Write, Publish, and Shine
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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- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 129
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2024
#39 Apple Valley Review—Do the Work You Want to Do with Leah Browning
The Apple Valley Review is a semiannual online literary journal founded in 2005 by Leah Browning. Published in the spring and fall, each issue features a collection of poetry, short fiction, and pers…
00:28:51 |
Wed 20 Nov 2019
#38 Mom Egg Review—Restore the Balance of Narratives with Marjorie Tesser
Mom Egg Review is a literary journal about motherhood. It promotes and celebrates the creative force of mother writers and artists. Mom Egg Review is about being a mother, in its many varieties. It i…
00:26:50 |
Tue 12 Nov 2019
#37 The Unpublishables—Reflect Your True Self with M. Paramita Lin and Doretta Lau
Writing may be the only pursuit that M. Paramita Lin hasn't accidentally stumbled into. In between hanging out with triad members and living in a succession of haunted flats in Hong Kong, she's also …
00:54:12 |
Wed 23 Oct 2019
#36 The Nasiona—Persuade with Julián Esteban Torres López
“Editing is a position of power that I take seriously. I’m a writer, author, creative in different ways and I experienced the negativity of being a victim of systems of oppression,” Julián Esteban To…
00:45:44 |
Sat 12 Oct 2019
#34 Make Relationships Right with Jessica Johns of Room Magazine
This episode focuses on working in close relationship with writers, and thinking through all your relationships as you navigate choices for your writing and in your writing community.Jessica Johns is…
00:46:20 |
Sun 01 Sep 2019
#33 Evoke Place with Mary Leauna Christensen of The Swamp Literary Magazine
The Swamp publishes work that evokes a sense of place, which, for The Swamp, is broadly defined. “We look forward to reading work that we can inhabit, no matter its geography. We do give preference t…
00:20:33 |
Sun 18 Aug 2019
#31 Push Back on What’s Expected with Felicity Landa of Literary Mama
Literary Mama believes that all mothers have a story worth sharing and honors the many faces of motherhood by publishing work that celebrates the journey as well as the job.Felicity Landa earned her …
00:21:28 |
Sun 14 Jul 2019
#30 Tear Down Structures with Anna Lena Phillips Bell & Rachel Taube of Ecotone
Founded at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2005, the award-winning magazine features writing and art that reimagine place, and our authors interpret this charge expansively. An ecotone…
00:31:11 |
Sun 30 Jun 2019
#29 Question and Observe with Alana Saltz of Blanket Sea Arts & Literary Magazine
Blanket Sea features work created by people living with chronic illness, mental illness, and disability. “There aren’t many places where writers and artists with illness and disabilities can express …
00:23:58 |
Sun 16 Jun 2019
#28 Know Who Your Readers Are (And Are Not) with Caroline Knecht of Whiskey Island
"A rejection letter doesn't mean it's not working." —Caroline Knecht of Whiskey IslandFounded in 1977, Whiskey Island is a nonprofit literary journal published by Cleveland State University. They acc…
00:26:24 |
Sun 02 Jun 2019
#27 Follow Your Lights with Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis and Gerald Maa of the Asian American Literary Review
"Our impulse is to trust writers and follow their lights. In cases where we’re editing and working closely with them, it’s to help them get to that place that they’re wanting to get to, but might wan…
00:31:44 |
Sun 19 May 2019
#26 Have Heart and Humility with Jasmine Gui of LooseLeaf Magazine
"I think intersectional community asks us to be open and mindful of difference. It asks us to have a posture of listening that requires a lot of effort, it requires a lot of heart, it requires a lot …
00:22:24 |
Sun 05 May 2019
#25 Be Generous & Wise with Jónína Kirton of Turtle Island Responds
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 polished, powerful pieces, …
00:25:24 |
Thu 15 Nov 2018
#24 Share Intimacy with Doyali Islam of Arc Poetry Magazine
In this episode of Lit Mag Love: A podcast for creative writers who want to publish, host Rachel Thompson interviews Doyali Islam from Arc magazine.Their conversation covers offering an emotional tru…
00:34:28 |
Thu 08 Nov 2018
#23 Learn from Others with Alexandria Petrassi of So to Speak Journal
In this episode of the Lit Mag Love Podcast, host Rachel Thompson talks with Alexandria Petrassi from So to Speak journal.Their discussion covers how the “canonical” writer has changed. “When I start…
00:26:37 |
Wed 31 Oct 2018
#22 Invite Readers In with Sakina Fakhri and Diana McClure of Azure magazine
In this episode of the Lit Mag Love Podcast, host Rachel Thompson talks with Sakina Fakhri and Diana McClure, founders of Azure magazine.Azure accepts literary fiction, creative non-fiction, excerpts…
00:53:16 |
Wed 24 Oct 2018
#21 Team Up with Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice and Marianne Chan of Split Lip
We talk about how their collaboration works and extends to the writers who submit to the journal. We cover jealousy in art and how the poems and stories they publish need to be ready for their solo a…
00:45:10 |
Wed 17 Oct 2018
#19 Take Control of Your Narrative with Robin Richardson of Minola Review
In this episode, Rachel Thompson talks with Robin Richardson, founder of the Minola Review. She discusses how she overcame early critiques of her writing by men—critiques she internalized. And they t…
00:37:07 |
Wed 26 Sep 2018
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#17 Delight in Language with Maya Marshall of [PANK]
In this episode, Rachel talks with Maya Marshall, a self-described demanding and productive writer and editor with [PANK] magazine—yes, the magazine founded by Roxane Gay.Among much glorious and affi…
00:37:46 |
Wed 12 Sep 2018
#16 Take Notice with Donna Talarico of Hippocampus
“I’ve just become better at noticing those little mechanical things,” says the guest for this episode, Donna Talarico, the founder and publisher of Hippocampus Magazine.Hippocampus makes memorable cr…
00:37:52 |
Wed 09 May 2018
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