Prompt to Page

For our seventh episode, we talk to USA Today- bestselling author Tiffany Reisz. Tiffany shares a favorite writing prompt from V.E. Schwab that will help you check in with your characters. She describes her own writing prompt that will help you raise the stakes for your characters and engage your readers. Tiffany also shares her thoughts on writer’s block. “When you’re stuck,” she says, “that’s yo...

For the sixth episode of Prompt to Page, we talk to Mariama J. Lockington , author of For Black Girls Like Me . Mariama discusses the process of writing and publishing her debut novel, shares two of her favorite writing prompts, and offers advice for adults who are writing for young readers. Mariama recommends that writers engage with their communities. "Part of being a writer is also experiencing...

For our fifth episode, we talk to Martha Greenwald, the director of the WhoWeLost and WhoWeLostKY projects. The WhoWeLost projects serve as "a sheltering place for remembrance" for victims of COVID-19. Martha offers suggestions for writing memories about loved ones and explains how you can share your stories on the WhoWeLost websites. She also provides a writing prompt suitable for all genres and...

About Our Guest Kayla Rae Whitaker’s work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times , Electric Literature , Buzzfeed , Guernica , Literary Hub , and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and New York University. Her debut novel, The Animators , was named one of the best debut novels of 2017 by Entertainment Weekly and one of the best books of 2017 by NPR, Kirkus Reviews , and Book...

About Our Guest Jayne Moore Waldrop is a Kentucky writer and attorney. She is the author of Retracing My Steps , a finalist in the New Women’s Voices Chapbook Series, and Pandemic Lent: A Season in Poems , both published by Finishing Line Press. Her linked story collection, Drowned Town , was published in 2021 by University Press of Kentucky through its Fireside Industries imprint, a partnership w...

About Our Guest Kentucky Poet Laureate Crystal WilkinsonCrystal Wilkinson is the award-winning author of Perfect Black , The Birds of Opulence , Water Street , and Blackberries, Blackberries . She is the recipient of a 2021 O. Henry Prize, a 2020 USA Artists Fellowship, and a 2016 Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. Nominated for the John Dos Passos Award, the Orange Prize and the Hurs...

About Our Guests Kristina Erny is a third-culture poet who grew up in South Korea. She holds an MFA from the University of Arizona. Her work has been the recipient of the Tupelo Quarterly Inaugural Poetry Prize and the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award, and has been published by The Los Angeles Review , Yemassee , Bluestem , and Tupelo Quarterly , among other journals. After over a decade of living as...