This interview with Anna Bowen was conducted by Joanna Brown, panel moderator for Building a Readership at this year’s WriteAngles conference. When did you realize that writing was going to be an important part of your life? I would say that it was in my mid-twenties when I began writing poetry. The difference I felt …
The following interview was conducted by Joan Axelrod-Contrada, moderator of the Are You Ready? Submitting to Literary Journals panel at this year’s WriteAngles conference. Why did you become a writer? When did the writing bug first bite you? I wrote as an early teenager. I remember a long extended poem, “Black Jack,” in rhymed …
Sally Bellerose is the author of the award-winning novel THE GIRLS CLUB. She was awarded an NEA fellowship based upon an excerpt from this book, and the first chapter won first place in fiction from Writers at Work. She will participate in the Shaping the Story panel. She was interviewed by Cheryl Malandrinos. Why did …
Andrea Hairston, who will be on the Shaping the Story panel, is the award-winning author of REDWOOD AND WILDFIRE and MINDSCAPE. She teaches playwriting and screenwriting at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She was interviewed by Cheryl Malandrinos. When did you decide to embark upon a career in writing? Did someone or some event influence …
