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“Too f**king busy – and vice versa” by Dorothy Parker is my new fave quote of all time – An Interview with Chandra Mayor!!!

… Or, How to Talk so Writers Will Listen, How to Listen so Writers Will Talk with Chandra Mayor !!!

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I got to sit down and chat with Chandra Mayor recently… ok it was a cyber chat, but, well, I was sitting down! Did you know she’s on Wikipedia? I didn’t know that. I think that’s going to be my new definition for success  ->
Wiki = MADE IT! Lookie!
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Kate: Hey Chandra!!! You are quite the girl about town nowadays,

How to Interview a Poet

Your ever-inexhaustible interviewer Kate continues to harass authors in and around the internet!

This month’s victim – 2010 John Hirsch winner for Most Promising Writer, Ariel Gordon, who also just released her first poetry collection, Hump, and will be conducting a very important workshop via the Writers’ Collective – How to Write a Poem on Saturday, May 22, 10 am to 1 pm, at the University of Winnipeg! This workshop is very special therefore it’ll cost you - $15 for Writers’ Collective members/ $30 …

Spending Some Time with Beatrice Mosionier

“I found myself being much less emotional in my memoir, and I realized that may have been because it was my true-life struggle for survival. It’s how a driver might focus on avoiding a crash – no time for the emotions of those seconds. Kind of like that.”