Not a Word Wasted: Q&A with Brian Phillip Whalen

I’m driven by oh-so-close failure. To get near to your goal—whatever that is—to see it up close: it can make you want it even more, can spur you to take more risks. Art needs risk. Continue reading →

Everyone’s Got a Story: Q & A with Maisy Card

“I realized I had to center myself and people like me in my writing because I didn’t know who else would.” Continue reading →

BEST OF BLOOM: Walker Percy, The Original Moviegoer

by Lisa Peet

“It is not like learning a skill or a game at which, with practice, one gradually improves. One works hard all right, but what comes, comes all of a sudden and as a breakthrough. One hits on something… It is almost as if the discouragement were necessary, that one has first to encounter despair before one is entitled to hope.” Continue reading →

There’s a Kind of Magic in Blooming Late: Q & A with Morowa Yejidé

by Alice Stephens

“There is no writing life—there’s just your life and how writing fits into it.” Continue reading →

Countering the Stereotype of “Caught Between Two Cultures”: Q&A with Eman Quotah

By Alice Stephens

“I’ve been writing all this time, since university. It’s just taken a while to have a book in my hands.” Continue reading →

Mr. Fing Goes to Hell: Q&A with Y.S. Fing, son of D. Selby Fing

by Tyler Gore

“Multiple layer allegory was Dante’s great gift to me, but I mixed it up with my experience, my particular philosophical tendency/preference — irony with love…” Continue reading →

Don’t Just Pass ‘Em By

By Martha Anne Toll

“It came in a sudden gust, the thought that I could give it all up, throw everything overboard, ditch the career in social justice that I truly loved and that was close to forty years in the making, and do what had been calling me for decades: write full time.” Continue reading →