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A podcast about why and how we write, hosted by Courtney Balestier.


Lauren Oyler: In Defense of Autofiction

In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast
February 24, 2021  By WMFA 
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Matthew Salesses on the Two Things a Workshop Can Do Best (and Often Fails Doing at All)

In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast
February 3, 2021  By WMFA 
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Mateo Askaripour on Maintaining Plausibility in an Absurd World

In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast
January 13, 2021  By WMFA 
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Danielle Evans on Writing the Subterranean Story

In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast
December 17, 2020  By WMFA 
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Simon Han on What the Suburbs Can Tell Us About the American Way of Life

In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast
December 2, 2020  By WMFA 
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Anne Helen Petersen on Throwing Ourselves Against the Wall (of Instagram)

In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast
November 11, 2020  By WMFA 
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Deesha Philyaw: Publishing Is Not What You Want Driving Your Self-Worth

In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast
November 4, 2020  By WMFA 
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R. O. Kwon on Keeping Faith in the Writing Process

In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast
October 28, 2020  By WMFA 
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Jami Attenberg: Your Politics Are Always Going to Show Up in the Work

In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast
October 21, 2020  By WMFA 
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Susan Choi: ‘Have a Very Large Storage System for All That Garbage’

In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast
October 14, 2020  By WMFA 
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Elizabeth Catte on Angry Twitter Conversations That Turn into Book Ideas

In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast
October 7, 2020  By WMFA 
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Why Jennifer Haigh Won’t Be Disclosing the Location of Her Writing Studio

In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast
September 30, 2020  By WMFA 
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Linda Kay Klein on Being a Steward of Others’ Stories

In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast
September 23, 2020  By WMFA 
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Margaret Wilkerson Sexton on Listening to Your Inner Voice

In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast
September 16, 2020  By WMFA 
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Zinzi Clemmons on Cutting Away the Obvious

In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast
September 9, 2020  By WMFA 
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Alexander Chee on How a Single Story Can Contain Many Rooms

In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast
September 2, 2020  By WMFA 
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Lisa Ko on Fictionalizing
Real Life

In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast
August 26, 2020  By WMFA 
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Kat Gardiner on Writing
While Parenting

In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast
August 19, 2020  By WMFA 
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Celeste Ng on Fighting Perfectionism

In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast
August 12, 2020  By WMFA 
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Garth Greenwell on Being Patient AND Indulgent

In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast
August 5, 2020  By WMFA 
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