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This week, we are delighted to share our conversation with Caroline Donahue, a book coach and host of the wonderful Secret Library podcast and co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, I Wrote it Anyway. Caroline has so much great advice thatwe've decided she's our new spiritual adviser. In the episode, she talks about her planning process,giving creative projects time to root and grow (and notworrying about being too faithful to them), andher incredible publishing project, I Wrote it Anyway.Produced with Dal Kular, the short story anthology features writerswho felt blocks to writing, either internal or due to the outside world, schedule, lack of support, etc, and will be out this fall.

Find out more at carolinedonahue.com, and follow Caroline on Twitter and Instagram @carodonahue.

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In Episode 33, we sat down to talk to poet, book publicist and horseback riding instructor Abigail Welhouse, a great treat for April, which is National Poetry Month.Abigail is the author ofBad Baby(dancing girl press),Too Many Humans of New York(Bottlecap Press), andMemento Mori(a poem/comic collaboration with Evan Johnston), and works as a publicist atScott Manning & Associates.She also works in a second day job forGallopNYCas a horseback riding instructor.

You can follow her by subscribing to her Secret Poems attinyletter.com/welhouse, following her on Twitter (@welhouse), or check out her website atwelhouse.nyc.

Abigail gives great tips on publicity for authors, from social media to episode 31'stheme of being open about day jobs. She's also working on a novel, so we got to circle back to our other theme of the month, revising.

We really enjoyed our talk and hope you enjoy listening!

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On today's episode, BBC journalist and prolific novelist Hamid Ismailov shares his inspirational but practical worldview relating to why he keeps his day job as a journalist (for the stories) and how he structures his writing life. He also tells us how he engages with the many literary traditions that he comes into contact with in his globe-trotting life - Russia, Central Asia, London and many others.

Hamid is the Editor of the Central Asia service at the BBC World Service, and he is the author of numerous books in Russian and Uzbek, which have been translated into English and many other languages. His most recent book is The Devils’ Dance. One of his first books to receive widespread acclaim in English isThe Railway, which has an untraditional, folkloric structure and many fantastic characters. Since then, in English he has published several books, includingThe Dead Lake, about the area of Kazakhstan where nuclear testing had occurred previously, an elegy about Moscow called The Underground,and A Poet and Bin Laden, and many more books and artistic projects that have not been tranlsated. He was formerly the BBC’s Writer in Residence,and during that time he wrote many lovely blog posts.

We really enjoyed our conversation with him and we think you will, too.

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Today we have a fun and wide-ranging conversation to share (just check out how many things we talked about in the show notes!). We talk with Ashley Maynor, who is a university librarian by day and an award-winning filmmaker by night. Ashley is a long and dear friend of Olivia’s. We loved having the chance to record this discussion about incubation, divorce, getting in touch with your inner octagenarian, chickens, touching your work every day, and lots more.

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For more information about Brian, visit his website, briankatcher.com.

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We sitdown with Divya Kohli, Olivia's yoga teacher and friend, to talk about how the practices of yoga and writing relate to each other.

Divya teaches yoga and meditation for “the whole being”, a practice which can enliven our bodies, minds and consciousness and help us throughout our path in life. London-based and a dedicated practitioner since 2000, she’s been a full time senior level teacher since 2006 offering community classes, retreats and bespoke tuition. Aformer newspaper journalist, she has a continued passion for writing... and using words like we use the breath in yoga, as a way to connect more fully.

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Today, we have the pleasure of talking to writer Alicia de los Reyes about making time to write no matter what your circ*mstances are, and how she was able to take the rejection of her first novel and use it to grow as a writer.

Alicia is a writer based in Seattle, WA, where she lives with her husband, son, 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 is represented by DGLM and at work on a novel.

You can find out more about Alicia ataliciadelosreyes.com, and as @likesoatmeal on Instagram. Listen to her podcast Scratch Paperon iTunes or on Stitcher, or at her website.

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Today, we talk to librarian Ayanna Gaines about reconnecting with her creative side, balancing work and writing, and how she sets up her space to nurture her art. We also chat National Novel Writing Month, and Olivia helps Meghan figure out how to set her Nano goals.

Ayanna Gaines is a librarian and pop culture geek in Southern California. She’s just made the switch from academia to public libraries and is reconnecting with her creative writing side.She writes poetry and is hard at work on her first novel. You can find her and her adorable kittens on Twitter @popcullibrn or Instagram @againeslibrarian

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This week we have our first guest, Icelandic journalist and writer Sigrún Davíðsdóttir on our show. We talk about writing in the morning, the magical state of mind she gets from writing, and she reminds us not to get frustrated if we get stuck.

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