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WMFA episodes
- Minisode: Paying AttentionOn being with our surroundings—and our creative work—in a new way during quarantine.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices6 min
- Mining for Character in Verse w. ELIZABETH ACEVEDOElizabeth Acevedo's latest book, the novel-in-verse CLAP WHEN YOU LAND, is out now from Quill Tree Books. She and Courtney talk about creating character while working in verse, discovering the container that each story needs, and the "secret projects" she has as an author.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices58 min
- Minisode: An Announcement + An UpdateA minisode update and a call out to writers with new and forthcoming releases to call in with your quarantine book release stories!5 min
- Writing For Your Characters w. C PAM ZHANGC Pam Zhang's debut novel, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, is out now. She talks with Courtney about writing a book for the characters in it, capturing nuanced performances of gender, and reinventing the myth of the American West.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices43 min
- Minisode: Aloneness, Or How I’m Learning to Love SolitudeWriters should be great at solitude, right? I’m not. Today I'm talking about how isolation is forcing me to confront that.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices7 min
- Capturing Contradictory Truths w. EMMA COPLEY EISENBERGEmma Copley Eisenberg's first book, The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia, was released in January. She and Courtney discuss the complicated nature of truth and how she wrote a complex narrative that weaves first-person reportage with memoir.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices54 min
- Minisode: A Conversation Across TimeI'm reading excerpts from the diary of one of my literary idols, Virginia Woolf, that resonate with our current moment.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices13 min
- Writers-in-ResidenceWelcome to this experimental episode of WMFA, featuring messages from writers around the country about how they’re handling creative life in quarantine. Let me know if you liked this episode—I might do more as this surreal reality continues!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices22 min
- Minisode: Where We're At NowA check-in during unstable times.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices7 min
- Surviving the Publishing Process w. COURTNEY MAUMCourtney Maum's most recent book is the indispensable writers' guide Before and After the Book Deal. She and Courtney talk about navigating everything from contracts to marketing to what to pack on book tour. They also talk about Courtney's latest novel, Costalegre. In the Patreon bonus segment, Courtney talks about the advice she most wishes she'd received as a debut author.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices45 min
About WMFA
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A podcast about why and how we write.