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Jeanie Keogh’s Writing Space
“When I’m working late into the evening, I can watch the sunsets that the Flemish painters captured so well as the light dies out over my garden. The landscape connects me to the ebb and flow of the seasons (which often matches my writing process), and the view somehow helps me to weed out scenes […]
Terence Young’s Writing Space
“I’m okay with clutter when it all serves a purpose.” One of the key components of my writing space is music. I have a fondness for old stereo equipment and vinyl, and I also enjoy several of the local FM stations. So, my room also houses my record collection and several amplifiers, turntables and tuners. […]
What is Mahak Jain Reading?
“It’s not possible, in the audiobook format, to get caught up in the words or language because there’s no space to reflect on or ponder them.” I have always resisted audiobooks. I am able to read faster than the speed of audiobooks, so the latter never seemed efficient. I also become easily distracted and daydream […]
What is Marcia Walker Reading?
“I had not read Madame Bovary in twenty years and returning to it left a very different impression on me. I was less interested in the type of woman Emma Bovary was or whether I related to her. It was the world of the novel that took my attention.” I’m a huge Deborah Levy fan […]
gillian harding-russell’s Writing Space
“Over the computer on my desk, an owl ingeniously sculptured out of a piece of driftwood by my brother-in-law (artist Jamie Russell) sways over my head to keep me wise.” Although when I am travelling, I will work anywhere – in a coffee house or on a hotel bed with a notebook on my lap […]
Interview with the 2019 Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award Winner Paola Ferrante
DH: Congratulations on winning the 2019 Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award for your story, “The Underside of a Wing”! It’s a daring and ambitious story about mental health, relationships, climate, animals, and the bystander effect. For me, the brilliance of this story is the way the albatross circulates, flutters, refuses to settle. Rather than taking on […]
Finding the Form with Laura Rock Gaughan
“Finding the right balance between fact and feeling was difficult for me and slowed the writing.” The link here is a flashier online version of the Moodys Gartner Tax Law ad that so fascinated me when I encountered it for the first time in my morning newspaper a few years ago. The one I clipped […]
Finding the Form with Jeanie Keogh
“The tree looks hideous for a few months, dead even. But in what was a similar attempt to bring new life to my writing, I slashed it all the way down to one character and the new story sprouted from there.” I’m a sucker for the first-person central POV, but this isn’t where Solitaire started. […]
Finding the Form with Paola Ferrante
“When I dropped out of my Master’s, I remember it was like living underwater, but there were specific details…that really encapsulated how alone and unable to talk to anyone I felt due to the sense of stigma of having a mental health disability in academia.” The bones of “The Underside of a Wing” were always […]
Finding the Form with Lorin Jane Medley
“Who stays, who goes, and why? Who and what survives?” Shikata ga nai (the poem) emerged in 2012 as an exercise in accentual verse. Four years later, I extracted its first-line imperative, ditched the rest, and began again. Record this: route rail-beds to carry coal. From prosody to local history: on my way to work, […]