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Giving Herself Three Years: Jennifer Wisner Kelly
by Caitlin Hamilton Summie
I gave the process three years and decided that if I hadn’t found a publisher by then, I would consider that particular project done. Continue reading
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“Classification: Without”: Q&A with Tara Campbell
by Alice Stephens
“I became aware of the disconnect between who sci-fi was written by and for, and who I was as a reader.” Continue reading
“It is always funny to me when I show up to readings and people expect me to be my characters”: Q&A with Carrianne Leung
by Terry Hong
“I think of an image, an event, a line, and I just go from there. I never have outlines. I never know where it’s going to go. The story reveals itself to me little by little.” Continue reading
BEST OF BLOOM: Q&A with Daniel Orozco
I often have students in creative writing come to me, just as they’re graduating with their BA’s, asking for a letter of reference for MFA programs. I try to talk them out of it, tell them to wait. You don’t study writing, you practice it, and getting out of a classroom and putting experience behind you is somehow part of the practice. Continue reading
Shawn Vestal’s God-Filled Idaho
by Melody Nixon
There is a discomfort in realizing books can still illuminate prejudices you didn’t know you had. Shawn Vestal‘s writing has made it into McSweeney’s, American Short Fiction and Tin House among others – all reliable qualifications – but in his energetic, highly imaginative fiction, Vestal draws heavily on his upbringing in the Mormon faith. Continue reading
Q&A with Daniel Orozco
by Sonya Chung
I avoided the novel for a few months after that, then went back to it, resolved to write it the way I write. So I’ve slowed down, but I’m still sticking to the map. Continue reading
