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The high-art low-brow minds behind Bloomsday Literary bring you interviews with the creatives you should know, but don’t. Poets, novelists, memoirists, & short story writers join co-hosts Ka...

Phuc and Kate speak with the acclaimed and straight-up luminous Texas Poet Laureate, ire’ne lara silva, at the 2023 Writer’s Family Reunion...

Audio Block Double-click here to upload or link to a .mp3. Learn more Guadalupe Garcia McCall is an author, poet, and educator who has been...

Enzo Silon Surin writes, composes, and publishes artifacts on the “witness continuum”—art that he says “pays homage to the culture in which...

Does Alyson Sinclair sleep? We had to keep asking ourselves as we chatted it up with Alyson from the floor of AWP (Association of Writing an...

As Program Director of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), Chelsea Kern is the glue that holds so much of the indie lite...

Poetry “carr[ies] the most human of voices” for Deema Shehabi, a Palestinian-American writer whose work has appeared in publications includi...

Audio Block Double-click here to upload or link to a .mp3. Learn more Neema Avaisha is an author and a public school civics and history teac...

Exploring the specificities of a diaspora while also calling upon ancestral experiences is just one of the many threads Maha Ahmed weaves th...

Matt Bell is an author, English professor, and editor. He currently teaches creative writing at Arizona State University. In this episode li...

Kristen Millares Young calls her novel Subduction “a study of recurrently going meta,” or “an examination of the longing that we have to be...

V.V. Ganeshananthan is an author, poet, and journalist, whose works have been featured in Granta , The New York Times , and The Best America...

Amanda Niehaus has a PhD in Physiological Ecology. She is the author of numerous award-winning short stories, essays, and an acclaimed novel...

Corraling the myriad ways Sumita Chakraborty’s poetry collection gets at the heart of grief all but flummoxed me. Its meaning is still washi...

Vanessa Garcia is a Miami-based novelist, playwright, journalist, and visual artist. Much of her work centers on her Cuban homeland, where h...

Photo credit: Mike Glier Aimee Bender graduated from UC Irvine and teaches at USC. Her books have received accolades in all the major outlet...

Craig Santos Perez is a native Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guam. He is the co-founder of Ala Press , and the author of three collecti...

Farid Matuk’s poetry, essays, and translations from Spanish appear in a wide range of publications and anthologies. He is the author of the...

We talked to Michael Zapata about his novel The Lost Book of Adana Moreau . It was the winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award for Ficti...

Alison Deming is so prolific and has been writing for so long that it was a bit overwhelming to pack into a 20-minute interview, but we trie...

AWP 21 Episode—Jeffrey Colvin (Day 2, Episode 1) We talk to Jeffrey Colvin about his stunning new book, Africaville . Jeffrey Colvin is a gr...

In honor of the launch of Catherine Baab-Muguira’s new book, Poe for Your Problems , we are re-releasing F***ing Shakespeare’s interview wit...

Day 1, Episode 1 To kick off the podcast interviews at AWP, we were thrilled to talk to Lilly Dancyger. Her new memoir, Negative Space , com...

If you have yet to read guest Mira Jacob’s 2019 memoir in conversations, Good Talk , we’re jealous. Praised for her “disarming wit,” Jacob a...

The one and only Jia Tolentino was our guest on the show. We had Shipley’s donuts & it’s Britney’s Spears birthday all in honor of Jia. She’...

What do you get when you cross clever, sometimes soaring, sometimes heart-breaking, always beautiful prose with immortality, fantasy, and hi...

We first met this episode’s guest at the WriteFest conference at Rice University. We found had all sorts of connections, as writers in this...

Welcome to our final installment of our special summer series, F***ing Shakespeare’s Shorts , where we interviewed the very tired but always...

Move aside, poets! (But just for one second!) Here near the end of our Shakespeare’s Shorts season, we finally caught hold of another fictio...

In this episode, we get to chat (and giggle and lose all sense of time) with an old friend, Ayokunle Falomo, whose first incendiary chapbook...

Esther Lee is a poet (and letter-press artist!) who, along with her husband and cat Bowie, lives on a 35-foot sailboat called “Hope.” Curren...

Matthew Lippman’s most recent collection, Mesmerizingly Sadly Beautiful , is the winner of the Levis prize from Four Way Books. He is the au...

“It is my belief that we would not know John James Audubon today if it weren’t for [Lucy].” For our third installment of F***ing Shakespeare...

Welcome to our second installment of Shakespeare’s Shorts, where your favorites from F***ing Shakespeare host the virtual book tour that no...

HEY! We made a thing: it’s the Virtual Book Tour Quarantine edition of F***ing Shakespeare, we’re calling SHAKESPEARE’S SHORTS! We wanted to...

We have one more bit of brightness to send your way with this interview of two writers in the AWP Writer 2 Writer Mentorship program, mentor...

Fantastic advice from the authors, poets, & industry professionals at #AWP20. This is part one of a three-episode series featuring Bloomsday...

Anna Lena Phillips Bell 0:58 Anna Lena is the editor and art director for Ecotone * and an editor for Lookout Books at the University of Nor...

The high-art low-brow minds behind Bloomsday Literary bring you interviews with the creatives you should know, but don’t. Poets, novelists,...

Fantastic advice from the authors, poets, & industry professionals at #AWP20. This is part one of a three-episode series featuring Bloomsday...

Today on the show, Phong Nguyen, an absolute treasure trove of Twain trivia, author of The Adventures of Joe Harper . We do talk lots about...

On today’s show, we have novelist Abbigail Rosewood. Jessica, Phuc, Abbigail, and I discussed the virtues of buying hibiscus plants from peo...

On this episode of F***ing Shakespeare, our guest is the one and only Jericho Brown. Poets, lovers, and one who desires to hear beautiful la...

In today’s episode we have the 100% on-fire novelist, Bryan Washington, penning effing beautiful and raw stories straight out of the streets...

In the studio today to open SEASON 4 of the show—that’s right y’all F***ing Shakespeare is on our 4th season! To celebrate we have Houston’s...

The high-art low-brow minds behind Bloomsday Literary bring you interviews with the creatives you should know, but don’t. Poets, novelists,...

The high-art low-brow minds behind Bloomsday Literary bring you interviews with the creatives you should know, but don’t. Poets, novelists,...

Read all of Sarah’s work, but if we were forced to choose, here’s the place to start: Until We All Have Voices in Catapult Fabric of a Commu...

The high-art low-brow minds behind Bloomsday Literary bring you interviews with the creatives you should know, but don’t. Poets, novelists,...

Novelist and genre shapeshifter Edan Lepucki is our guest on today’s show. Expert writing tips include: what to do when you realize you’ve s...

Photo by Wayne Alan Brenner Today we settle the great debate once and for all: drafting, or revising? Our guest, graphic novelist, Tillie Wa...