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Hafeez Lakhani, author of ABUNDANCE
Jun 23, 2026
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Annie Hartnett, author of THE ROAD TO TENDER HEARTS
Jun 15, 2026
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Steven Rowley, author of TAKE ME WITH YOU
Jun 9, 2026
44m 51s
Tom Perrotta, author of GHOST TOWN
Jun 1, 2026
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Cassandra Neyenesch, author of A LITTLE BIT BAD
May 26, 2026
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| 6/23/26 | ![]() Hafeez Lakhani, author of ABUNDANCE | Hafeez Lakhani was born in Hyderabad, India and raised in suburban South Florida. His fiction and essays have appeared in Crazyhorse, Exposition Review, Salt Hill, Tikkun, The Cortland Review, and The Southern Review, and have garnered fellowships from PEN America and The Center for Fiction. He was twice recognized with a Notable Essay in Best American Essays and twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He was profiled by the Huffington Post as one of “Eight Fantastic New Writers to Look Out For.” His debut novel, Abundance, following five members of an American Muslim family across Miami, New York, Monaco, and Gujarat, was a People Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2026. Hafeez and Barbara DeMarco-Barrett talk about how he knew the novel idea had legs and how he committed to it for the long haul: 12 years in the making! They also talk about when you know a novel is done, how to use your critique groups’ feedback, using a Venn diagram, not going to an MFA program, and much more. For more information on Writers on Writing and to become a supporter, visit our Patreon page. For a one-time donation, visit Ko-fi. You can help out the show and indie bookstores by buying books at our bookstore on bookshop.org. It’s stocked with titles by our guest authors, as well as our personal favorites. And on Spotify, you’ll find an album’s worth of typewriter music like what you hear on the show. It’s perfect for writing. Look for the artist, Just My Type. You can find hundreds of past interviews on our website. (Recorded on April 28, 2026) Host: Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Host: Marrie Stone Music: Travis Barrett (Stream his music on Spotify, Apple Music, Etc.) | — | ||||||
| 6/15/26 | ![]() Annie Hartnett, author of THE ROAD TO TENDER HEARTS | Annie Hartnett is the award-winning author of three novels: Rabbit Cake, Unlikely Animals, and the national bestseller The Road to Tender Hearts, which won the 2025 New England Book Award for fiction and was named a best book of 2025 from NPR, LitHub, and Southern Living. It’s now out and available in paperback, published by Ballentine. Along with the writer Tessa Fontaine, Annie co-runs Accountability Workshops for writers, helping writers commit to routines and embrace the long, slow, joyful, terrible process of doing the work. The Road to Tender Hearts gives us writers a lot to talk about. Structuring a novel around a road trip and how to weave in backstory while maintaining forward momentum. Writing heavy topics like death, addiction, grief, and abandonment with humor. Annie’s approach to third-person multiple points of view, tackling a range of viewpoints, and so much more. We also talked about her ambivalent relationship with Scrivener, how she uses spreadsheets, working with mind maps, and the importance of accountability for writers. For more information on Writers on Writing and to become a supporter, visit our Patreon page. For a one-time donation, visit Ko-fi. You can help out the show and indie bookstores by buying books at our bookstore on bookshop.org. It’s stocked with titles by our guest authors, as well as our personal favorites. And on Spotify, you’ll find an album’s worth of typewriter music like what you hear on the show. It’s perfect for writing. Look for the artist, Just My Type. You can find hundreds of past interviews on our website. (Recorded June 2, 2026) Host: Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Host: Marrie Stone Music: Travis Barrett (Stream his music on Spotify, Apple Music, Etc.) | — | ||||||
| 6/9/26 | ![]() Steven Rowley, author of TAKE ME WITH YOU✨ | writing processfiction+4 | Steven Rowley | Take Me With YouLily and the Octopus+5 | Portland, MainePalm Springs+1 | Steven RowleyTake Me With You+6 | — | 44m 51s | |
| 6/1/26 | ![]() Tom Perrotta, author of GHOST TOWN✨ | writing processchildhood homes+4 | Tom Perrotta | HBOPatreon+8 | New Jersey | Tom PerrottaGHOST TOWN+6 | — | 1h 00m 00s | |
| 5/26/26 | ![]() Cassandra Neyenesch, author of A LITTLE BIT BAD✨ | writingfiction+3 | Cassandra Neyenesch | The GuardianBrooklyn Rail+5 | — | Cassandra NeyeneschA Little Bit Bad+5 | — | 58m 10s | |
| 5/18/26 | ![]() Ada Limón, author of AGAINST BREAKING: ON THE POWER OF POETRY✨ | poetryadvocacy+4 | Ada Limón | NASAMacArthur Fellowship+9 | — | Ada LimónPoet Laureate+6 | — | 54m 57s | |
| 5/12/26 | ![]() Estelle Erasmus, author of WRITING THAT GETS NOTICED✨ | non-fiction writingfinding your voice+3 | Estelle Erasmus | New York UniversityThe New York Times+9 | — | writingessays+3 | — | 1h 08m 00s | |
| 5/4/26 | ![]() Jayne Anne Phillips, author of SMALL TOWN GIRLS✨ | writingmemoir+4 | Jayne Anne Phillips | SMALL TOWN GIRLSMotherKind+7 | — | Jayne Anne PhillipsSMALL TOWN GIRLS+6 | — | 1h 00m 36s | |
| 4/28/26 | ![]() T.C. Boyle, author of NO WAY HOME✨ | writing processshort stories+3 | T. Coraghessan Boyle | University of IowaThe New Yorker+8 | Santa Barbara | T.C. BoyleNo Way Home+3 | — | 53m 47s | |
| 4/20/26 | ![]() Louise Erdrich, author of PYTHON’S KISS✨ | literaturestorytelling+3 | Louise Erdrich | The New YorkerPYTHON’S KISS+5 | — | Louise ErdrichPython’s Kiss+4 | — | 59m 05s | |
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| 4/14/26 | ![]() Dylan Landis, author of LIST OF ALL POSSIBLE DESIRES: A Novel in Stories✨ | fiction writingstorytelling+3 | Dylan Landis | O. Henry Prize StoriesBest American Nonrequired Reading+4 | Los Angeles | Dylan Landisfiction+5 | — | 59m 46s | |
| 4/6/26 | ![]() Anne Enright, author of ATTENTION: WRITING ON LIFE, ART, AND THE WORLD✨ | readingwriting+4 | Anne Enright | The Wren, The WrenThe Gathering+1 | — | Anne Enrightwriting+6 | — | 56m 25s | |
| 3/31/26 | ![]() Allegra Goodman, author of THIS IS NOT ABOUT US✨ | literary fictionwriting+3 | Allegra Goodman | Late Show With Stephen ColbertReese’s Book Club+9 | HonoluluCambridge, Massachusetts | Allegra GoodmanThis Is Not About Us+4 | — | 37m 38s | |
| 3/23/26 | ![]() Kate Schatz, author of WHERE THE GIRLS WERE✨ | fiction writingcharacter development+3 | Kate Schatz | WHERE THE GIRLS WERERad Women+5 | — | Kate SchatzWHERE THE GIRLS WERE+5 | — | 58m 18s | |
| 3/17/26 | ![]() Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, author of LAKE EFFECT✨ | writingmultiple point of view+3 | Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney | AMC StudiosNPR+5 | New York City | Cynthia D’Aprix SweeneyLake Effect+4 | — | 50m 43s | |
| 3/9/26 | ![]() Jordy Rosenberg, author of NIGHT NIGHT FAWN✨ | transgenderismhomophobia+4 | Jordy Rosenberg | University of Massachusetts-AmherstConfessions of the Fox+1 | — | Jordy RosenbergNight Night Fawn+6 | — | 57m 37s | |
| 3/7/26 | ![]() Larissa Pham, author of DISCIPLINE✨ | writingfiction+4 | Larissa Pham | The NationNew York Times Book Review+10 | — | Larissa PhamDiscipline+5 | — | 49m 46s | |
| 2/23/26 | ![]() Bret Anthony Johnston, author of ENCOUNTERS WITH UNEXPECTED ANIMALS✨ | short fictioncreative writing+4 | Bret Anthony Johnston | Harvard UniversityUniversity of Texas at Austin+10 | — | Bret Anthony JohnstonEncounters with Unexpected Animals+5 | — | 59m 45s | |
| 2/16/26 | ![]() Reena Shah, author of EVERY HAPPINESS | Reena Shah is a writer, editor, and teacher. Her work has been featured in the Masters Review, Electric Literature, Joyland, BBC, the American Prospect, National Geographic and the Guardian, among other publications. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Millay Arts, Tin House, and the Fulbright Foundation. She received an MFA in fiction from the Michener Center for Writers, where she won the Keene Prize for Literature. For many years, she was a kathak dancer in New York and India. She now lives on Roosevelt Island, NY, with her family and teaches in a public school. Her debut novel is Every Happiness, the focus of our discussion. Reena joins Barbara DeMarco-Barrett and they talk about being a writer in training, a short story that led to the novel, complicated friend relationships, the time it takes to finish a novel, having faith in a project while also doubting, the book’s title and cover, reader reviews, and more. For more information on Writers on Writing and to become a supporter, visit our Patreon page. For a one-time donation, visit Ko-fi. You can help out the show and indie bookstores by buying books at our bookstore on bookshop.org. It’s stocked with titles by our guest authors, as well as our personal favorites. And on Spotify, you’ll find an album’s worth of typewriter music like what you hear on the show. It’s perfect for writing. Look for the artist, Just My Type. You can find hundreds of past interviews on our website. (Recorded February 6, 2026) Host: Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Host: Marrie StoneMusic: Travis Barrett (Stream his music on Spotify, Apple Music, Etc.) | — | ||||||
| 2/16/26 | ![]() Mark Haddon, author of LEAVING HOME: A MEMOIR IN FULL COLOUR | Mark Haddon might be best known for his 2003 breakout novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. But it’s only the tip of a body of work that stretches across genres and artforms. He’s the author of three other adult novels, including The Porpoise and two collections of short stories. Dogs and Monsters came out last year. He’s also written poetry and plays. Before The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark wrote over a dozen children’s books. He’s also an illustrator and visual artist. Out this month is Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour, which gives us access to his amazing mind and provides one roadmap into the creative process (recognizing there are an infinite number of roads). He joins Marrie Stone to talk about his insights into the craft including using constraints to enhance creativity, why he no longer uses flowcharts to map his work, how the flow state in writing differs from visual art, how writers’ childhoods are different, and how he leaned into his writing weaknesses to produce The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. He also talks about mental illness and creativity, points of view he won’t touch, and so much more. For more information on Writers on Writing and to become a supporter, visit our Patreon page. For a one-time donation, visit Ko-fi. You can find hundreds of past interviews on our website. You can help out the show and indie bookstores by buying books at our bookstore on bookshop.org. It’s stocked with titles by our guest authors, as well as our personal favorites. And on Spotify, you’ll find an album’s worth of typewriter music like what you hear on the show. It’s perfect for writing. Look for the artist, Just My Type. Email the show at writersonwritingpodcast@gmail.com. We love to hear from our listeners! (Recorded February 2, 2026) Host: Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Host: Marrie Stone Music: Travis Barrett (Stream his music on Spotify, Apple Music, Etc.) | — | ||||||
| 2/3/26 | ![]() Richard Lange, author of JOE HUSTLE | Richard Lange is the author of the story collections, Dead Boys and Sweet Nothing, and the novels, This Wicked World, Angel Baby, The Smack, Rovers, and Joe Hustle. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the International Association of Crime Writers’ Hammett Prize, The Short Story Dagger from Great Britain’s Crime Writers Association, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Los Angeles. Richard joins Barbara DeMarco-Barrett to talk about his most recent novel, Joe Hustle, and topics they touch on include avoiding backstory that pulls down a story, structure devices, not being a one-genre writer, finding your voice, rejections, road trip stories, naming characters after friends, and more. For more information on Writers on Writing and to become a supporter, visit our Patreon page. For a one-time donation, visit Ko-fi. You can find hundreds of past interviews on our website. You can help out the show and indie bookstores by buying books at our bookstore on bookshop.org. It’s stocked with titles by our guest authors, as well as our personal favorites. And on Spotify, you’ll find an album’s worth of typewriter music like what you hear on the show. It’s perfect for writing. Look for the artist, Just My Type. We love to hear from our listeners. Email us at writersonwritingpodcast@gmail.com. (Recorded January 23, 2026) Host: Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Host: Marrie StoneMusic: Travis Barrett (Stream his music on Spotify, Apple Music, Etc.) | — | ||||||
| 1/26/26 | ![]() Ann Packer, author of SOME BRIGHT NOWHERE | When Ann Packer’s latest novel, Some Bright Nowhere, was chosen by Oprah for her book club last November, we saw what an impact this book was making on so many folks and their experiences with dying loved ones. The book was written in a record four months – in contrast to her novel The Dive from Clausen’s Pier which took nearly 10 years. It’s a masterclass in subtle conflict, in putting ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, in compressed dialogue that heightens tension, in character change, in point of view decisions. It gave us a lot to pick apart on the craft level. She joined Marrie Stone to talk about it, as well as her 2015 NYT essay Between Books. In addition to Some Bright Nowhere, Ann is the author of three other bestselling novels: The Children’s Crusade, Songs Without Words, and The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, which received the Kate Chopin Literary Award among many other prizes and honors. Her short fiction has been published in two collections — Mendocino and Other Stories and Swim Back to Me — and includes stories that appeared in The New Yorker and in the O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies. For more information on Writers on Writing and to become a supporter, visit our Patreon page. For a one-time donation, visit Ko-fi. You can find hundreds of past interviews on our website. You can help out the show and indie bookstores by buying books at our bookstore on bookshop.org. It’s stocked with titles by our guest authors, as well as our personal favorites. And on Spotify, you’ll find an album’s worth of typewriter music like what you hear on the show. It’s perfect for writing. Look for the artist, Just My Type. Email the show at writersonwritingpodcast@gmail.com. We love to hear from our listeners! (Recorded January 13, 2026) Host: Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Host: Marrie Stone Music: Travis Barrett (Stream his music on Spotify, Apple Music, Etc.) | — | ||||||
| 1/20/26 | ![]() Andrea Bartz, author of THE LAST FERRY OUT | Andrea Bartz is a journalist and the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club pick We Were Never Here, The Spare Room, The Lost Night, and The Herd. Her thrillers have been optioned by Netflix, Hulu, and other production companies, and more than half a million copies of her books have been sold worldwide. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Marie Claire, Vogue, and she's held editorial positions at Glamour, Psychology Today, and Self. She was also a lead plaintiff in the landmark class-action lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic, which was the first major win for creatives against an AI company as well as the largest copyright recovery in history. She lives with her girlfriend and pets in Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley. Her latest novel isThe Last Ferry Out, published in May. Andrea joined Barbara to talk about prologues, writing as an intuitive pantser, literary vs. genre fiction, the Anthropic class action lawsuit, and much more. For more information on Writers on Writing and to become a supporter, visit our Patreon page. For a one-time donation, visit Ko-fi. You can find hundreds of past interviews on our website. You can help out the show and indie bookstores by buying books at our bookstore on bookshop.org. It’s stocked with titles by our guest authors, as well as our personal favorites. And on Spotify, you’ll find an album’s worth of typewriter music like what you hear on the show. It’s perfect for writing. Look for the artist, Just My Type. Email the show at writersonwritingpodcast@gmail.com. We love to hear from our listeners! (Recorded January 19, 2026) Host: Barbara DeMarco-BarrettHost: Marrie StoneMusic: Travis Barrett (Stream his music on Spotify, Apple Music, Etc.) | — | ||||||
| 1/12/26 | ![]() Elizabeth McCracken, author of A LONG GAME: NOTES ON WRITING FICTION | Elizabeth McCracken is the author of nine books across several genres — novels, short story collections, autofiction, and now a craft book about writing. Her novel, The Giant’s House, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1996. Thunderstruck & Other Stories won the Story Prize in 2015 and was longlisted for the National Book Award. She’s appeared in five editions of The Best American Short Stories. And she has taught fiction off and on (mostly on) since 1989 including at the University of Iowa, where she also received her MFA. She's retiring from the University of Texas in Austin this year. Ann Patchett once said that Elizabeth was the only person she allowed to read her manuscripts as she was writing them. We discuss a great interview Elizabeth and Ann did back in 2005 that can be found here. A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction is out and she joined Marrie to talk about it. Basically, if this podcast were a book, we would hope it might look something like Elizabeth’s book — full of insights, wisdoms, anecdotes, and advice on craft, but sometimes second-guessing itself, contradicting itself, and understanding that all the “rules” we hear about art are meant to be broken. It gave us endless things to talk about. For more information on Writers on Writing and to become a supporter, visit our Patreon page. For a one-time donation, visit Ko-fi. You can find hundreds of past interviews on our website. You can help out the show and indie bookstores by buying books at our bookstore on bookshop.org. It’s stocked with titles by our guest authors, as well as our personal favorites. And on Spotify, you’ll find an album’s worth of typewriter music like what you hear on the show. It’s perfect for writing. Look for the artist, Just My Type. Email the show at writersonwritingpodcast@gmail.com. We love to hear from our listeners! (Recorded December 19, 2025) Host: Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Host: Marrie Stone Music: Travis Barrett (Stream his music on Spotify, Apple Music, Etc.) | — | ||||||
| 12/29/25 | ![]() Marrie Stone’s BEST OF 2025 | Last year, I compiled my first-ever “Best Of the Year” show. It was such fun to make, and received such a great response from listeners, that I decided to make it an annual tradition. While I could only include a handful of authors from the past year, this episode provides a fun Whitman’s Sampler of the kinds of conversations available in our archives. Listen as Adam Johnson, Wally Lamb, and Chris Whitaker tell us where their stories come from. Laila Lalami teaches us to read like a writer. Amy Bloom and Bruce Holsinger offer their thoughts on revision. Patrick Ryan (via Ann Patchett) shares his insights about how to write war scenes with authority, and Richard Russo talks about the moral dilemma of using the people in our lives for material. Authors in this episode include Jess Walter (So Far Gone), Wally Lamb (The River is Waiting), Richard Russo (Life and Art), Amy Bloom (I’ll Be Right Here), Laila Lalami (The Dream Hotel), Joan Silber (Mercy), Chris Whitaker (All the Colors of the Dark), Adam Johnson (The Wayfinder), Patrick Ryan (Buckeye), Bruce Holsinger (Culpability), Eric Puchner (Dream State) and Colum McCann (Twist). The Jane Smiley essay that Laila Lalami refers to can be found here. And Joan Silber’s book about how to use time in fiction can be found here. For nearly 28 years, Writers on Writing has delivered MFA-level advice from some of our world’s most accomplished living authors – all without the hefty price-tag. We’ve grown only by word of mouth and rely only on listener support. So, if you like what you hear, help us spread the word! For more information on Writers on Writing and to become a supporter, visit our Patreon page. For a one-time donation, visit Ko-fi. You can find hundreds of past interviews on our website. You can help out the show and indie bookstores by buying books at our bookstore on bookshop.org. It’s stocked with titles by our guest authors, as well as our personal favorites. And on Spotify, you’ll find an album’s worth of typewriter music like what you hear on the show. It’s perfect for writing. Look for the artist, Just My Type. Email the show at writersonwritingpodcast@gmail.com. We love to hear from our listeners! (Recorded in December 2025) Host: Barbara DeMarco-BarrettHost: Marrie StoneMusic: Travis Barrett (Stream his music on Spotify, Apple Music, Etc.) | — | ||||||
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