Join award-winning novelist and writing coach Michelle Hoover and special guests for your morning writing wake up call, starting with a 50-day writing challenge. 7amnovelist.substack.com
Kelly J. Ford: Finding Your Genre & Not Giving Up
33 mins; March 24, 2026
Patricia Park & Desmond Hall: Investing in Your Writing Career
47 mins; March 17, 2026
Annie Hartnett & Tessa Fontaine On Accountability
30 mins; March 10, 2026
AE Osworth: Revisiting Joy Writing
21 mins; March 03, 2026
Crystal King: Tackling the Speculative (& the ornery issue of technology too)
41 mins; February 24, 2026
Rosie Sulton & Barbara Best: Peer Coaching for Writers
37 mins; February 17, 2026
Elizabeth Searle: Reverse Engineering for the Script Curious
37 mins; February 10, 2026
Charlene Wang: Curing a Passive Protagonist
34 mins; February 03, 2026
Sheri Joseph: The Life-Artifice Spectrum for Revision
38 mins; January 27, 2026
Peter Orner: Saying Something Slowly
42 mins; January 20, 2026
Kristin Vukovic & Jo Piazza: The Complexities of Place
38 mins; January 13, 2026
Roundtable: Can Climate Fiction Move the Needle?
54 mins; January 06, 2026
Alumni Testimonials from the In-Person GrubStreet Novel Incubator Program
14 mins; January 05, 2026
Josh Barkan: Writing a Memoir Before You Know Its Ending
48 mins; December 30, 2025
Milo Todd: Writing Challenging Fiction in a Flattening Culture
45 mins; December 16, 2025
Jessica Francis Kane: Leaning into Your Obsessions (& Your Obstacles Too)
41 mins; December 09, 2025
Emily Ross: The Chicken or the Egg of Character and Plotting
34 mins; December 02, 2025
Roundtable: The Knotty Question of Voice
50 mins; November 25, 2025
Some Words from the Late Charles Coe
5 mins; November 24, 2025
Jessica Kent: A Great Literary Citizen on Finding Community
45 mins; November 18, 2025
Janet Rich Edwards: The Language of Gender and Class
47 mins; November 11, 2025
Nicole Graev Lipson: Dealing with Her Literary Forebears
37 mins; November 04, 2025
Roundtable: World Building for Other Worlds
50 mins; October 28, 2025
Lisa Borders: Voice, Likability, and the Onerous Unreliable Narrator
40 mins; October 21, 2025
Whitney Scharer & Sonya Larson on TBR: There's a New Writing Conference in Town!
28 mins; October 14, 2025
Lauren Aliza Green: When Rewriting Beats Revision
28 mins; October 07, 2025
Roundtable: World Building for Historical Fiction
52 mins; September 30, 2025
Josh Cook of Porter Square Books: Keeping the Odometer Going
34 mins; September 23, 2025
Jyoti Chand: A Graphic Novelist Bounces Between Mediums (and she’s got quite a social media following too)
27 mins; September 16, 2025
Zee Carlstrom: The Business of Brainstorming
31 mins; September 09, 2025
Roundtable: Inviting the Reader Into Your Story
50 mins; September 02, 2025
Beth Castrodale: 'Without Empathy, Horror Fails'
26 mins; August 26, 2025
Libby Buck: 'Joining Together in Awe' Or: How Art History Can Help Your Novel
30 mins; August 18, 2025
Matt Trinetti: Co-Founder of the London Writers Salon
29 mins; August 11, 2025
Roundtable: Reverse Outline? What Is It and Why Do It?
49 mins; August 05, 2025
Karen Dukess: The Importance of Writing Groups, Retreats, and the Advice: "Just Keep Going"
32 mins; July 29, 2025
Nova Ren Suma: Breaking Expectations to Recover Her Writing Dreams
34 mins; July 22, 2025
Stephanie Elizondo Griest: An Art Monk Finds Her People
36 mins; July 15, 2025
Roundtable: Going Beyond the Usual Character Development
48 mins; July 08, 2025
Alison Langley: History Repeats Itself
49 mins; July 07, 2025
Christine Pride: An Editor's First Solo Effort as a Writer Tests Her Chops
37 mins; July 01, 2025
What Writing Together Has Given Our 7am Crew
7 mins; June 24, 2025
Write With Us in July!
2 mins; June 04, 2025
Milo Todd and Julie Carrick Dalton on Asparagus (and Making Room for Writers Unlike Yourself)
44 mins; January 30, 2025
Randy Susan Meyers and Jennifer S. Brown on Truth in Fiction
33 mins; January 28, 2025
Josh Barkan on Writing the Political
38 mins; January 23, 2025
Christine Murphy & Hilary Lahan on Writing Friendships
31 mins; January 21, 2025
Grace Talusan & Calvin Hennick on Making a Morning Writing Partnership
25 mins; January 16, 2025
Celeste Ng and Whitney Scharer on Getting Messy and Pursuing Joy
31 mins; January 14, 2025
Lori Ostlund & Anne Raeff on Compassion
36 mins; January 09, 2025
Embracing Delusions: Theresa Okokon on Sharing Her Story and Helping Others Do the Same
33 mins; January 07, 2025
We're Writing Together. Join us!
1 min; January 03, 2025
Use Your Words: A Virtual Workshop & A Vital Call to Action
147 hours 31 mins; September 24, 2024
Listener Roundup: Writing Through Fear, Making it Up, & Letting the Work Lead the Way
51 mins; August 30, 2024
R.O. Kwon on Writing What Scares You
35 mins; August 28, 2024
Jamie Quatro on Experimenting with Form
33 mins; August 26, 2024
Ann Hood on Introducing a Late Point of View (& her famous +/- writing advice)
32 mins; August 23, 2024
Crystal King on Writing about Problematic People (& Places Too)
33 mins; August 21, 2024
Pagan Kennedy on Writing Nonfiction During Years of Disruption
36 mins; August 19, 2024
Listeners' Roundup 5: Cultural Context, Secondary Characters, & When to Break (or Make) Rules
37 mins; August 16, 2024
Femi Kayode on the Rules of Engagement When Writing a Sequel
42 mins; August 14, 2024
Hesse Phillips on Challenges in Writing Queer History
31 mins; August 12, 2024
Mark Cecil on Letting Your Secondary Characters Speak
36 mins; August 09, 2024
Shi Naseer on Managing Multiple Timelines & Writing for a Western Audience
