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The writing excuses podcast will be diving into five core elements of writing by focusing on five different literary texts. They’ll spend five episodes on each one, and then they're going to… drumroll please… interview the author(s)!

Below is the schedule for each book or short story they’ll be diving into. The date on the right in parenthesis is the air date of the first episode in their series that will begin talking about that text. It is highly recommend that you read the book by that date, as they will be talking about the entirety of the text for all 5 episodes (including spoilers!) 

Close Reading Series: Texts & Timeline

Voice: This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar (March 17) 

Worldbuilding: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (May 12) 

Character: “You Perfect, Broken Thing,” “The Cook,” and “Your Eyes, My Beacon: Being an Account of Several Misadventures and How I Found My Way Home” by CL Clark (July 7) 

Tension: Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark (September 1) 

Structure: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (October 13)