Emerging Form
Booking Overview
Metrics
Episodes: 207
Frequency: Biweekly
Rating: 4.8/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
Gender skew: Unknown
Location: USA
Contact Information
Publicly listed emails
christie@nasw.org
emergingform@substack.com
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Host
Christie Aschwanden - Journalist who co-hosts discussions about the creative process and creative practice.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - Poet who co-hosts discussions about the creative process and creative practice.
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Recent Guest Discussions
Craig Childs - Writing Worst Drafts, Intuition, Surprise, Teaching Writing, Unconventional Creative Tools, Journaling, And Developing A Writing Practice.
Claire Boyles - The Relationship Between Fiction And Real Life, Developing Characters, Exploring Political Themes Through Fiction, And Using Personal Experience As Creative Material.
Elizabeth Preston - Developing A Book From A Big Idea, Structural Problem-solving, Balancing Parenting With Writing, Humor, Creative Risk, And Walking Away From A Project.
Roberta Kwok - The Slow Path To Creative Breakthroughs, Patience, Sustained Creative Work, Research-based Writing, Collaboration, And Interviewing Subjects For A Book.
Eric Zimmer - Trust, Motivation, Asking For Help, Behavior Change, Creative Discipline, Expectations, Intentions, And The Development Of A Book Through Small Changes.
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Episodes
Episode 173: The Wonderment
September 10, 2026
“I feel like these two questions are at the heart of all creative process: What is here? What else is here?” In this episode, Rosemerry and Christie talk about Rosemerry’s new book, The Wonderment, and the four questions that are at the heart of it. How do questions drive a creative practice? We also talk about how to create art out of what is familiar and common, how paradox and metaphor work to create a larger lens for re-seeing the world, how sometimes we swing between loving and hating wh...
Episode 172: Craig Childs on Writing Worst Drafts
August 27, 2026
“Make this your worst draft.” That’s what Craig Childs will often say to students when they first sit down to write. “We’re creating stuff out of nowhere, so we’re lucky to get a word down on a page. We’re exploring options.” In this episode of Emerging Form, we talk with the popular creative non-fiction author about his own unusual path to a writing career. Our conversation includes:* How to invite intuition and surprise into your writing,* How teaching writing changes and enhances our under...
Episode 171: Claire Boyles on the Relationship Between Fiction and Real Life
August 13, 2026
“My writing often comes to me that way–something that interests me in the real life world, something kind of political and thorny, something I don’t entirely totally know how I think about it, something I’m interested in exploring.” These words from short story writer and novelist Claire Boyles are at the heart of this episode on the relationship between fiction and real life. How might having personal experience in a certain arena both help and hinder our ability to use it as material for fi...
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