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
Author Archives: Alice Stephens
Writing Short Stories Is What I Wanted to Do with My Life: Q & A with Susan Buttenwieser
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
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
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
Essays / Features / Nonfiction
On Finding Myself at a Writing Residency in Southern France
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
Authors / Features / Fiction / Interviews
“Don’t Apologize. Write the Story You Want to Write”: Q&A with Nadeem Zaman
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
Authors / Debut Authors / Features / Interviews / Poetry
“It Was Through Open Mics That I Began to Feel My Anger Was Acceptable”: Q&A with Julayne Lee
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
