Must-Listen Podcasts for Authors

Here are a few of the author podcasts I find edifying, amusing or interesting.

• 10 Minute Writer’s Workshop (brief advice from masters)
• A Way with Words (Fascinating linguistic histories)
• Ann Kroeker Writing Coach
• Ditch Diggers
• First Draught Writing
• Grammar Girl (Because grammar is my happy place)
• Helping Writers Become Authors
• I Should Be Writing (so you don’t feel so alone in your frustrations)
• Kobo Writing Life Podcast
• The Story Grid Podcast (Only for long form authors)
• Mark Dawson’s Self Publishing Formula
• Reading and Writing Podcast
• The Creative Writer’s Toolbelt
• The Drunken Odyssey (so you don’t feel as alone in your weirdness)
• The New York Public Library Podcast (for better understand of specific authors or works)
• The Writer Files
• The Writers Panel (for TV writers or screenplay authors)
• Write Now with Sarah Werner
• Writer’s Bone
• Writing Excuses (15 minutes and extremely content-heavy – use it to debug yourself)

There are dozens more that I’m simply less well acquainted with, as well as three or four that are specific to dissecting single literary works and less useful to you.