023
#76 Make Your Own Map with Wendy Atwell
May 24, 2023
#75 Literary Agency with Room Editor and Multi-Hyphenate Geffen Semach
May 09, 2023
#74 Anchoring into Your Why with Memoirist Jessica Waite
May 03, 2023
#73 Agency: Finding an Agent with Lacey Yong
Apr 26, 2023
#72 Book Club: Voice First by Sonya Huber
Apr 18, 2023
Cool Loneliness [Replay]
Apr 11, 2023
#71 Touch, Sight, and the Sixth Sense in Your Writing
Apr 04, 2023
#70 Special Episode: State of the Community
Mar 28, 2023
#69 Sound, Smell, and Taste in Your Writing
Mar 21, 2023
#68 Craft Book Club Conversation—The Poet's Companion by Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux
Mar 14, 2023
Wrap-Up: Empathy for Writers
Mar 07, 2023
#67 Empathy for You and Your Reader with Lyric Writer, Christina Brobby
Feb 28, 2023
#66 Empathy for Objects in Your Writing with Lyndall Cain
Feb 21, 2023
#65 Empathy & POV with Naomi J. Williams
Feb 14, 2023
#64 Using the Six Senses in Your Writing—a Showcase PLUS Prompts for Each Sense
Feb 07, 2023
#63 Ghosts and Haunting with Room Editor Ellen Chang-Richardson
Dec 14, 2022
#62 Seventeen “Craft” Books & Lessons Learned in Our Writerly Book Club
Nov 23, 2022
#61 Staying True to You as You Publish with Laurel Parry, Lyndall Cain, and Tamara Jong
Oct 19, 2022
#60 Chill Subs' Karina Kupp on Keeping Your Chill as You Submit
Sep 28, 2022
#59 The Gettysburg Review with Mark Drew on Reflecting on the Time You're In
Apr 21, 2022
Five Steps to Publishing Your Writing in Literary Journals #LitMagLove
Apr 07, 2022
#18 [Replay] Know You're in a Conversation with Lilly Dancyger of Narratively
Mar 23, 2022
#12 Humber Literary Review’s Eufemia Fantetti —Write Rhymes with Fight [Replay]
Mar 10, 2022
#58 Room Magazine’s Lue Palmer on Who Tells Your Story, Why, and to Whom?
Feb 23, 2022
#57 On Writing and “Cool Loneliness”
Feb 09, 2022
#56 Holding Each Other Up in Our Writing Community with Writer and Cartoonist Tamara Jong
Jan 26, 2022
#32 Atticus Review's Former Editor Dorothy Bendel on Erasing Shame [Replay]
Nov 24, 2021
#15 The Threepenny Review’s Wendy Lesser on Picking Pleasure Over Ambition [Replay]
Nov 09, 2021
#55 Handling Rejection of Your Writing and Finding Strength in Community
Oct 26, 2021
#54 Four Writers on Finding Their “Lanes” and Publishing in Literary Magazines
Oct 12, 2021
#53 Writing About Grief with Meli Walker of the Writing Grief Podcast
Sep 28, 2021
#52 How to Reach Out to the World with Your Writing
Sep 15, 2021
#01 [Replay] EVENT's Shashi Bhat, No Subject is Off Limits
Jul 01, 2021
#35 Massachusetts Review Editor Emily Wojcik on Trusting Your Writing
Jun 17, 2021
#20 Plenitude’s Rebecca Salazar on Writing with Flash AND Fire
Jun 03, 2021
#51 The /tƐmz/ Review Amy Mitchell and Aaron Schneider on Good Ugliness
May 20, 2021
#50 Answers to Listener Questions About Publishing in Lit Mags for this 50th Episode!
May 06, 2021
#14 Amanda Leduc from the Festival of Literary Diversity—Keep Going
Apr 22, 2021
#49 Augur co-Editor-in-Chief Terese Pierre—Nothing Has to Happen
Apr 08, 2021
#48 CRAFT Editor-in-Chief Katelyn Keating—Leave Us Heartbroken, Amazed, or Excited
Mar 25, 2021
#08 Entropy Executive Editor Janice Lee on Writing When Language Fails You
Mar 04, 2021
#47 Black Warrior Review Editor Josh Brandon on Taking Necessary Breaks
Feb 15, 2021
#46 Food Writing with Qwerty Editors Christine Wu and McKenna James Boeckner
Feb 11, 2021
#45 Weird Writing with Okay Donkey Editors Téa Franco, Genevieve Kersten, and Elizabeth Upshur
Jan 28, 2021
#11 The Fiddlehead—Understand Who You Are with Alicia Elliott [Replay]
Jan 14, 2021
#44 Genius and Estrangement with Ploi Pirapokin of Newfound #LitMagLove
Dec 17, 2020
#43 What if my story isn't special?
Dec 03, 2020
#42 Rowan McCandless on How to Create a Writing Community
Nov 19, 2020
#41 Five Steps to Publishing Your Writing in Literary Journals #LitMagLove
Nov 05, 2020
Write, Publish, and Shine! (Announcement)
Oct 22, 2020
#39 Apple Valley Review—Do the Work You Want to Do with Leah Browning
Nov 20, 2019
#38 Mom Egg Review—Restore the Balance of Narratives with Marjorie Tesser
Nov 12, 2019
#37 The Unpublishables—Reflect Your True Self with M. Paramita Lin and Doretta Lau
Oct 23, 2019
#36 The Nasiona—Persuade with Julián Esteban Torres López
Oct 12, 2019
#34 Make Relationships Right with Jessica Johns of Room Magazine
Sep 01, 2019
#33 Evoke Place with Mary Leauna Christensen of The Swamp Literary Magazine
Aug 18, 2019
#31 Push Back on What’s Expected with Felicity Landa of Literary Mama
Jul 14, 2019
#30 Tear Down Structures with Anna Lena Phillips Bell & Rachel Taube of Ecotone
Jun 30, 2019
#29 Question and Observe with Alana Saltz of Blanket Sea Arts & Literary Magazine
Jun 16, 2019
#28 Know Who Your Readers Are (And Are Not) with Caroline Knecht of Whiskey Island
Jun 02, 2019
#27 Follow Your Lights with Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis and Gerald Maa of the Asian American Literary Review
May 19, 2019
#26 Have Heart and Humility with Jasmine Gui of LooseLeaf Magazine
May 05, 2019
#25 Be Generous & Wise with Jónína Kirton of Turtle Island Responds
Nov 15, 2018
#24 Share Intimacy with Doyali Islam of Arc Poetry Magazine
Nov 08, 2018
#23 Learn from Others with Alexandria Petrassi of So to Speak Journal
Oct 31, 2018
#22 Invite Readers In with Sakina Fakhri and Diana McClure of Azure magazine
Oct 24, 2018
#21 Team Up with Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice and Marianne Chan of Split Lip
Oct 17, 2018
#19 Take Control of Your Narrative with Robin Richardson of Minola Review
Sep 26, 2018
#17 Delight in Language with Maya Marshall of [PANK]
Sep 12, 2018
#16 Take Notice with Donna Talarico of Hippocampus
May 09, 2018
#13 Room Magazine Contests—Lift Up Women's Stories with Sierra Skye Gemma
Apr 19, 2018
#10 PRISM—Stick With Writers with Shazia Hafiz Ramji
Mar 21, 2018
#09 Joyland Vancouver—Turn Your Writing Outward with Carleigh Baker
Mar 14, 2018
#07 Let Love Lead You with Derek Askey of The Sun Magazine
Nov 17, 2017
#06 Invest in Relationships with Pamela Mulloy of The New Quarterly
Oct 31, 2017
#05 Listen to the Writing with Chelene Knight of Room
Oct 14, 2017
#04 How Writing is Like Running and Cycling with Andrea Bennett of Maisonneuve
Oct 02, 2017
#03 Make Something Strange with Thea Prieto of The Gravity of the Thing
Sep 20, 2017
#02 Expose Something Scary with John Haggerty from The Forge Lit Mag
Sep 19, 2017