Poets & Writers Theater
Every day we share a new clip of interest to creative writers—author readings, book trailers, publishing panels, craft talks, and more. So grab some popcorn, filter the theater tags by keyword or genre, and explore our sizable archive of literary videos.
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In this episode of the Memoir Nation podcast, hosts Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner celebrate independent media in a conversation with Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman, who bought the literary magazine the Rumpus in 2025. For more on their new initiatives, read “Relaunching the Rumpus” by Ilana Masad in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Tags: Poetry | Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | Translation | Roxane Gay | Debbie Millman | The Rumpus | Memoir Nation | podcast | interview | Brooke Warner | Grant Faulkner | November/December 2026 -
“You don’t have to have an MFA to be a writer, you’re a writer by writing.” In this 2017 Talks at Google event, Grant Faulkner, author of Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo (Chronicle Books, 2017) and The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story (University of New Mexico Press, 2023), discusses tips to boost creativity and endurance when writing fiction with author Anthony Francis. For more from Faulkner, read his essays on writing from our Craft Capsule series.
Tags: Fiction | Grant Faulkner | Talks at Google | craft talk | 2017 | Pep Talks for Writers | The Art of Brevity | NaNoWriMo
