Bedste Writers Community-podcasts (2024)

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Peter Carr: “Artist for Survival” 29:02

18d ago29:02

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A program celebrating a long-ago artist and writer whose work I am curating at an upcoming gallery show. Today I read his self-published book, Aliso Creek, a singular and defining introduction to the work of Peter Carr (1925-1981) and invite listeners to visit the late October show I am helping curate at Cerritos College Art Gallery.…

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Jackie Wu: On the Front Lines of Democracy 28:43

25d ago28:43

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My guest is Jackie Wu, who worked for the Orange County Registrar of Voters. She's written a firsthand account titled On the Front Lines of Democracy: An Election Official’s Story of Protecting the Vote in 2020. It's an insider’s account of administering, defending, and advocating for one of the nation’s best voting systems.…

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Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terrain of California 30:12

1M ago30:12

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I attended the recent launch party reading celebrating the arrival of a must-read, must-own anthology. Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terrain of California is out from the new collaborative publisher Angel City Press at the Los Angeles Public Library. It includes essays which write and rewrite stories and experiences of California with …

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Larry Beinhart on Salvation Boulevard 28:33

1M ago28:33

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Today, my guest is Larry Beinhart, perhaps best known for a novel adapted into the film Wag the Dog (American Hero) but today talking about and reading from Salvation Boulevard. It’s both a detective story and a novel of big ideas, about “faith” and skepticism, a murder mystery with philosophical chops.…

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Victoria Patterson on Drift 29:07

2M ago29:07

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Today, my 2009 interview with Victoria Patterson on her debut book, Drift, a defining —- for the author and her hometown, Newport Beach —- short story collection from and about Orange County, California. This is where it started for the writer Victoria Patterson, who with Drift was a finalist for the California Book Award, the 2009 Story Prize, wit…

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Luis Alberto Urrea on Into the Beautiful North 29:15

2M ago29:15

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Today, my 2010 interview with Luis Alberto Urrea on his smart, funny, sincerely moving Into the Beautiful North, a comic and woman-centered take on the classic film The Magnificent Seven by way of a border adventure story with a twist. It’s a sort of alternative version of his award-winning nonfiction classic The Devil’s Highway but with a light, h…

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Dylan Landis on Normal People Don’t Live Like This 28:53

2M ago28:53

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Today, my 2009 interview with Dylan Landis on her debut novel-in-stories, Normal People Don’t Live Like This, a singularly poignant, tough and smart coming-of-age novel set in 1970s New York City. This is a good one, folks.

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Bibliocracy Radio: Mary Jones on the Goodbye Process 29:38

3M ago29:38

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My guest this week is short story writer Mary Jones. She has written and published dozens of short stories for many years, earning acclaim, and establishing a reputation, all of which is affirmed in her debut collection, 28 short stories, titled The Goodbye Process. The short and short-short stories offered in The Goodbye Process are dark, funny, m…

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Bibliocracy Radio: Kevin Allardice on WEFT 28:51

3M ago28:51

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My guest this week is Kevin Allardice, the author of short stories and five novels, of which I have no read three. His most recent is Weft, and it’s a full-length work like his debut novel, Any Resemblance to Actual Persons. I’m also a big fan of his shorter works, closer to novellas but no less rich in voice, wit, fabulist or absurdist themes, eac…

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Bibliocracy Radio: Suzanne Greenberg on Shopping for Dad 28:29

3M ago28:29

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My guest this week is Suzanne Greenberg, a much-published short story writer whose novel Lesson Plans was a Library Journal Editor’s pick. Her previous short story collection Speed-Walk and Other Stories won a Drue Heinze Literature Prize. Now Suzanne Greenberg is out with Shopping for Dad and Other Stories, its title, from one of the defining stor…

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Bibliocracy Season 2 Episode 1 - THE BIG LISTEN: Journal of the Plague Years 1:24:14

4M ago1:24:14

1:24:14

To kick off the next season of Bibliocracy Radio on Community of Writers Podcasts, we are presenting a very special episode. A Journal of the Plague Years, a compendium of work which developed out of the excellent online journal founded by writer Susan Zakin.Af Community of Writers

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Writers Workshops 2024 - Closing Talk by Gail Tsukiyama 23:36

4M ago23:36

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Gail Tsukiyama delivers the closing talk to round out the fifty-fourth year of the Community of Writers summer workshops. Introduced by Karen Joy Fowler. Gail Tsukiyama is the author of nine novels, including Women of the Silk, The Samurai’s Garden, The Color of Air, and her latest novel, The Brightest Star. She has been the recipient of the Academ…

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Writers Workshops 2024 - Panel: ”Writing Beyond the Conference” 51:35

4M ago51:35

51:35

Alex Espinoza, Monica West, Andrew Nicholls & Janet Fitch. Moderated by Lisa Alvarez.Af Community of Writers

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Panel: ”Narrative Voice & Dialogue” 55:21

4M ago55:21

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Dana Johnson, Karen Joy Fowler, Susanne Pari, Amy Tan & Monica West discuss Voice & Dialogue in this panel.Af Community of Writers

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Writers Workshops 2024 - Craft Talk by Rachel Howard - “Writing from the Heat of Moment: Improvisation in Fiction and Nonfiction Writing” 59:16

4M ago59:16

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Rachel Howard delivers a craft talk on Improvisation in writing. Rachel Howard is the author of a novel, The Risk of Us, and a memoir, The Lost Night. Her stories and essays have appeared in StoryQuarterly, ZYZZYVA, the New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other venues. She served as Joan Beebe Teaching Fellow and Interim D…

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Writers Workshops 2024 - A Panel: “ Fact, Truth, and Imagination: Craft Choices for Different Genres” 52:37

4M ago52:37

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Sands Hall, Michelle Latiolais, Keenan Norris, and David Ulin discuss genre.Af Community of Writers

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Writers Workshops 2024 - A Panel: On Plot 43:56

4M ago43:56

43:56

Katy Hays, Alex Espinoza, Tyler Diltz, Stacy Spruill, and Martin J. Smith discuss plot in fiction. Moderated by Andrew Tonkovich.Af Community of Writers

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Writers Workshops 2024: A Craft Talk by Tom Barbash: “What Doesn’t Break Us: The Art of the Story” 56:26

4M ago56:26

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Tom Barbash presents an exploration into "Foster" by Claire Keegan, and "Switzerland" by Nicole Krauss. Tom Barbash is the author of four books as well as reviews, essays, and articles for publications such as McSweeney’s, Tin House, the Believer, Narrative Magazine, ZYZZYVA, and the New York Times. His short story collection Stay Up With Me was no…

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Writers Workshops 2024 - A Craft Talk by Martin J. Smith: “Difficult Interviews: Getting the Reluctant to Talk” 52:49

4M ago52:49

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Interviewing advice from someone who has been doing it for nearly fifty years.Af Community of Writers

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Writers Workshops 2024: Book Editors Panel 1:09:04

4M ago1:09:04

1:09:04

Reagan Arthur, Leland Cheuk, Jean Garnett, and Dan Lopez. Moderated by Michael Mungiello.Af Community of Writers

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Writers Workshops 2024 - Literary Agents Panel 25:57

4M ago25:57

25:57

BJ Robbins, Kirby Kim, and Michael Mungiello. Moderated by Katy Hays.Af Community of Writers

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Panel: West Coast Literary Journals 50:24

4M ago50:24

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Lily Grimes (Faultline), Andrew Tonkovich (Santa Monica Review/Citric Acid), David Ulin (Air/Light), and Blaise Zerega (Alta Journal) discuss west coast literary journals.Af Community of Writers

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Panel: The Short Story 55:42

4M ago55:42

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Dana Johnson, Sameer Pandya and Gregory Spatz discuss the craft of the short story. Moderated by Tom Barbash.Af Community of Writers

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Writers Workshops 2024 - A Craft Talk by Victoria Patterson:“Show, Tell, Show, Tell - Scene and Summary in Fiction & Nonfiction” 52:14

4M ago52:14

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Victoria Patterson kicks off day 2 of our writers' workshops in olympic valley with a talk on show vs. tell. Victoria Patterson’s latest story collection, The Secret Habit of Sorrow, was published in 2018. The critic Michael Schaub wrote: “There’s not a story in the book that’s less than great; it’s a stunningly beautiful collection by a writer wor…

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Writers Workshops 2024: Panel - “Reliably Unreliable First Person” 48:55

4M ago48:55

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With Leslie Daniels, Leland Cheuk, Louis B. Jones, Andrew Tonkovich. Moderated by Victoria Patterson.Af Community of Writers

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Writers Workshops 2024 - Panel: “Writing the Historical in Fiction and Nonfiction” 50:53

4M ago50:53

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Jason Roberts, Janet Fitch, Karen Joy Fowler, and Gail Tsukiyama, moderated by Sands Hall.Af Community of Writers

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Writers Workshops 2024: Craft Talk by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton: "Writing a Life: A Character's Journey Across Generations" 50:55

4M ago50:55

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The first craft talk of the 2024 Writers Workshops in Olympic Valley: Staff member and board member Margaret Wilkerson Sexton kicks off day 1 with a craft talk on writing a character's journey throughout a life: Writing Across Generations. Be sure to subscribe to our podcast feed to keep up with this summer's excellent programming, wherever you may…

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Podcast Special: Gill Dennis's 2014 Opening Talk 26:33

4M ago26:33

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As a podcast special, we wanted to share the late Gill Dennis’s welcome address from 2014, ten years ago. Gill Dennis died less than a year later in May of 2015. He was an enormous part of our community for decades. Along with Tom Rickman, he founded and directed the Community of Writers Screenwriting Program. His screenwriting credits include Retu…

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Writers Workshops 2024: Opening Talk by Leland Cheuk: It's Not About You Until It Is 17:48

4M ago17:48

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Leland Cheuk Welcomes us to the 2024 Writers' Workshops from Olympic Valley, introduced by Andrew Tonkovich.Af Community of Writers

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Bibliocracy Episode 13: Federico Finchelstein on Wannabe Fascists 29:05

5M ago29:05

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My guest this week is a world-renowned expert on fascism, populism, and dictatorship. Federico Finchelstein’s newest book is The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy. He makes important distinctions even while educating, contextualizing, and warning, once again, of fascism’s rise globally and explaining its an…

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Bibliocracy Episode 12: Joan Braune on Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements 28:59

5M ago28:59

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Joan Braune has written a scholarly book which reads to this admirer like a handbook of liberatory insights, a history and a glossary, a philosophy text for beginners, with a provocative analysis at its conclusion. If you think, as did I, you knew or understood the basics of fascism and the far right, the research and writing of Joan Braune will di…

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Bibliocracy Episode 10: Venita Blackburn on Dead in Long Beach, Califonria 29:32

6M ago29:32

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My guest this week is acclaimed short story writer and, now, novelist Venita Blackburn. Her debut novel, Dead in Long Beach, California arrives after two acclaimed short story collections, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes and How to Wrestle a Girl. This new novel is a multi-form, multi-voiced chronicle of loss, self-discovery, of desperately sad i…

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Bibliocracy Episode 11: Molly Giles on Life Span 28:59

6M ago28:59

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Novelist, short story writer, and acclaimed teacher Molly Giles. The author, most recently, of the novel The Home for Unwed Husbands, is out with a memoir in short episodes, vignettes, and meditations, built on her life crossing the Golden Gate Bridge. In Life Span, Giles defines, examines, celebrates, and interrogates her writing life by way of th…

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Bibliocracy Episode 6: Amber A'Lee Frost on Dirtbag 30:45

7M ago30:45

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My guest this week is the writer, activist and podcaster from Chapo Trap House, Amber A’Lee Frost. Her debut book Dirtbag is a personal memoir, a journalistic account, a political autobiography, a take-apart of grassroots collective action, an insider look at Democratic Socialists of America, Occupy Wall Street, the Bernie campaign and, yes, podcas…

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Bibliocracy Episode 7: A Tribute to Dwight Yates (Part 1 of 2) 29:43

7M ago29:43

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My guests this week remember and celebrate the life and work of the late short story writer, teacher, friend and mentor Dwight Yates (1945-2023). I am joined by Susan Straight (Mecca), Victoria Patterson (The Secret Habit of Sorrow), and Gary Amdahl (The Daredevils), all accomplished and acclaimed writers for the first of a two-part show. Dwight Ya…

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Bibliocracy Episode 8: A Tribute to Dwight Yates (Part 2 of 2) 29:11

7M ago29:11

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My guests this week further remember, celebrate, and, today, read from (!) the work of the late short story writer, teacher, friend and mentor Dwight Yates (1945-2023). I am joined in Part 2 of this “tribute” by Susan Straight (Mecca), Victoria Patterson (The Secret Habit of Sorrow), and Gary Amdahl (The Daredevils), all accomplished and acclaimed …

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Bibliocracy Episode 9: Julie Schumacher on The English Experience 27:14

7M ago27:14

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My guest today is Julie Schumacher, who will talk about and read from the final book in a trilogy which has earned its place on the shelf with other favorites in the weird, wonderful genre of academic satire, right next to Richard Russo’s Straight Man and, as it happens her first two novels chronicling the cheerfully doomed life of one Professor Ja…

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Bibliocracy Episode 4: Katherine Haake on What Books Press 28:14

7M ago28:14

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My guest is novelist and short story writer Katherine Haake, a co-founder of What Books Press. Celebrating fifteen years, this collectively run publishing outfit has worked collaboratively with prose and poetry writers to create dozens of gorgeous books, and each featuring cover art by the legendary artist Gronk. For more on What Books Press see Wh…

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Bibliocracy Episode 5: Theresa Bonpane on Sister Rebel 28:50

7M ago28:50

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My very special guest is Theresa Bonpane, a legendary Southern California peace and justice, anti-war and anti-intervention activist. Her memoir, Sister Rebel, is out now from Red Hen Press, and she speaks with me about her life, sharing stories and poems and more. Because this is a fund drive edition, KPFK is happy to offer you a thank-you gift fo…

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Bibliocracy Episode 3: David Kipen on Dear California 29:01

9M ago29:01

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My guest today is David Kipen. He needs no introduction because he is himself the introducer, the anthologizer, the cultural historian, the literary booster and all-around celebrant of writers and literary culture for our state and our region. Book review editor, Director of Literature at the NEA, critic at large at the Los Angeles Times and, of co…

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Bibliocracy Episode 2: Reid Sherline on Rapture 29:03

9M ago29:03

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In his prizewinning novella Rapture, debut writer Reid Sherline has with a very small book made an outsized contribution to the literature of dark, weird Southern California, a place (and moment) where the recklessness, confusion, disengagement of adults turns their ignored or innocent children into perversely exaggerated walking, talking, misbehav…

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Bibliocracy Episode 1: Kelly Sather on Small in Real Life 29:10

9M ago29:10

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This week my guest is Drue Heinz Literature Prize-winner KELLY SATHER. Her collection, Small in Real Life, features stories which are darkly funny, what I’d call a sort of Southern California feminist noir, but with sincerely and politically insightful portraits of women, as girls, as wives, as friends, as enemies. They are often set in real or com…

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Interview with Poet Gargi 11:06

3y ago11:06

11:06

Interview with Poet Gargi --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writers-community/message

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Interview with Poet Pranjal 9:53

3y ago9:53

9:53

The Journey of Pranjal --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writers-community/message

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Interview with Mausum Sharma Author of Geeta: A life with No Existence 19:54

3y ago19:54

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Mausum Sharma is a young and inspirational upcoming author with the pen name Mousum which stands for the elegant expression- “Messenger of Love” in his native language. Born on 18th April 1986 in the north eastern state of Meghalaya, to Dr. M.K. Sarma and Mrs. Sabita Sharma, he completed his Junior High from Sainik School, Goalpara and Senior High …

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Writers Community Interview with Rajni Gupta 42:10

4y ago42:10

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A very beautiful podcast with Mrs. Rajni Gupta who is an Amazing and brilliant poet, her words in podcast were so sweet and encouraging that they may help you even to become a good poet and a Writer or an Artist. Her inspiring words may help you explore better. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writers-community/m…

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Interview with Anjali Sharma (Poet) 38:07

4y ago38:07

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A very beautiful podcast with Mrs. Anjali Sharma who is an Amazing and brilliant poet, her words in podcast were so sweet and encouraging that they may help you even to become a good poet and a Writer or an Artist. Her inspiring words may help you explore better. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writers-community…

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The Riff Raff: Episode 81 - Stephanie Scott 52:14

4+ y ago52:14

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Amy Baker of The Riff Raff chats to debut author, Stephanie Scott, about her beautiful novel, What's Left of Me is Yours. They discuss how to effectively write about people falling in love, how to take inspiration from real life and craft it into your own narrative, and how to effectively combine extensive research with letting your novel guide you…