A podcast on writing that explores the craft of fiction, answers listeners' questions, and provides strategies for a fulfilling writing practice and creative life, hosted by bestselling, award-winning novelist Nina LaCour.
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Read more and enroll in Projects & Practice . Read more and enroll in Winter Writing Nights: Exploring Voice and Language in Fiction . Subscribe to Nina's newsletter . ALSO! If you enroll in BOTH classes, you'll receive free access to Nina and Elana's The Business of Writing workshop. In this ninety-minute session, we will get deep into the business side of writing and publishing. We'll be…
Purchase Nina's new novel, Watch Over Me. Register for a morning of writing with Nina to benefit Diesel, A Bookstore. Enroll in Writing, Reading, Responding: The art of drafting and critiquing, in which Nina and Elana K. Arnold will discuss the making of Watch Over Me. (Remember to read the novel first!) Subscribe to "Letters from Nina" for behind-the-scenes looks at her process and projects, and…
You can rent Gaslight here . (Highly recommended!) Purchase Nina's new novel, Watch Over Me. Register for a morning of writing with Nina to benefit Diesel, A Bookstore. Enroll in Writing, Reading, Responding: The art of drafting and critiquing, in which Nina and Elana K. Arnold will discuss the making of Watch Over Me. (Remember to read the novel first!) Subscribe to "Letters from Nina" for…
Wednesday, September 16th with Tiffany D. Jackson 5 p.m. PST/ 7 p.m. CST/ 8 p.m. EST, hosted by YA @ Books Inc. Learn more and register here ! Thursday, September 17th with Stephanie Perkins 3 p.m. PST/5 p.m. CST/6 p.m. EST, hosted by Books & Books Learn more here ! Subscribe to Letters from Nina for writing musings and exercises, class and event news, and more about Nina's books.
Join Nina in celebration of Watch Over Me 's release! (If you order from a hosting bookstore, you'll receive a signed bookplate with your copy of Watch Over Me .) Tuesday, September 15th with Brandy Colbert 5 p.m. PST/7 p.m. CST/8 p.m. EST, hosted by Main St. Books Learn more and register here ! Wednesday, September 16th with Tiffany D. Jackson 5 p.m. PST/ 7 p.m. CST/ 8 p.m. EST, hosted by YA @…
Announcement: The Slow Novel Lab is open for a special summer benefit session, with 50% of the profit going to Direct Relief! Nina examines messiness and her complicated feelings about it, both in herself and in others. She invites you to spend some time with a mess of your own--not to clean it up, but to see what it offers you in your work. If you’d like to share your mess, or what you wrote…
Announcement: The Slow Novel Lab is open for a special summer benefit session, with 50% of the profit going to Direct Relief! Nina examines the anchors in her life: her work, her desk, the mug she drinks her morning coffee from. She offers a writing exercise to ease you into exploring your own anchors, and the anchors in your fiction. If you’d like to share your anchor, or what you wrote about it,…
Nina contemplates the windows in her new apartment, and what it's like to be on the inside when people outside pass by. She offers a two-part exercise for her listeners to be used first as a method of noticing and being in place, and then as an entryway to their fiction. If you’d like to share your window, or what you wrote about it, or your experience of writing (or not writing) during this time,…
About the Shelter in Place podcast, hosted by Laura Joyce Davis: When the news came down about the mandate to shelter in place, Bay Area writer Laura Joyce Davis decided to mark this moment in history by chronicling her daily experience of sheltering in place. Episodes are short (~10 min.) and often feature other artists, scientists, therapists, and those whose work pushes us to faith,…
This season opens in Nina's new home. She shares a story of disorientation, and finds her way back to writing. She invites listeners to write with her. To keep a notebook of these times. She offers a writing exercise as a way in. If you’d like to share your object, or what you wrote about it, or your experience of writing (or not writing) during this time, we'd love to hear from you! Use the…
