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.

09/08/2017

Recorded tonight with Atul Gawande at before

09/07/2017

Good evening from Three Pines! This week, Louise Penny on conjuring crimes, the spirit of the mystery novel, and, of course, Armand Gamache. http://nhpr.org/post/10-minute-writers-workshop-louise-penny

Louise Penny was well into her forties when she published Still Life , the first in what has become the wildly popular Armand Gamache mystery series. The

08/25/2017

In the latest workshop, Virginia talks to Howard Axelrod about his memoir, The Point of Vanishing.

Howard Axelrod was a junior at Harvard when an accident left him blind in one eye. The loss left him feeling shattered and isolated, eventually leading to

08/25/2017

Get caught up on the podcast! Alice Fogel, Poet Laureate of New Hampshire talks about her process.

Alice Fogel is Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, and the author of six collections of poetry, including Interval: Poems Based on Bach's Goldberg Variations .

08/02/2017

In our latest episode, Michael Cunningham assures us he's funnier than his books and pays it forward with some genius editing advice from a former teacher.

Michael Cunningham is best known as the author of The Hours , winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, which imagines a fateful day in the life of Virginia

08/02/2017

Bustle included us on this inspiring list & we're proud to be in such great company!

Writers get their inspiration from all sorts of places — real life, current events, favorite books, other writers, their own imagination, and more recently: podcasts. Podcasts about writing have been around practically as long as podcasts themselves …

07/17/2017

Latest episode with superwoman Roxane Gay is now out!

This episode, we speak to Roxane Gay, author, essayist, teacher, and all around-superwoman. The author of New York Times bestsellers Bad Feminist and

06/28/2017

Jonathan Safran Foer explains how difficult creating can be & discusses losing interest in ideas http://bit.ly/10minFoer

Author, outspoken vegetarian, social media abstainer and writing teacher Jonathan Safran Foer is author of three novels: Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and, most rec...

06/28/2017

Author, outspoken vegetarian, social media abstainer and writing teacher Jonathan Safran Foer is author of three novels: Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and, most rec...

06/14/2017

Ian Rankin on breaking the mold of the British "cozy mystery" back in the 80s. His latest, Rather Be the Devil, marks 30 years of writing Inspector Rebus

06/14/2017

Ian Rankin is best known for two characters: Inspector John Rebus, the protagonist of now 21 mystery novels, and the city of Edinburgh, whose dark corners come alive in Rankin’s hands. Rebus made h...

06/01/2017

Author & On Being host Krista Tippett joins us for this week's episode http://bit.ly/10minTippett

Krista Tippett is probably best known as the host & creator of the public radio program On Being. But she's also the author of three books that pull from her decades of interviews with a broad var...

05/17/2017

Sometimes a detail just sticks with you for years & only then does the spark of inspiration hit. This and more from Anita Shreve bit.ly/10minShreve (link in profile)

05/17/2017

This week, get some inspiration from Anita Shreve

Anita Shreve had a small, but devoted following as a literary author when her second novel, The Pilot's Wife was named an Oprah Book Club pick. The recognition propelled her into a New York Times b...

05/03/2017

For today's episode, John Scalzi sat down with us in the studio to talk edits & empires http://bit.ly/10minScalzi

John Scalzi, the Hugo Award-winning author of science fiction both serious and less-so and an internet star from way, way back. He is former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, perhaps best known for his Old Man's War series, his blog “Whatever,” and his novel Redshirts,...

04/19/2017

In which we try to solve the mystery of what makes Tana French so imminently obsession-worthy

Tana French is the Edgar Award-winning author of the Dublin Murder Squad series. The newest, called The Trespasser, is the sixth in the best-selling, habit-forming series. "It’s taken for granted that anybody who’s read one [Tana French novel] will very shortly have read them all,” wrote Laura Mille...

04/06/2017

We've got in studio with right now, taping for the podcast

04/05/2017

Let's get speculative this week with Underground Airlines & The Last Policeman author Ben H. Winters http://bit.ly/10minWinters

Ben Winters is a little incomprehensible. Not his output, which is consistently great, but his wild imagination and range. He's a teacher, a playwright, an Edgar and Phillip K. Dick Award-winning novelist, he's written children's books, an existential detective series and landed a New York Times bes...

03/22/2017

You probably know you can subscribe to the workshop on iTunes, Google Play and AudioBoom, but did you know you can also follow us on Spotify? Try it out! Hit the follow button and have 10MWW in your Spotify library with all your favorite artists and playlists. https://open.spotify.com/show/6kK1Qzk40ULtgLU3cz1v4K

A peek into how great writers conjure and craft their work. From creative rituals to guilty distractions, writers reveal what it really takes to get pen to paper. by New Hampshire Public Radio

03/22/2017

Be it writing, looking cool or spaghetti aglio olio e peperoncino, Mario Batali recommends practice for all the good things in life bit.ly/10minBatali

03/22/2017

Chef Mario Batali is also the author of some seriously good cookbooks. For this week's episode, we sat & discussed how he whips them up. http://bit.ly/10minBatali

Mario Batali is a superstar chef, restaurateur, television star and passionate advocate for simple, regional food. Also passionate about making that food more accessible, he is author or co-author of 7 cookbooks, including his most recent Big American Cookbook. We caught up with him before his appea...

03/08/2017

In today's episode, we chat with the talented and funny Lindy West. Shrill is out now in paperback http://bit.ly/10minWest

Lindy West, columnist for The Guardian, and author of How to be a Person and Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman. Lindy writes about feminism, social...