How has your family inspired your writing? My family didn’t exactly inspire my writing as much as it provided raw material for writing. My writing is usually triggered by or suggested by interactions with people or with other creatures. If I pay attention—and I think that nearly a hundred percent...

What do you find easiest about writing? This is an interesting question since I feel like we writers often focus on the hardest aspects of writing. I suppose for me the easiest part about writing is the part where you simply write and don't edit yourself or consider the quality. Letting the words...

Congrats to our Fiction Slam Rebirth winners! 3rd place Meena Dalal, 1st place Vito Cole, 2nd place Tana Buoy, and 4th place Bill Tindle. Special thanks to all the readers and supporters! Contestants: Katie Flower, Myah Gibney, Natasha White, Alex Retzlaff, Christel Wiggan, Vito Cole, Gabriel Malfileno,...

What inspired you to write Gathering Place? What notions appear in Gathering Place are those which have shown up in most of my writing. The fact that the book, a first, is published quite late in my writing life has for me made it a kind of selected poems, even though it's the length of a standard...