QWERTY: A Podcast for Writers on How to Live the Writing Life

Lisa Cron is the brain behind the brain science of writing. Marion and David speak with her about why we are all wired f... Read more

Journalist and author Jill Smolowe discusses her memoir "Four Funerals and a Wedding" and the challenges she faced writi... Read more

Two-time best-selling nonfiction author Julia Flynn Siler gives excellent advice to writers about writing what you belie... Read more

Best-selling memoirist Elissa Altman discusses with Marion and David the hard work of writing about family, getting to t... Read more

Author Marcia Butler's first book, The Skin Above My Knee, chronicled surviving abuse through art, which brought her nat... Read more

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur Genius grant, William Kennedy knows about how to write from home. He has br... Read more

How do you get an agent for your writing? This, and other questions on the business of publishing, are discussed when Ja... Read more

On this episode of the QWERTY podcast, writer Anthony D'Aries talks about how to interview your family when writing memo... Read more

Bestselling cookbook author Zoë François, who has more than 800,000 copies of her work in print, talks with Marion and D... Read more

Jeff Goins answers questions on how to find your writer's voice on this episode of the QWERTY podcast.

Gary Taubes has turned investigative journalism into a science. With three cover stories for the New York Times Magazine... Read more

Jack Hitt, author, magazine writer and winner of two Peabody awards for his radio work, discusses how to craft a story.

Author Asha Dornfest has built a successful writing life one platform at a time. In this episode, she explains exactly h... Read more

In this second Annotations segment, Marion and David sit down together to discuss best writing practices and answer seve... Read more

Trauma recovery is writer Diane Cameron's area of expertise, and on this episode of QWERTY, she shares with us how to wr... Read more

Joe Bunting, Creator of The Write Practice, visits the QWERTY podcast and talks about how to promote a self-published bo... Read more

Food writer David Leite and memoir coach and teacher, Marion Roach Smith, discuss the art and science of food writing.

Bestselling author Sloane Tanen talks about her writing process and the tough choice of whether to tell your story as fi... Read more

Marion and David ask a lifetime New York Times reporter about writing on deadline and how to identify when you know enou... Read more

In this first Annotations segment, Marion and David discuss the difficult process of reporting on one's own life when wr... Read more