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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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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