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Interviews

After I've finished my writing time each day, I like nothing more than to meet other writers, talk about books, host writers' events, give workshops, or attend readings and book-releases with old friends and new. 

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Interviews

Please take a look at these amazing writers and their books. I am grateful for the generosity of each of these writers who have given their time and energy to writing students and other writers through interviews about craft, publishing, and general topics of importance.

Poet Katie Beswick on Plumstead Pram Pushers (2024)

Watch this space for my forthcoming interview with poet Katie Beswick, speaking about her new collection, Plumstead Pram Pushers from Red Ogre, 2024.

Sarah Manguso, Author of Liars and Manuscript Coach

"Ellen Bass is gathering fresh acclaim for the poems of her collection Indigo (Copper Canyon 2020), but she is already well known as the prize-winning poet of Mules of Love (2002)...."

https://lunchticket.org/liars-and-wives-in-the-drag-show-of-nuclear-familyhood-an-interview-with-sarah-manguso/

Ellen Bass, Poet and Teacher

"Ellen Bass is gathering fresh acclaim for the poems of her collection Indigo (Copper Canyon 2020), but she is already well known as the prize-winning poet of Mules of Love (2002)...."

https://lunchticket.org/nothing-is-wasted-poet-ellen-bass-on-craft/

Toni Ann Johnson, Flannery O'Connor Prize Winner, The Writer's Chronicle

"Storyteller Toni Ann Johnson uses her skills as an actor, playwright, and fiction writer to tell powerful stories of race, reconciliation, and the effects of lingering racism. She is award-winning on stage and screen, most recently with her story collection Light Skin Gone to Waste (University of Georgia Press, 2022)...."

https://writerschronicle.mydigitalpublication.com/september-2023/page-17

Toni Ann Johnson, Flannery O'Connor Prize Winner, World Literature Today

"Storyteller Toni Ann Johnson uses her skills as an actor, playwright, and fiction writer to tell powerful stories of race, reconciliation, and the effects of lingering racism. She is award-winning on stage and screen, most recently with her story collection Light Skin Gone to Waste (University of Georgia Press, 2022)...."

https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/interviews/patience-perspective-and-power-story-interview-toni-ann-johnson-scott-lamascus

Toni Ann Johnson, Flannery O'Connor Prize Winner, Oklahoma Humanities Magaz

"Storyteller Toni Ann Johnson uses her skills as an actor, playwright, and fiction writer to tell powerful stories of race, reconciliation, and the effects of lingering racism. She is award-winning on stage and screen, most recently with her story collection Light Skin Gone to Waste (University of Georgia Press, 2022)...."

https://www.okhumanities.org/doccenter/f31905d1e5f7424da01ecb7ddf6abe13

Jaime Balboa, Author and Leader of 826LA

Jaime Balboa’s debut collection of short stories, Missing Possibilities(Atmosphere, 2023), transports readers into a future whose characters confront the world as it is, not as they wish it to be. Their futures bring about speculation on what isn’t right. Add a description about this item

https://lunchticket.org/a-future-of-resilient-hope-an-interview-with-jaime-balboa/


Reviews

Please take a look at these amazing writers and their books. I am grateful for the generosity of each of these writers who have given their time and energy to writing students and other writers. Thank you to publishers who have provided advance review copies.

Kwame Dawes, Sturge Town (2023)

Kwame Dawes traces both his literal return to Sturge Town, perhaps the most famous of the free towns established for postemancipation Jamaica beginning in the 1830s, and also a set of themes that are delightfully and powerfully illuminating. These themes include postcolonial life...

https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2024/january/sturge-town-poems-kwame-dawes

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