BKLYN Mixtape is a podcast from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Information Commons at Brooklyn Public Library. It is a show about everyday creators and makers just like you living and working in Brooklyn, New York. We're asking, what will you make today?

For a special edition of BKLYN Mixtape, we gathered aspiring and established writers at Macon Library in Bed-Stuy to share their advice and encouragement about how to keep writing and how to get published. Featured writers include: children's book author Rita Meade, Dr. Dora Gray, author of a book for middle-grade readers, and novelist Brian Platzer.