Writing Stories
Each episode of Writing Stories features an interview with a contemporary author about how her book went from an idea in her head to an object on a shelf. Join us on Writing Stories for honesty, struggle, and triumph, for writing community, publishing insight, and inspiration to persist in whatever difficult but meaningful journey you've chosen for yourself.
Writing Stories
Make More Pots! Marguerite Sheffer on Perseverance and Experimentation.
In this episode Marguerite Sheffer talks about Iowa Short Fiction Prize winning collection The Man in the Banana Trees and covers:
the content of Marguerite's wide ranging speculative fiction stories that dive deeply into the practice of making art and some of our most critical justice issues in our culture
how design thinking helped Marguerite get to a place of wildness and fierce play and pleasure with these stories
what it was like to win the 2024 Iowa Short Fiction Prize and how it has changed her professional life
how writing groups and community played a role in completing this collection
what experimentation and sense of creative destruction can lead to in a creative practice