**Donate to keep Behind the Prose on the air for the next 12 months. Please consider a one-time donation that will earn you special and secret perks.** What writing advice can one mine from a two-hour interview with prolific essayist, author, and professor Philip Lopate? If
**With this episode, I’m launching a campaign to keep Behind the Prose on the air for the next 12 months. Please consider a one-time donation that will earn you special and secret perks.** You might recognize the title of this podcast if you picked up the
Hey Prosers, So … a funny thing happened on the way to this podcast … In April 2017, I invited author and engineer Nick Arvin to the school where I work. Over two days, he gave several talks on writing, and I recorded one of
Welcome to this special episode of Behind the Prose. Special, because I bet you didn’t think it was coming! More special, because it features former guest, literary historical fiction writer and fellow New School Creative Writing MFA Grad Scott Alexander Hess. This time, I talk
Today’s episode is brought to you by: coincidence. It’s how I met both of these great writers. Last year, I covered Bob Brody’s essay panel at the American Society of Journalists and Authors for The Writer Magazine. His book Playing Catch with Strangers: A Family
Hey Prosers, I know. I know. Let’s not talk about that lil’ missing in action thing. The important thing is that I’m here now and so are you! This episode features a humor writer that I discovered earlier this year on McSweeney’s. Adam Rotstein has an
Prosers, prosers, prosers, have I got a treat for you this week! It’s my first book interview of this year and I’m happy that it was with professor, Kenyon Review Nonfiction Editor, and award-winning writer Geeta Kothari. Kothari’s new short story collection, I Brake For
Welcome my Prosers. I’m on #18 in my current chunk of 20 submissions, and I got three acceptances, so my ratio still holds true. By episode 44, I should be on a new Chunk of 20. One of those “yesses” is my clip on National Lampoon last
Last month, in my column “Something to Be Said” on Terse Journal, I pondered about the point when coincidences seem too improbable to just be a chance occurrence. I’m reminded of the strange timing of things as I edited this week’s episode featuring writer and
Prosers, forgive me for I have sinned. It’s been five months since my last episode and I need to make up for it, so let’s catch up. PUBLICATION SHOUT OUTS Shout out to the March 2017 issue of The Writer. It features my essay “The
“Oh where, oh where, has Behind the Prose gone? Oh where, oh where can it be?” If that’s the tune you’ve been singing the past few months, here’s the answer: There comes a time in every podcaster’s life when she must sit down and figure out why
Today is the last day of the great Creative Nonfiction Writers Conference 2016, and we’re giving you a special roundtable discussion that acknowledges that writers are an eclectic group of people and often have a range of interests. But how do they channel those interests into a
Creative Nonfiction Magazine and Behind the Prose teamed up this year to bring you a live sneak peek into the 2016 Creative Nonfiction Writers’ Conference. The Ask an Editor Panel was moderated by In Fact Books Associate Publisher, Ellen Ayoob and featured Hattie Fletcher, Creative Nonfiction’s own
Last year Creative Nonfiction Magazine and Behind the Prose teamed up to bring you special excerpts from the amazing Creative Nonfiction Writers’ Conference (CNFWC). (Remember Lee Gutkind’s feature panel on how Law and Order teaches story structure to creative nonfiction writers?) This year, if you couldn’t join us in Pittsburgh,
Hey Prosers, In this episode, we’re going down to Florida to find out how author and humor writer Erik Deckers is adjusting to his new Orlando home. Well, he’s kinda got two homes down there at the moment – his own and his temporary one