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Write, Publish, and Shine

 Rachel Thompson

Author and literary magazine editor, Rachel Thompson, helps you write, publish, and shine. Learn how to write and share your brilliant writing with the world.

Episodes delve into how to polish and prepare your writing for publication, and the journey from emerging writer to published author.

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Average duration
35 minutes
Episodes
129
Years Active
2017 - 2024
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Wrap-Up: Empathy for Writers

Wrap-Up: Empathy for Writers

Wrap-Up: Empathy for Writers

Just a few spots remain for Deeper Drafts, my intimate online revision course running August 10–31.


If you’re ready to stop circling your drafts and finally shape them into…

00:15:20  |   Tue 07 Mar 2023
#67 Empathy for You and Your Reader with Lyric Writer, Christina Brobby

#67 Empathy for You and Your Reader with Lyric Writer, Christina Brobby

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…
00:24:18  |   Tue 28 Feb 2023
#66 Empathy for Objects in Your Writing with Lyndall Cain

#66 Empathy for Objects in Your Writing with Lyndall Cain

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…
00:32:33  |   Tue 21 Feb 2023
#65 Empathy & POV with Naomi J. Williams

#65 Empathy & POV with Naomi J. Williams

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 appe…
00:34:00  |   Tue 14 Feb 2023
#64 Using the Six Senses in Your Writing—a Showcase PLUS Prompts for Each Sense

#64 Using the Six Senses in Your Writing—a Showcase PLUS Prompts for Each Sense

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 ap…
00:47:28  |   Tue 07 Feb 2023
#63 Ghosts and Haunting with Room Editor Ellen Chang-Richardson

#63 Ghosts and Haunting with Room Editor Ellen Chang-Richardson

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

Just a few spots remain for Deeper Drafts, my intimate online revis…

00:35:11  |   Wed 14 Dec 2022
#62 Seventeen “Craft” Books & Lessons Learned in Our Writerly Book Club

#62 Seventeen “Craft” Books & Lessons Learned in Our Writerly Book Club

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, …
01:11:34  |   Wed 23 Nov 2022
#61 Staying True to You as You Publish with Laurel Parry, Lyndall Cain, and Tamara Jong

#61 Staying True to You as You Publish with Laurel Parry, Lyndall Cain, and Tamara Jong

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 authe…
00:23:56  |   Wed 19 Oct 2022
#60 Chill Subs' Karina Kupp on Keeping Your Chill as You Submit

#60 Chill Subs' Karina Kupp on Keeping Your Chill as You Submit

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 alr…
00:40:38  |   Wed 28 Sep 2022
#59 The Gettysburg Review with Mark Drew on Reflecting on the Time You're In

#59 The Gettysburg Review with Mark Drew on Reflecting on the Time You're In

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/litmagl…
00:43:18  |   Thu 21 Apr 2022
Five Steps to Publishing Your Writing in Literary Journals #LitMagLove

Five Steps to Publishing Your Writing in Literary Journals #LitMagLove

Here are five things editors want in your writing submissions to journals. This is all based on my experience reading submissions, publishing work in a lit mag, and talking to dozens of editors from …
00:16:30  |   Thu 07 Apr 2022
#18 [Replay] Know You're in a Conversation with Lilly Dancyger of Narratively

#18 [Replay] Know You're in a Conversation with Lilly Dancyger of Narratively

In this episode, Rachel Thompson talks with Lilly Dancyger of Narratively, about the responsibility of editors to elevate voices left out the conversation, why you should know what conversations have…
00:43:33  |   Wed 23 Mar 2022
#12 Humber Literary Review’s Eufemia Fantetti —Write Rhymes with Fight [Replay]

#12 Humber Literary Review’s Eufemia Fantetti —Write Rhymes with Fight [Replay]

“Write rhymes with fight for a reason. We’re not all meant to be at the front line. I’m way more comfortable sitting down and trying to figure out how to write back against something that I really di…
00:47:21  |   Thu 10 Mar 2022
#58 Room Magazine’s Lue Palmer on Who Tells Your Story, Why, and to Whom?

#58 Room Magazine’s Lue Palmer on Who Tells Your Story, Why, and to Whom?

Listen to hear about Lue’s Afrofuturistic writing and for insight into how things work at Room magazine where we are both collective members.

Just a few spots remain for Deeper Drafts, my intimate onl…

00:29:48  |   Wed 23 Feb 2022
#57 On Writing and “Cool Loneliness”

#57 On Writing and “Cool Loneliness”

As in the midst of this vaccinated pandemic life, I have had many awkward social moments and truly stressful interactions where I don't feel connected to myself and who I am.And each time that happen…
00:10:55  |   Wed 09 Feb 2022
#56 Holding Each Other Up in Our Writing Community with Writer and Cartoonist Tamara Jong

#56 Holding Each Other Up in Our Writing Community with Writer and Cartoonist Tamara Jong

In this episode, I talk to Tamara Jong about celebrating writers’ publication wins.Tamara Jong (she/her) is a Montreal-born mixed-race writer/cartoonist of Chinese and European ancestry. Her work has…
00:27:33  |   Wed 26 Jan 2022
#32 Atticus Review's Former Editor Dorothy Bendel on Erasing Shame [Replay]

#32 Atticus Review's Former Editor Dorothy Bendel on Erasing Shame [Replay]

I'm reissuing this interview as a companion to a piece that was just posted on my website, written by Lucy Wilde, a writer in my course and membership community, about publishing with Atticus Review…
00:27:19  |   Wed 24 Nov 2021
#15 The Threepenny Review’s Wendy Lesser on Picking Pleasure Over Ambition [Replay]

#15 The Threepenny Review’s Wendy Lesser on Picking Pleasure Over Ambition [Replay]

“I think there is too much pushing forward in a way that is not motivated by pleasure, that is motivated by shaped ambition or greed or some sense that people have as to what they should want. Zoomin…
00:42:48  |   Tue 09 Nov 2021
#55 Handling Rejection of Your Writing and Finding Strength in Community

#55 Handling Rejection of Your Writing and Finding Strength in Community

You probably already know, or have heard, that rejection is a *big* part of writing to be read and submitting your work to lit mags. You probably also wish you could snap your fingers and become immu…
00:33:30  |   Tue 26 Oct 2021
#54 Four Writers on Finding Their “Lanes” and Publishing in Literary Magazines

#54 Four Writers on Finding Their “Lanes” and Publishing in Literary Magazines

Ellen Chang-Richardson is a poet, writer and editor of Taiwanese and Cambodian Chinese (or Chinese Cambodian) descent, whose writing has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Vallum Contemporary, and Watch You…
00:42:02  |   Tue 12 Oct 2021
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