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Have you lost a baby in a miscarriage, stillbirth or SIDS? Do you feel alone? Are you angry, depressed or struggling with all the emotions infant loss can have? Are you met with unwanted advice, inappropriate encouragement or feel bitter about your loss? Are you wondering where God stands in all this chaos? Do you wonder why America hasn't done much to save babies from preventable stillbirth? Were you able to get a certificate from your state dignifying your baby's life after you lost your b ...
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Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers kicked off in September 2018 and airs every week. We are a podcast for writers craving a unique blend of inspiration and real talk about the ups and downs of the writing life. Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner, two friends and colleagues who bring a community-minded sensibility to the writing journey, each theme-focused episode of Write-minded features an interview with a writer, author, or publishing industry professional. Write-minded f ...
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Mrs. Utah America 2023 Baylee Demars⁠, is using her platform to put a voice to miscarriage and stillbirth. Baylee has chosen this topic as she lost her baby when she was 10 weeks pregnant. Just to warn you she is very raw and shares the grief and loneliness one can feel after a loss. She continues to advocate and brings light to loss as she shares …
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This week, to draw attention to Banned Books Week and to stand in solidarity with publishers, authors, and all industry professionals who fight to keep diverse voices on library shelves, Write-minded features guest Amanda Jones, an educator and librarian whose book, That Librarian, is necessary reading. Amanda shares her more than two-year journey …
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I had the great pleasure of meeting ⁠Ana Lepe Vick⁠ in Washington DC in May of 2023. About 50 of us set up meetings with Congressmen and Women to advocate for the ⁠Shine For Autumn Act⁠ and the ⁠Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act.⁠ After a healthy first born daughter, Ana had a miscarriage, the stillbirth of our son Owen, and a mis…
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This week’s episode is inspired by Grant’s recent rejection journey. Yes, listeners, Grant’s book about rejection has been roundly rejected—so we’re taking an excursion into the world of rejection, how we deal with it, and what some options might be for a book that doesn’t get picked up by a publisher. Grant and Brooke explore their relationship wi…
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I share the case of Brittany Watts, an Ohio woman, who lost a baby at almost 21 weeks. Her baby was stillborn. She was charged for abuse of a corpse. She was given no direction by the hospital. She did all the right things to address her loss and unfortunately, she was punished for it. This case is just a reminder why we MUST address the stillbirth…
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This week’s guest, Brontez Purnell, is the kind of writer who’s either hard to pin down, or just won’t be. As such, he’s inspired an episode about who gets to draw outside the lines and why in the realm of book publishing. Whether you love your lane, feel confined by your lane, or insist on busting out of your lane, we invite you to consider what i…
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hady Honaker is the founder of ⁠Sam's Love⁠. Sam's Love provides memory books free of charge for those who lose babies. Sam's Love was founded in memory of her son, Samuel Beckett, who was born still on January 27, 2021, during the height of the Covid Pandemic. Sam's Love also holds a yearly 5k to keep the cost of their memory books free for all wh…
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We kick off a new season with the brilliant Jane Alison and a wide-ranging conversation about form and structure in fiction and memoir. Brooke and Grant were so inspired by Meander, Spiral, Explode, Jane’s her book about craft and the theory of writing, that this episode is dedicated to the ideas around structure and form that are at the heart of t…
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I met Kila Gonzales over the phone a few years ago as she was starting up her nonprofit. She was my answer to a prayer. She runs a non profit called ⁠I Will Carry You: Birth and Bereavement Doula Services.⁠ Her nonprofit serves the families who have received a terminal diagnosis and families whose babies will be born still. Kila has an amazing stor…
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For our final summer round up of our favorite shows, Write-minded chose Maggie Smith and Shze-Hui Tjoa, highlighting two bright lights in the Memoirsphere who are elevating the genre and showcasing new ways of thinking about memoir. It’s an exciting time to be a memoirist and a memoir reader, and if you missed these two interviews the first time ar…
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This week I talk about how I learned to retreat the way Jesus did and how I learned to be obedient as I started to dive into the scriptures. As I went away to gather my thoughts I found out how God was calling me into ministry and how that was going to look like. LETS STAY CONNECTED: Link Tree Instagram Facebook Twitter Website Give if you feel led…
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In celebration of the kind of fiction readers love but the industry doesn’t always know what to do with comes two past episodes honoring fan fiction and gothic fiction, respectively. Revisiting these episodes is a reminder of the vast world of fiction outside the narrow confines of upmarket or commercial or historical fiction. Our two past guests, …
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Clint Davis wrote the book that we all didn't know we needed. Building Better Bridges is the key to finally having the confidence to have "the conversation" we need to have with our children. Do you ever feel like you need a guide for what to say to your children about the most important topics in their childhood? Do you want to understand why our …
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In this second week of Write-minded’s August mashups, we bring back the heartfelt interviews with Javier Zamora and Susan Kiyo Ito, both of whom spoke so honestly and supportively about writing and sharing stories they’ve carried with them their entire lives. Javier’s harrowing journey from El Salvador to the US border when he was just nine years o…
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Dawn V. Collins is a dear friend, founder of ⁠Birth Matters b/c Family Matters⁠ and a Louisiana Count the Kicks Ambassador talks about how God called her into birth work and how to address Stillbirth as a doula. Dawn has never had a stillbirth however she has chosen to be trained so she is able to address it with all her clients. Dawn can be reache…
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Every August Grant and Brooke share their summer plans and writing aspirations and hopes and fails, along with some mashups of their favorite interviews of the year. Write-minded kicks off this best-of series with two beloved industry experts—agent Lisa Leshne and publicist Kathleen Schmidt. There’s real wisdom and straight-talk in these conversati…
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Most writers either have or will have a failed or abandoned book project—or two, or three, or four—over the course of their lifetimes. The more you write, the more crisis moments you’ll face. It can be hard to come back from those moments, which is why this week’s episode with Paolo Bacigalupi is so encouraging. He shares with us his journey back f…
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Camila Caster with ⁠PUSH for Empowered Pregnancy⁠ shares her story on her perfect surrogacy pregnancy that ended in stillbirth. She shares if she had more education on things to look for in pregnancy how she could have saved her baby. Her mission now is to end preventable stillbirth, empower women through education and making a difference in congre…
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This week’s episode airs Brooke in conversation with Naomi Klein at this year’s Bay Area Book Festival. While this interview does not hew to Write-minded’s effort to offer weekly doses of inspiration for writers, Brooke and Grant decided to make this available both because our listeners requested it and because we admire the work Naomi Klein is doi…
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Moving on...that's what we all must do after a loss. As I moved ahead, even simple tasks like laundry made me want to leave behind my baby. I noticed my body changing as my milk started coming in, and the bills that arrived were unexpected. It was painful when my family departed, and it seemed like everyone was prepared to move on except for me. LE…
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Secrets come in all forms, big and small. We inherit secrets, carry the secrets of others, and struggle with the burden of all they hold and how they sometimes fester within us. This week’s episode with guest Margaret Juhae Lee explores the difference between people who want to keep the past buried and those who want to set it free. We explore inte…
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I share my own stillbirth story and how I had the textbook perfect pregnancy. I share insights and conversations with God that I'd never shared before. In this time I ask the most difficult question we all are thinking. Why does God hate me? What did I do to lose my baby? LETS STAY CONNECTED: Link Tree Instagram Facebook Twitter Website Give if you…
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As I prepared to give birth, I felt like I was facing my own mortality. Instead of the a loud cry, Julianna would enter this work in absolute silence. To my surprise however, Julianna's birth didn't go as I expected. Friends and family began praying until she arrived. What God did in that hospital room on September 9th, 2023 was beyond belief. LETS…
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This week’s guest, Jayne Anne Phillips, is a Pulitzer prize-winning author for her latest book, Night Watch, which gives Write-minded an opportunity to muse about awards—why they matter, what we make of them and do with them, and where we might find awards from things we seek out in addition to those we receive. Join us for this wide-ranging litera…
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This week’s Write-minded centers questions, and how questions guide writers, drive fiction, and unearth important stories. Guest Rachel Khong shares how the big and provocative question of who’s a “real American” informed her new novel and why she writes without an outline. We also talk about ambition and drive, why novelists have to grapple with p…
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Write-minded is celebrating memoir as an evolving form this week, tackling the difference between imaginative writing in memoir and writing in memoir that might not be true. Memoir is increasingly embodying its rightful spot in the realm of creative nonfiction, in that there’s allowance for writers to explore ideas and truths within the realms of c…
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This week we take on The Big Novel and unpack our thoughts on novel length, the very concept of The Great American Novel, advances, and more. Guest Garth Risk Hallberg joins us to talk about his own long works of fiction, as well as his writing process that involves seeing where his characters want to take him. We touch upon characterization vs. pl…
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It may seem shocking, but when a new friend opened up to me about her stillbirth experience, my first instinct was to run away. Unfortunately, this is a common emotional response when hearing about such a taboo topic. Miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss can be uncomfortable and heartbreaking to discuss. I hope you learn from my reaction and ex…
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It’s Write-minded’s 300th episode! And we’re celebrating by bringing listeners the esteemed Viet Thanh Nguyen, whose novel, The Sympathizer, was adapted for HBO Max and started streaming in April. In this interview, Nguyen addresses didacticism as a craft choice, the mindset of writers who, like him, find themselves between two languages, and how h…
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This week’s episode is one for book lovers, book collectors, aspiring authors, and every kind of writer. It’s always helpful to know what booksellers know—because bookstores do so much more than just provide a place for browsing and buying books. Join us to talk with Josh Cook of Porter Square Books about his new book, The Art of Libromancy, and wh…
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Have you lost a baby in a miscarriage, stillbirth or SIDS? Do you feel alone? Are you angry, depressed or struggling with all the emotions infant loss can have? Are you met with unwanted advice, inappropriate encouragement or feel bitter about your loss? Are you wondering where God stands in all this chaos? Do you wonder why America hasn't done muc…
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In this week’s extra-inspiring show, guest Dhonielle Clayton treats us to a generous conversation about effecting change in the industry and how that inevitable comes with backlash. We talk about representation in publishing, Penguin Random House’s recent firing of two high-profile publishers, and book bans—among other important topics, like packag…
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