Word to Word: An Interview with Meg Pokrass by Curtis Smith
I try to write something new at least 3 to 5 times a week, and I tell myself that it doesn’t have to be good.
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Failing Better: An Interview with John McNally by Curtis Smith
Everything I write is part of a life-long continuum of work that informs each other, and if I look at something I’m working now, I’ll see its origin in something I was thinking about maybe twenty or thirty years ago.
You Can Never Leave Home Again: An Interview with Rafael Alvarez by Nathan Leslie
For every 1,000 word story I filed on some aspect of the city, there were 15 pages of notes that didn’t make it into the article. From those marginal observations have sprung a lot of my fiction.
Kissing Trouble: An Interview with Erin Dorney by Curtis Smith
“I don’t know if I’d say that writers “owe it” to be involved in their communities, per say. But I think it’s one way that we can connect to other people and defeat the stereotype that writers prefer isolation/solitary existence.”
Good People: An Interview with David Jauss (by Curtis Smith)
I’m with Grace Paley, who said “Write from what you know into what you don’t know.”
Grand Vision: An Interview with Diane Ackerman, by Ashlie Kauffman
So much of our experience falls between the seams of language, simply because language is human-made, but our emotions aren’t.
To Love a Draft: An Interview with Kris Faatz by Tom Andes
You don’t have time for anger, depression, hostility, whatever, when you’re involved in and absorbing something so much bigger than yourself.
An Interview with Nathan Leslie (by Jen Grow)
Three Men, a collection of novellas just released in September 2017 by Texture Press, is Nathan Leslie’s tenth book of fiction. He is also the author of Root and Shoot, Sibs, […]
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.
It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine): An Interview with Jeannine Hall Gailey (by Curtis Smith)
When crisis comes, we naturally want to build up and protect love above all.
