Episodes
Monday Nov 25, 2019
Monday Nov 25, 2019
Today's episode was one of the most fun conversations to record (we say that every time, but seriously, y'all, we mean it). Kate Newburg and Tasha L. Harrison are writing and podcasting BFFs. They like to say that they are a lot, and we think that's perfect. In this episode, they have so much energy and so many projects, and we loved chatting with them about writing friendship and collaboration.
We've had Tasha on before, way back in episode 59, and are happy to have her back with Kate. Kate and Tasha are in the middle of season 2 of their fantastic Lady Books podcast. Kate describes their approach as a concept album, where each season is self-contained and totally different, and definitely worth adding to your listening line-up.
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Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast. Meghan's occasionally on Twitter @meghanembee, and Olivia’s @roamingolivia
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá.
Have a question you'd like us to try to answer, or a topic you'd love to have us cover? Interested in being a guest? Contact us here. Thanks for listening, and get to work!
If you like Marginally, you should check out #amwriting, with Jess and KJ, where two much more experienced writers talk through their processes with each other and celebrated guests.
Monday Nov 18, 2019
Pep Talk 17: Jessica Abel on naps and self-care
Monday Nov 18, 2019
Monday Nov 18, 2019
Pep Talk 17 is from Episode 61 with Jessica Abel. We totally endorse her nap-on-the-spot plan but especially like her approach to using self-care techniques as part of the writing process.
If you like this, go back and check out the full episodes as well!
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As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast. Meghan's occasionally on Twitter @meghanembee, and Olivia’s @roamingolivia.
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá.
Have a question you'd like us to try to answer, or a topic you'd love to have us cover? Interested in being a guest? Contact us here. Thanks for listening, and get to work!
If you like Marginally, you should check out #amwriting, with Jess and KJ, where two much more experienced writers talk through their processes with each other and celebrated guests.
Monday Nov 18, 2019
Pep Talk 16: Paul Jarvis on what to do with fear
Monday Nov 18, 2019
Monday Nov 18, 2019
Pep Talk 16 is from Episode 51 with Paul Jarvis, when he talked to us about what to do with fear - what you can use and what you have to push past.
If you like this, go back and check out the full episodes as well!
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As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast. Meghan's occasionally on Twitter @meghanembee, and Olivia’s @roamingolivia.
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá.
Have a question you'd like us to try to answer, or a topic you'd love to have us cover? Interested in being a guest? Contact us here. Thanks for listening, and get to work!
If you like Marginally, you should check out #amwriting, with Jess and KJ, where two much more experienced writers talk through their processes with each other and celebrated guests.
Monday Oct 21, 2019
Julie Buntin on Friendship
Monday Oct 21, 2019
Monday Oct 21, 2019
Today we’re bringing you an interview with writer and editor Julie Buntin, the author of a great friendship novel, Marlena, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, longlisted for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and named a best book of the year by over a dozen outlets, including the Washington Post, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews. Y’all, it’s really good. Julie is from northern Michigan, and her writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Vogue, the New York Times Book Review, Guernica, and other publications. She has taught creative writing at New York University, Columbia University, and the Yale Writers’ Workshop, and is incoming asst prof in the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan, and a recent Ellen Levine Fund for Writers Award winner for her current novel-in-progress, and is editor-at-large for Catapult. You can find her at juliebuntin.com and on Twitter @juliebuntin.
We cover a lot of ground, serious and not-so-serious. From the impact of friendships and loss, to Golden Girls, Judy Blume, and Nicholas Cage, to the algorithm and how to run a writing workshop. We loved talking to Julie, and hope you enjoy listening.
As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast. Meghan's occasionally on Twitter @meghanembee, and Olivia’s @roamingolivia
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá
Monday Sep 23, 2019
Writing Planning with Alicia de los Reyes
Monday Sep 23, 2019
Monday Sep 23, 2019
In today’s episode, we bring back one of our very first guests, Alicia de los Reyes! Alicia is a writer based in Maine, where she lives with her family and cat. She has her MFA from University of New Hampshire. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Archipelago, The Billfold, and others, and her fiction has been published in Best New Writing 2015.
She’s also the author of the writing guides DIY Writing Retreat and DIY Chick Lit, and the creator of the Writer’s Process Planner, and we have her on today to talk about goal setting and planning — take it from me, even if you’re allergic to Virgo season and planning and goals, you’ll want to listen to this one.
You can find out more about Alicia at aliciadelosreyes.com, and as @likesoatmeal on Instagram and Twitter. Listen to her podcast Scratch Paper on iTunes or on Stitcher, or at her website.
As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast. Meghan's occasionally on Twitter @meghanembee, and Olivia’s @roamingolivia
Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
Episode 69: Courtney Balestier of WMFA
Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
Today, we're bringing you a special episode: a collaboration with Courtney Balestier of the WMFA podcast. If you don't already listen to WMFA, this episode is sure to make you a convert. WMFA features interviews with outstanding writers, from Emily St. John Mandel (one of my favorite episodes) to Susan Choi, as well as minisodes where Courtney puts into words the same anxieties and thoughts we have, in a way that makes us feel so seen.
Courtney Balestier is a writer whose work focuses on the intersection of place and identity, particularly in her native Appalachia. Her writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including The New Yorker online, Lucky Peach, the New York Times, and Oxford American, and has been nominated for a James Beard Foundation Journalism Award and a Pushcart Prize. Courtney holds a bachelor's degree in news journalism from West Virginia University and a master's degree in magazine journalism from New York University. A native West Virginian, she is at work on a novel about identity, progress, and class set in Appalachia and Detroit. She lives and works in Pittsburgh.
You can find Courtney on her website, Twitter, and Instagram. Find WMFA online here, or listen in your favorite podcast app.
As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast. Meghan's occasionally on Twitter @meghanembee, and Olivia’s @roamingolivia
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá
Monday Jul 29, 2019
Episode 68: Mary Laura Philpott talks essays, feelings and perfectionism
Monday Jul 29, 2019
Monday Jul 29, 2019
We're thrilled to share this conversation with essayist Mary Laura Philpott, author of the most excellent collection I Miss You When I Blink. Mary Laura is also the Emmy-award winning co-host of A Word on Words, a literary interview show on Nashville Public Television; the author and illustrator of the book Penguins with People Problems; and "book enthusiast at large" for Parnassus Books — as well as an all-around delightful human.
We talk about feelings, the art of the personal essay, the transition between projects, how to work when you don’t know the outcome, quitting, and of course get some great book recommendations.
Find Mary Laura online here, and on Twitter, Instagram,and Facebook.
As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast. Meghan's occasionally on Twitter @meghanembee.
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá. Have a question you'd like us to try to answer, or a topic you'd love to have us cover? Interested in being a guest? Contact us here. Thanks for listening, and get to work!
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If you like Marginally, you should check out #amwriting, with Jess and KJ, where two much more experienced writers talk through their processes with each other and celebrated guests.
Monday May 06, 2019
Monday May 06, 2019
In this week's episode, we have the special privilege of having one but two guests - writers and friends Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney. Emily and Emma are the co-authors of A Secret Sisterhood: The literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf. They also co-run the fantastic blog about female literary friendship and collaboration, SomethingRhymed.com.
Emma is the author of the award-winning novel Owl Song at Dawn, and Emily is a winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, and they both teach at New York University London.
We loved talking to them about how to tackle a big project and stay friends, as well as how literary women have always managed ambition and jealousy in their friendships - and how Emma and Emily have dealt with these things. We loved talking to these honest, smart and literary women.
You can find Emily at her website, Instagram or Twitter. You can contact Emma from her website or on Twitter.
As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review using your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast. Meghan's on Twitter @meghanembee, and Olivia’s @roamingolivia.
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá.
Monday Apr 22, 2019
Episode 64: Story Arcana with Caroline Donahue
Monday Apr 22, 2019
Monday Apr 22, 2019
Podcast-friend, writer and writing coach Caroline Donahue is back on our podcast this week to talk about her new book, The Story Arcana: Tarot for Writers. We loved catching up with her after about a year - a year that's brought her big changes in her life, a move to Berlin and all the stress that entails. We also talked about why tarot is not scary, and specifically how tarot can help you get beyond everything you've been taught, to get in touch with your intuition. (See? Totally not scary.)
You can find Caroline at carolinedonahue.com, and on Twitter and Instagram @carodonahue.
As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast. Meghan's on Twitter @meghanembee, and Olivia’s @roamingolivia
Monday Mar 11, 2019
Episode 61: Creative Focus with Jessica Abel
Monday Mar 11, 2019
Monday Mar 11, 2019
In today's episode, we get some great lessons in creative focus from cartoonist, author and educator Jessica Abel. We have loved all the inspirational but practical work she has done on being a creative when you have a busy life - from her workbook Growing Gills to her practical advice on creative focus.
She gave us some great advice on saying goodbye to projects we have finished, how to pick a project when you have a million ideas, and how to manage your energy in your creative and day job lives.
You can find her at jessicaabel.com, or on Twitter and Instagram @visiblewoman.
As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast or Facebook. Meghan's on Twitter @meghanembee, and Olivia’s @roamingolivia
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá.
Have a question you'd like us to try to answer, or a topic you'd love to have us cover? Interested in being a guest? Contact us here. Thanks for listening, and get to work!