Elissa Bassist – Essayist, Humor Writer, & Editor at The Rumpus
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- 10Meg Medina, author of Merci Suárez Can’t Dance, the sequel to the Newbery-award winning young adult novel, Merci Suárez Changes Gears
- 11adrienne maree brown - queer, Black feminist activist and author of We Will Not Cancel Us, Pleasure Activism, Emergent Strategies, Holding Change, and more
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- 19Isabel Ibañez - Author of YA novels Written in Starlight and Woven in Moonlight
- 20Stephanie Big Eagle - author of the memoir, Thunderbird Rising
- 21Timneisha Greene Kim - Author of Athena's Quest: A Lesbian's Quest for Normality
- 22Maika Moulite & Maritza Moulite, authors of One of the Good Ones, a young adult novel about a young womxn living in the aftermath of her sister's death at a BLM protest
- 23Mia Mercado - Author of Weird But Normal, a collection of humor essays exploring the contradictions of being a womxn
- 24Alexandra Chang - Author of Days of Distraction, a novel that examines the question, ”How do you exist in a society that does not notice or understand you?”
- 25Sarah Faith Gottesdiener, Author of The Moon Book, and the Many Moons Lunar Planner
- 26Rachel Mans McKenny - Author of The Butterfly Effect, a novel about an entomologist who steps outside her comfort zone and discovers herself
- 27Riane Konc - Humor Author of Build Your Own Christmas Movie Romance: Pick Your Plot, Meet Your Man, and Create the Holiday Love Story of a Lifetime
- 28Mariëlle S. Smith - Author of 52 Weeks of Writing: Author Journal and Planner
- 29Marisa Acocella - Author of the graphic novel, The Big She-Bang: The Herstory of the Universe According to God the Mother
- 30Laura Taylor Namey - author of A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, a YA novel that has a diverse take on being a fish out of water
- 31Lan Cao & Harlan Van Cao - Authors of Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter
- 32Zara Stone - Award Winning Journalist and Author of The Future of Science is Female: The Brilliant Minds Shaping the 21st Century, a book for young people about badass scientists and entrepreneurs
- 33Francina Simone - YA Author of Smash It!, the story of a curvy girl discovering who she is and what it means to love
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- 35Sandra Linhart - Author of Daddy's Boots, a children's book about military deployment, and Diary of an Unkempt Woman
- 36Deborah Salazar Shapiro - Author of The Magical Mindful Day, an award-winning children's book published in Spanish and English, which explores mindfulness, environmentalism, and our interconnectedness
- 37Emily Hashimoto - Author of A World Between
- 38Jenny Bhatt - Author of Each of Us Killers and Podcast Host of Desi Books
- 39Xanthe Alexis - Songwriter and Creator of The Offering, an album of atmospheric indie folk music
- 40Rebekah Taussig - Author of Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
- 41Maisy Card - Author of These Ghosts Are Family, a novel exploring family secrets
- 42Christina Hammonds Reed - Author of The Black Kids, a YA Novel
- 43Melissa Faliveno - Editor, Essayist, and Author of Tomboyland
- 44Chet'la Sebree - Author of the poetry collection Mistress
- 45Lacy Crawford - Author of Notes on a Silencing, the memoir of a young woman's struggle to regain her sense of self after sexual assault, and the efforts of a powerful New England boarding school to silence her at any cost
- 46Melissa Valentine - Author of the memoir The Names of All the Flowers
- 47Juli Delgado Lopera - Colombian author of the queer multilingual novel, Fiebre Tropical
- 48Casey Cep - New Yorker Writer and Author of the NYT Bestseller, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
- 49Trina Greene Brown - Author of Parenting for Liberation: A Guide for Raising Black Children
- 50Jaquira Díaz - Author of Ordinary Girls
- 51Liara Tamani - Author of the young adult novel, All the Things We Never Knew
- 52Aja Black - Songwriter, Vocalist, Musican from The Reminders
- 53Minna Salami - Author of Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone
- 54Bishakh Som - Author of Apsara Engine, a collection of graphic short stories
- 55Aimee Liu - Author of WWII novel Glorious Boy
- 56Valencia Robin - Author of Ridiculous Light, an Award-Winning Poetry Collection
- 57Deborah Paredez - Author of the poetry collection Year of the Dog
- 58Dallas Woodburn - Author of The Best Week That Never Happened
- 59Kristen Millares Young - Author of Subduction
- 60Luba Vikhanski - Author of Gender Mosaic
- 61Melissa Matthewson - Author of Tracing the Desire Line
- 62Hala Alyan - Author of The Twenty-Ninth Year
- 63Writing in the Time of COVID-19
- 64Brittney Morris - Author of Slay
- 65Kim Krans - Author of Blossoms and Bones, and the Wild Unknown Tarot
- 66Ann Hagerty Davenport - Owner at 31 Annotations
- 67Ysabel Y. Gonzalez - Author of Wild Invocations
- 68T. Susan Chang - Author of Tarot Correspondences
- 69Dr. Chloe Schwenke - Author of SELF-ish: A Transgender Awakening
- 70Tara Lynn Masih - Author of My Real Name is Hanna
- 71Elizabeth Bell - Author of the Lazare Family Saga
- 72Dr. Rosenna Bakari - Author of Too Much Love is Not Enough
- 73Shara McCallum - Author of Madwoman
- 74Courtney Maum - Author of Before and After the Book Deal
- 75Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach - Author of The Many Names for Mother
- 76Nefertiti Austin - Author of Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
- 77Elissa Bassist - Essayist, Humor Writer, & Editor at The Rumpus
- 78Grace Talusan - Author of The Body Papers
- 79Trailer - Fierce Womxn Writing
Elissa Bassist - Essayist, Humor Writer, & Editor at The Rumpus
“Read, read, read! Read all the time!” – Elissa Bassist
This week, Sara interviews essayist, humor writer, and editor Elissa Bassist on her writing process.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Writing one good sentence
- What the first goal should be for any professional writer
- What’s changed since her letter to Dear Sugar (Cheryl Strayed)
- And more!
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Tell me what you do not want people you knew in high school to read about you.
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