In May, nearly 200 folks descended on the historic city of Pittsburgh to rub writing elbows with authors, essayists, journalists, and editors at the 2015 Creative Nonfiction Writers’ Conference. Maybe you were there. Maybe you weren’t. If you find yourself in the latter, shame on
So in case you’ve been living under a literary rock, Sarah Gerard’s debut novel Binary Star is a cosmic force in its own right. According to Wolf Literary Services, Gerard’s made EIGHT best lists for 2015. Count ’em: ONE: GQ‘s Six Best Books of January TWO: Buzzfeed’s
If there ever was a book that surely will be a movie, Natalie Baszile’s debut novel Queen Sugar is it. I met Natalie at the 2012 VONA Voices Workshop. In a nonfiction workshop taught by Faith Adiele, I had the pleasure of reading excerpts of
After the first two great episodes of my new radio show Behind the Prose, I needed to transcribe just over 60 minutes of audio featuring my phenomenal guests Tavonne Carson and Jennifer Genest. Why transcribe? Well it’s ADA compliant! I want as many writers who
Listen on demand to my interview with winner of the Ryan R. Gibbs Award for Short Fiction, Jennifer Genest. You’ll learn her approach to two different genres – fiction and nonfiction – as well as the advice she’d give to herself five years ago. You
Join me on Sunday, February 1 at 6 p.m. for an interview with writer Soo Na Pak about her creative nonfiction. Soo Na Pak is a writer and artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her essays and prose appear in The Butter; TheRumpus.net; AlterNet.org; “Outsiders Within:
In the pilot episode of Behind the Prose, I interviewed Tavonne Carson, MFA. We analyzed her essay “Closer” which was published in Gastronomica, The Critical Journal of Food Studies. We discuss how Tavonne employed imagery to transplant the reader to her grandmother’s kitchen on Thanksgiving, and