Tools, not rules. For writers, by writers.
Hello, long-time listeners. We’re ready to level up the podcast and to that end, we are looking for a producer. Who We Are: Writing Excuses is a fast-paced, educational podcast for writers, by writers. It airs weekly. Episodes vary in length from fifteen to twenty-five minutes but are usually less…
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler We begin 2023 with some big changes, and in this episode we’ll discuss those, starting with some changes to the core cast. DongWon Song and Erin Roberts are joining us as permanent cast members, and Brandon…
Winners of the 2022 Writing Excuses Workshop and Retreat scholarships have been selected! The application process was conducted in a compressed timeline this year, in which applicants prepared and sent us their submissions digitally, including writing samples, letters of recommendation, and a personal essay. Applications were carefully reviewed in a…
UPDATE: The application deadline was April 17, 2022. Applications for scholarships for the 2022 Writing Excuses Workshops and Retreats are now closed. We do offer scholarships every year! The Writing Excuses Retreat is back! And this year we have TWO of them: June 27-July 2, in Capitol Reef National Park,…
Join fellow writers as Writing Excuses hosts two amazing writing workshops and retreats in 2022! Capitol Reef, UT – June 27 to July 2 Go off the grid with WXR instructors Mary Robinette Kowal and Dan Wells, joined by Astronaut Cady Coleman, for a writing retreat focused on astronomy and…
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Dongwon, and Dan What’s this bonus episode thing? Well, for starters IT’S URGENT, because as of this writing you have just ten more days to get the promised pricing for WXR at sea in 2021. What ELSE is it? Well, this bonus episode describes the difference…
Howard here. Lemme lead with this: we’re aware of the problem, and the person who is most likely to be able to fix it has been alerted. The problem? At some point in the recent past the Writing Excuses RSS feed stopped working with several podcast aggregation services. I could…
Join fellow writers for a cruise in the Caribbean, September 25 – October 04, 2020! Registration for WXR20 is now open! What is this thing? The Writing Excuses Workshop and Retreat is a magical mix of writing classes, workshops, and time for your own writing, all wrapped in a Caribbean…
UPDATE: As of June 12th, at 21:45 EDT, the feed is working again for current episodes. The main feed only reaches back about a year, but it should keep updating your various podcast directories just fine. OLD NEWS: We’re aware that for the last three weeks or so, something hasn’t…
Hello Writing Excuses Folks! The Writing Excuses Conference and Retreat 2019 is September 13 – September 22, which is FOUR MONTHS AWAY! We’d love for you to join us, and to sweeten the pot, AN ANNOUNCEMENT. WXR MYSTERY INSTRUCTOR We’re delighted to announce that Cory Doctorow is our Mystery Instructor…
