The Inner Loop Radio: A Creative Writing Podcast

There’s light at the end of the quarantine tunnel with vaccines widely available and the CDC giving us permission to socialize again. So let’s take a look back and ask, how did you write your way through the past year? Maybe you took the opportunity to crack down on a big project, maybe you eeked out only a sentence at a time in fits and spurts, or maybe you didn’t write at all. We can sympathize!...

Poet Sean Felix embraces the seasons to break up the monotony of quarantine and channels it into Haiku. He also reminds us that writing is a connection to both interior spaces and also each other in the final installment of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and prompts so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Poet and Editor of Lines and Stars Rachel Cloud Adams shows us how to keep it simple with a quiet walk and a map of sound for inspiration and a forgiving writing routine to get through dry periods in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and prompts so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

A writer writes. Simple right? Not always. Comedienne and writer Diana Veiga takes us on her journey to a steady writing routine. Plus, she encourages us to invoke summertime to warm us through the winter in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and prompts so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Transform a space - with DIY projects or by changing your perspective, and create something new with poet Lucian Mattison in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and prompts so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Poet Nicole Tong turns the sameness of quarantine into comforting rituals and a beautiful Groundhog’s Day type poem in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and prompts so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Kyoko Mori, nonfiction and fiction writer, weaves the uncertainties of the presidential election, of childhood experience, of the spiritual world we confront at Halloween, and of writing itself into an evocative writing prompt and reflection on the habit of writing. She reminds us how physical exercise can compliment the act of writing, and shows us how stability can balance the uncertainty of sit...

Fiction writer Art Taylor shows us how to filter out the noise at home with music! And to use that music as a jumping-off point for a story. We hear how the Velvet Underground inspired one of his own stories, and how the simple process of checking in each day can keep your writing going in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspi...

Make space to discover the world right outside your window, but also use spacial editing to revise what you’ve written with fiction writer Melissa Scholes Young in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and prompts so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Unearth bits of joy with Cija Jefferson, nonfiction writer and host of Writers and Words, a Baltimore reading series. Cija invites us to find joy in emulating our favorite author, and she offers a few reading recommendations by contemporary black female authors in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and prompts so wri...

Fiction writer and Director of Communications at The Writer’s Center, Zach Powers, encourages us to focus on how we use word choice and syntax to build tension in a scene, as well as how both writing and reading habits can keep us sane in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and prompts so writers can keep writing thro...

As writers, we can get so bogged down in trying to convey figurative feeling that we forget about the magic that can be found in literal feeling. Join Co-Host and TIL Co-Founder Courtney Sexton as she tries to reach out and touch something small to trigger something big -- in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and pr...

Those places where we get stuck in our writing are where we can find the most fruitful growth. Executive Producer Rachel Coonce shows us how to push through the discomfort, accept failure, and find the sun in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and prompts so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Nonfiction writer Timothy Denevi shows us tricks to turn memory into story and to shift our focus from current events to writing in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Poet Jose Padua uses a sink full of dishes and Kafka’s Metamorphosis to drive out the spleen and produce, produce, produce in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Fiction writer Rion Amilcar Scott offers us a moment of peacefulness amidst the chaos with the power of metaphor, his music and television inspirations, a flash fiction prompt, and several deep breaths in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

E. Ethelbert Miller - writer, activist, and The Inner Loop Board Member - calms our worried spirits and helps us reconnect with nature through jazz-inspired haiku, a chance for literary meditation in these weeks of solitude. So grab your favorite pen, turn on some Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, and tune in to this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that...

Invert your gaze to study the stars and explore how a classic antagonist can become your next protagonist with The Inner Loop Board Member Anthony Dobranski in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Generate chemistry and your next 100,000 word novel with The Inner Loop Board Member Leeya Mehta, who reminds us to celebrate each milestone of the long, lonesome journey of writing in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Get inside the head of a mosquito with The Inner Loop Board Member Teddy Rodger, who shows us the value of revisiting our favorite works in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Join The Inner Loop Board Member Dan Knowlton in our Quarantine Inspiration Series, our weekly mini-episodes that offer motivation for writers to keep writing through difficult times. Dan takes us to a babbling brook to create stillness. Then, he flexes his fiction muscles with dueling perspectives of the same damned tree!

The Inner Loop Outreach Intern Kiera Wolfe takes the helm for this week’s Quarantine Inspiration Series, our weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt so writers can keep writing through difficult times. Kiera embraces quarantine life by leaning into the mundane, and she has her characters strip away the old to create something new.

The Inner Loop Radio Intern Abi Newhouse takes us to Utah to reimagine a family conflict in her autofiction prompt for the third installment of our Quarantine Inspiration Series, our weekly mini-episodes that offer motivation for writers to keep writing through difficult times. Abi offers up more reading recommendations, and she encourages us to explore new territory, both physically and mentally.

Join Co-Host Courtney Sexton for the second installment of our Quarantine Inspiration Series, our weekly mini-episodes that offer motivation for writers to keep writing through difficult times. Get writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt with each episode. Courtney has some inspiring book recommendations, and then she takes us to the lighthouse, and then back again, and then again.

Join Executive Producer and Co-Host Rachel Coonce for the first installment of our Quarantine Inspiration Series. These weekly mini-episodes offer motivation for writers to keep writing through difficult times. Get writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt with each episode. Rachel talks about moving through negativity to access creativity, and she prepares for a trip in her prompt.