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Tag Archives: historical fiction

An Excerpt from Adele Holmes’s debut novel, Winter’s Reckoning
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An Excerpt from Adele Holmes’s debut novel, Winter’s Reckoning

Posted on May 3, 2022 by chsummie • Leave a comment

In August, She Writes Press will release Adele Holmes’s debut novel, Winter’s Reckoning, which won an Honorable Mention in the 2021 William Faulkner Literary Competition. Continue reading →

The Tragedy of the “Two-way Mirror”: Q&A with Dionne Irving
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The Tragedy of the “Two-way Mirror”: Q&A with Dionne Irving

Posted on October 19, 2021 by Evelyn Somers • 1 Comment

“There are always architects for exploitation and subjugation . . . There is no exploitation unless there are people who are quietly complicit. That is the nature of human subjugation. Complicity is a ghost haunting this story.” Continue reading →

What Is Said and What Is Unsaid: Q & A with Ellen Prentiss Campbell
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What Is Said and What Is Unsaid: Q & A with Ellen Prentiss Campbell

Posted on September 7, 2021 by Alice Stephens • Leave a comment

Being a psychotherapist attuned me to discerning both to what is said and what is unsaid, accustomed me to seeking to understand conscious and unconscious motivation—above all, to listening. Continue reading →

At Home in the Past: Q&A with Lea Singer
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At Home in the Past: Q&A with Lea Singer

Posted on January 5, 2021 by mctking96 • Leave a comment

Writing my first novel, I felt: the past was drawing nearer, often so close, that it hurt. Continue reading →

How Villa Became Villa: Q&A with Cameron MacKenzie
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How Villa Became Villa: Q&A with Cameron MacKenzie

Posted on December 17, 2019 by Alice Stephens • Leave a comment

by Alice Stephens

“Scholarship is the ongoing work of clarifying the historical record. The fiction writer is after emotional truth. ” Continue reading →

Amah and the Silk-Winged Pigeons: Q & A with Jocelyn Cullity
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Amah and the Silk-Winged Pigeons: Q & A with Jocelyn Cullity

Posted on August 20, 2019 by Evelyn Somers • Leave a comment

by Evelyn Somers

“I also wanted to write about the women who never show up in historical writing more generally. Sometimes in our histories the women disappear altogether. This mysterious—actually ridiculous—absence of women at key historical moments became crucial to me.” Continue reading →

A State of Dreaming: Q&A with Jasmin Darznik
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A State of Dreaming: Q&A with Jasmin Darznik

Posted on January 29, 2019 by shobavish • 1 Comment

by Shoba Viswanathan

” Much of the time it has to do with getting out of my own way. Somehow you have to be fiendishly devoted to your work yet untroubled by how it will be received, or whether it will be received at all.”
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