Best Cnf Podcasts (2024)

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#89 [Replay] Start With a Meaningful Moment—Flash Memoir with Writer Lina Lau 33:07

1h ago33:07

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Lina Lau, writer, mother, and owner of too many notebooks, has published short memoir in X-R-A-Y, Prairie Fire, Hippocampus (where she is now a reader as well), Carte Blanch, and Little Fiction/Big Truths. We discuss how flash memoir writing captures a moment and the characteristics required of memoirists. Lina also reads a 100-word story, bringing…

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#97 Resist Expectations with Author Cicely Belle Blain 45:09

15d ago45:09

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Welcome to our last instalment of this string of episodes on writing with limitations and disabilities. I’m so happy to end this with the wonderful Cicely Belle Blain, the final member of my writing community who kindly agreed to join us to discuss limitations and disabilities when it comes to writing. Reading from Cicely’s bio: Cicely Belle Blain …

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#96 Set L. Shuter on Using Humour and Being Kind to Herself as a Chronically Ill Writer 48:30

29d ago48:30

48:30

Welcome to our semi-final instalment of this string of episodes on writing with limitations and disabilities. In this episode, writer S.L. Shuter, a member of my Writerly Love Community, talks about embracing an identity related to her diagnosis and the push back she received for this. Set L. Shuter is a writer, filmmaker and storyteller from Toron…

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#95 Crystal Randall Barnett on Writing, Disability & Intuition 28:09

1M ago28:09

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Welcome to the next instalment of this string of episodes on writing with limitations and disabilities. In this episode, Crystal Randall Barnett, a member of my Writerly Love Community, adds to the conversations we’ve been having in this series of episodes on writing slowly and listening to your body. Crystal Randall Barnett is an emerging writer f…

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#94 Andrea Martineau: Believe Writers About Limitations and Disabilities 24:47

1M ago24:47

24:47

Welcome to the fourth instalment of this string of episodes on the theme of writing with limitations and disabilities. Andrea Martineau is a writer, poet, bibliophile, and phytomaniac (I had to look that one up: a plant lover!) with a penchant for heritage buildings and their paranormal tenants. Her poetry has previously been published and shared i…

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#93 Amy Vickers, An Autistic Writer on Beautiful Flaws 36:55

2M ago36:55

36:55

Welcome to my next conversation in this run of episodes on writing with disabilities and limitations. In this episode, I sit down with Amy Yuki Vickers, a new writer in our community and a recent alum of my Lit Mag Love course. Amy is the author of the blog and newsletter The Intentional Hulk, writes short stories and personal essays, and is at wor…

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#92 Olwen Wilson on Following Joy While Writing with a Chronic Condition 40:44

2M ago40:44

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Welcome to the next episode in this run of episodes on writing with disabilities and limitations. In this episode, a wonderful Writerly Love Community member, Olwen Wilson talks with me about following joy and writing with a chronic condition. We discuss labels and their conflicting appeal/repellent nature. And, what I suspect will be a through lin…

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8.4 - Sweet Sorrow 1:24:14

2M ago1:24:14

1:24:14

8.4 - Sweet Sorrow by Life Out Loud PodcastBy Life Out Loud Podcast

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#91 Shantell Powell on Visceral Writing and Writing with ADHD 35:54

2M ago35:54

35:54

Welcome to the first interview in my series of episodes on writing with disabilities and limitations. I sit down with a wonderful Writerly Love membership community member, Shantell Powell, a two-spirit author, artist, and self-described swamp hag who grew up on the land and off the grid. Her publication credits include Augur, Solarpunk Magazine, M…

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#79 [Replay] Three Lessons on Writing, Revising, and Publishing Your Writing 1:08:56

2M ago1:08:56

1:08:56

The Write, Publish, Shine Intensive, which brings together my three courses: Write and Light, a course to get writers generating new, more profound work; Revision Love, my course on learning to self-edit your writing; and Lit Mag Love, my flagship course on getting published in literary journals. All of the resources mentioned in the episode are in…

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#90 Accessibility for Writers with Disabilities and Limitations 50:43

3M ago50:43

50:43

In this episode, I sit down with our Community Facilitator, Meli Walker, to discuss what we do to make our online course community more accessible to writers with disabilities and limitations. This episode marks the beginning of a run of episodes focusing on writing with limitations/disability. Coming up, you’ll hear me talk with writers with vario…

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#49 [Replay] Augur Magazine co-Editor-in-Chief Terese Mason Pierre—Nothing Has to Happen 47:06

3M ago47:06

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“Nothing has to happen in the story. There doesn't need to be explosions or big shocking twists. It's just enough to have well-developed characters and a beautiful world.” —Terese Mason Pierre, Augur Terese Mason Pierre is co-Editor-in-Chief of Augur, a Canadian speculative literature journal, and has published work in Hobart, The Puritan, Quill an…

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#89 Start With a Meaningful Moment—Flash Memoir with Writer Lina Lau 33:46

3M ago33:46

33:46

Lina Lau, writer, mother, and owner of too many notebooks, has published short memoir in X-R-A-Y, Prairie Fire, Hippocampus (where she is now a reader as well), Carte Blanch, and Little Fiction/Big Truths. We talk about how flash memoir writing captures a moment, how Lina reads a 100-word story and brings us into the experience of writing it, and a…

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8.3 - State of Emergency 59:03

4M ago59:03

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8.3 - State of Emergency by Life Out Loud PodcastBy Life Out Loud Podcast

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#78 [Replay] Writing About Social Issues with Author Kavita Das 50:41

4M ago50:41

50:41

All craft is political. It’s how we, as writers, resist injustices and dream up better worlds. So, listen to this conversation with the brilliant Kavita Das, and then take up your pen. Kavita Das really takes us on an intentional journey with her deep knowledge of social justice work. She challenges us to unpack our motivations for writing about an…

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#59 [Replay] The Gettysburg Review with Mark Drew on Reflecting on the Time You're In 43:18

4M ago43:18

43:18

During the Lit Mag Love course, writers can join Q&A calls with editors. In this replay episode, you will hear one such call with Mark Drew of the Gettysburg Review. Note that this call happened in the first year of the pandemic, so you’ll get an editor’s perspective on the kind of reflection missing from most writing during an intense moment—at le…

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8.2 - Shadows of the Shield 1:08:42

4M ago1:08:42

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8.2 - Shadows of the Shield by Life Out Loud PodcastBy Life Out Loud Podcast

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#67 [Replay] Empathy for You and Your Reader with Lyric Writer, Christina Brobby 22:40

4M ago22:40

22:40

In this episode, it’s my pleasure to welcome Christina Brobby, a wonderful lyric writer and instructor, to the podcast. We start by getting into what exactly lyric writing is, if you’re wondering, so that will be cleared up right away. Christina also delves into how the “filter is the form” as she wonderfully sums it up. Listen for more of our expl…

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#88 Writerly Book Club: All About “On Connection” by Kae Tempest 49:16

5M ago49:16

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Memoirist Yolande House sits down with me for a book club conversation about Kae Tempest’s On Connection. It was a real pleasure to read this book alongside her and compare notes. And I hope those of you reading alongside us in our book club enjoy it. About On Connection: This is a book about connection. About how immersing ourselves in creativity …

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#87 Grief is a Ghost with Poet and Artist Sarah Esmi (Ghosts #8) 31:38

5M ago31:38

31:38

This is the final episode in my series of special episodes of Write, Publish, and Shine that take a deep dive into the creation of Room magazine issue 46.3, where I was lead editor of the issue. Today it’s my delight to speak to another artist whose work we accepted for inside the issue. Sarah Esmi (she/her) is an Iranian-American mother, writer, c…

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#86 Letting Your Work Fall Apart with Artist Amy Friend (Ghosts #7) 45:17

5M ago45:17

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This is the seventh, wow!, in my series of special episodes of Write, Publish, and Shine as I take you on a deep dive into the creation of Room magazine issue 46.3, where I was lead editor of the issue. In this issue, I spoke with our cover artist, Amy Friend, who was also the cover artist for the very first issue I edited for Room, called Mytholog…

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#85 Expanding on Your Vision with ViNa Nguyễn (Ghosts #6) 43:52

5M ago43:52

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This is the sixth in my series of special episodes of Write, Publish, and Shine as I take you on a deep dive into the creation of Room magazine issue 46.3, where I was lead editor of the issue. In this issue, I spoke with another incredible writer we published in the issue, ViNa Nguyễn. Our conversation went in many beautiful directions, including …

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#84 Reviews Editor Micah Killjoy on learning craft from books (Ghosts #5) 36:42

6M ago36:42

36:42

This is the fifth in my series of special episodes as I take you on a deep dive into the creation of Room magazine issue 46.3, where I was lead editor of the issue. In this episode, a luminous conversation with Room’s Book Reviews editor, Micah Killjoy. We delve into reviewing as a practice for writers to understand craft, what Micah did differentl…

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#63 [Replay] Ghosts and Haunting with Room Editor Ellen Chang-Richardson 36:28

6M ago36:28

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In this replay episode, Ellen Chang-Richardson and I both speak as editorial collective members at Room, and as editors of the (then) upcoming issue of Room’s Ghosts issue. Ellen and I get a little into how things work behind the scenes at Room, and how we (the collective) are many people, all rolling up our sleeves to create space in literature, a…

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8.1 - Finding My Place 1:06:59

6M ago1:06:59

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8.1 - Finding My Place by Life Out Loud PodcastBy Life Out Loud Podcast

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#83 Our Ghostly Interactions Creating a Lit Mag with Publisher Nara Monteiro 52:35

6M ago52:35

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The fourth in my series of special episodes of Write, Publish, and Shine as I take you on a deep dive into the creation of Room magazine issue 46.3, where I was lead editor of the issue. In this issue, to my delight, I sat down with Room’s publisher, Nara Monteiro. We delve into the role of Publisher and what they do day-to-day at the magazine and …

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#82 Talking to Spirits and Handling Success with Aviaq Johnston (Ghosts #3) 46:23

6M ago46:23

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Welcome to the third in my series of special episodes of Write, Publish, and Shine as I take you on a deep dive into the creation of Room magazine issue 46.3, where I was lead editor of the issue.One of my jobs as editor is to commission one established writer to be featured in the magazine. To do so, I started by searching for writers working in t…

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#81 Make It Personal with Room Writers Reyzl Grace & Annette C. Boehm (Ghosts #2) 1:15:26

7M ago1:15:26

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Welcome to the second Ghost-themed special episodes of Write, Publish, and Shine as I take you on a deep dive into the creation of Room magazine issue 46.3, Ghosts, where I was lead editor of the issue.Why do lit mag editors choose the pieces they do? One answer to this question is “deeply personal”—by which I mean we pick work that resonates becau…

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#80 Ghosts (#1) 1:03:33

7M ago1:03:33

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Welcome to the first in a series of special episodes of Write, Publish, and Shine as I take you on a deep dive into the creation of Room magazine issue 46.3, where I was lead editor of the issue.When we made our call for submissions we invited writers and visual artists to come haunt us. And they did. In this episode of Write, Publish, and Shine, y…

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#61 Staying True to You as You Publish with Laurel Parry, Lyndall Cain, and Tamara Jong [Replay] 28:09

7M ago28:09

28:09

It felt like the right time—in this season when people join writing programs and restart sending out submissions to lit mags—to replay this episode on Staying True to Yourself. Even if you already heard this episode, I suggest a re-listen because it’s a lesson we’re all apparently learning and relearning together…This is a special episode of the Wr…

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#79 Three lessons on writing, revising, and publishing your writing 1:08:12

7M ago1:08:12

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We talk all about the Write, Publish, Shine Intensive, which brings together my three courses, Write and Light, a course to get writers generating new, more profound work, Revision Love, my course on learning to self-edit your writing, and Lit Mag Love, my flagship course on getting published in literary journals.Grab all of the lessons and resourc…

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#78 Writing About Social Issues with Author Kavita Das 54:45

7M ago54:45

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Kavita Das really takes us on an intentional journey with her deep knowledge of social justice work and challenges us to unpack our motivations for writing about an issue and to understand that “writing, irrespective of genre or outlet, is an act of political writing,” regardless of intention.Craft and Conscience: How to Write About Social Issues b…

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Five Things Writers Can Stop Doing 14:21

11M ago14:21

14:21

If you’re just tuning into my podcast, welcome. I’m on a break, but I will be back in late August. Pick up a copy of our book club read, Craft and Conscience by Kavita Das, to join our book-club conversation, which will appear in this feed here in August. To catch up over the summer, I encourage you to listen to my recent episode series on Agency f…

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#77 Come From a Place of Passion and Honesty in Your Writing Life 35:39

11M ago35:39

35:39

Megan Beadle ran her own literary agency for several years. So, if you’ve been listening to the last run of episodes, that word, agent, rings a bell. Ding, ding! We’re still talking about literary agency with the intention of both demystifying the role of agents a little and encouraging you, dear writer, to follow your path with intentionality and …

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#76 Make Your Own Map with Wendy Atwell 33:14

11M ago33:14

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This is the continuation of our agency theme on the podcast...I interview another luminous Writerly Love community member, Wendy Atwell, who is earlier in the process than our previous member guest who secured agents, Lacey Yong and Jessica Waite.Wendy is writing and revising her memoir, and I think it’s the perfect time to check in with her becaus…

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7.3 - (No) Can Do? 51:47

11M ago51:47

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7.3 - (No) Can Do? by Life Out Loud PodcastBy Life Out Loud Podcast

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#75 Literary Agency with Room Editor and Multi-Hyphenate Geffen Semach 32:30

12M ago32:30

32:30

As this is the third episode in the mini-series of episodes on the theme of agency and finding agency with your writing, we spend the most time talking about Geffen Semach's experience working as a Literary Agent’s Assistant and then cover the multiple roles they have held in the literary business. We also talk about audiobooks, and Geffen’s curren…

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#74 Anchoring into Your Why with Memoirist Jessica Waite 27:14

12M ago27:14

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The second in our series exploring the theme of agency for writers, our double-entendre theme of both intentionality and finding an agent. Jessica Waite, the author of the forthcoming memoir, The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards, shares her story of finding an agent slowly and then all of a sudden, and having her book sell very quickly BEFORE it coul…

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7.2 - Regretfully Yours 1:12:23

12M ago1:12:23

1:12:23

7.2 - Regretfully Yours by Life Out Loud PodcastBy Life Out Loud Podcast

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#73 Agency: Finding an Agent with Lacey Yong 37:55

1y ago37:55

37:55

The first in our series on the theme of agency—a term both literal (i.e. about finding an agent) and abstract, in that we talk about pursuing your writing life with intentionality. In this episode you'll hear from Lacey Yong, learn about her YA historical fantasy, writing in multiple genres, navigating writing as a new parent, and the idea of agenc…

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#72 Book Club: Voice First by Sonya Huber 44:39

1y ago44:39

44:39

In this episode it is our Book Club Conversation and we talk about Voice First: A Writer’s Manifesto by Sonya Huber, sharing who we think the book is for, how it helped with our writing, and what it adds to our ongoing conversation about craft.Find episode show notes at https://rachelthompson.co/podcast/72 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for…

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Cool Loneliness [Replay] 12:07

1y ago12:07

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Reflections on cool loneliness: When I’m not writing enough, I lose track of what I believe, who I am, and who I truly want to be. Also, Book Club Conversation is coming up. Also, Book Club Conversation is coming up. Be sure to check out Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto by Sonya Huber and then listen to our next episode for the low-down on the boo…

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#71 Touch, Sight, and the Sixth Sense in Your Writing 38:07

1y ago38:07

38:07

In this episode, it’s part two of our most recent six senses showcase.The writers you will hear all participated in the workshop series I offered last year on the six senses.As I mentioned in part one of this series, we had so much goodness, that we did our showcase over two episodes. That’s why you’ll hear us mention the readers and speakers from …

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#70 Special Episode: State of the Community 53:16

1y ago53:16

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In this episode, it’s a little peak behind the podcast. I have some real hashtag transparency moments around what I’m working on and what I have heard from writers in our broader community, which—in case you don't know—includes you! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.By Rachel Thompson

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#69 Sound, Smell, and Taste in Your Writing 39:58

1y ago39:58

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In this episode, we come to our senses again. We had another LIVE showcase of writers in the Writerly Love community. The writers you will hear all participated in the workshop series I offered last year on the six senses. This is our second showcase. A first group of writers also showcased the senses back in episode 64 ([https://rachelthompson.co/…

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7.1 - Over the Table 1:12:13

1y ago1:12:13

1:12:13

Some of our best thoughts are shared at the table!By Life Out Loud Podcast

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#68 Craft Book Club Conversation—The Poet's Companion by Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux 38:22

1y ago38:22

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In this episode it is my pleasure to introduce you to two members of our Writerly Love Community and bring you in to our book club conversation. We’ve been doing our close craft-book readings for a couple of years now. So, I love bringing you, dear listeners who are not members of the Writerly Love community—yet, into this conversation! (You can al…

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Wrap-Up: Empathy for Writers 15:20

1y ago15:20

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Wrap-Up: Empathy for Writers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.By Rachel Thompson

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#67 Empathy for You and Your Reader with Lyric Writer, Christina Brobby 24:18

1y ago24:18

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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. Yo…

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#66 Empathy for Objects in Your Writing with Lyndall Cain 32:33

1y ago32:33

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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…

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