Interviews / Novelists / Poets Interview with Craig Buchner: “I suffer from believing in pure inspiration.”
Interviews / Journalists Interview with Sarah L. Kaufman: “I just write until it feels time to stop.”
Interviews Interview with Brandon Presser: “I appreciated that everything is part of the writing process.”
Interviews Interview with Grant Faulkner: “A story you love will love you back in so many unexpected ways.”
Interviews / Novelists Interview with Meghan Gilliss: “A story tells you whether it demands 500 words or 50,000.”
Interviews / Novelists Interview with Peter Abrahams: “I love what I do. Love seems to clear a lot of paths.”
Interviews / Novelists Interview with Oindrila Mukherjee: “Humans have an innate need to tell stories.”
Interviews / Novelists Interview with Eman Quotah: “Life changes, and writing can always be there for us.”
Interviews / Novelists Interview with Jocelyn Nicole Johnson: “They allow for time to write as well as community with other creatives.”
Interviews / Novelists Interview with Snowden Wright: “I can only write for about four hours before I’m creatively depleted.”
Interviews / Novelists Interview with Jane Smiley: “You are grateful to be published, you hope for some money and some respect.”
Interviews / Journalists Interview with Madeline Bodin: “I think these are tough times for all journalists.”
Interviews / Novelists Interview with Annie Liontas: “My creative breakthroughs happen when I raze the work to the ground.”
Interviews / Journalists Interview with Megan Greenwell: “I prefer a bit of a commute to get me in the writing zone.”
Interviews / Journalists Interview with Makana Eyre: “There are the macro troubles like choosing the right structure.”
Interviews Interview with Ramona Reeves: “The ability of fiction to produce empathy is one reason I read and write fiction.”
Interviews / Novelists Interview with Bonnie Jo Campbell: “If I write about an old story, it can be new again.”
Editors / Interviews Interview with April White: “I wanted people to feel fully immersed in this moment.”
Essayists / Interviews Interview with Patrice Gopo: “I hope the words I put on the page will speak to these realities.”
Interviews / Journalists Interview with Nile Cappello: “I see characters as the guides for the readers.”
Interviews / Novelists Interview with DBC Pierre: “I wake up stupid and grow sharper as the day progresses.”
Interviews / Novelists Interview with Alice Elliott Dark: “My favorite thing is to be at a residency and truly have nothing else to do.”
Editors / Interviews Interview with Leah Flickinger: “They mostly just needed someone to listen and validate their ideas.”
Essayists / Interviews / Journalists Interview with Ann Friedman: “I don’t have to try to force them into a narrative box.”
Essayists / Interviews / Novelists Interview with Porochista Khakpour: “I always feel like I am just barely hanging on as a writer.”
Interviews / Novelists Interview with Miquel Reina: “My dream would be to continue writing my stories.”
Interviews / Novelists Interview with Jessie Kwak: “I don’t always know where the story’s going when I start writing.”