Best Grant Faulkner Podcasts (2024)

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Become a Great Networker with Wisdom from the Warriors At Work Community Amanda Grant, Teneo 42:04

2d ago42:04

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Networking is a crucial aspect of any business. Whether you are just starting out or a seasoned business professional, building relationships can help you gain valuable insights and find new business opportunities. This series shares conversations with four extraordinary business women, from the Warrior community, to discuss the skills of networkin…

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Jill McCorkle, author of “Old Crimes” 1:00:41

4d ago1:00:41

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Jill McCorkle is the author of seven novels, two which came out on the same day in 1984 and, her most recent, Hieroglyphics, to great acclaim. Five of her books have been named New York Times notable books and four of her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories. Her essay, “Cuss Time,” originally published in The American Scholar, was …

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The Art of Intimacy, featuring Stacey D’Erasmo 49:26

4d ago49:26

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This week Write-minded reaches broadly into the topic of intimacy to explore its many permutations—not just romantic, but innocuous, violent, collective, and more. Guest Stacey D’Erasmo invites us to consider intimacy in writing, how we do it, how we feel it as readers, and also to consider acts of intimacy, like an older actress showing her authen…

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Ivy Pochoda, author of SING HER DOWN 52:39

10d ago52:39

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Ivy Pochoda is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Wonder Valley, Visitation Street, and These Women, a The New York Times best thriller of 2020. These Women was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, The Edgar Award, California Book Award, The Macavity Award, and the International Thriller Writers Award. Wonder Valley won the 2…

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The State of the Book Review, featuring John McMurtrie 42:00

11d ago42:00

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This week’s guest is John McMurtrie, the esteemed former editor of the San Francisco Chronicle’s book review section. Join us as we explore the transition of book reviews from traditional media like TV and radio to online outlets like Amazon and Goodreads. His is an interesting take about how things were and how things are, along with insight about…

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Great Networking with Amy Horner, Founder True Nine 26:58

18d ago26:58

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Networking is a crucial aspect of any business. Whether you are just starting out or a seasoned business professional, building relationships can help you gain valuable insights and find new business opportunities. This series shares conversations with four extraordinary business women, from the Warrior community, to discuss the skills of networkin…

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Steve Almond, author of “Truth is the Arrow, Mercy is the Bow” 1:06:06

18d ago1:06:06

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Steve Almond is the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Candyfreak and Against Football. You can check those out here. His recent books include the novel All the Secrets of the World, which has been optioned for television by 20th Century Fox, and William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Lif…

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Social Responsibility in Fiction, featuring Naomi Kanakia 46:41

18d ago46:41

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What does it really mean to consider your own social responsibility as a fiction writer? Guest Naomi Kanakia confronted that very question as she considered her modeling as a trans author writing YA books for teens. What if hers was the first book a genderqueer or trans kid ever read? What did she owe her reader? These are some of the questions at …

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Hannah Sward, author of STRIP 1:08:20

25d ago1:08:20

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Hannah Sward, daughter of the late poet Robert Sward, is the award-winning author of Strip, her debut memoir. Hannah has appeared on NBC CA Live, C-SPAN BookTV, dozens of podcasts, and panels, and has published essays in the Los Angeles Times, HuffPost (forthcoming), Arts & Letters, and more. Hannah lives in Los Angeles where she is working on her …

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Getting Real About Book Publishing, featuring Kathleen Schmidt 46:49

25d ago46:49

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Strap on your seatbelts ’cause we’re going for a ride—into the wild world of book publishing. Guest Kathleen Schmidt is a leading voice in publishing. Her popular Substack, Publishing Confidential, is a go-to source for tell-it-like-it-is realities about the industry and what authors can and should expect. We talk shop this week, touching upon auth…

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Katherine Heiny, author of “Games and Rituals” 1:01:28

1M ago1:01:28

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Katherine Heiny has traveled one of the more interesting roads into publishing we’ve heard in a while. She was published by The New Yorker at the incredible age of 25. Praised as a prodigy, her work appeared in an anthology alongside Alice Munro, Raymond Carver and Ann Beattie. And then she disappeared. She popped back up two decades later when she…

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The Big Familia of Writing Inspiration, featuring Tomas Moniz 39:52

1M ago39:52

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An episode about friendship, writing about friendship, and how friendship influences our writing lives. As a community-minded podcast, Write-minded has often touched upon the importance of a broader net of friendship on our writing. This week we get a bit more specific with guest Tomas Moniz, who’s written a new book about male friendship and whose…

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Literary agent Madeline Ticknor 55:07

1M ago55:07

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Madeline is an agent and assistant at Janklow & Nesbit looking for fiction that bridges the gap between commercial and literary, upmarket thrillers and grounded speculative stories that explore the ideas of family and home, and queer stories. She's also looking for select narrative nonfiction. Madeline began her agenting career in 2018 as an intern…

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Other People’s Words, featuring Lissa Soep 46:23

1M ago46:23

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This week’s Write-minded show examines the nuanced and deep exploration at the heart of guest Lissa Soep’s new book, Other People’s Words. A consideration of the ways others’ voices echo in our own, her book and this episode shows us a kaleidoscope of how we conjure and recycle and tap into the words of others. There’s much to unpack here, too, fro…

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Connecting Back to Nature at the National Aquarium with John Racanelli 43:39

2M ago43:39

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We welcome John Racanelli to join us in an inspiring conversation about our “Ocean Planet”. He shares with us his own journey and inspiration, as well as some of his innovative designs that bring awareness to the “ocean conservation space”. We know that protecting our oceans is essential for the well-being of our planet, but there is so much more. …

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Téa Obreht, author of “The Morningside” 1:02:43

2M ago1:02:43

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Téa Obreht is the international bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife, which won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award when she was only 25. Her second novel, Inland, was an instant bestseller, won the Southwest Book Award, and was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Téa’s latest is The Morningside, ou…

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Light-hearted Writing During Heavy-hearted Times, featuring Neely Tubati-Alexander 35:14

2M ago35:14

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Ready for a reprieve? Join Brooke and Grant and this week’s guest, Neely Tubati-Alexander, for a conversation about whether romance and rom-com writers are having more fun. We dive into questions of the success of the genre, what publishers are looking for, and how a writer gets into romance writing in the first place. A light-hearted episode in ce…

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Grant Faulkner, author of THE ART OF BREVITY 49:25

2M ago49:25

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Grant Faulkner, the former Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), the co-founder of 100 Word Story, and the co-host of the podcast, Write-minded. His essays on creativity have been published in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, Writer’s Digest, and The Writer. His stories have appeared in The Southwest Revi…

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Strategies for Writing About Childhood Trauma, featuring Javier Zamora 40:23

2M ago40:23

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This week Write-minded wades into the important topic of writing about childhood trauma. Trauma is at the heart of many of our stories, whether you’re writing coming-of-age or only touching upon childhood stories in the context of specific memoir scenes (or raw material for fiction). Javier’s memoir, Solito, is a stunning book about his nine-week j…

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Mona Simpson, author of “Commitment” 59:58

2M ago59:58

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Mona Simpson is the bestselling author of seven novels including Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, Off Keck Road, My Hollywood, Casebook and, most recently, Commitment. Mona studied poetry at Berkley. She got her MFA from Columbia. During grad school, she published her first short stories in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review and Mademo…

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Recovering from the Stigma of a "Failed" First Novel, featuring Ethel Rohan 49:06

2M ago49:06

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It's important to learn from the challenges of a failed book rather than allowing it to define your career. The publishing industry can be harsh and unforgiving to writers in this situation. Unforgiving as in agents abandoning the writer or publishers turning away future work, not because of its quality, but because of the one book that didn’t sell…

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Literary agent CeCe Lyra 57:27

2M ago57:27

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CeCe Lyra, a literary agent at P.S. Literary Agency, represents adult fiction and nonfiction. She is especially looking for clients with whom she can build fruitful, lasting relationships. CeCe believes that stories are empathy-generating machines capable of healing, connecting, and enacting true change. As a mixed-race Latinx immigrant, CeCe under…

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Journeying into Writerly Aesthetic, featuring K-Ming Chang 45:24

2M ago45:24

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A fun episode about aesthetic, language, and paying attention to style and taste in writing. This week’s guest K-Ming Chang talks about disorientation as a style, language as something that lives in the body, and hating plot. This is a playful interview that focuses on the experiential and reminds us that we all have an existential position on our …

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Louise Kennedy, author of “Trespasses” and “The End of the World is a Cul De Sac” 53:06

2M ago53:06

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Louise Kennedy may not have been a name you’d heard five years ago. Since 2021, she’s had both a debut novel and a collection of short stories published. Trespasses was named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post and shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her story collection The End of the World is a Cul De Sac came out to great a…

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Breaking Into Ghostwriting and Work-for-Hire Writing, featuring Aubre Andrus 35:35

2M ago35:35

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Ghostwriting and work-for-hire are great ways to break into the publishing industry and to make a living as a writer. Guest Aubre Andrus shows us a side of the writing and publishing business that can seem a bit elusive. And more and more writers are taking on work for hire projects due to mass media layoffs and greater transparency by celebrities …

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Andrew Ewell, author of SET FOR LIFE 58:01

3M ago58:01

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Andrew Ewell, the author of the new novel, Set for Life. He’s received fellowships from Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and VCCA France. His stories and essays have appeared in Salon, the Chattahoochee Review, Five Chapters, and TriQuarterly, among others. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Boston University and taught creat…

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Reinvention with Caroline Faulkner 49:25

3M ago49:25

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This week we welcome Caroline Faulkner to help set our Warriors on the path to change and reinvention. Caroline guides teams through pivotal changes and has been an incredible coach over the past 35 years of her career. Together she takes us through a pivotal change in her life recently that lead to her own growth, evolution and transformation. She…

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How Stories Get Carried Through the Generations and in Our Bones, featuring Ingrid Rojas Contreras 55:30

3M ago55:30

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This week’s Write-minded floats into the magical and surreal world of Ingrid Rojas Contreras, who talks about her new memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds, about her curandera-storytelling mother and their shared history of amnesia, and about why to her magical realism is just realism. Grant and Brooke consider what gets passed down to us from our…

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Kristin Hannah, author of “The Women” 55:41

3M ago55:41

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Kristin Hannah is the award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels including the international blockbuster, The Nightingale. She also authored the NYT bestsellers The Great Alone, The Four Winds and, most recently, The Women, which shares the largely untold tales of women in the Vietnam War who served in the nursing corp. Warner Brot…

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Get Into Your Writing Using All the Senses, featuring Janet Fitch 57:21

3M ago57:21

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In this gorgeous, sensualistic, tactile, provocative episode of Write-minded, we explore the senses with Janet Fitch of White Oleander fame. In this interview, Janet takes us on a tour through the senses, making the point that our language is impoverished and we can—and must—do more to become more sophisticated observers on the page. This is an epi…

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Transformation with David Brown Jr. 34:51

3M ago34:51

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This week we continue to explore the power of transformation with my special guest, David Brown Jrs (DBJ), Head of Operations Support and Business Controls for the US Businesses at Prudential Financial. He is also an author, coach and one of the coolest spiritual individuals I have known over the years. He shares with us how he defines transformati…

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Literary agent Emma Dries 1:05:09

3M ago1:05:09

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Literary agent Emma Dries is a writer and editor, and an agent at Triangle House Literary, where she represents literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, and academic crossover, with a special interest in climate writing. She began her career in editorial, working with bestselling and award winning authors at Alfred A. Knopf, Doubleday, Ecco, and Fla…

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How to Be Self-Revealing in Memoir When You're Not In Real Life, featuring Dr. Brian H. Williams 43:25

3M ago43:25

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This week's episode moves beyond inspiring and into the territory of important, essential, and recommended listening—and reading. Guest Dr. Brian H. Williams, author of the debut memoir, The Bodies Keep Coming, joins us to talk about his experience as a trauma surgeon, and what being on the hospital frontlines can teach us about racial inequities i…

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Hisham Matar, author of “My Friends” 1:00:41

3M ago1:00:41

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Pulitzer Prize winning author Hisham Matar’s debut novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and The Guardian First Book Award and won numerous international prizes. His prize-winning memoir, The Return, published in 2016, received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize. It was one of The New York Times' top 10 books of the year. He’s…

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Hidden Stories, featuring Vanessa Chan 37:32

3M ago37:32

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Hidden stories are at the heart of many a novel and memoir, driving writers, often from very young ages, toward exploration, uncovering, and the desire to seek for and know truths. Vanessa Chan’s new novel, The Storm We Made, is one such story, spawned by the unlikeliest of spies—a discontent mother and wife in 1930s British Malaya who, in becoming…

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