Matt Buonocore, author of Our Love is the Cure
What inspires you to write? What inspires me to write is the experience of being alive. The beauty of it, the uncertainty, the heartbreak, the humor, and those fleeting moments when everything seems to make sense without needing an explanation. I began writing poetry at age 23, during a period…
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Sebastian Howarth, author of The Synthetic Hunger
Can you share a little bit about your latest book? Sure! The Synthetic Hunger is an adult sci-fi space opera that follows Lorian Vance and his mismatched crew of sometimes-space-pirates, sometimes-legitimate-couriers as they adventure across the galaxy trying to solve a mystery that threatens all the settled worlds. The story…
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Surya Prakash Shrivastava, author of Crow: The Luck of Charm
What inspires you to write? For me, writing is a deeply personal and spontaneous process. I am inspired by my own emotions and thoughts. Whenever I feel something strongly within, I have this intense urge to put it into words, and I just write it down. It’s my way of…
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Lori O’Dea, author of Little Cavendish
When did you first consider yourself a writer? I started thinking of myself as a writer as a kid. My first writing was poetry. I subscribed to a magazine called Daisy that published poetry, so I’d submit to that. In middle school, a poet-in-residence taught writing workshops at my school.…
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CG Fewston, author of Cowboy
What advice would you give to aspiring authors? Well, certainly I would recommend Joseph Campbell and all of his works, including The Masks of God. And also, John Gardner’s works in regards to his books on the writing craft. And I would advise younger writers to discover those as quickly…
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Guus Kooij, author of The Cloaked Saviour
What inspires you to write? I am most interested in the point where large systems become personal. Politics, institutions, inequality, and social change can sound abstract until you put ordinary people inside them and ask what they are willing to accept, what they are willing to risk, and what happens…
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