Best Ann Elkins Podcasts (2024)

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CAConrad & Luke Roberts: Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return 1:07:45

43m ago1:07:45

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CAConrad is one of the most productive and inventive poets of their generation. Writing in the New York Times, Tracey K. Smith described how Conrad’s poetry ‘invites the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery, to step outside of passivity and propriety and to become susceptible to the illogical and the mysterious’ – a susceptibility f…

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Episode 233 - An Office Hour with Coach Laura Humm 1:16:15

4h ago1:16:15

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In this episode, Dialogue Doctor Coach Laura Humm holds an Office Hour with four different authors. Together they discuss, how to keep track of the details in your book, how to manage flashbacks, should you add emails or letters to your narrative, the benefits and draw backs of having more than one POV, and more. For more on writing craft, go to ht…

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Episode 232 - How to Build a Main Character Dialogue Dash Style 1:09:35

1h ago1:09:35

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In this episode, we share a webinar from the Spring Dialogue Dash. We talk about how to build a main character. We discuss developing a character's personality and the character's voice. We then dive into what happens when you have more than one vehicle and why it is important to provide variety. Finally, we get into voice modulation and how it int…

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Roxy Dunn on As Young As This 37:35

10h ago37:35

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Our guest this week is Roxy Dunn, whose debut novel As Young As This is a meticulous examination of the lives and loves of young women today. Told, strikingly, in the second person, it is structured by the the succession of first boys, then men in the protagonist Margot’s life, and populated by dysfunctional friends and a wisecracking, but deeply c…

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Olivia Laing & Jon Day: The Garden Against Time 56:23

2h ago56:23

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Drawing on her own experience restoring a walled garden in Suffolk, and moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton’s Paradise Lost to John Clare’s enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Olivia Laing’s The Garden Against Time interrogates the sometimes shocking c…

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Episode 231 - Cast Analysis of Knives Out 1:07:57

4h ago1:07:57

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In this episode, Jeff sits down with members of the community to analyze the cast of Knives Out. They discuss how the multiple vehicle structure works, how the cast members impact one another, and what we can learn from the script for our own work. For more on the craft of writing, check out https://dialoguedoctor.com/…

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Episode 230 - Creating Characters with Emotional Resonance with Holly Lyne 1:17:35

2h ago1:17:35

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In this episode, Jeff sits down with author Holly Lyne to look at her work in progress. They talk about laying out the emotional beats of a scene, world building in dialogue, creating mystery in a book and a scene, and using body language and inner thoughts to pull the reader into the emotional experience. For more on the craft of writing, check ou…

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Poetry: Ishion Hutchinson reads from and discusses School of Instructions 47:31

1h ago47:31

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School of Instructions, the latest work by Ishion Hutchinson, draws from the time he spent in the archive of the Imperial War Museum, to foreground the experience—brutal, significant, but long overlooked—of West Indian volunteers in the First World War. This book length poem is a sensorial voyage into the convoys, garrisons and trenches of the Midd…

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Sarah Perry & Helen Macdonald: Enlightenment 55:36

2h ago55:36

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At a Bethesda Baptist chapel two worshippers, separated in age by three decades, are drawn together by common interests, driven apart by divergent loves, before being reunited by the mysteries surrounding their small town. Francis Spufford describes Enlightenment (Jonathan Cape) as ‘a book in which everything is kindled into light by Sarah Perry’s …

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Episode 229 - Empowering Your Writing through the Enneagram with Claire Taylor 55:14

42m ago55:14

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In this episode, Jeff sits down with author and Enneagram guru Claire Taylor. Jeff and Claire talk about why author's should know their number, how the Enneagram compares to other personality assessments, why the Enneagram is good for self understanding, and then ways you can use the Enneagram as a writer. You can find all things Claire Taylor at F…

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Episode 228 - Showing vs Telling with AG Bowman and JP Rindfleisch IX 1:16:57

1d ago1:16:57

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In this episode, Dialogue Doctor Coach JP Rindfleisch IX sits down with author AG Bowman to discuss AG's opening scene. They discuss how to show the scene over telling facts, how to maintain a gritty noir narrative voice, how to help the reader experience the Vehicle character's feelings, working with an unreliable narrator, and managing journal en…

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Michael Donkor on Grow Where They Fall 1:00:38

15d ago1:00:38

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This week’s guest is Michael Donkor whose new novel Grow Where They Fall is a meticulous and tender exploration of two formative moments in the life of one Kwame Akromah, twenty years apart. Kwame is Black, Gay, British of Ghanian descent, a dedicated teacher, a dependable friend—character traits and conditions of life that weave around each other …

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Anne Michaels & Stephen Dillane: Held 1:02:44

18d ago1:02:44

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Held is Anne Michaels’ long-awaited new novel – following on from the 1996 classic Fugitive Pieces and 2009’s The Winter Vault – exploring, in the words of Margaret Atwood, ‘war and its damages, passed through generations over a century’. Michaels shared an extended reading from Held with actor Stephen Dillane, who played Jakob Beer in the 2007 fil…

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Episode 227 - Creating Great Work with Ann Garvin 1:07:57

1h ago1:07:57

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In this episode, JP sits down with Author Ann Garvin. Ann is a scientist turned humorist, a USA TODAY and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of five books. JP and Ann discuss her journey from science to writing, how she helps writers enchant readers with high concepts, keeping characters centric to your writing, asking what the purpose of a story …

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Episode 226 - Writing a Big Family Scene with Dixie Williams and Laura Humm 1:15:17

12d ago1:15:17

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In this episode, Dialogue Doctor Coach Laura Humm sits down with new author Dixie Williams to look at a scene Dixie has written. They talk about writing well known family tropes, making sure the reader knows who is in the scene so the reader can imagine the scene, orienting family relationships at the opening of the scene so we understand the famil…

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Writing Against Normality, with Samanta Schweblin 1:02:53

21d ago1:02:53

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The seven stories in Samanta Schweblin’s Seven Empty Houses are not just about houses—how they contain us, how they constrain us—but are also about the families compressed in them, the objects stored in them, the neighbours that circle them…and the trauma that has soaked into their walls over years past, and that is now seeping slowly out, poisonin…

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Dean Atta & Michael Rosen: Person Unlimited 45:19

6d ago45:19

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Choirboy, drag act, grandson, mentor, poet, lover, activist, performer: Dean Atta has played many roles in his life. In his explosive, candid and courageous memoir Person Unlimited (Canongate) he describes a life lived in defiance of categories. Benjamin Zephaniah wrote of Atta’s work as being ‘As honest as truth itself. He follows no trend; he see…

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Episode 225 - Talking Great Stories - Time with Tom 1:06:07

27d ago1:06:07

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In this Time with Tom, Editor, Bookstore Owner, and author Tom Holbrook takes time out of his vacation to talk books and personal updates with Jeff. To find Tom's work, check out his services here https://holbrookauthorservices.com/ For more on the craft of writing, check out https://dialoguedoctor.com/…

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Episode 224 - Powerful Scenes and Short Stories with Mary Van Everboeck 1:07:33

1M ago1:07:33

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In this episode, Jeff sits down with author Mary Van Everboeck to talk about a short story she is writing. They talk about finding themes, creating driving conflicts, and the difference between a short story and a scene from a novel. For more on the craft of writing, check out https://dialoguedoctor.com/…

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Parenting in the age of AI, with Helen Phillips 52:34

1M ago52:34

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So much has been written about the imminent transformation that Artificial Intelligence will bring to our world. But it is often hard to get much of a sense of what that will mean on a personal level—for our work, for our leisure and, perhaps most importantly of all, for our families. What improvements will result? What new tensions will arise? Wha…

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Kristin Hersh & Jennifer Hodgson: The Future of Songwriting 59:18

13d ago59:18

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In The Future of Songwriting, lead singer with Throwing Muses, solo artist and songwriter Kristin Hersh reflects on the status and future of her chosen genre over a long, hot Christmas in Australia. In a series of conversations, encounters and philosophical dialogues Hersh delivers a fierce, funny and existential meditation on the art of the song -…

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Episode 223 - The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop (a Joint with JP) 1:09:16

1M ago1:09:16

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In this episode, Dialogue Doctor Coaches Jeff Elkins and JP Rindfleisch IX talk about the book The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop by Felicia Rose Chavez. They discuss the principles of the book, how they aspire to replicate these attitudes in their coaching, and how this kind of work has impacted their writing and editing. And Jeff makes everything m…

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Episode 222 - Writing Plot Twists into a Mystery 53:22

1M ago53:22

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In this Ask Me Anything Session, Dialogue Doctor Coach Laura Humm talks with author Mara about the plot twists she's planning for her work in process. They discuss tricking readers, setting up twists in advance, and how Sherlock Holmes novels worked. For more on the craft of writing, check out https://dialoguedoctor.com/…

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Ann Elkins Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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The Dialogue Doctor Podcast

Jeff Elkins

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The Shakespeare and Company Interview

Shakespeare and Company

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London Review Bookshop Podcast

London Review Bookshop

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The Scratching Pen Podcast

Beverly Jones-Durr

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Bookaholic

Deirdre Pippins

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CAConrad & Luke Roberts: Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return 1:07:45

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Episode 233 - An Office Hour with Coach Laura Humm 1:16:15

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Episode 232 - How to Build a Main Character Dialogue Dash Style 1:09:35

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Roxy Dunn on As Young As This 37:35

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Olivia Laing & Jon Day: The Garden Against Time 56:23

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Episode 231 - Cast Analysis of Knives Out 1:07:57

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Episode 230 - Creating Characters with Emotional Resonance with Holly Lyne 1:17:35

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Poetry: Ishion Hutchinson reads from and discusses School of Instructions 47:31

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Sarah Perry & Helen Macdonald: Enlightenment 55:36

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Episode 229 - Empowering Your Writing through the Enneagram with Claire Taylor 55:14

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Episode 228 - Showing vs Telling with AG Bowman and JP Rindfleisch IX 1:16:57

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Michael Donkor on Grow Where They Fall 1:00:38

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Anne Michaels & Stephen Dillane: Held 1:02:44

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Episode 227 - Creating Great Work with Ann Garvin 1:07:57

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Episode 226 - Writing a Big Family Scene with Dixie Williams and Laura Humm 1:15:17

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Writing Against Normality, with Samanta Schweblin 1:02:53

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Dean Atta & Michael Rosen: Person Unlimited 45:19

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Episode 225 - Talking Great Stories - Time with Tom 1:06:07

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Episode 224 - Powerful Scenes and Short Stories with Mary Van Everboeck 1:07:33

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Parenting in the age of AI, with Helen Phillips 52:34

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Kristin Hersh & Jennifer Hodgson: The Future of Songwriting 59:18

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Episode 223 - The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop (a Joint with JP) 1:09:16

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Episode 222 - Writing Plot Twists into a Mystery 53:22

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