The ARTWIFE Podcast

The ARTWIFE Podcast

The ARTWIFE Podcast is a monthly show hosted by ARTWIFE co-founder Hannah Harlee. Join us as we discuss the craft of writing and the life of the artist, featuring interviews with our very own contributors as well as authors published by independent presses. Whether you're a writer, a reader, or an aspiring lit lover, there's room for you at The ARTWIFE Podcast. Episodes are released on the first Tuesday of each month.

Episodes

CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT: Max Blue

August 5, 2025 • 50 mins
Welcome to the CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT series on The ARTWIFE Podcast! Every other month, we're interviewing an artist whose work we've published in the magazine. Join us as we get to know our contributors and talk about the creative process and the life of the artist. This month, we're joined by Max Blue. Max is the art critic for the San Francisco Examiner and has contributed criticism and reporting to Artsy, BOMB, and Hyperallergic...

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A Conversation with Dan White & Jessica Denver of L'Esprit Literary Review and Indirect Books

July 1, 2025 • 53 mins
Submitting writers, this one's for you! Dan White and Jessica Denzer are editors at L'Esprit Literary Review and publishers at Indirect Books. In this episode, learn more about how their two lit organizations operate, what kind of work they're looking for, and why ensuring the existence of a strong literary landscape matters to them.

Plus: surprise! Dan is also a contributor to ARTWIFE Magazine. Hear him talk about the creation of...

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CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT: Josie Mitchell

June 3, 2025 • 43 mins
Welcome to the CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT series on The ARTWIFE Podcast! Every other month, we're interviewing an artist whose work we've published in the magazine. Join us as we get to know our contributors and talk about the creative process and the life of the artist. This month, we're joined by Josie Mitchell, a writer, writing teacher, and podcast host. Read Josie's short story in ARTWIFE: https://www.artwifemag.com/short-stories/t...

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ARTWIFE x The Inner Loop: Majda Gama

May 20, 2025 • 44 mins
In 2025, ARTWIFE Magazine is teaming up with The Inner Loop to bring you interviews with DC-area authors! In March, April, and May, then again in September, October, and November, join us on the third Tuesday of the month to hear from recently-published novelists, memoirists, and poets in the DMV. Today we meet Majda Gama, the award-winning author of In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls (Wandering Aengus Press) and The Call ...

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INSIDE OUT: Storytelling, Astrology, and Demi Moore with Wonder Bright

May 6, 2025 • 63 mins
Astrologer Wonder Bright is back! This time, we explore the life, artistry, and filmography of one Ms. Demi Moore. We look at topics like: the fact that Demi's characters are always restrained and subtle AND also always complex and fully realized...how does she do that??? How does her lifelong habit of observation contribute to the work she's able to make? What's it been like for Demi to make works of beauty while being treated as ...

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ARTWIFE x The Inner Loop: Patricia Coral

April 15, 2025 • 47 mins
In 2025, ARTWIFE Magazine is teaming up with The Inner Loop to bring you interviews with DC-area authors! In March, April, and May, then again in September, October, and November, join us on the third Tuesday of the month to hear from recently-published novelists, memoirists, and poets in the DMV. Today we meet Patricia Coral, author of the memoir "Women Surrounded by Water," which was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics ...

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CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT: Julia Mallory

April 1, 2025 • 45 mins
Welcome to the CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT series on The ARTWIFE Podcast! Every other month, we're interviewing an artist whose work we've published in the magazine. Join us as we get to know our contributors and talk about the creative process and the life of the artist.

This month, we're joined by Julia Mallory, a poet, prose writer, visual artist, and founder. Read Julia's short story in ARTWIFE: https://www.artwifemag.com/short-stor...

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ARTWIFE x The Inner Loop: Varun Gauri

March 18, 2025 • 46 mins
In 2025, ARTWIFE Magazine is teaming up with The Inner Loop to bring you interviews with DC-area authors! In March, April, and May, then again in September, October, and November, join us on the third Tuesday of the month to hear from recently-published novelists, memoirists, and poets in the DMV. Today we meet Varun Gauri, author of the novel "For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus". Varun worked for more than two decades on deve...

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*Re-release!* A STAR IS BORN: Storytelling, Astrology, and Barbra Streisand with Wonder Bright

March 4, 2025 • 61 mins
The ARTWIFE Podcast is on spring break this month, so in honor of the current Venus retrograde we're re-injecting this episode from last fall into your feeds. Here she blows!

This month, we're taking a field trip! Join us as we depart from our usual fare of writing & writers and romp instead into the realm of performance, performers, and the life of the artist. We're joined by astrologer Wonder Bright, who helps us understand how ...

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CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT: Jaina Cipriano

February 5, 2025 • 26 mins
Welcome to the CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT series on The ARTWIFE Book Club podcast! Every other month, we'll be interviewing an artist whose work we've published in the magazine. Join us as we get to know our contributors and talk about the creative process and the life of the artist.

This month, we're joined by Jaina Cipriano, an experiential designer, filmmaker, and photographer. See Jaina's photo series in ARTWIFE: https://www.artwif...

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THE COIN by Yasmin Zaher (And What It Can Teach Us About Artistic Values)

January 7, 2025 • 27 mins
We're starting 2025 with one of the best books we've read in awhile: The Coin by Yasmin Zaher. After a quick zip through the (bananas, unhinged, incredible) plot, we use the lens of this book to talk about the concept of artistic values and how important they are for clarifying and magnifying the work we make. Jump in!

Starting in February 2025, we invite you to join us weekly for The ARTWIFE Creative Hour! This is a free, virtual...

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End-of-Year Reflections + Favorite Books This Year

December 3, 2024 • 15 mins
In this short lil snack of an episode, we process some heavy shit and talk through the unique mixture of bleakness and hope stretching out ahead of us. Then Hannah runs down a list of her top 5 books & stories from the year, plus a few honorable mentions. Join us and find out if any of your favorite made the list.
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CHALLENGERS

November 4, 2024 • 29 mins
It's our first-ever movie night on the pod! We're looking at Challengers, a perfect film about three self-loathing, deeply unwell people visiting psychosexual drama upon each other repeatedly for more than a decade. The stuff dreams are made of! But what does it have to do with writing? Well, everything. In this episode, we talk about the power of indoctrinating your audience/readers with sub-perceptual imagery and symbolism. We al...

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A STAR IS BORN: Storytelling, Astrology, and Barbra Streisand with Wonder Bright

October 1, 2024 • 61 mins
This month, we're taking a field trip! Join us as we depart from our usual fare of writing & writers and romp instead into the realm of performance, performers, and the life of the artist. We're joined by astrologer Wonder Bright, who helps us understand how the astrological signatures in Barbra Streisand's birth chart are influencing and describing the way Barbra makes her art. Topics include the intersections and overlaps between...

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NOTHING TO SEE HERE: 3 Signs Your Work Might Lack Depth

September 3, 2024 • 32 mins
This month we're back with another SHORTS episode...and we're doing things a little differently this time! Rather than look at the craft of an individual piece of work, we're turning our attention to the question of emotional depth & honesty in creative writing more generally. What does emotional presence *feel like* in a piece of writing? And what does it feel like when it's missing? Finally, and most importantly, how can writers ...
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CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN by Sayaka Murata

August 6, 2024 • 31 mins
The hero's journey...reimagined! We're celebrating 1 year of The ARTWIFE Book Club with Sayaka Murata's novel about a protagonist who passes through all the stages of the traditional hero's journey—a foray into the unfamiliar, a dark night of the soul, a return bearing a hard-won treasure—all without ever leaving her hometown. Hop in!
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SHORTS: MY BOY ONLY BREAKS HIS FAVORITE TOYS by Taylor Swift

July 2, 2024 • 20 mins
Studying the craft of writing with the help of lyrics from Taylor Swift? Don't threaten us with a good time! This month, we do a close reading of the lyrics from the song My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys off of The Tortured Poets Department. The story of this song gives us an opportunity to look at how a narrator can effectively communicate their conflicted mental state and convince us of both their lucidity and delusion at the...
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The ARTWIFE Interview: THIEVES with Valerie Werder

June 4, 2024 • 46 mins
We read it, we loved it, and now we get to obsess over it...with the author! The book is Thieves, the writer is Valerie Werder, and Valerie herself joins us on this episode to talk about the creation of this astonishing book. We get practical (what can disciplines like sculpture and curation teach us about structuring a narrative?) and we get enigmatic (what the hell is a "self" anyway?) in equal measure, and ultimately we walk awa...

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SHORTS: VINSON CUNNINGHAM IS A RITUALISTIC EATER by Vinson Cunningham

May 9, 2024 • 44 mins
ARTWIFE is back from spring break with a close look at Vinson Cunningham Is a Ritualistic Eater, a sublime essay published in Grub Street (read it here: https://www.grubstreet.com/article/vinson-cunningham-grub-street-diet.html). We articulate the work's skillful balance of technical expertise and emotional presence and ask ourselves...how the hell can we learn to write like this? Plus, the life & creative lessons from one RuPaul's...
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SHORTS: THE ICE-CREAM TRUCK by Souvankham Thammavongsa

March 5, 2024 • 31 mins
Annnnd we're back with the spring episode of the SHORTS edition! This time, we look at The Ice-Cream Truck, a flash essay from Souvankham Thammavongsa. (Read it here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/10/the-ice-cream-truck-souvankham-thammavongsa) Craft discussion topics include: a look at the way spacing and paragraph breaks help us manage pacing and emphasis, how to think about our written work like visual artists, and ...
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