Whether you’re an aspiring screenwriter or a writer who has always dreamt of adapting their own work, screenwriter and teacher Kevin Downs has some tips and insight for you! Plus, we hold a live reading of an adapted screenplay by James Skinner with the help of Ian Smolka and Diana Veiga! Powered and distributed by Simplecast.

Whether you’re an aspiring screenwriter or a writer who has always dreamt of adapting their own work, screenwriter and teacher Kevin Downs has some tips and insight for you! Plus, we hold a live reading of an adapted screenplay by James Skinner with the help of Ian Smolka and Diana Veiga! Powered and distributed by Simplecast.

Whether you’re an aspiring screenwriter or a writer who has always dreamt of adapting their own work, screenwriter and teacher Kevin Downs has some tips and insight for you! Plus, we hold a live reading of an adapted screenplay by James Skinner with the help of Ian Smolka and Diana Veiga!

Some writers shy away from writing about sex, while others go a little overboard. How do you strike the balance and write the perfect steamy scene or poem? Poet Lindsay Bernal joins us with her tips and a few steamy poems of her own, C&R play a little dice game, and we hear a few pieces about desire from local writers Ellen Roche, Sean Felix, Nicole Tong, Jesse Adam Wang, and Taylor Johnson. Powered and distributed by Simplecast.

Some writers shy away from writing about sex, while others go a little overboard. How do you strike the balance and write the perfect steamy scene or poem? Poet Lindsay Bernal joins us with her tips and a few steamy poems of her own, C&R play a little dice game, and we hear a few pieces about desire from local writers Ellen Roche, Sean Felix, Nicole Tong, Jesse Adam Wang, and Taylor Johnson.

February is for love… or is it? What is it about love, and the loss of it, that makes us want to pick up a pen and write? Essayist Randon Billings Noble shows us how past lovers can be haunting, and we hear breakup stories from Joe Osmundson and Samantha de Trinidad. Plus, in honor of the Oscars, we vote on the best breakup scenes in literature! Powered and distributed by Simplecast.

February is for love… or is it? What is it about love, and the loss of it, that makes us want to pick up a pen and write? Essayist Randon Billings Noble shows us how past lovers can be haunting, and we hear breakup stories from Joe Osmundson and Samantha de Trinidad. Plus, in honor of the Oscars, we vote on the best breakup scenes in literature!

Repetition in writing can be used to change the meaning of a word or a phrase, making your words even more powerful. It can create tension, emphasis, or even absurdity, and it always adds a little music to your piece. So how can you incorporate repetition into your writing? Prolific Poet Sarah Ann Winn tells us how, and she gives Courtney and Rachel a little writing assignment. Plus, we hear how repetition works in Alexander Slotnick’s fiction. Powered and distributed by Simplecast.

Repetition in writing can be used to change the meaning of a word or a phrase, making your words even more powerful. It can create tension, emphasis, or even absurdity, and it always adds a little music to your piece. So how can you incorporate repetition into your writing? Prolific Poet Sarah Ann Winn tells us how, and she gives Courtney and Rachel a little writing assignment. Plus, we hear how repetition works in Alexander Slotnick’s fiction.

We’re ramping up a new year and a new decade of writing resolutions -- and one of them is to sell out (in a good way)! We discuss what makes manuscripts appealing to publishers, and, perhaps more importantly, local bookstores. Joined by Gwen Hunter of Solid State Books, we also consider what roles smaller booksellers can play in popularizing your pages. Finally, we remember that rejection is growth -- most great literary works ran the gamut of criticism before being bought.

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