10-Minute Writer's Workshop

02/01/2018

After more than two years and 60 episodes, we're sad to say we're signing off, to make room for new projects and podcasts. Episodes will continue to live online, for whenever you need a dose of inspiration!

We're not sure what's coming next, but if you stay tuned to this space, we'll keep you posted! You can also follow Virginia on Twitter

Thanks to everybody who listened and learned from the show! 💗📚🖋️

Stay Creative!
-Virginia & Sara

After more than two years and 60 episodes, we are signing off, to make room for new projects and podcasts (but episodes will continue to live online if you

12/27/2017

Writing your resolutions for 2018? How about adding "get more bored?" Manoush Zomorodi, author of Bored & Brilliant and host of Note to Self Radio, tells you how it can unlock your creativity in this week's episode.

Some of you may know Manoush Zomorodi as host of the podcast Note to Self from WNYC. She is also, now, an author. Her book Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing

12/13/2017

Innovative author Jennifer Egan talks story structure & tackling historical fiction for the first time http://nhpr.org/post/10-minute-writers-workshop-jennifer-egan

Conventional, linear narratives are not really Jennifer Egan’s thing. She's a shape-shifter of fiction – jumping through time, space, voices and forms. She

11/29/2017

This week, we dig into the process that creates the weird, beloved world of Welcome to Night Vale with its creators Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor http://nhpr.org/post/10-minute-writers-workshop-welcome-nightvales-jeffrey-cranor-joseph-fink …

Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink, co-creators of the phenomenally popular Welcome to Nightvale podcast, the “Nightvale Presents” series of podcasts, and New

11/27/2017

Virginia’s on-stage interview with Dan Brown is up!

NHPR and The Music Hall present Writers on a New England Stage with Dan Brown, recorded live at The Music Hall in Portsmouth. Dan Brown is the author of

11/15/2017

NH's own Dan Brown joins us for this week's workshop to talk thrillers, his famous fictional symbologist, and place as character. Oh, and to give us a couple scoops... but you'll have to listen to find out what they are!

Enjoy the singing? That's Gregory W Brown's composition "Missa Charles Darwin," recorded locally at PARMA Recordings, and the inspiration for Dan's new book, Origin.

The blockbuster 2003 thriller The Da Vinci Code launched Dan Brown into the best-selling stratosphere. More than 200 million copies of his books have sold

11/04/2017

10-Minute Writer's Workshop: Speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz: http://ow.ly/Xwhz30glpbt

11/01/2017

This week, Michelle Obama's chief speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz on what it's like finding someone else's voice.

For many writers, hitting their stride means finding their voice. Success for Sarah Hurwitz is in creating a voice for others. Sarah was candidate Hillary

10/18/2017

This week, Virginia Macgregor lets us in on how she captures the voices of children and young adults and constructs narratives that let us see the world from their viewpoint.

http://nhpr.org/post/10-minute-writers-workshop-virginia-macgregor

10/06/2017

This week, we speak with surgeon, professor, and author Atul Gawande about writing, medicine and dying, writing about medicine and dying.

Atul Gawande is a surgeon, professor at Harvard Medical School, and writes about medicine and ethics for the New Yorker . He’s author of several best

09/20/2017

Celeste Ng writes families that are tangible, dynamic, and lovingly constructed, warts and all. She let us in on a little of her magic for this week's episode.

Celeste Ng came out of the gate strong. Her first novel, Everything I Never Told You, was a New York Times bestseller and Amazon's #1 Best Book of 2014.