Chicago Writers Podcast

In this episode, James Klise, author, discusses opening pages, writing for teens, leaving behind a manuscript, reading strategies, revealing character through action, and using cause and effect to build a plot. James Klise https://jamesklise.com/ Stories Matter Foundation https://www.storystudiochicago.org/

We talk with Emily Maloney, author, about making beautiful sentences, the personal essay, building a better essay collection pitch, swamp driver vs polishing diamonds, how writing needs time, maintaining 2 notebooks - one for the draft, one for feelings about the draft, working by hand, and going to therapy to be a better writer. Emily Maloney http://www.emilymaloney.net/ Stories Matter Foundation/StoryStudio Chicago https://www.storystudiochicago.org/ Find us at https://chicagowriterspodcast.libsyn.com/

In this episode, Steve Almond, author, on building plot, writing the social novel, placing a story in time, giving the reader the information they need, finding the right amount of research, and scorpions. Steve Almond https://stevealmondjoy.org/ Chicago Writers Podcast https://chicagowriterspodcast.libsyn.com/ Stories Matter Foundation and StoryStudio Chicago https://www.storystudiochicago.org/

Vincent Francone, author and editor, discusses different Chicagos, organizing a collection, Windy City cliches, the deep dish myth, live lit, submitting work to anthologies, and parking in Wrigleyville. Find Vincent online at: http://www.vincentfrancone.com/ Stories Matter Foundation https://www.storystudiochicago.org/ Chicago Writers Podcast https://twitter.com/ChiWriPodcast

In this episode, we're talking all things mystery with Sisters in Crime Chicago! Michelle Falkoff, Mia P. Manansala, and Jen Collins Moore all join us to discuss what makes a great whodunit. Michelle Falkoff http://michellefalkoff.com/ Mia P. Manansala www.miapmanansala.com Jen Collins Moore https://www.jennifercollinsmoore.com/ Stories Matter Foundation https://www.storystudiochicago.org/ Chicago Writers Podcast https://chicagowriterspodcast.libsyn.com/ https://twitter.com/ChiWriPodcast

In this episode, author Christie Tate discusses discovering non-fiction, writing groups, saying thank you in a query, going deeper with memoir, inoculation against shame, making boundaries after publishing, and sharing a risqué scene you wrote with your therapy group. Christie Tate https://christietate.com/ Stories Matter Foundation https://www.storystudiochicago.org/ Chicago Writers Podcast https://chicagowriterspodcast.libsyn.com/ https://twitter.com/ChiWriPodcast

In this episode, author Kathleen Rooney discusses writing in multiple genres, the start of Poems While You Wait, contemporary sources for historical fiction, finding the perspective of an animal character, outlining before writing, giving a manuscript time, breaking revision into manageable tasks, and big new developments in the Cher Ami community. Kathleen Rooney http://kathleenrooney.com/ https://twitter.com/KathleenMRooney Stories Matter Foundation https://www.storystudiochicago.org/ Chicago Writers Podcast https://chicagowriterspodcast.libsyn.com/ https://twitter.com/ChiWriPodcast

Grab hold of your heat levels and check how open those doors are, because it's time for the Romance Roundtable with authors Chandra Blumberg, Sonali Dev, Melonie Johnson, and Kate Meader, hosted by Jennifer Coffeen. We talk everything the publishing process to how many sex scenes a story might need. Chandra Blumberg https://chandrablumberg.com/ https://twitter.com/chandrablumberg Sonali Dev https://sonalidev.com/ https://twitter.com/Sonali_Dev Melonie Johnson https://meloniejohnson.com/ohabout-meright/ https://twitter.com/MelonieJohnson Kate Meader https://www.katemeader.com/ https://twitter.com/KittyMeader Jennifer Coffeen https://twitter.com/jencoffeen

For the last episode of 2021, Adam Morgan and Sara Cutaia talk about all things Chicago literature, past and present, plus, for some reason, You Got Mail. Partial list of books and authors mentioned: The Wrong Way to Save Your Life byMegan Steilstra The Upstairs House by Julia Fine Mitchell S. Jackson Electric Arches by Eve L Ewing The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks The Jungle by Upton Sinclair The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Native Son by Richard Wright The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser Building Stories by Chris Ware Chicago: City on the Make by Nelson Algren Carl Sandberg's Chicago Poems The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger The South Side by Natalie Y. Moore 1919 by Eve L. Ewing Chicago Renaissance by Lisa Olson chicagoliteraryarchive.org Adam Morgan Twitter @AdamM0rgan Sara Cutaia Twitter @sncutaia StoryStudio and Stories Matter StoryStudioChicago.org

In this episode, Kenyatta Rogers discusses the puzzle of poetry, doing the work, finding inspiration, seeking out places to send work, the difference between poetry and narrative, playing with constraints, reading work out loud, patience, starting with couplets, and writing at the supermarket. ChicagoWritersPodcast.com Find us on Twitter at @chiwripodcast Stories Matter Foundation StoryStudioChicago.Org