Madelyn Postman - memoir, narrative nonfiction, fiction

16 Stories Begging to Be Told November 2025 | Interview with publisher Michael T. Braun

Check out The Spark interview this month, with publisher Michael T. Braun of Orange Hat Publishing and Ten16 Press! madelynpostman.substack.com/p/16-stories...

#indiepress #smallpublisher #hybridpublishing #publisherinterview

15 In a Flow State October 2025 | Interview with author S.E. Reid

Check out this month's episode of The Spark, featuring an interview with author S.E. Reid, who serializes her work on Substack.

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Listen to The Spark to find out what a polecat and Prince Michael of Kent have in common! With Amber Harrison of @foldedorset.bsky.social

On all podcast platforms pod.link/1769061008
And on Substack madelynpostman.substack.com/p/14-a-polec...

If every publisher doesn't do this, I would not be surprised to see come kind of collective action, depending on how many authors are affected.

Our dog hates them too!

PS - I WANT MERCH

@failingwriters.bsky.social review: I discovered The Failing Writers Podcast a couple of years ago and have been a dedicated listener ever since. They even critiqued a submission of mine, which was a real high point for me. I love that they don’t take themselves too seriously, as seen in the name!

Yay!!! 🤩 How exciting!!!

WOW!! This is super exciting.

If you’d like to read Staring into the Sun, I’m serializing it here from this Saturday, every week until the end of December. Publication in May 2026 by Ten16 Press.

madelynpostman.substack.com/p/start-here

If you can't wait until May 2026 to read my short story collection, Staring into the Sun, sign up to read it week by week here!

madelynpostman.substack.com/p/start-here

I’m incredibly excited to announce my deal with Ten16 Press to publish my short story collection, Staring into the Sun 🎉🎉🎉

It links memoir with narrative nonfiction about my Chinese American family ❤️

Thankfully, I have something to distract me from waiting for my @artscouncilengland.bsky.social Developing Your Creative Practice decision (already made, locked behind creaky Grantium). See my next post! #grantium #DYCP #artscouncil

ACE extends deadline for government’s new building fund as ‘archaic’ Grantium system fails - Arts Professional Arts Council England (ACE) has blamed “high traffic” for technical issues preventing users from accessing its online application platform, Grantium, over the last 24 hours. As a result of the problems,...

Arts Council England (ACE) has blamed “high traffic” for technical issues preventing users from accessing its online application platform, Grantium, over the last 24 hours.

Update on our application portal Grantium:

We are currently experiencing technical issues with our application portal, Grantium, which means users have not been able to access the system since the evening of 23 July. We are doing everything we can to fix this.

Send us a flash fiction piece of up to 704 words that packs an emotional punch and has something important to teach us about a deep human truth.

$704 and publication in the Spring 2026 print edition of West Trade Review will be awarded to the winner.

Details:

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Excited for the July episode of The Spark podcast & newsletter, featuring an interview with Virginia Evans, author of epistolary contemporary novel, The Correspondent.

Listen/read here madelynpostman.substack.com/p/12-time-re... or wherever you listen to podcasts!

#virginiaevans #thecorrespondent

Submissions are open. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

Before submitting, please review our guidelines at the link below:

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#writingcommunity

11 We're All Independent Artists June 2025 | Interview with Eleanor Anstruther

Just published The Spark podcast and newsletter! June features:
🎙️ An interview with the inimitable @eanstruther.bsky.social
📚 Reading recs for your TBR
✏️ Writing tips and resources
👣 Updates on my moseying

Find it wherever you listen to podcasts or here madelynpostman.substack.com/p/11-were-al...

With recommended reads: @cocomellors.bsky.social @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social and a mention of @eanstruther.bsky.social (next month's guest!).

10 Being Human on this Planet Featuring an interview with memoir, fiction, and nonfiction writer Tessa McWatt

Check out The Spark for May!

Featuring:
🎙️ An interview with Tessa McWatt
📚 Reading recommendations
✏️ Writing tips and resources
👣 Updates on my moseying

Listen on all podcast platforms or visit madelynpostman.substack.com/p/10-being-h...

Songs about books?
Yes please!
check out Paul Armfield's album - Between the Covers - and marvel not just at the title, but the luscious music too! He’s on tour this month and next.
We had a lovely chat with him about books, songs and lyrics on the pod. Have a little shuftie - Link’s in our bio.

This week we shoot the breeze with the brilliant 🤩@cjtudor.bsky.social, and find out being a massively successful author isn’t always the anxiety-free life we might assume.
Link in bio.
#horror #thrillerbook #writers

@failingwriters.bsky.social my review: Just listened to the latest episode with Paul Armfield and reminded how much I love this podcast. It’s got everything: authors like Flora Opil, musicians, and booksellers. From a dedicated listener.

Flip flops, sunglasses, smiling sun, other summer doodles in background with pink text saying SUMMER—foreground says: subs open! Accepting unthemed poetry, fiction, & nonfiction *details in caption*

Unthemed quarterly submissions are open for Summer! We take all written genres for our quarterly anthologies, & submissions can be sent through Submittable ✨ link in bio—please read submission guidelines. Deadline June 1st

Incredible new bookseller endorsement for Issa Quincy’s ABSENCE — out July 15!

Thank you Bryan at Literati! 💖

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Literary Salon with Red Hen Press, Tia Chucha Press, and Letras Latinas - Red Hen Press We are pleased to invite you to a special literary salon at Red Hen Press in Pasadena on Thursday, May 1 celebrating authors from Red Hen Press, Tia Chucha Press, and the Letras Latinas initiative fro...

Have you decided on Thursday plans? May we suggest our literary event at Red Hen Press?
Join these amazing authors in conversation on May 1st ❣️ RSVP in the link here: redhen.org/event-calend...

APRIL 21ST, 2025 A Reading List for Earth Day 2025 This reading list of poems, essays, and stories published by CLMP member magazines includes writing about nature, the climate crisis, and more.

"A Portfolio of Collaborative Writing" by Zachary Bartles Tupelo Quarterly Evening. She sets out. Behind her, the trodden-on marsh hay redresses like a timelapse of its growing.

"To Draw a Body of Water" by Alycia Pirmohamed Tupelo Quarterly The artist asks me to think beyond my nostalgia, beyond the insular, tiny thing I thought was important, which was the ephemeral quality of this lake that I think exists and my small

The CLMP Earth Day reading list is live and there are two Tupelo Quarterly authors are featured! Congrats on the shoutout Zachary Bartles and @alycia.bsky.social!

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This craft class is designed to help you jumpstart the fiction writing practice you truly want. Through a series of short lectures, voice memos from some of the coolest fiction writers working today, and more, students will leave ready to dive in!

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On Being a Poet in Wales: Tracey Rhys Tracey Rhys A friend recently asked if I still felt an attachment to the place I grew up, and for a moment I was thrown. Only the Bwlch mountain separates Bridgend County, where I now live, from the R...

In Wales, every little pub or café on a wet day is a gift to a writer. Order something from the counter and listen: the hwyl, the humour, the body language, the self-deprecation, the hiss of the coffee machine, the drip of wet anoraks...
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