Write, Publish, and Shine

If you’re listening right when this episode comes out, it's not too late to join Christina Brobby in the workshop we're offering today. You can learn more and sign up at rachelthompson.co/workshopsIf it's after the 28th and you missed a chance to learn live from her, all of our workshops live on in our permanent collection in the member library. You can get all the details about the Writerly Love membership at rachelthompson.co/join. ***In this episode it’s my pleasure to welcome Christina Brobby to the podcast, a wonderful lyric writer and instructor. We start by getting into what exactly is lyric writing, if you’re wondering so that will be cleared up right way. Christina also delves into the ways the “filter is the form” as she wonderfully sums it up.Listen for more of our exploration of empathy for writers, and Christina also kindly and insightfully brings in the necessity of practising empathy with yourself as a writer. And listen for ways she’s used the form to explore the impact our surroundings have on us, to see working in fragments as a feature and not a bug in our memories as creative nonfiction essay writers and to generally get excited about the variety of brilliant voices using lyric essay forms to tell their stories.

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This episode is the second in our mini-series of three episodes on the theme of empathy for writers and a really interesting and unique take on empathy, as my guest is a curator and writer of fiction, Lyndall Cain. So, listen to Lyndall’s exploration of curation and really concrete ideas about how to find objects that build a whole world in writing and then sign-up for the workshop she will offer on Sunday, which gets even more hands-on about bringing your stories to life with objects.I’m such a fan of her writing and am thrilled she said yes to offering this unique workshop in our community this month. You can learn more and sign up at rachelthompson.co/workshopsAs Lyndall Cain puts it in our interview, “Your characters don’t have to be the only things alive on the page.” Listen to hear about some fascinating collections and ways to think about collections and some brilliant examples on bringing stories to life with objects.

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Naomi J. Williams is the author of Landfalls (FSG 2015), long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award. Her short fiction has appeared in journals such as Zoetrope: All-Story, A Public Space, One Story, The Southern Review, and The Gettysburg Review. Her distinctions include a Pushcart Prize, Best American Short Stories Honorable Mention, Sustainable Arts Foundation grant, and residencies at Hedgebrook, Djerassi, and Willapa Bay AiR.

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In this episode, Rachel talks with six writers from her Writerly Love membership community about writing through the senses.In this showcase, you’ll hear each writer represent a sense and how they apply it to their writing, and they will read from their work as well. The aim here is to help make sensitivity really grounded and specific. Rachel also offers a taste of the experience we had in our six senses of writing workshop with prompts for each sense. So, bring a notebook and hit pause to do some free-writing around the senses. Also note that all of the prompts appear in the shownotes for this episode, which is episode 64, so up at rachelthompson.co/podcast/64.

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Ellen Chang-Richardson and Rachel Thompson on what they are looking for in submissions to the upcoming issue of Room’s Ghosts issue.

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Listen if you’ve been looking for books to support your writing practice, or maybe a list of books to give another writer in your life, or if you’ve been wanting to read with a community of writers, too, and need some guidance to get started.

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Maybe you have found yourself feeling compromised by the publication process. Maybe even by just anticipating the publication process you have bent your writing into something that doesn’t feel authentic to who you are and what you are here to say.If you recognize yourself in either of those statements, you’re not the only one. We write to be read and it can be hard to hold that confidence it takes to stay the course and be ourselves with our writing.Hear from three writers, who are figuring this out, too: where they went wrong with staying true to their voice and authentic selves and how they found their own unique grooves and continue to work on staying true to them.A special thank you to Meli Walker who helped create this episode with interviews and production support.

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Chill Subs is making the submissions process much easier and less stressful. That’s the mission statement on this database of places to send your writing. Well, that’s what it started as and it’s already growing into a bigger resource for writers.If you’re looking for a vibe that is warm and creative to learn and grow as a writer, registration is currently open for my Writerly Love Community: rachelthompson.co/join

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Learn more about the series: Six Senses of Summer Writing at rachelthompson.co/sixsenses

You’ll hear Mark Drew of the Gettysburg Review in this episode answering questions from the live cohort who came to our call attended by writers in the Lit Mag Love course. [rachelthompson.co/litmaglove]When you’ll listen you’ll note right away that this call happened in the first year of the pandemic and you’ll get an editor’s perspective on the kind of reflection missing from most writing in the moment, at least for this particular journal. And you’ll hear about the kinds of work Gettysburg accepts the qualities of the work they look for and learn more about the editorial experience you’ll get should you place work with them.

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