WhatWeAimToDo's profile picture. A podcast about vocation. Host: @mgnchols
What are you making, why do you feel you must? How do you design your life so you can make it?

What We Aim To Do Podcast

@WhatWeAimToDo

A podcast about vocation. Host: @mgnchols What are you making, why do you feel you must? How do you design your life so you can make it?

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Talking book publicity with Abigail Welhouse on @WhatWeAimToDo podcast. In the full episode we talk about hiring a publicist, DIY approaches, and setting goals for publicity efforts.


In this episode of What We Aim to Do, I talk with Abigail Welhouse, poet, book publicist, and horseback riding instructor, about the art of balancing multiple passions! She's incredible - I hope you listen! open.substack.com/pub/whatweaimt…

WhatWeAimToDo's tweet image. In this episode of What We Aim to Do, I talk with Abigail Welhouse, poet, book publicist, and horseback riding instructor, about the art of balancing multiple passions! She's incredible - I hope you listen! 

open.substack.com/pub/whatweaimt…

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The full @WhatWeAimToDo interview with Elizabeth is on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Substack, etc: whatweaimtodo.substack.com/p/what-elizabe…


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A new neat thing from Lemon Grove Writers! I’ve created 30 poetry prompts for April, and I’ll be emailing one out each morning (around 6am Central) for the whole month. Here's the link if you want to join in! lemongrovewriters.com/april-prompts

mgnchols's tweet image. A new neat thing from Lemon Grove Writers!  I’ve created 30 poetry prompts for April, and I’ll be emailing one out each morning (around 6am Central) for the whole month. Here's the link if you want to join in!
lemongrovewriters.com/april-prompts

New episode! I had the pleasure of interviewing poet, translator, and consultant Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. about her newest collection, After the Operation, out now from @FourWayBooks Listen here: whatweaimtodo.substack.com/p/what-elizabe…

WhatWeAimToDo's tweet image. New episode! 
I had the pleasure of interviewing poet, translator, and consultant Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. about her newest collection, After the Operation, out now from @FourWayBooks 
Listen here: whatweaimtodo.substack.com/p/what-elizabe…

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“I didn’t remember writing it. If it hadn’t been in my handwriting, I don’t think I would have believed that I had written it.” — Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr., on the first poems from After the Operation, a book written after having a brain tumor removed. Out w/@fourwaybooks

mgnchols's tweet image. “I didn’t remember writing it. If it hadn’t been in my handwriting, I don’t think I would have believed that I had written it.” 

— Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr., on the first poems from After the Operation, a book written after having a brain tumor removed.
Out w/@fourwaybooks

One thing about me is, I'll remove filler from an interview UNLESS the filler is a compliment directed at me. Anyway, new episodes this year! probably!


Listen to Geoff Bouvier explain his approach to writing his most recent book, Us From Nothing, "a historical epic prose poem about the most important milestones in world history". Out now from @BlackLawrence


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Friends & I are hosting an online writing sprint session on October 29th at 7pm CST. Spooky writing prompts, accountability, body doubling - and it's free! Sign up for the link or to learn about future sprints: lemongrovewriters.com/sprint

mgnchols's tweet image. Friends & I are hosting an online writing sprint session on October 29th at 7pm CST. Spooky writing prompts, accountability, body doubling - and it's free! Sign up for the link or to learn about future sprints: lemongrovewriters.com/sprint

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an argument for taking time for yourself and your craft, my conversation with Megan Nichols of @WhatWeAimToDo podcast digs into power dynamics in publishing, our role as role models, and why kith books is determined to put people first. whatweaimtodo.substack.com/p/a-conversati…

KithBooks's tweet image. an argument for taking time for yourself and your craft, my conversation with Megan Nichols of @WhatWeAimToDo podcast digs into power dynamics in publishing, our role as role models, and why kith books is determined to put people first. 

whatweaimtodo.substack.com/p/a-conversati…

New episode with poet & podcaster, James Morehead! We talk self-publishing poetry, James' experience as Poet Laureate of Dublin, California, and the importance of putting your work out there.

WhatWeAimToDo's tweet image. New episode with poet & podcaster, James Morehead! We talk self-publishing poetry, James' experience as Poet Laureate of Dublin, California, and the importance of putting your work out there.

Taking a wee break from interviewing so I can focus on improving quality and pick out theme music! Will be back sooooon


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Submissions for our Summer '25 Issue 22 have been streaming in, and we want to see even more! Submit here: buff.ly/3OYTRme

fahmidangroup's tweet image. Submissions for our Summer '25 Issue 22 have been streaming in, and we want to see even more!
Submit here: buff.ly/3OYTRme

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You can listen on Substack toooo whatweaimtodo.substack.com/p/what-writer-…


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I love career stories, especially when they're serendipitous! Geoff Bouvier's start in longform journalism happened through poetry. This was one of my favorite parts of our conversation - which you can listen to on Spotify, Apple podcasts, etc @WhatWeAimToDo


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newly posted at @PeriodicityJ : rob mclennan : an interview with David O’Meara @iamomeara, the new City of Ottawa English-language poet laureate, / @CBCOttawa @VERSeOttawa @ottawacity @OttawaCitizen @PoetryFound ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2024/09/rob-mc…


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if you can't come to the @YngPoetWorkshop talk today, @mgnchols and I touch on the same topics on @WhatWeAimToDo here 👇

a @WhatWeAimToDo episode on people first publishing, writing, and everything else. wim and @mgnchols get into the weeds of sustainable creation as whole people and mothers. wim, as ever, makes it queer, trans, Mad, & Crip open.substack.com/pub/whatweaimt…



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