Joan Axelrod-Contrada will be leading this year’s workshop on Flash Memoir. She was interviewed by fellow workshop presenter Tzivia Gover. How long have you been writing? When did the writing bug first bite you? I started making up “furry tales” for my French poodle, Sherry, when I was eight years old. In high school, I
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Ellen Meeropol interviews Dusty Miller, a panelist on the Paths to Publication panel. How did you come to write the mystery series? When I began the first Alice Ott mystery, I had no clue that I would end up writing a series. After a long career in mental health, including writing many articles and non-fiction
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Tzivia Gover will be leading this year’s workshop Dreaming on the Page. She was interviewed by fellow workshop presenter Joan Axelrod-Contrada. How long have you been writing? When did the writing bug first bite you? As a little girl of 10 years old I compiled my writing into a red loose-leaf binder. I titled it
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Bill Campbell will participate in The Language of Diversity panel. He was interviewed by panel moderator D.K.McCutcheon. Why did you become a writer/publisher/teacher? I became a writer after a trip to Hollywood when I was 9 years old. My mom used to produce corporate videos for Westinghouse. She once took me out there to see
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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
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David Daley will talk with Marya Zilberberg at the Oct. 5 conference about how to get an essay published. Take a look at his recent essay on gerrymandering in The New Yorker. writeangles
Elli Meeropol interviews Mary Bisbee-Beek, who will be available for individual meetings with writers during the Agent Meetings time and participate on the Paths to Publication panel. What exactly is a publishing Sherpa? This publishing Sherpa is a guide helping authors get from manuscript stage to next step whether it be helping to find an
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We are very happy to announce that poet and essayist Martin Espada has accepted our invitation to speak at this year\’s WriteAngles conference. writeangles
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Andrea Hairston, a professor at Smith College, will be the morning keynoter at tomorrow’s WriteAngles conference. She was interviewed by Jean Marie Ruiz. When and how did you know that you were a writer? When I was growing up in the 50’s I intended to be a theoretical physicist or a mathematician. But I come
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Jennifer Browdy, Ph.D. is a professor of comparative at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, focusing on global women’s literature, spiritual ecology and social and environmental activism through the arts. She will lead a workshop on purposeful memoir at this year\’s WriteAngles conference next Saturday. She has written the following account about her writing. Since the
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