Tag: nonfiction
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Nonfiction Spotlight: Meet Oluwa Muyiwa
When and why did you begin writing? Hmm . . . This is funny because I studied Mechanical Engineering as an undergraduate and I thought I could not write until I started summarizing class notes so that my colleagues and I have could have the essential points of the class notes. So I would say…
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Tim Starnes, author of Agony: Suffering Yesterday, Entertaining Today
What is the biggest thing that people THINK they know about nonfiction that isn’t so? The walking public believes, or at least I think so, that nonfiction has to be boring – and sadly, it usually is, but the reality is that it doesn’t have to be. There are too many people out there who…
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Kirby Michael Wright, author of The Queen of Moloka’i
When did you first consider yourself a writer? I didn’t think of myself as a writer until I swept the awards at San Francisco State University. I was denied admission into the MFA Program before this unprecedented achievement, with the majority of tenured professors voting against me. So, I waltzed into the Creative Writing office…
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Brett Hetherington, Author of The Remade Parent
When and why did you begin writing? I began writing when I was very young. It’s hard to remember exactly when, but I must have been about 5 or 6 years old and it was often cartoons. I started writing songs when I was about 8 and then poetry and nonfiction in my early twenties.…
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Lucinda Weatherby, Author of Five Hours
When and why did you begin writing? I started writing as soon as I could form words with a pencil. My dad has saved almost everything I’ve ever written, from preschool stories about my teddy bears to letters to my grandparents to college essays. A little embarrassing at times, but mainly it’s a fascinating record…
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