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Author Archives: Alice Stephens

Countering the Stereotype of “Caught Between Two Cultures”: Q&A with Eman Quotah
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Countering the Stereotype of “Caught Between Two Cultures”: Q&A with Eman Quotah

Posted on January 19, 2021 by Alice Stephens • Leave a comment

By Alice Stephens

“I’ve been writing all this time, since university. It’s just taken a while to have a book in my hands.” Continue reading →

Writing Short Stories Is What I Wanted to Do with My Life: Q & A with Susan Buttenwieser
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Writing Short Stories Is What I Wanted to Do with My Life: Q & A with Susan Buttenwieser

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Alice Stephens • Leave a comment

by Martha Anne Toll

“This feels like it is happening at the right time for me and my writing, and that I have truly landed in the right place.” Continue reading →

Mr. Fing Goes to Hell: Q&A with Y.S. Fing, son of D. Selby Fing
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Mr. Fing Goes to Hell: Q&A with Y.S. Fing, son of D. Selby Fing

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Alice Stephens • Leave a comment

by Tyler Gore

“Multiple layer allegory was Dante’s great gift to me, but I mixed it up with my experience, my particular philosophical tendency/preference — irony with love…” Continue reading →

Don’t Just Pass ‘Em By
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Don’t Just Pass ‘Em By

Posted on October 6, 2020 by Alice Stephens • 3 Comments

By Martha Anne Toll

“It came in a sudden gust, the thought that I could give it all up, throw everything overboard, ditch the career in social justice that I truly loved and that was close to forty years in the making, and do what had been calling me for decades: write full time.” Continue reading →

On Finding Myself at a Writing Residency in Southern France
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On Finding Myself at a Writing Residency in Southern France

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Alice Stephens • Leave a comment

by Martha Anne Toll

Despite vast differences in wealth, status, ancestry, time, and setting, the eight-year-old girl in John Singer Sargent’s The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit haunts me. Why? Continue reading →

“Don’t Apologize. Write the Story You Want to Write”: Q&A with Nadeem Zaman
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“Don’t Apologize. Write the Story You Want to Write”: Q&A with Nadeem Zaman

Posted on May 26, 2020 by Alice Stephens • Leave a comment

by Alice Stephens

“If mangoes, arranged marriages, and terrorists will make my stories mainstream for big publishing, then, well, we’re at an impasse.” Continue reading →

“It Was Through Open Mics That I Began to Feel My Anger Was Acceptable”: Q&A with Julayne Lee
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“It Was Through Open Mics That I Began to Feel My Anger Was Acceptable”: Q&A with Julayne Lee

Posted on March 31, 2020 by Alice Stephens • Leave a comment

by Alice Stephens

“My redemption was to recognize the spiritual abuse and walk into spaces that know how to embrace me without judgment.” Continue reading →

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