Writing F(r)iction

Christopher Bollen is the author of five novels, numerous short stories, articles, essays, and interviews. His newest novel, The Lost Americans is out now.

David Sipress is a New Yorker Cartoonist and Author.

Mark Greaney is the #1 NYT Bestselling author of The Gray Man series. He is also known as Tom Clancy's collaborator on his final books during his lifetime, and for continuing the Jack Ryan character and the Tom Clancy universe following Clancy's death in 2013.

Mark Greaney is an American novelist. He is best known as Tom Clancy's collaborator on his final books during his lifetime, and for continuing the Jack Ryan character and the Tom Clancy universe following Clancy's death in 2013. His latest novel, Sierra Six, is out now.

Danielle Friedman is an award-winning multimedia journalist who specializes in telling stories at the intersection of health, sexuality, and culture. Her first book, Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World, is out now.

Don Bentley is a former FBI Special Agent, SWAT Team member, and Army Apache helicopter pilot. He is the NYT bestselling author of Tom Clancy TARGET ACQUIRED and the Matt Drake series WITHOUT SANCTION.

Emily St. John Mandel is a Canadian novelist and essayist.

Ward Sutton is an American illustrator, cartoonist and writer.

DJ Afterthought is an EDM/HipHop Producer.

Christopher Moore is the author of fifteen novels, including the international bestsellers, Lamb, A Dirty Job and You Suck.

Adam Douglas Thompson is an artist, animator, and cartoonist for The New Yorker.

Vlad Holiday is a singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist.

Crystal Hana Kim is an American author.

Jeff VanderMeer is an American author, editor, and literary critic.

Brian Broome is a poet and screenwriter. His memoir Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir is out now.

Tim Baltes is a session and live drummer.

Hala Alyan is a Palestinian-American writer and clinical psychologist who specializes in trauma, addiction, and cross-cultural behavior.

Tom DeSavia is a music publisher, author, and podcaster.

John Seabrook is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His books include "Flash of Genius, and Other True Stories of Invention" and "The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory"

Margarita Montimore is the author of Asleep from Day and Oona Out of Order, a USA Today bestseller and Good Morning America Book Club pick.

Simon Han is the author of the novel Nights When Nothing Happened.

Jonathan Parks-Ramage is a novelist, screenwriter and journalist. His debut novel, YES, DADDY, is out now.

Zak Salih is the author of Let's Get Back to the Party - - Daniel Gumbiner is the author of The Boatbuilder

Mark Greaney is an American novelist. He is best known as Tom Clancy's collaborator on his final books during his lifetime, and for continuing the Jack Ryan character and the Tom Clancy universe following Clancy's death in 2013.

Nafissa Thompson-Spires is an American writer. Her book Heads of the Colored People is out now.

Jakob Guanzon is the author of the novel Abundance.

Sam Tallent is a stand-up comedian and author. His book Running the Light is out now.

Gabriela Garcia is the author of the novel Of Women and Salt.

Layla AlAmmar is a writer and academic from Kuwait. Her new book Silence Is a Sense is available now.

Brian Evenson is an American academic and writer of both literary fiction and popular fiction, some of the latter being published under B.K. Evenson.

Tod Goldberg is an American author and journalist best known for his novels Gangster Nation, Gangsterland and Living Dead Girl, the popular "Burn Notice" series and the short story collection The Low Desert: Gangster Stories.

Michelle Gallen is an Irish author. Her book Big Girl Small Town is out now.

Jon Raymond is an American writer. He is best known for writing the novels The Half-Life and Rain Dragon, and for writing the short stories and screenplays for the films Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy.

Walter Mosley is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. His newest book Blood Grove is available now.

Te-Ping Chen is a fiction writer & journalist. Her debut collection of short stories, Land of Big Numbers, was published in February 2021. She is also a Wall Street Journal correspondent in Philadelphia who was previously based in Beijing and Hong Kong.

Joan Silber is an American novelist and short story writer. She won the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her novel Improvement.

Doug Stanhope is an American stand-up comedian, author, political activist, and podcast host.

Mark Leyner is an American postmodernist author. He has worked as a columnist for Esquire and George magazines, and was co-author of the screenplay of "War, Inc.". His newest title, "Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit" is out now.

Jill McCorkle is an American short story writer and novelist. She has published six novels and four collections of short stories. Five of her books have been New York Times Notable books, and her novel, Life After Life, was a New York Times bestseller. - - - Crissy Van Meter is the author of the debut novel Creatures. She teaches creative writing at The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College.

Bob Lefsetz is the author of The Lefsetz Letter and host of The Bob Lefsetz Podcast. We talked Alice Cooper, college in Vermont, his honest thoughts on pursuing an artistic career, his honest thoughts on the publishing industry, and pretty much his honest thoughts on everything! What a legend, what a wile ride, and what an absolute pleasure this conversation was. Enjoy!

Mateo Askaripour was a 2018 Rhode Island Writers Colony writer-in-residence, and his writing has appeared in Entrepreneur, Lit Hub, Catapult, The Rumpus, Medium, and elsewhere. Black Buck is his debut novel.

Helen Phillips is a 2020 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow. She is the author of five books, including, most recently, the novel The Need, which was long-listed for the National Book Award.

Phil Klay is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. His short story collection Redeployment won the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics' Circle John Leonard Prize for best debut work in any genre. His debut novel Missionaries is out now.

Idra Novey is an American novelist, poet, and translator. She is the author of the novels Those Who Knew and Ways to Disappear. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into a dozen languages and she's written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, NPR's All Things Con­sid­ered, New York Magazine, and The Paris Review.

Elliot Ackerman is the author of the novels 2034, Red Dress In Black and White, Waiting for Eden, Dark at the Crossing, and Green on Blue. His books have been nominated for the National Book Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal in both fiction and non-fiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize among others.

Scott O'Connor is the author of A Perfect Universe: Ten Stories, the novels Zero Zone, Untouchable, and Half World and the novella Among Wolves.

Christine Schutt is an American novelist and short story writer. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and New York Foundation of the Arts grant. She has twice won the O.Henry Short Story Prize, and her stories have been anthologized.

Julia Phillips is an American author. Her book Disappearing Earth was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction. A Fulbright fellow, Julia has written for The New York Times, ​The Atlantic, and The Paris Review.

Kimberly King Parsons is the author of the debut collection Black Light, which was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award and the Story Prize, and was a finalist for the 2020 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, the Texas Institute of Letters Best Work of First Fiction, and the Oregon Book Award. Her story “Foxes” was among the trio that won The Paris Review the 2020 National Magazine Award for Fiction from the American Society of Magazine Editors. Parsons is a recipient of fellowships from Columbia University, Yaddo, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. She lives with her partner and sons in Portland, OR, where she is completing a novel (forthcoming from Knopf) about Texas, motherhood, and LSD.

Janet Fitch is the author of the #1 national bestseller White Oleander, a novel translated into 24 languages, an Oprah Book Club book and the basis of a feature film, Paint It Black, also widely translated and made into a 2017 film, and her epic novels of the Russian Revolution, The Revolution of Marina M. and Chimes of a Lost Cathedral. Please give us a follow on Instagram/Twitter - - @writingfriction - - and make sure to subscribe to the podcast and share!!!

Eowyn Ivey is the author of The Snow Child (a New York Times bestseller published in more than 25 languages, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a UK National Book Award winner, an Indies Choice award for debut fiction, and a PNBA Book Award winner) and To the Bright Edge of the World.