QWERTY: A Podcast for Writers on How to Live the Writing Life

Marion Roach Smith

mroachsmith2@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

QWERTY is a writing-focused interview series where author Marion Roach Smith learns how celebrated writers develop their craft, process, and longevity. It’s a strong PR target for authors and educators who can speak to translating lived experience into compelling narrative and improving the writing life.

Metrics

Episodes: 167

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

Instagram: 3.5k followers

Contact Information

mroachsmith2@gmail.com

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Host

Marion Roach Smith - Author and writing-educator Marion Roach Smith interviews writers to uncover the real practices behind developing a writing life—especially the challenges of turning experience into story. The show...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Published authors (often award-winning) in memoir or nonfiction and/or critically recognized fiction writers; frequently also teaching, journalism, or established platforms in major media outlets
Required Achievements:  
Published books with notable publishers, Award recognition (literary/journalism/recognition awards), Coverage or publishing in major outlets (e.g., major newspapers/magazines), Teaching or academic affiliation (common but not required), Notable media presence (e.g., NPR or similar)

Recent Guest Discussions

Marion Winik - Writing What You Know; Long Career Writing Practice; Memoir Craft And Experience-to-fiction

Huda Al-Marashi - Turning Life Events Into Fiction; Narrative Development Across Genres

Matti Friedman - Writing And Researching Craft; Narrative Of Heroism/rebirth In Nazi Europe

Recent Topics

Memoir, Writing, Authors, Craft, Literary

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
QWERTY: A Podcast for Writers on How to Live the Writing Life
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Ep. 166 Davin Malasarn

June 12, 2026

Davin Malasarn is a writer an author whose work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Rosebud, Opium Magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly and other journals in print and online. His debut novel, The Outer Country, is just out from One World/Random House. The QWERTY podcast is brought to you by the book The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life. Read it, and begin your own journey to writing what you know. To learn more, join The Memoir Project free newsletter li...

Ep. 165 Scott Eden

May 29, 2026

Writer and author Scott Eden is an investigative reporter whose work has focused on crime, corruption, injustice, business, science, technology, and the dark side of sports. His work has appeared in Wired, GQ, ESPN The Magazine, The Atavist Inc., and The Believer’s best-of collection Read Hard. The author of Touchdown Jesus: Faith and Fandom at Notre Dame. His new book is A Killing in Cannabis: A True Story of Love, Murder and California Weed, just out from Spiegel & Grau. Welcome, Scott....

Ep. 164 Marion Winik

May 15, 2026

Marion Winik is a writer and author whose memoir, First Comes Love, was originally published 30 years ago, featured on the Oprah Winfrey show and loved by reviewers and readers everywhere. Perhaps the words most often used for it were "pioneering" and "groundbreaking." The Kirkus review said of it, “Romance, comedy, tragedy, terrible truth, and extraordinary love, as straight woman marries gay man, bears children, and watches their world dissolve in the wake of AIDS.” Yes, all...

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