Merridawn Duckler is a writer from Portland, Oregon. Her fiction has been published in many literary journals, including FRiGG, Hobart, and New Flash Fiction. Recent stories won first and third place in the 2019 Jewish in Seattle fiction contest. She was a finalist for the Sozopol Fiction Fellowship and named to the Wigleaf 50. Residencies/fellowships include Yaddo,…
Category: prose interviews
An Archeological Approach to the Writing Craft
Interview with Elizabeth Mosier Interview by Maribel Garcia Novelist and essayist Elizabeth Mosier logged one thousand volunteer hours processing colonial-era artifacts at Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park Archeology Laboratory to write Excavating Memory: Archaeology and Home (New Rivers Press, 2019). A graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, her…
Technology and Writing: One Writer's Perspective
Interview with Richard Dokey By Heidi Stauff, WTP Video Producer Richard Dokey’s stories have won awards and prizes and have been reprinted frequently in both regional and national anthologies and texts. He has novels and story collections to his credit. August Heat, an early collection, published by Story Press, Chicago, received a dust jacket endorsement…
Peter Johnson
“I write what I feel like writing, though I feel most comfortable in short forms.” Peter Johnson’s work has received creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rhode Island Council on the Arts, along with a “Best Book of 2012” citation by Kirkus Reviews. His second book of prose poems…
WTP Writer: Lynn Lipinski
“I don’t think I can get away from mining from personal and professional experiences for emotional truths in my stories” Interview by August Smith, WTP Feature Writer Lynn Lipinski is an MFA student at Mount St. Mary’s University in Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared in UCLA Magazine, Trojan Family Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and…
WTP Writer: Paul Corrigan
“I must believe there is a place in the American canon for nature writing.” Interview by August Smith, WTP Feature Writer Paul Corrigan is a poet and essayist who has published his work in numerous magazines and literary journals, including The Maine Times, Blueline, Poetry Northwest and Yankee. He has been a high school English…
Interview: Donna Baier Stein
Live at The Algonquin in NYC Interview by Susan Tepper, WTP Contributor WTP contributor Susan Tepper, whose work appears in Vol. V #4, conducts a series of interviews at the Algonquin in New York City. Donna Baier Stein is the author of The Silver Baron’s Wife (PEN/New England Discovery Award, Finalist in Foreword reviews 2017 Book of…
Author Interview: Stephanie Dickinson
Live at The Algonquin in NYC Interview by Susan Tepper, WTP Contributor WTP contributor Susan Tepper, whose work appears in Vol. V #4, conducts a series of interviews at the Algonquin in New York City. Stephanie Dickinson was raised on an Iowa farm, then lived in Texas, Louisiana, and now New York City, a…
WTP Writer: Vic Sizemore
“I try to observe like Chaucer, not judge like Dante” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Vic Sizemore is the author of three novels, The Calling, Seekers, and She Rises Crying. His fiction has won the New Millennium Writings Award. Sizemore’s short fiction and nonfiction is published or forthcoming in StoryQuarterly, Southern Humanities Review, Connecticut Review,…
Interview: CM Taylor
“We are at a profoundly exciting moment in the development of the history of narrative art.” Interview with Jo Ely, Contributing Editor CM Taylor is a literary, science fiction, and dystopian novelist who has published under the names Craig Taylor, Ed Lark, and CM Taylor. He has ghostwritten for an internationally famous author and contributed…
WTP Writer: Stephen Davenport
“I’m in a hurry—which is a great way to live.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Stephen Davenport has taught and coached in both day and boarding schools and has been the head of The Country School in Madison, Connecticut and of The Athenian School in Danville, California. Davenport draws on his long experience of working…
WTP Writer: Mark Mayes
A Multi-Genre Writer and His First Book Interview by Jo Ely, Contributing Editor Mark Mayes has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies in the UK, Ireland, the United States, and Italy. His work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. He has been shortlisted for literary prizes, including the…