by Evelyn Somers
“I decided in 2015, on New Year’s Day, that I wanted to have a book, so I just declared it the Year of the Book. It was a powerful lesson that what you put out there energetically, you reap.” Continue reading
Author Archives: Evelyn Somers
“I’m Allowing for More Contradictions”: Q&A with Daren Dean
by Evelyn Somers
“There is violence in my stories, but there is also tenderness, love. I’m interested in those things and everything in between. Often violence arises in a character who feels misunderstood. Words fail them, and they turn to what should be a very last resort.”
Amah and the Silk-Winged Pigeons: Q & A with Jocelyn Cullity
by Evelyn Somers
“I also wanted to write about the women who never show up in historical writing more generally. Sometimes in our histories the women disappear altogether. This mysterious—actually ridiculous—absence of women at key historical moments became crucial to me.” Continue reading
“Closest to Raw Reality”: Gary Pedler on Memoir, Novel Writing, and a Lifetime of Journals
“I was aware that I was writing about myself as a gay man, while at the same time I knew this wasn’t a ‘gay travel book,’ whatever that might be.” Continue reading
Authors / Features / Interviews / Nonfiction
Cracking Open the Self: an Interview with Lisa Knopp
by Evelyn Somers
Lisa Knopp has been practicing and studying the craft of nonfiction writing since before she knew what an essay was. Knopp’s journey as a writer and teacher has paralleled the emergence of creative nonfiction as an abundant and prospering “fourth genre.” Continue reading
