Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers

By Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

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Meg Gill
 Jan 11, 2021
This podcast is such a treat, offering compassion and inspiration in every episode. Thank you!

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Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers kicked off in September 2018 and airs every week. We are a podcast for writers craving a unique blend of inspiration and real talk about the ups and downs of the writing life. Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner, two friends and colleagues who bring a community-minded sensibility to the writing journey, each theme-focused episode of Write-minded features an interview with a writer, author, or publishing industry professional. Write-minded features a segment called Substackin’ at the end of each episode to talk about topics, ideas, trends, and writerly inspirations that Brooke and Grant are tracking in their weekly Substacks (Writerly Things and Intimations), and sometimes the Substacks of people they admire, too. Brooke and Grant bring to this weekly podcast their deeply held belief that everyone is a writer, and everyone’s story matters.

Episode Date
Embracing Contradiction, featuring Carvell Wallace
Nov 18, 2024
The Art of Listening, featuring Elizabeth Rosner
Nov 11, 2024
Centering Marginalized Characters in Your Fiction, featuring Barbara Ridley
Nov 04, 2024
How Being Fascinated and Daunted Can Drive Your Writing, featuring Edwidge Danticat
Oct 28, 2024
Optimism and Pessimism in Book Publishing—Because It’s Always Both, featuring Michael Castleman
Oct 21, 2024
Writing as a Way to Champion People and Causes, featuring Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Oct 14, 2024
Don’t Let Your Comfort Zone Become Your Doom Zone, featuring Joshua Mohr
Oct 07, 2024
How to Be Compulsively Readable, featuring Anne Lamott
Sep 30, 2024
The Era of Banning Librarians, featuring Amanda Jones
Sep 23, 2024
The Rejection Episode, featuring Grant Faulkner and Brooke Warner
Sep 16, 2024
Unclassifiable and Uncontainable: In Celebration of Art That Can’t Be Pinned Down, featuring Brontez Purnell
Sep 09, 2024
Structure and Form, featuring Jane Alison
Sep 02, 2024
New Ways of Thinking About Memoir, featuring Maggie Smith and Shze-Hui Tjoa
Aug 26, 2024
Fiction Outliers, featuring Rainbow Rowell and Isabel Cañas
Aug 19, 2024
Self-Exposure and Writing the Story You Have to Write, featuring Javier Zamora and Susan Kiyo Ito
Aug 12, 2024
Wisdom from the Publishing Trenches, featuring Lisa Leshne and Kathleen Schmidt
Aug 05, 2024
Getting Reinspired after Failed or Abandoned Book Projects, featuring Paolo Bacigalupi
Jul 29, 2024
Being a Voice for Causes That Matter, featuring Naomi Klein
Jul 22, 2024
How Secrets Fuel Memoir Writing, featuring Margaret Juhae Lee
Jul 15, 2024
On the Awards We Receive and the Rewards We Make, featuring Jayne Anne Phillips
Jul 08, 2024
How Big Questions Inform Fiction, featuring Rachel Khong
Jul 01, 2024
Breaking New Ground in Memoir, featuring Shze-Hui Tjoa
Jun 24, 2024
The Big Novel, featuring Garth Risk Hallberg
Jun 17, 2024
Remembering and Forgetting: The Refugee Journey, featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen
Jun 10, 2024
Behind the Scenes of Selling Books, featuring Josh Cook
Jun 03, 2024
Be the Change You Want To See, featuring Dhonielle Clayton
May 27, 2024
The Raw Truth About Exposure, featuring Susan Kiyo Ito
May 20, 2024
Deep Memoir, featuring Jennifer Leigh Selig
May 13, 2024
Grief: The Hardest Emotion to Write, featuring Claire Jiménez
May 06, 2024
Creating New Forms—and Rearranging the Alphabet, featuring Elwin Cotman
Apr 29, 2024
The Art of Intimacy, featuring Stacey D’Erasmo
Apr 22, 2024
The State of the Book Review, featuring John McMurtrie
Apr 15, 2024
Social Responsibility in Fiction, featuring Naomi Kanakia
Apr 08, 2024
Getting Real About Book Publishing, featuring Kathleen Schmidt
Apr 01, 2024
The Big Familia of Writing Inspiration, featuring Tomas Moniz
Mar 25, 2024
Other People’s Words, featuring Lissa Soep
Mar 18, 2024
Light-hearted Writing During Heavy-hearted Times, featuring Neely Tubati-Alexander
Mar 11, 2024
Strategies for Writing About Childhood Trauma, featuring Javier Zamora
Mar 04, 2024
Recovering from the Stigma of a "Failed" First Novel, featuring Ethel Rohan
Feb 26, 2024
Journeying into Writerly Aesthetic, featuring K-Ming Chang
Feb 19, 2024
Breaking Into Ghostwriting and Work-for-Hire Writing, featuring Aubre Andrus
Feb 12, 2024
How Stories Get Carried Through the Generations and in Our Bones, featuring Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Feb 05, 2024
Get Into Your Writing Using All the Senses, featuring Janet Fitch
Jan 29, 2024
How to Be Self-Revealing in Memoir When You're Not In Real Life, featuring Dr. Brian H. Williams
Jan 22, 2024
Hidden Stories, featuring Vanessa Chan
Jan 15, 2024
The Future of the Book, featuring Maja Thomas
Jan 08, 2024
The New Year's Un-resolution Show
Jan 01, 2024
The Subtle Art of Attunement and Its Bearing on Our Writing, featuring Baron Wormser
Dec 18, 2023
Finding and Building the Community That’s Right for You, with Alexa Bigwarfe
Dec 11, 2023
The Higher Truth of Fiction, featuring Jamila Minnicks
Dec 04, 2023
The Origin Story, featuring Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro
Nov 27, 2023
One Sentence Leads to a Second Sentence: Pushing Through the Muddy Middle of NaNoWriMo, featuring Grant Faulkner and Brooke Warner
Nov 13, 2023
Get Inspired to Write from One of the Most Prolific Women Writers in History, featuring Allison Gilbert
Nov 06, 2023
Gothic Stories’ Long History of Drawing from Everyday Monsters, featuring Isabel Cañas
Oct 30, 2023
Playing with Narration in Memoir, with Maggie Smith
Oct 23, 2023
For the Love of Fanfiction, featuring Rainbow Rowell
Oct 16, 2023
The Art of Coauthoring, featuring Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché
Oct 09, 2023
The Best Way to Learn to Write a Novel? Write It!, featuring Kayvion Lewis
Oct 02, 2023
Dreaming and Writing, featuring Tzivia Gover
Sep 25, 2023
What Short Stories Do That Novels Can’t, featuring Ghassan Zeineddine
Sep 18, 2023
Unconventional Points of View, featuring Jimin Han
Sep 11, 2023
Agent Insights, featuring Lisa Leshne
Sep 03, 2023
The Art of Memoir, featuring Rebecca Carroll and Jeannine Ouellette
Aug 28, 2023
Storytelling from Legacy Authors, featuring Gish Jen and Peggy Orenstein
Aug 21, 2023
The Business of Publishing, featuring Rachael Herron and Joe Biel
Aug 14, 2023
High-Stakes Fiction, featuring Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Ana Reyes
Aug 07, 2023
Parent-Adult Child Dynamics for Writers, featuring Gail Warner (Brooke’s mom)
Jul 31, 2023
The Art of Writing Unlikeable Characters, featuring Ben Purkert
Jul 24, 2023
Community as Muse, featuring Kellye Garrett
Jul 17, 2023
Coming-of-Age Stories, featuring Yasmin Azad
Jul 10, 2023
Graphic Novels, Literary Collage, and Poetry Comics, featuring Kelcey Ervick
Jun 26, 2023
Leveraging Your Why, featuring N.D. Jones
Jun 19, 2023
Taking the Dare, featuring Krystal Marquis
Jun 12, 2023
Stories That Must Be Told, featuring Nicole Chung
Jun 05, 2023
Writing a Violent Story with Love, featuring Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
May 29, 2023
Investigating Toward Deeper Truths, featuring Gretchen Cherington
May 22, 2023
The Mystery Is the Clarity, featuring Charif Shanahan
May 15, 2023
Pushing Boundaries in Book Publishing, featuring Joe Biel
May 08, 2023
Writing with Raw Honesty about Family, featuring Rebecca Carroll
May 01, 2023
Dollars and Cents—the Money Episode, featuring Rachael Herron
Apr 24, 2023
On Pioneering and Why It Matters, featuring Donna Hill
Apr 17, 2023
Executing an Ambitious Book Project, featuring Jinwoo Chong
Apr 10, 2023
The Themed Poetry Collection, featuring Heather Bourbeau
Apr 03, 2023
The Literature of Longing, featuring Madelaine Lucas
Mar 27, 2023
The Self-improvement Memoir, featuring Peggy Orenstein
Mar 20, 2023
Mining Tension in Fiction, featuring Gish Jen
Mar 13, 2023
How We Can Reclaim Our Stories Through Fiction, featuring Cheryl A. Head
Mar 06, 2023
Memoirs That Risk Everything, featuring Eden Boudreau
Feb 27, 2023
The Art of Brevity, featuring Grant Faulkner
Feb 20, 2023
How Psychology Drives Good Fiction, featuring Ana Reyes
Feb 13, 2023
Making Art from Your Life, featuring Jeannine Ouellette
Feb 06, 2023
The Art of Revision, featuring Peter Ho Davies
Jan 30, 2023
True Inclusion in Book Publishing, featuring Rebekah Borucki
Jan 23, 2023
Discipline and the Writing Life, featuring Adriana Trigiani
Jan 16, 2023
Saving Reading, featuring Andrew Limbong
Jan 09, 2023
Getting Reinspired, Again, with Grant Faulkner and Brooke Warner
Jan 02, 2023
Having Fun with Book and Amazon Marketing, featuring Dave Chesson
Dec 19, 2022
A New Take on Climate Fiction, featuring Aya de León
Dec 12, 2022
No Wasted Words, featuring Sarah Manguso
Dec 05, 2022
Unexpected Creative Intersections and Influences, featuring Angie Cruz
Nov 28, 2022
Radical Fiction Packaged as a Trojan Horse, featuring Xochitl Gonzalez
Nov 21, 2022
Writing Racial Dynamics in YA fiction, featuring David Yoon
Nov 14, 2022
The Writer’s Ego, featuring Steve Almond
Nov 07, 2022
Craft-minded series: Trusting the Craft You Already Know, featuring Andrea Bartz
Oct 31, 2022
Craft-minded series: How or Whether to Evolve Your Aesthetic or Style, featuring Lan Samantha Chang
Oct 24, 2022
Craft-minded series: Reflection as a Way to Make Meaning in Memoir, featuring Prince Shakur
Oct 17, 2022
Craft-minded series: Placing Yourself in Broader Historical Contexts, featuring Danyel Smith
Oct 10, 2022
Craft-minded series: Writing "Imaginative Fiction," featuring Jeff VanderMeer
Oct 03, 2022
Craft-minded series: Craft as Shaper of Story, featuring Morgan Talty
Sep 26, 2022
Craft-minded series: Characterization, featuring A.M. Homes
Sep 19, 2022
How to Have an Opinion in Memoir, featuring Mychal Denzel Smith
Sep 12, 2022
On Writing and Selling Trauma, featuring Stephanie Foo
Sep 05, 2022
How to Follow Your Passions When the Creative Expression Feels Elusive, featuring Charlie Jane Anders and Azar Nafisi
Aug 29, 2022
Emotional Expression Is as Scary and Important as You Think It Is, featuring Erica Jong and Lilly Dancyger
Aug 22, 2022
Using Subtext and Omission to Achieve More by Writing Less, featuring EJ Koh and Charmaine Wilkerson
Aug 15, 2022
For the Love of Fantasy, featuring Kwame Mbalia and Namina Forna
Aug 08, 2022
Writing Intimate Truths, featuring Ashley C. Ford and Melissa Febos
Aug 01, 2022
The Collaborative Force of Anthologies, featuring Stephanie Raffelock
Jul 25, 2022
Straddling Lusciousness and Social Consciousness in Romance, featuring Angelina Lopez
Jul 18, 2022
Executing Funny in Memoir with One of the Most Celebrated Cartoonists of Our Time, featuring David Sipress
Jul 11, 2022
Genre-Blending and Bending, featuring Barbara Graham
Jul 04, 2022
Making and Finding Meaning, featuring Kathryn Schulz
Jun 27, 2022
The Power of Omission, featuring Charmaine Wilkerson
Jun 20, 2022
Changing Your Life Story, featuring Linda Holmes
Jun 13, 2022
Writing from Inside Your Industry, featuring Zakiya Dalila Harris
Jun 06, 2022
Reading Dangerously, featuring Azar Nafisi
May 30, 2022
Imagining and Reconstructing in Memoir, featuring Julie Metz
May 23, 2022
The Skinny on Book Coaching, featuring Jennie Nash
May 16, 2022
Writing with Sensuality, featuring Leesa Cross-Smith
May 09, 2022
Writing What Terrifies You, featuring Ashley Woodfolk
May 02, 2022
Helping Books Remain a Vital Part of Our Culture, featuring Andy Hunter
Apr 25, 2022
Moral Ambiguity in Fiction, featuring Quentin Lee
Apr 18, 2022
All About Book Festivals, featuring Cherilyn Parsons
Apr 11, 2022
Setting Stories Free, featuring Caits Meissner and T Kira Madden
Apr 04, 2022
Probing the Line Between Insanity and Art, featuring Lee Kravetz
Mar 28, 2022
Tough-Love Marketing, featuring M.J. Rose
Mar 21, 2022
How We Think about Anger on the Page, featuring Lilly Dancyger
Mar 14, 2022
Can Writing Be Taught? featuring Lisa Stringfellow
Mar 07, 2022
How We Think and Write about Intimate Experiences, featuring Melissa Febos
Feb 28, 2022
The Art of Writing Forgiveness, featuring Ashley C. Ford
Feb 21, 2022
Writing to Make the World a Better Place, featuring Parker J. Palmer
Feb 14, 2022
The Drama of Friendships, featuring Jean Chen Ho
Feb 07, 2022
Research Is Not Just for Facts, featuring Margaret Verble
Jan 31, 2022
Out in the Open about Erotica, featuring Rachel Kramer Bussel
Jan 24, 2022
Risk It Like You Mean It, featuring Angela Engel
Jan 17, 2022
Borrowing from Mythic Structures, with Michelle Ruiz Keil
Jan 10, 2022
The Gift of Multitudes of Perspectives, featuring Farah Ali
Jan 03, 2022
Ringing in the New Year with Book-to-Film Recs!
Dec 27, 2021
Conviction—When You Know Your Story Resonates, featuring Alka Joshi
Dec 13, 2021
Fear and Desire, featuring Erica Jong
Dec 06, 2021
Migration as an Essential Shared Story, featuring Shanthi Sekaran
Nov 29, 2021
Challenging Your Perspective on the Journey to Getting Published, featuring Bella Mahaya Carter
Nov 22, 2021
Why Retelling Stories Is Always an Act of Creation, featuring Kwame Mbalia
Nov 15, 2021
Owning Your Authority as an Author, featuring J. Allen Cross
Nov 08, 2021
Allowing Anger to Fuel Your Writing, featuring Namina Forna
Nov 01, 2021
Get Ready for NaNoWriMo, featuring Chris Baty
Oct 25, 2021
The Art of Subtext, featuring EJ Koh
Oct 18, 2021
The Difficult Balance of Writing and Self-Care, featuring Charlie Jane Anders
Oct 11, 2021
The Staying Power of the Mother-Daughter Story, featuring Laura Davis
Oct 04, 2021
Books That Help Start Conversations with Kids, featuring Anastasia Higginbotham
Sep 27, 2021
Using Storytelling to Inform and Educate, featuring Kaitlyn Greenidge
Sep 20, 2021
Craft Is Never Neutral, featuring Matthew Salesses
Sep 13, 2021
Confronting Shame, featuring Firoozeh Dumas
Sep 06, 2021
Best of YA, featuring Laurie Halse Anderson and Marie Lu
Aug 30, 2021
Best of Sex Writing, featuring Deesha Philyaw and Kim Addonizio
Aug 23, 2021
Best of Memoir, featuring Mary Karr and Elizabeth Gilbert
Aug 16, 2021
Best of Debut Fiction, featuring Mateo Askaripour and Sameer Pandya
Aug 09, 2021
Best of Fantasy, featuring Hugh Howey and Victoria “V.E.” Schwab
Aug 02, 2021
The Joy and Angst of a Newly Released Book, featuring Grant Faulkner
Jul 26, 2021
To Plot or Not? featuring Jean Hanff Korelitz
Jul 19, 2021
Writing the Body and Sex in Memoir, featuring Gina Frangello
Jul 12, 2021
Permission To Write and Getting It Right, featuring Rebecca Makkai
Jul 05, 2021
Unearthing Unknown Stories, featuring Stacey Lee
Jun 28, 2021
Ready, Set, Memoir, featuring Lindsey Grant
Jun 21, 2021
Comedy as Tragedy Plus Time, featuring Annabelle Gurwitch
Jun 14, 2021
“Whodunnits” and Other Genre Fiction We Love, featuring Tracy Clark
Jun 07, 2021