Stabbing the Dark: An Interview with Charles Holdefer
[Earlier work is] like seeing an old photograph. Yes, that’s me all right, but I’m not sure I’m that person anymore.
Category Archives: Interviews
The World of Pax Americana: An Interview with Kurt Baumeister
One of the great ideas I come back to as a writer is Milan Kundera’s concept of the novel (and novelist) as posers of questions, not dispensers of answers.
A Tale of Two Stories: An Interview with David Ebenbach
Envy is a regular part of my life, and it’s a question of what to do with it.
Made to Break Your Heart: An Interview with Richard Fellinger
Richard Fellinger is an award-winning short story writer and former journalist who teaches writing at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. His story collection, They Hover Over Us, won the 2011 […]
Becoming the Blue Heron: An Interview with Terri Kirby Erickson (by Curtis Smith)
Writing poetry in general is one way to make sense of it all, to break up what is vast and essentially unknowable, into smaller, more digestible pieces.
Interview:The Fables of Amelia Gray (by Jen Michalski)
Short fiction can do the same sort of thing longer fiction does, to imply mood or character and involve the reader, but you’ll find a sense of urgency in a good short story, regardless of what’s happening.
Gut Punch: An Interview with Sherrie Flick (by Jared Lemus)
pay attention to your sentence-level writing. You really have to refine it in order to have control over the kind of compression that’s needed in flash.
Citizen DIY: An Interview with Jim Warner
A good host never gets in the way of the proceedings. AND SHOULD NEVER, EVER, SWEET MOTHER OF KENNY ROGERS, READ THEIR OWN WORK AT THEIR READING.
Novel Dreams: An Interview with Dana Cann (by Curtis Smith)
The novel’s not nearly as bleak as that might sound. It’s about grief, sure, but it’s really about overcoming grief and the arduous path to healing.
Facing Her Fears: An Interview with Chelsey Clammer (interviewed by Jen Michalski)
an essay and writing can be whatever you make of it. There’s no “correct” way to write. There are no standards of what an essay has to have in it or needs to achieve in order to be considered an essay. That an essay is never in final draft form, even if it’s published.
