Debut Author Podcasts
Each Debut Author Podcast is a conversation between our moderator Maggie Smith and a debut women's fiction author.
Maggie Smith, a member of WFWA since 2015, hosts our podcast. Her debut novel, TRUTH AND OTHER LIES, released in March 2022 by Ten 16 Press, was the winner of our 2023 Star Award for Debut Fiction and she indie published her second book, a psychological suspense called BLINDSPOT, in May 2024. She blogs on writing-related topics for the Rocky Mountain Fiction Association and serves as the Managing Editor of the Chicago Writer’s Association’s on-line literary publication The Write City E-Zine. A confirmed workshop junkie and avid Instagrammer, Maggie makes her home in Milwaukee.
If you are a WFWA member and would like to submit your debut women's fiction for podcast consideration, please visit our submissions page.
Latest Podcast Episode
Debut Author Podcast: Ann Marie Jackson
 
Ann Marie Jackson is the award-winning author of The Broken Hummingbird and a writer for Mexico News Daily. Jackson is also co-founder of microlending organization Mano Amiga and former Vice President of Casita Linda, which builds homes for families living in extreme poverty in central Mexico. Early in her career, after earning degrees from Stanford and Harvard, Jackson joined the U.S. Department of State to promote human rights in China and other East Asian and Pacific Island nations. She has worked with Human Rights Watch, A Better Chance, and Internews to further social justice causes and advance respect for human rights. A portion of the proceeds from book sales benefit Casita Linda and Mano Amiga. A native of Seattle, Washington, Jackson resides in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She can be reached through her website, annmariejacksonauthor.com.
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