Emerging Form

Christie Aschwanden

Emerging Form is a podcast about the creative process in which a journalist (Christie Aschwanden) and a poet (Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer) discuss creative conundrums over wine. Each episode concludes with a game of two questions in which a guest joins in to help answer questions about the week's topic. Season one guests include poets, novelists, journalists, a song writer, a circus performer, a sketch artist and a winemaker. emergingform.substack.com

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Emerging Form

Episodes (205)

Thu Aug 13th Episode 171: Claire Boyles on the Relationship Between Fiction and Real Life
Jul 30th Episode 170: Elizabeth Preston on Getting From Big Idea to Book
Jul 16th Episode 169: Roberta Kwok on the Slow Path to Epiphany

Emerging Form

Aug 13, 2026
32½ minutes
29 MB

“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 fiction? How can characters drive the way opinions are explored in a book? How...

Emerging Form

Episode 171: Claire Boyles on the Relationship Between Fiction and Real Life

Christie Aschwanden

00:00 -31:37